Random thoughts from a long time destiny player:
1. You forgot what made Destiny fun:
a. Open world and helping randoms - the portal means its no longer an open world game.
b. The power fantasy - gain power should mean something. Power deltas take that away.
c. What happened to play your way ???? Power deltas take that away.
d. Sorry DMG but raid night is not back. The rot started with revive tokens. Raids (and dungeons) have no entry point to learn the mechanics, it used to be fun taking randoms through their first raid. With the latest raids you have to check their builds and make sure they can survive before even thinking about teaching a mechanic. Wrath and its predecessors are perfect for those hero moments and just getting a first clear for someone who cleared ads and learnt what everyone else was doing. Why not bring that back with a low chance of T5 and exotics?
2. You’ve never got PVP right in D2 - matchmaking has always sucked for the lower skilled player.
3. The new content is not new, you’re fooling no one.
4. Stop making content for streamers and professional gamers (ive nothing against them but they are not your main player base) and think about the ordinary person.
5. Renegades fills me with dread. It feels like it will be a proving ground for technology being developed for Marathon. I’m not a PVP player so care little for extraction shooters.
6. Not enough portal content is match made. Many people have limited game time, they dont need spend a portion of it in LFG.
7. Make more strikes with strike specific loot.
8. Bugs, bugs and more bugs. I can’t pick up engrams from Hawthorne atm, they are greyed out. This is not too much of an issue since most are t1 trash anyway.
9. Too many pointless currencies, too many that depreciate each season and then I can’t delete.
10. Power up to loose my power when I get a new artefact - see point about power fantasy.
11. Boss stomp - are there new crutches you could design?
12. The game seems designed to keep me playing by slowing progression (some fixes here ack) or adding in difficulty (OK if I choose to but see point about power fantasy) when the best way to keep people playing is make it fun again. XP gains for the season pass are way too slow - that ok though, you have another currency I can earn or buy.
13. In D1 I bought into the idea that Eververse would mean more content, now all I see is all the best ideas are behind the extra paywall.
14. Destiny and D2 used to have content that was visually stunning.
15 “we hear you” do you? There’s a difference between hearing and listening.
The most important point. D2 is no longer fun, it’s a chore, a grind to no where but a reset at the end of the season.
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It's a very put together list of pain points...I have been playing from day one (I know everyone seems to say that but in this case it's true believe it or not) and the game is definitely not what it used to be...but neither am I ... Nostalgia is a potent lens to be blinded by and bias is a potent poison to be drunk on... destiny can be saved but it's going to take both sides to get their heads out of each other's keester and work together or everyone's going to lose....