Yeah it's been a mess for too long, it may not be redeemable until D2. I'll peak my head in when the new patch to see if Bungie addresses the problem with special vs primary balance.

Honestly, I'm not even worried about that. Unless RoI's price drops and the old raids come back (untarnished and the loot untouched except for light level) I won't be back to playing this version of Destiny. I'll be looking to see the reviews post D2 launch to see if the game does what needs to be done to fix all of these issues. If they don't go back to the Y1 formula and separate PVE from PVP, there's no point in playing the game. As far as I'm concerned, they're on the fast track to making this game a space-themed CoD, and they're running in the carpool lane with nobody in front of them.

I fully expect them to practically release the same game, with a more extensive single player campaign, along the lines of Titanfall 2. I expect more shit weapon balance, small corridor choke point maps, all on the wonderful modern technology known as peer to peer networking. The same, story mission to patrol, to strike, to raid, to crucible, to events and ending on trials dynamic. Basically a reskin. Sure the patrol zones will maybe be bigger, but it will be the same shit.

Your probably right. They sure are following the Y1 blueprint for sure though. CJ Cowan left, and other writers I hear are leaving the company as well, with just about a year prior to launch.... Could this game possibly become MORE of a disaster than it already is?

It's going to be better, and honestly I give Bungie a lot of shit but I really do think that they had an amazing game designed, and Activision stepped in and said make it work on Legacy consoles... The technical side of the company then had the task of trying to fit a square block into a triangle hole... Many things had to be lost so that the game could fit in to that development cycle. I think that Marty had something truly special planned for how the music would play out, something revolutionary, and I think that the story and scale of the game was probably much larger. When the reality set in that their baby was going to be ripped apart, they were not only scrambling to redo the game, they were fighting over which direction it would take... And mostly, how to do it.. This led to a power vacuum, which allowed certain corrosive elements of the company to ascend... Do it fast and cheap, maximize profit, and play up the grind was obviously the mantra. Bungee is not what it was, and now there is nothing stopping Activision from turning destiny into the cash cow that COD is, just with space aliens. Destiny was a beta that tested not what we wanted, but what we are willing to take.

What you say makes a lot of sense, which is why I don't have a rosy outlook for the game's future. At this point, so few people are grinding the raids hardcore like we did in Y1, so would it be a shocker if they simply just stopped making them in favor of producing more of what people ARE playing (strikes and PVP?). Not in the slightest. At that point, the structure of the game is similar to Halo 4, where you had a story campaign, Spartan Ops as filler PVE content that kind of expands the story, and then PVP which makes up the vast majority of time people spent on the game. If they keep going along the same path of Y2, that is where we will be in 2 years.

Ugh I think going the route of halo four would be even worse than a reskin of destiny one lol.

LOL It wouldn't be a carbon copy of Halo 4, but it would be kind of a similar format, with strikes taking the place of spartan ops as PVE extra filler. Not that Halo 4 was bad. I absolutely LOVED the PVP, and the campaign wasn't bad (different, but not bad). But I wasn't a huge fan of Spartan Ops.