The fun associate with this game, or any game for that matter, comes from progress. When players feel like their progress is significantly slowed and stopped completely, that is when the player base typically falls off. Titan fall lost its player base rather quickly for that exact reason. It was an extremely fun game, but there really wasn't any reason to play it as resetting your progress (similar to prestige in COD) provided the player with nothing of significance. There was absolutely no reason to do it. (I stopped after the four time for that reason.) Vault of glass, crotas end, kings fall may be fun the first couple of times, but no player would come back week after week and play the EXACT same content if not for the loot drops. LFG sights for crota's end and VOG are empty for that reason. (Exception to NTTE quest.)

[spoiler]when the servers shut down, all of your progress will be lost. keep that in mind[/spoiler]

You are absolutely correct. All games have a life cycle, and many of the games I have played in the past have gone the course. They were fun while it lasted, and that is all that matters. OP's point increases the longevity of the game, which is important. You need that when you intend destiny to be a 10 year project.

My point is that once the servers shut down and your only memories of the game are about the loot drops and not about the fun you had, then you missed the best part of the game.

Well, I typically just let go of a game once it has run it's course and move on. With that though, my point was that without rewarding loot and visual progress people tend to quit, regardless of the fun associate with the game. Especially Destiny since the content is repetitive. Raising your light level is fun (which is the goal currently), but can feel more like a grind at times.

Are you normally this -blam!-ing stupid?

Why do people like you defend what you know is wrong? Bungie isn't going to give you a medal. Stop disagreeing with people just for the sake of it. You're slowing down the process of making this game better for the sake of hearing yourself speak.

it's not a wrong concept, play for fun and you will enjoy the game a lot more make some friends, enjoy yourself.

I agree with you on that front. I don't agree with stifling the betterment of the game. OP is asking that the game be made better and more consistent throughout. You're saying, "Nah, it's fine the way it is. You just need to like it more". Why wouldn't you or anyone want more relevance in more aspects of the game?

Defending ones opinion that differs from your own is not defending the wrong opinion. It's not that difficult of a concept.

Well said. I still stand by what I said earlier.

You're the one that said "stop defending what you know is wrong?"

What I mean is, what you said sounded very much like something Confucius would say and I like that. What I meant when I said "stop defending what you know is wrong" is that the game has room for improvement, yet this other person is essentially saying, "It's fine the way it is, no need for any improvemnt ever. I'll just keep playing it in this current state forever, until the end of time."

I agree VOG was fun and year one was too. But the "fun" was also to get the rewards and use them. Which is completely thrown away now. Again I do agree with what you're saying but the op has a solid point.