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10/15/2015 6:09:37 PM
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Destiny Addicts Support Group
Hello my name is Patrick, and I'm a Destiny addict.
I have quit this game twice before, and I am trying to quit for a third and final time.
We all know why Destiny is a problem:
[b]-It demands more time than most productive people are capable of providing without serious compromise in other areas of life
-It only rewards said time on an occasional basis, creating an addictive and unfulfilling compulsion loop
-It is a social game with barren worlds, lacking matchmaking for most activities and severely limited in ways to make friends.
-Accessing high-level content requires unhealthy amounts of repetition of lower-level content. Subsequently grinding out high-level content requires progressively more time while offering progressively less value to the player.[/b]
The result of these factors is a sad, lonely, mostly single-player grind upwards to some intangible goal, focused very little on the journey and more on an ultimate destination that doesn't even exist.
I have continued to pump money into this franchise because of every games journalist's insistence that the experience is improving. Even though that may be true, the aforementioned issues have never been and never will be seriously addressed because [b]they are an essential part of how Destiny's creators are making money.[/b]
I have created this thread in the hopes that people can post their stories and know that they're not alone in this hamster wheel. My fundamental hope is that this thread's popularity could signal to Bungivision that the way they have created their game is good for profit but ultimately hurtful to its players.
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10 Replies*Donates free food and drink to this group* Good job, guys. I was never really "addicted" to this game. If anything all it did was find new ways to annoy me. I quit the game cold turkey a few days after the Dark Below screwed over player progression. Came back when House of Wolves released because they introduced Etheric Light which restored said progression. For me, its very simple. There is a HUGE DIFFERENCE between an Offline Game and an Online Game. Offline Games are the standard. They might have some form of online multiplayer, but the main aspect of the game is played offline, doesn't require an internet connection to play. There is a Start and a Finish. Online Games, however, are a fleeting existence. Because there is no offline aspect to them, one day everyone must face the realization that the game will shutdown and be gone forever. This translates to mean that Destiny and every other Online Game has an actual lifespan. A ticking clock that will eventually stop once the time has run out. So in order to fully enjoy these games, they become a LARGE part of your life. That is one serious commitment. Its like a second life that you're living through your characters. This is also why I only ever play just one MMO at any given point in time. I never multi-task MMOs, I'm either playing one or the other. Destiny is not an MMO, for the record. Rather, it wanted to be one but only took all of the BAD elements of what an MMO is to create this super addictive nonsense. In the end, it all comes down to one very important notion. [b]TIME INVESTMENT.[/b] The amount of time you will be spending. You aren't immortal. You have a finite life as well, just like these Online Games do. If you are a kid in school, you really don't have that much time to screw with. And the older you get, the less time you'll have to do things like this. If you are an older person like myself? You already know how important time is. [b]TIME[/b] is more valuable and precious than money. In fact, you use your time as a currency to acquire said money. The money you make is at the cost of your time. Your life. Everything you do makes use of your life. The video above demonstrates this quite well. It can be a scary thing. As such, I hate wasting my time. Everything I had done in Destiny was for the purpose of building up characters with awesome weapons and armor that I could take with me all throughout the life of this game. But the Dark Below made all that effort feel wasted. I thought Bungie was being sincere about learning from that mistake and wanting to respect the time players invest in their game. I thought Etheric Light was proof of that. I was wrong. The Taken King is essentially the Dark Below 2.0 in the way that it totally disrespects players. I never understood why people would grind for the sake of grinding. The only thing I can think of is that they either don't care about wasting their time working towards some pointless goal or because they have some other sort of reasoning that is used as an excuse for it. Maybe their real lives are just that horrible? Who knows. But I can promise everyone that there are MORE GAMES out there than Destiny. There are games out there that cost less and that actually RESPECT your time invested. That don't make you feel as though you've wasted your efforts for nothing. At the end of the day, you need to ask yourselves... In 10 years from now, will you look back on all of this and ever regret any of it? If you hesitated, then you already know what your answer is. Its time to put it down.
