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2/12/2015 3:11:44 AM
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Kotaku sums up Destiny player burn-out
http://kotaku.com/five-months-in-hardcore-destiny-players-are-hitting-a-1684813586
This is not a bash. It comes from someone who, like many of us, really likes Destiny but is reaching a point of burn-out. The things that popped out to me are the lack of carrots and poor communication from Bungie.
If you trawl the forums, you'll find many threads dedicated to each point made, but this is a handy summation of the frustration hardcore Destiny players are, and have been, facing of late.
I'm no hater, and like Kirk, the article's author, I know there's an unbelievable game inside Destiny. I'm looking forward to HoW, but until then, it'll just have to be a strike now and again.
Edit 1: You guys all rock. It's been a very clear-headed conversation in here so far, aside from some weak trolls. And thanks for the bumps! I think it's good to read what a lot of us have been thinking.
Edit 2: I'm pretty sure the forum ninjas have buried any Kotaku-related posts so they don't trend. That's their prerogative, and somewhat understandable despite the normal levels of vitriol you can generally find on these forums.
Feel free to bump if you think others should read it but, after over twenty-four hours of pretty constant replies from you crazy, magnificent bastards, it's fair to say that we don't need an article to spur healthy discussion about one of our favorite games.
[spoiler]You guys are -blam!-ing killing my phone.[/spoiler]
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7 RepliesThe 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?
