I took a break about 10 days ago (you can check),today I saw an update for Destiny 2 was available and since past April updates have added a fair amount to the games I thought I'd give it a shot. I checked my inventory and saw I had no cores, I checked to see if cores were still used for infusion, then I logged off. I have zero interest in chasing cores.

I just want hunters removed from the game That class requires no skill to use

Bigger question is how many just gave up playing d2 because the progression and cores was just tedious. Won't be reflected in polls or forum and in game poll would only get responses from those still signing in. I check the forum occasionally to see if improvements have been made but suspect a lot have quit and never looked back.

Frankly? I was annoyed at first. But now the Glimmer requirement and Planetary Resource requirement is what's killing me. I seem to always require the same 3 things, MICROPAHSIC DATALATTICE, Alkane Dust and Dusk Shards. Never anything else except very, very rarely. I can get like 6 a day of masterwork cores from grinding. Or jump on spider and have 6 in an hour. But the fact we can still ONLY HOLD 100K GLIMMER (WHY?!) and require like what. 25 resources a POP? See if no one ever had to go out and get resources for infusion. Then this would be fine to get this amount of resources easily. You get 3 daily bounties which is enough for ONE infusion from each location vendor/bounty giver. But then everyone else is taking your resources too from spawns. Honestly at this point. Masterwork cores are significantly easier to come across than everything else required for infusion.

Wow. I'm in the 8% "No" group? Cool! Having Cores really does make infusing a meaningful choice, just like Bungie says. If you're a Hand Cannon lover (like me, and I know that's not an 8% group), and not really a scout user, you arent going to infuse a piece of gear with all scout rifle perks. See, you just made a meaningful choice! Argue all you want people, but just be honest. The choice you have to make IS meaningful.

To the people who dismiss this poll as irrelevant: tl/dr (because, your sort needs those): you're mostly wrong. The very large percentage of "yes" indicates that a majority of all players being in favor of removing 'cores from infusion is far more likely than a majority in favor of keeping things as is. [b]Sample Size[/b] Some may pretend the sample size is too small (the "2300 pEoPLE oUT oF 14M iS NOt EnoUGH!" argument). It's not. About 2300 answers on a player base of 14.1 millions, with an active player base (playing once a week) that falls somewhere between 0.6 and 4 millions. That is enough to be significant. If this poll was repeated, 99 times out of 100 the "yes" option would obtain a result between 63% and 68%. The "no" would get between 7% and 10%. (These numbers show only margin of error due to sample size, [i]not[/i] the error due to any bias induced by sample selection.) (The poll is still open and actual numbers will change a bit.) (You can input the poll numbers here to verify my claim: https://goodcalculators.com/margin-of-error-calculator/) [b]Selection Bias[/b] "Destiny players who post/lurk on forums" may not be representative of "all Destiny players", and "Destiny players who post/lurk on forums and answer polls" may not even be representative of all "Destiny players who post/lurk on forums". That's the flaw of an open-access poll. There will be some bias in this one because the sample ("Destiny players who post/lurk on forums and answer polls") is not entirely representative of "all Destiny players". Possible biases here: The hardcore bias: players who are involved in online communities are more likely to be hardcore players. This bias should favor the "no" and "don't care" options. The fanboy bias: this forum is full of them. If you're a fanboy, you're more likely on the official forum than on reddit. This bias should favor the "no" option. The hater bias: compared to reddit, this forum is minimally moderated. Haters are gonna hate, and the place to do it is here. This bias should favor the "yes" option. The sock-puppet bias: some will vote more than once. It's a good thing then that you have to reach the farm to vote. This bias should be small. This bias should favor the "yes" option, because it's the largest group and sock-puppets should be distributed about equally. The Anglo-Saxon bias: because, language. I have no idea which way that would skew the results however. It's probably a very small bias anyway, as the Anglo-Saxon world is very diverse and a lot of people outside of it speak English as a 2nd language. I can't guess what option this bias would favor. It's difficult to put numbers on those biases and they would be rightly contested. But [i]how large does the total bias have to be to reverse the results and make "no" into a larger group than "yes"?[/i] Answer: very large. It's a 28% swing from "yes" to "no" just to make the two opinion groups equal. As there are biases pushing the numbers on both sides, such a large total bias is [i]very unlikely[/i]. [b]A Majority of "Noes"?[/b] On the other hand, people who claim that the "silent majority" is, in reality, in favor of keeping 'cores as part of infusion cost have [i]absolutely nothing[/i], not even a clue, to back this claim. If they even had a poll like this one, now that we know they will contest even one with such a decisive margin (57% between "yes" and "no"), The "noes" would have to beat "yes" by, what? 80%? 90%? Yeah... that's not happening. [b]Conclusion[/b] Denying that a majority of players want 'cores removed from infusion costs is denying reality. Bias makes it impossible to affirm that "65% want 'cores removed from infusion", but that result and the large margin makes it very unlikely that the opposite is instead true.

Yeah, what's that? Remove pinnacle weapons? OK!

Removing isn't the issue if you provide a better economy. The casual non sweaty players find themselves never having enough.

Anyone who wants cores to stay in the game just has a hard on for saying F you to casuals. There’s nothing genuinely enjoyable about cores in infusion, but there is a lot of annoyance.

update: a few hours after my first post (it's 1 pm EST on 4/9/19)-- 1540 pro-removal votes 400 "more sources" 215 don't care 200 are fine with cores as they are so almost 2000 of around 2400 want a change, and over 60% (1500/2400) would like removal.