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6/12/2025 3:48:02 AM
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Stop the grind

By all accounts from the YouTubers who played in the special Bungie preview, the new cdirector of the game is a huge Diablo fan and that could be a problem. Diablo 4 is notorious for grinding with very little reward especially with the seasons having to continuously level up new characters only to have them disappear at the end of the season. Diablo 4 failed because the desk failed to understand the basic principle that the players want to be able to play the game and be able to acquire everything in the game even if it is a little bit of work to get it not to have certain items that only a select few can get or to grind out an entire season for a new character only to have him disappear at the end of the next season. There's some reports that you're going to level up your armor or weapons and then they're going to go away or go back down in level at the end of a season you have to do it all over again. If that is true nobody's going to want to stick around for that this is not the Diablo for community. The destiny Community even the ones -blam!- love to grind aren't going to tolerate that kind of b*******. And there's also a lot of talk about grinding being the new thing they're trying to bring grinding back. Some grinding is okay but after over a decade of having a game where I've dedicated more time playing it than my actual full-time job I can tell you that I'm tired of grinding. I don't mind doing the dungeon a few times trying to get weapons I don't mind doing the raid a few times to get patterns but I don't want to have to play the game 500 times on the same activity for a 1% chance to get the gun that I want. If you bring back a heavy grind into the game I'm out and there's a lot of people that are going to feel the same way.

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  • Edited by ForeverLaxx: 6/12/2025 8:46:35 PM
    Bungie is desperately trying to bring back Sunsetting because they can't deal with the thought that players might not want to get certain weapons or armors. Sure, it's a "soft" Sunsetting in that they're not technically deleting what you have available, but when [i]every new weapon[/i] gets a free 15% bonus damage and [i]every new armor[/i] has 15% free bonus DR, you know content is going to be designed around it. Then they take those bonuses away in an effort to push you to farm the next season's offerings even if you don't like any of them. It's psychologically manipulative, disrespectful to the player, and is the antithesis of their claims that Destiny is a "play your way" kind of game (not that they ever really tried to keep that facade). Imagine spending 4-6 months grinding guns and armor that simply allow your build to function as designed just to be stripped of the DR the following month, so now you have to grind up armor/weapons that are copies of each other perk-/stat-wise just to keep playing. No thanks. I said in another post about this that if I even bother to keep playing I am going to refuse to regrind everything unless it's something I actually want. The damage/DR bribe isn't going to work on me.

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