I have made some sporadic comments in the past that im somewhat a huge Destiny fan (one look at how much time ive wasted on the franchise should stand for itself), the Lore is fantastic, the Characters (after being given 6 years to be fleshed out) are vibrant and memorable, the gunplay, top of its class. However the most recent expansion has left the community gutted.
Bungie decided to "Sunset" our current weapons, whereby making them all useless at the new expansion level, forcing the players to grind out new weapons. This would have worked in theory, however they completely failed to release any kind of vendor reset for the second year in a row (all vendors used to get a new weapons and armour set for each new major expansion), so the game is effectively DOA. None of the new loot feels worth it and more egregious, Old sunset loot is dropping but at the new power level, making you grind out the same roll you had even though you have a god-roll in your vault. And dont even get me started on Eververse (Bungie cash shop)
Player time/satisfaction ratio is at an all time low... but what could have caused this? how could a company as large as Bungie, start failing to meet customer expectation for a full priced expansion?...
ohh....
well what else should I have expected from a Washington based company... the warning signs have been cropping up in recent times, the BLM emblem, the changing of Male/Female gender description to Masculine/Feminine in the character creation screen... but this, this segregationist horseshit is on a new level.... and as a result my hobby game has taken a really bad turn... is there nothing this shit wont infect???
/rant
EDIT: One bit of good news though, based on the Reddit community reaction, looks like the players are against it (all 70 comments removed and 59% upvote ratio. Thread have been locked 3 times)
I have made some sporadic comments in the past that im somewhat a huge Destiny fan (one look at how much time ive wasted on the franchise should stand for itself), the Lore is fantastic, the Characters (after being given 6 years to be fleshed out) are vibrant and memorable, the gunplay, top of its class. However the most recent expansion has left the community gutted.
Bungie decided to "Sunset" our current weapons, whereby making them all useless at the new expansion level, forcing the players to grind out new weapons. This would have worked in theory, however they completely failed to release any kind of vendor reset for the second year in a row (all vendors used to get a new weapons and armour set for each new major expansion), so the game is effectively DOA. None of the new loot feels worth it and more egregious, Old sunset loot is dropping but at the new power level, making you grind out the same roll you had even though you have a god-roll in your vault. And dont even get me started on Eververse (Bungie cash shop)
Player time/satisfaction ratio is at an all time low... but what could have caused this? how could a company as large as Bungie, start failing to meet customer expectation for a full priced expansion?...
ohh....
well what else should I have expected from a Washington based company... the warning signs have been cropping up in recent times, the BLM emblem, the changing of Male/Female gender description to Masculine/Feminine in the character creation screen... but this, this segregationist horseshit is on a new level.... and as a result my hobby game has taken a really bad turn... is there nothing this shit wont infect???
/rant
EDIT: One bit of good news though, based on the Reddit community reaction, looks like the players are against it (all 70 comments removed and 59% upvote ratio. Thread have been locked 3 times)
I have made some sporadic comments in the past that im somewhat a huge Destiny fan (one look at how much time ive wasted on the franchise should stand for itself), the Lore is fantastic, the Characters (after being given 6 years to be fleshed out) are vibrant and memorable, the gunplay, top of its class. However the most recent expansion has left the community gutted.
Bungie decided to "Sunset" our current weapons, whereby making them all useless at the new expansion level, forcing the players to grind out new weapons. This would have worked in theory, however they completely failed to release any kind of vendor reset for the second year in a row (all vendors used to get a new weapons and armour set for each new major expansion), so the game is effectively DOA. None of the new loot feels worth it and more egregious, Old sunset loot is dropping but at the new power level, making you grind out the same roll you had even though you have a god-roll in your vault. And dont even get me started on Eververse (Bungie cash shop)
Player time/satisfaction ratio is at an all time low... but what could have caused this? how could a company as large as Bungie, start failing to meet customer expectation for a full priced expansion?...
ohh....
well what else should I have expected from a Washington based company... the warning signs have been cropping up in recent times, the BLM emblem, the changing of Male/Female gender description to Masculine/Feminine in the character creation screen... but this, this segregationist horseshit is on a new level.... and as a result my hobby game has taken a really bad turn... is there nothing this shit wont infect???
/rant
EDIT: One bit of good news though, based on the Reddit community reaction, looks like the players are against it (all 70 comments removed and 59% upvote ratio)
I have made some sporadic comments in the past that im somewhat a huge Destiny fan (one look at how much time ive wasted on the franchise should stand for itself), the Lore is fantastic, the Characters (after being given 6 years to be fleshed out) are vibrant and memorable, the gunplay, top of its class. However the most recent expansion has left the community gutted.
Bungie decided to "Sunset" our current weapons, whereby making them all useless at the new expansion level, forcing the players to grind out new weapons. This would have worked in theory, however they completely failed to release any kind of vendor reset for the second year in a row (all vendors used to get a new weapons and armour set for each new major expansion), so the game is effectively DOA. None of the new loot feels worth it and more egregious, Old sunset loot is dropping but at the new power level, making you grind out the same roll you had even though you have a god-roll in your vault. And dont even get me started on Eververse (Bungie cash shop)
Player time/satisfaction ratio is at an all time low... but what could have caused this? how could a company as large as Bungie, start failing to meet customer expectation for a full priced expansion?...
ohh....
well what else should I have expected from a Washington based company... the warning signs have been cropping up in recent times, the BLM emblem, the changing of Male/Female gender description to Masculine/Feminine in the character creation screen... but this, this segregationist horseshit is on a new level.... and as a result my hobby game has taken a really bad turn... is there nothing this shit wont infect???
/rant
EDIT: One bit of good news though, based on the Reddit community reaction, looks like the players are against it (all 70 comments removed and 59% upvote ratio)
I have made some sporadic comments in the past that im somewhat a huge Destiny fan (one look at how much time ive wasted on the franchise should stand for itself), the Lore is fantastic, the Characters (after being given 6 years to be fleshed out) are vibrant and memorable, the gunplay, top of its class. However the most recent expansion has left the community gutted.
Bungie decided to "Sunset" our current weapons, whereby making them all useless at the new expansion level, forcing the players to grind out new weapons. This would have worked in theory, however they completely failed to release any kind of vendor reset for the second year in a row (all vendors used to get a new weapons and armour set for each new major expansion), so the game is effectively DOA. None of the new loot feels worth it and more egregious, Old sunset loot is dropping but at the new power level, making you grind out the same roll you had even though you have a god-roll in your vault. And dont even get me started on Eververse (Bungie cash shop)
Player time/satisfaction ratio is at an all time low... but what could have caused this? how could a company as large as Bungie, start failing to meet customer expectation for a full priced expansion?...
ohh....
well what else should I have expected from a Washington based company... the warning signs have been cropping up in recent times, the BLM emblem, the changing of Male/Female gender description to Masculine/Feminine in the character creation screen... but this, this segregationist horseshit is on a new level.... and as a result my hobby game has taken a really bad turn... is there nothing this shit wont infect???
/rant