Late to this one, but I suppose for a "feedback" thread, it would be better to at least add a data point to the pile. D1 Vet, Played since Open Beta, and have stuck around for the entire time thus far. But, like so many others in recent posts here, I too am just no longer finding any way to continue to defend this game any further, and it's very disappointing to me how much raw potential this game/series has always seemed to have, but always just seem to miss the mark on from a few terrible design decisions; With that, I'm probably done with the game once this year is over, I'm already bought in for one last season and one last dungeon, but beyond that the direction of the game is just something I can no longer stand behind. I was a strong advocate [b]against[/b] the entire "Bringing Challenge back to Destiny" blog when it came out, I knew what kind of damage that would do to the mid-game and as a result, the more casual audience, and yet Bungie just strolled right through, like nothing would happen. Meanwhile, I watched a majority of my friends and clanmates drop the game when the activities they engaged the most with (Mid-Game, Legend Content, Occasional Master runs when playing w/ me and other higher skilled clanmates) was completely removed from their reach. And so all I was left with was the few friends capable of playing at the highest skill level. These changes aren't even something we consider to be "fun" anymore, it's just tedious. The "magic" of the experience of playing w/ friends and having fun while doing so is just gone now, the entire endgame has been relegated to a checklist, far from the goal Bungie said in "keeping their content relevant and engaging". I do it once for a triumph, and never touch it again. The only "fun" we recently had in the game was "The Craftening", because quite simply it was a complete shutdown of the deltas the game threw in place. Having to poke in and out of cover constantly to plink at targets with primary weapons from a distance is not fun. Throwing abilities (Which are supposed to be the backbone of the game) at enemies and watching them brush it off like nothing is going on, is not fun. As for me, being a warlock main and watching the entire strand class be passed by for fun additions that shake up the gameplay; and subsequently even having the developers show literally zero excitement for the new Warlock super previewed in TFS, is not fun. I could go on, but at this point I'm just tired. Years of feedback given, zero recognition on the forums, almost none of it ever looked at (With the exception of killing double primary in Y1, which was universally panned), but I always stuck around because the experience was fun, and it was fun to play with my friends. Now, they have stopped playing, and as I mentioned before: The "magic" is gone. I do hope for the best going forward for those who do stick around and support Bungie, as long as the game is enjoyable for you, that's really all that should matter, it's just no longer the case for me, and at least going off of recent TWiDs/Blogs, I don't see that changing anytime soon.

People are going to be very surprised by the mass exodus.

“I’m quitting smoking after this cig”

Evaluating my time in destiny and destiny 2. Amazing soul enriching fun that descended into hollow soul ripping longing for that fun….. Destiny is dead….and we keep giving it CPR on the hope it will return. Funny how addiction works.

Who else is done after final shape ? Bungie 100%

[quote]What is the single defining thing that made you say I’m done after the conclusion of the light and dark saga?[/quote] Bungie. Their decisions, agenda and behaviour. Enough has been said (already) about them, a lot rightly. Generally I'm curious, I play video games since several decades, that's one of my hobbies but purchasing Marathon or Matter is out of the question. I'm not angry, it's simply enough based on my experience with them. I wish them luck! I think they need it... No offense.

I was done with this company a long time ago. jokes on anyone still playing keeping this live service robbery alive an not expecting other games to follow in the same footsteps I mean company's can clearly see bungie has got away with it for ages now so why not do the same who cares about the players aslong as investors are happy an they can keep certain lovechild streamers on side. Il not go too much into detail about how the difficulty increase killed the game for a large amount of players except maybe no lifers ,carry services an streamers. Also the fact they will patch an exploit that helps the player within a day but a bug that ruins player experience will stay unpatched for weeks,months if not years . Don't think il ever touch another bungie game again tbh don't get me wrong iv always enjoyed the story even the gameplay style but removing paid content like dlcs was a big no no for me.

I regret not cancelling my LF pre-order when I saw the Osiris/Saint cut scene. In fact, I'm ashamed of it.That stuff alone will determine whether I buy FS. It was never about end game stuff for me so the fake difficulty is tolerable. I play less and less because Neomuna is off limits and battleground Nightfalls are tedious with little incentive. Still love to shoot stuff but I don't want to earn a degree in in builds.

I was 100% sold on finishing L&D saga, and then being done. But recently I've done a lot of thinking about D2 and my opinions on it.. and currently I don't have anymore desire to give Bungie money while they push things in the game that actively go against my ability to play, or enjoyment while playing the game I paid to play.. The weak/over-nerfed abilities, armors, and weapons.. The bulletspongey enemies that 1 or 2 tap you in anything legend or higher, restrictive functionality on builds so you have to use what's most popular.. It's just not enjoyable.. Them making the Witness the raid boss also grinded my gears a bit when the news first dropped. Almost like having the ultimate baddy of the entire 10 (real life) year story be exclusively in something only 20% (last I heard it was about 20%) of the community can do isn't that great.. But, anyways.. I refunded my preorder for Final Shape last night. We will see what Bungie does but at the moment, I guess I'll just watch it all on YouTube. Vote with your money and engagement, right? (P.S. I won't be checking notifs on this. Everyone reading this, have a good day/night. Drink plenty of water.)

I don’t think I’ll even get final shape. Bungie’s politics are disgusting, their management of the game has been spotty, they censor the dumbest -blam!-. And don’t have anyone to play it with cause my friends all moved in to better games.

Let me be honest, this is going to sound very mean but Nobody really cares that you leave bro, I know everyone expects this sentimental post or message but your friends will continue playing, for every person that leaves? New players will come into the game and this cycle will repeat itself and since you invested so much time into this game? You will find nothing like it and like everything in life, months will go by and nostalgia will kick in and you will start remembering all the good things, the good memories , remembering those days that you stayed late at night doing that raid and finally getting that exotic, etc, things like that, you will begin playing other games and hoping to fill that void, you will starting comparing other games to destiny and eventually you will realize that there nothing like destiny and you will come back. Lets be honest, you will come back, they always come and you will come back. Maybe instead of focusing on so much negativity or creating drama or seeking attention, let’s all hope final shape is better!! Hope new raid is awesome and hope learns from their mistakes!

They constantly ban me for having an opinion they don't like. They have injected politics and ideology that 98% of the population dislikes/disagrees with. The huge increase in downtime/error codes. The lack of innovation when it comes to new content. The lack of new pvp/strike maps. The absolute cliff dive they took from witch queen to lightfall. The lack of communication. The sacking of talented devs to replace them with politically like-minded geeks with no talent. The decision to remove the new subclass from the coming expansion. Repeating seasonal model with as little work as possible (while increasing prices). There's probably a few more but who cares, that's more than enough to make anyone walk away from bungie.