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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Concerning[b] raids[/b]....question for the group. Who here has played this game well past a reasonable bedtime, bone tired, but unwilling to quit your raid? Everyone, I presume. Why? -You don't want to miss your drop -You don't want to let your team down This is not a healthy game structure. The game's best drops are still only found in six-man long-form activities. If you want to max your level, you'll have to raid several times, dealing with all of the garbage that comes with it: -Assembling your team of randoms if you don't have the luxury of a clan of unemployed people -Replacing drop outs -Getting everyone up to speed on their role -Wiping a lot -Then wiping some more -Then getting your drop but it's garbage so you'll have to play again next week This gameplay loop is both incredibly time-consuming and super harmful. The raid drops can't even be guaranteed to be good. Why? Because many people play Destiny for the dopamine release that comes with getting an amazing drop. If it was a consistent standard, the feeling wouldn't be there, and people wouldn't stay addicted.[b] The raid is a glorified slot machine. [/b]That's all it is.