I'm not even looking forward to House of Wolves anymore. Tired of rehashed materials and reversed maps counting as new strikes.

The lack of content is one thing but for me personally what breaks it is the incredibly failed reward system this game offers. All you can do is grind and grind and grind hoping to get lucky with RNG but in reality you'll only get kicked in the nuts over and over. Grind strikes and all you get is a ton of blue items, maybe a legendary engram in 10 strikes and well lets not even start about exotics as that's only 1% change to get lucky with RNG. Take all your engrams to the cryptarch which turns your legendaries into crap and further insults you by giving 2 blue engrams about each rankup. Seeing that 0.1 kdr guy in crucible get ghorn or see afk'ers in strikes get legendaries and exotics makes all hope sink into your shoes. When the weekend comes all your hope and joy is once again ran into the ground when Xur turns up with utter crap and repeat sales. Nightfalls rewarding shards to level 30+ players? Damn that's just stupid. I myself wonder what my incentive is to keep playing, just to get lucky with the crappy RNG system which deep inside you know won't happen? Sooner or later people will just simply give up on that. Bungie just seems completly blind to what is going on. Only trivial shit gets fixed nobody cares about while they tell everyone that this is how they intend the game to be played... Really Bungie do you intend the game to be played by afk'ers or people leaving strikes? Bungie just seems completly uninterested to fix real issues with this game. How hard is it to introduce some new bounties, some new events just to spice things up a little bit and give players some incentive to play for?

Scrub writer cannot beat HM crota, therefore his opinion is moot.

"people who have put hundreds of hours into the game are finding that, for a variety of reasons, they're losing the motivation to play." Taken from the article. No shit. Hundreds of hours is a long freaking time to play a video game. The Last of Us is considered one of the best video games of all time, if not the best by some. It takes what, 25-30 hours to complete? And it has basically no replay value. If you put hundreds of hours into this game, and are finding yourself burning out, I say no shit. Consider it money well spent, and move on to a new game. Pick it up later if you want to or not, no one really cares.

"All and all it's just another brick in The Wall."

I appreciate your classiness and the majority of other post-ers contribution to the discussion. I loved Destiny when it started, got rubbed the wrong way with the DLC and felt terrible for buying it (all my friends played it at the time). Then once friends stopped appearing regularly and soon dropped off entirely I found little incentive to continue playing. However between the CoD elitists, Tryhard 32's, and the head-in-the-sand apologists I wonder to myself what I was really trying to accomplish by forcing myself through the last few weeks of the game. The Dev's don't care, the majority of the community is toxic, and the gameplay- although having immense potential- is a complete waste with the management controlling it. Sure, Bungie may have my money, but that didn't stop me from selling the game for a PSN card and getting a running start on a game-that-shall-not-be-named because I don't want to start a fight.

Ok just read this WHOLE article and he is 110% correct on every note.

I've started playing much more PVP to counter my burnout, will see how long that lasts. Good article with valid points. I hope the Bungie higher-ups read it & listen.

Hawkmoon.

The problem isn't the game, the problem is the mentality of this generation's gamers. They don't want an enjoyable experience, they want an unhealthy addiction. If you feel like you NEED to do something every single night for 5 months even when you're not enjoying it that's a serious behavioral problem. The article is talking about not enough 'carrots' referring to a carrot on a stick, a reward you keep working towards while it's held slightly out of reach. That is NOT an enjoyable experience, but modern gamers have been trained to NEED it. Long gone are the days of Super Mario or Tetris (a game that literally never even ended. No end, no reward, just harder and harder stages) where the experience was the reward, now you've been trained to do something you hate out of the slim chance that you'll get a trinket that triggers a dopamine release so you think you did something good. Good job, you've gained a literal addiction and lash out when it's not giving you a bigger and bigger high fast enough to compensate for tolerance. The author of this article is literally addicted as are many players here. That's why those people raging and claiming they'll quit never do. They're lashing out because they're in withdrawal.

I've spent more hours on this game than any other in the last few years (not since Halo 3, probably). Am I getting burnt out? Sure. But after this much time, who wouldn't be? Still much more entertainment given than anything else outside of gaming could provide for the same price. Games don't have to provide literal endless hours of entertainment to be considered a success. Otherwise, singleplayer games with great stories would be considered failures.

This article is written by a scrub. Someone who is obviously not very good at this game. Hard mode crota is a joke now. I can see that some people are getting burned out by frustration because they just aren't good at this game. I wish people would understand that it's not the glitches in hard mode that are killing you, but the fact that you suck at this game. So much whining and butt hurt. It all reads "oh I hate this game because I can't beat hard mode and don't have the gear I want, therefore this game was never any good." Wtf. Go play Fifa and stfu.

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