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8/3/2025 3:31:41 PM
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Edge of Failure: EOF has lost nearly half its players in under two weeks
This is the fastest drop in engagement Destiny has ever seen. For a game with this many screwups in its history, that actually means something.
They gutted a solid system just to force more engagement metrics for the cash shop, and it’s blown up in their faces. This isn’t game design anymore. It’s punishment-based retention, and players aren’t sticking around for it.
Who could’ve seen this coming?
Multiplying the grind ten or twenty times?
Killing off earned gear and forcing featured items and exotics?
Hiding former BIS loot behind a maze of hoops?
Adding near-permanent power disadvantages in PvP?
Throttling dopamine so hard that the cash shop is the only real hit?
Yeah. People bailed. What a surprise.
The devs probably saw this coming too, but let’s be honest. This has "maintenance-mode executive" written all over it. They’ve already decided Destiny’s on the way out. Now it’s just about squeezing what’s left from whoever hasn’t walked yet.
And with numbers like these, the end is already in motion. This is what it looks like when short-term thinking kills a franchise.
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Edited by DearlyDpartd: 8/4/2025 4:45:50 AMI never really understood why PvP is always so unbalanced. I mean i do understand it (PvP is always on the back burner and just an afterthought), but not even giving it a little bit of love? Power disadvantage in a casual mode is so oppressive. And on top of that, everyone and their mom is running around with broken weapons that will take a full year to reel back in line (probably wont be).Control is the mode I usually play. I only really started grinding PvE to get my power up. I just hit 280 today and loaded into control PvP. Played against a warlock doing the electric slide everywhere going on killing sprees. Our team was just there to get farmed really. And they got their super twice in one match with a good bit of time left. He was in a 3 stack and they won mostly bc he carried. I check his stats and he had full T5 gear with triple 100s with the other stats above 70 I think. I regret getting EoF and wish I had put the game down after TFS. Battlefield is coming out and I'm exited for that. Will probably put this game down for good while and just shift over to that and maybe FFXIV for any PvE cravings. I'm just over it.
