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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Hello, my Destiny Alias is CrotaBalls, it has nothing to do with my name or my PSN as if it mattered. And I am sober since TTK. Admittedly I logged into Destiny a few weeks post of TTK release because I needed more time to think before I separated myself. I verified that the weeks grinding for the Hopscotch was no more than a 55-A-Allfate and all of my gear that I spent excessive hours and stares from the wife was worth nothing. And all of my weapons were garbage even for PVE leveled constant that I paid for. Heroics were locked out to me, most PVP and competitive games play was locked out to me. They wanted my money and I can say they succeeded at pushing me away. Their stretched truths and countless months of known glitches and no fixes helped me make my decision. My decision that I will linger in the forums until my time to rise yet comes again. I'm gogohoffman, and I'm a completionist.