Bump it up

People saying "b-b-but the money is needed to fund Bungie" They got 25 million to pay for a $60 game totalling too $900 million when the games entire budget was $500 million over 10 years. Sony continuously pays Bungie for exclusive missions, weapons, armour, and advertising. Bungie has announced that the microtransactions were a great success. Let's see what that gets us -No dedicated servers -updates can take anywhere from 3 months to 8 months -lots of bugs, glitches, and issues in each iteration of the game are never fixed. Merely being ignored until the next DLC or expansion replaces the old content and then the cycle continues -Playerbase is continuously ignored -Balance seems like a dream (0.7% change in auto rifle damage, 0.04% for High ROF auto rifles which is likely the worst type of weapon in game) -Bungie never admits fault -grind -dismal content in expansion made worse by removal of old content -Timegated exotics as opposed to the epic quests we hoped for (community was looking for Sleeper and as their theories got more and more complex Bungie released the Sleeper without saying a word, they could have ended the chase anytime they wanted, but they didn't) -events with some pretty lame quests and few added activities, (SRL adds 1 mode, 2 maps for a month (which mostly reuses past assets), and is not very well thought out) -"free" events just an excuse to push more microtransactions with the best and permanent stuff being locked behind a paywall (book costs $10 1/4 of what the TTK costs) -2 community managers who most of the time are doing nothing while people are trying to get bugs, and balance issues recognised by them. -"challenge" mode not living up to the hype of challenge or even bringing in extra content like expected (Bungie said that the raid was created and then cut back for normal which implies that normal was missing content, people began expecting parts of the raid never seen before in future updates of hard, then challenge, especially when people found extra areas outside of the map) -Raid drops "smart" loot system not working for months on end finally gets a message in feedback saying "we'll fix it one day, we just need to collect some data or something-excuse-excuse" -multiple exotics are useless, and Bungie has shown no indication of fixing this -but you get 1 racing mode and 2 maps that get boring after 4 races I mean almost every other company can do more with less then what Bungie has. 343 is making free DLC for H5 every month, and they don't add any microtransactions in fact everything you can get with microtransactions you can earn through normal play. Bethesda is getting flak for being lazy with their bug fixes, but they are still doing way more then Bungie while they have a much larger and diverse game, and they are charging $30 for a season pass. Super smash brothers brawl receives more balance and bug fixes then Destiny does while Nintendo has the Wii U floundering at the bottom of console sales. Destiny may not be dead, it may never die thanks to its truly dedicated fans, but if this continues it will become dead to me and many others. Only Destiny 2 has a chance to restore my hope as it seems that Bungie is pooling all its resources into it (the only possible theory as to why Destiny 1 is having such a poor time)

Money is a strong incentive, can't fault them for jumping to fix it.

Shock horror - publicly owned company cares about money! I thought they were in it for love.

OK, I know you're 11, and you don't know how money works. So, companies like bungie need money to work. Simple.

I understand that the difference is huge but, The racing book: 1. Cost them money. 2. Had no other effects. Only negative. Some players stole the gear that others paid for. Thorn: 1. Was the meta. 2. Bungie apparently needs a lot of time to analyze the data they receive to make changes to the game. It took 3 months to get a simple sunbreaker nerf. Changing the racing book was a simple question. "Should we change this so we aren't being stolen from?" "Yes." Changing thorn or sunbreakers though. "Should we change these things?" "Let's see what the community thinks." "Community says yes." "How should we change?" "Let's see what the community says and look at all the data coming in about these things and do our own internal play tests." It's just a bit longer of a process.

Oh for the love of -blam!- To fix the book glitch, you need to disable an option to view it from the market. That's it. To nerf/buff guns, you need to first evaluate all the guns. Come up with plans on how to change the damage and other factors, and have them all change in a way that they will be "balanced" and have them even. Then they have to individually address the outliers, or in this case, Thorn. Next, they spend a ridiculous amount of time just changing the values of ALL the guns in the class individually and fine tuning them so they only deal more or less damage by a certain amount. Then you have to spend an amount of time doing it for EVERY single gun, even those common guns you havent seen since you were a noob. Example: You fine tune damage values for hand cannons to lower damage, then you have to decrease a completely different set of values for just range. Then you have to for stability and all the other values. FOR ONE GUN. THEN YOU REPEAT THE PROCESS. WITH ALL CLASSES OF GUNS. THEN YOU HAVE TO DO IT FOR UNLISTED VALUES LIKE HIP FIRE SPREAD. And then you have to test it and see if any inconsistencies happen, like if the values are too high or low, and spend a meticulous amount of time seeing if it feels right. Im no programmer, but I know enough to know that changing how guns handle in a game is a tough process. And it seems like none of you realize how tedious it is. This community really is toxic and taking things for granted. Tl;dr: A couple clicks can change a book exploit. A couple months can change guns. Shut up and deal with it.