It’s clear the changes to prismatic are unpopular. It’s clear the changes to armor are not universally loved, especially with the knowledge that everything we worked for will essentially be mediocre in the coming meta. Changing the names of stats and losing the flavor that makes this game such a rich experience at times is not going to bring in more new players. That’s not the part of the new player experience that’s a problem. I’m all for making stats increase for every single point of stat, but I’m not for wildly changing up stats after 10 years. I’ve got a build going. I don’t like playing the menu screen game, I’ve probably spent more than 100 hours of my playtime in menu screens build crafting and reading. Nearly every single time there has been community backlash against a choice you’re thinking of making, you have ended up walking back that decision because it ended up being unpopular and people left. You’re already hemorrhaging players, and you’re not going to get many of those players back when you tell them “hey remember that really unpopular thing we did that ruined the game for you for like a year (being remarkably generous here) even after the entire community told us no we don’t want that? Well good news for you, we reverted our original decision! Look at us, how we listen to our community.” How about for once. For ONCE. You actually listen BEFORE you make a bad decision. The feedback is LOUD and CLEAR. We do not like that armor 3.0 and the new weapon tier system invalidates our previous grind. We do not like that prismatic is being nerfed. We do not like everything you are doing to stats. We’ve shown that we are more than willing to wait if it means a better product in the end, do you even have a conception of how much communal goodwill you stand to gain if you decide to listen?? Edge of Fate is a good name for this expansion Bungie, because I believe it is where your company currently stands. I think if you go through with the many unpopular changes you have suggested, this may very well be the harbinger of your doom, because I doubt it will be very long for you if edge flops. Let me be clear in saying I do not wish for bungie to fail, but I do not want them to be rewarded for ignoring the community yet again.