I dunno, maybe I'm just too old for this sh*t. 🤷 But I've got dough... which, until now, I've been happy to squander on season passes, DLCs, upgraded event cards, and weekly Eververse trash.
I've invested $1,000+ and several thousand hours. Despite the steep learning curve, I persisted, learned, grew, gitted gudder. It's been fun and I've met some truly great people, but sadly, the game has clearly jumped the shark.
The whole rich get richer, and play how you want as long as you use a meta build, construct was irksome. Catering to streamers at the expense of normies, a ponderous business model. But lame AF is the last straw.
Last season was actually fun (ish) again. But matterspark hasn't been fun since Metroid. Constant buildcrafting overhauls have never been fun. 1 in 150 odds of getting a decent (3/5) roll or 1 in 3,000+ odds of getting a god (5/5) roll is absurd. Pointless PVE mechanics, PVP cheats, dysfunctional servers, poorly recycled content, product managers who clearly don't eat their own dog food... it's frustrating and far too exhausting.
Good luck, Guardians. And thank you for the good times and great memories!
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I haven't bought EoF. I've tried to run the bit of the campaign that they gave free to play, but didn't like it and couldn't be bothered. I have however, gone back to the way I used to play in D1. That is, exploring the old planets, doing daily bounties, lost sectors, public events etc. And you know what? I'm really enjoying doing it, with every piece of blue loot that drops increasing my power level by a few points. This may seem boring to most players, but it's a few hours each night of pure relaxation. No frustrating mechanics, no overpowered enemies, just playing the game as I [b][i]used [/i][/b]to enjoy it. I don't know what'll happen when I get to the soft cap, but I haven't even though about it yet. I'm just enjoying old style Destiny while I can........ and it's free.