Whether it be through destiny 3 or whatever expansion comes next just straight up resetting everything in the game, but something has to happen.
This is a looter shooter game, with no replayability because all of the things that make a looter shooter replayable... don't exist in destiny, at least not anymore.
The game's been out so long that everyone has everything. There's no reason to play because there's nothing new to get. Crafting was the biggest mistake for this game but the bigger problem is genuinely just due to the game being around for so long and how easy it's been made to earn things.
Legendaries are rares, and exotics are just legendaries at this point. There's nothing worth striving towards. Nothing is difficult to obtain and the only things that are semi difficult to obtain (adepts, raid exotics, etc etc) aren't even better than what we have normally. There's no reason to go for adept weapons because it's not like I'm getting something drastically different compared to what I get out of the regular version or what I get out of a different craftable weapon. And then most of the raid exotics are straight up dog poo.
Loot in a looter shooter needs to actually feel rewarding to get. It needs to feel earned in some capacity. It doesn't feel that way in destiny currently.
And maybe this is a scalding hot take... but good loot should be hard to earn! Exotics should not be some plentiful harvest that I can just spam out without even thinking twice about it. Like it's gotten to the point where my engram inventory is JUST exotic engrams because I have zero use for them.
All that and the removal of any power grind? Why play? The only times you should be playing destiny at this point is:
1. When an expansion drops so you get the expansion story
2. Towards the end of the expansion year so you can get all of the seasonal stories at once and catch up to them.
The in between means nothing. No new exciting loot, no drastically BETTER loot than what is already out there and owned, no power to grind to even get your character stronger, there's nothing.
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Weapons got a slight reset during Heresy. Crafting was not done well for a looter game… it should have required copies of the weapon with the perks you wanted (instead of red borders) to incrementally work toward your god roll. Always making progress during a play session. Armor was been lost in the wilderness for a long time too but it’s about to get a refresh. Set bonuses and stats that matter (and probably can’t be cheesed so builds will feel different) Activities during TFS and the episodes have been good for the most part. The Nether mechanic is awesome to make runs feel fresh and the change of the encounters over time helped that as well. The strikes in Echoes were well designed. (Yeah I know someone is going to moan about Battlegrounds not being strikes… but your wrong.) I still enjoy Destiny and look forward to what is coming. Just wish I had time to raid like I used to.