After reading the post I feel kinda deflated, on one hand its good that there will be no real advantage given to people starting Destiny 2, but on the other I feel like everything that I stored or accomplished may have been for nothing, that the time effort and in some cases money for the past 3 years may have been wasted. sure we have our accomplishment books but it really feels like its saying once they are done stop playing, every iron banner, faction rank, trials game or challenge of elders completed was meaningless.
it kills the compitition and completionist in me. I have been trying to collect all the ships missing 9, 3 raid ships 2 rare vendor 2 planetary 1 prison of elders 1 trials. Shaders I'am missing 5, 4 trials, 1 strike. 8 emblems, 1 quest, 1 strike, 2 class, 4 trials. I was keeping track of these things, now for them not to mean anything, kinda kills the inhibition to continue playing these activities, I am now just starting to get into trials but now because of this it feels like there is no point. Will I do there next activity? Sure, but it feels that once that's complete there is nothing left in Destiny, It make me in a way less enthused about Destiny 2 because its the end of a game that I put a lot of work into and makes me leery of how destiny 2 will be handled.
I do hope that there is something that either will change or that they will modify so it doesn't feel this way but from the out set I'm am not confident.
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Well unlike 3 of the 4 other posts under you here I feel your pain. I truly can't remember if I had read this was a possibility (little to none of our work put in moving to next game) or I was just assuming but for this reason I stopped a couple months ago at 397 light. Like you I have almost everything and also like you this has really hit hard. I was one of these destiny freaks who loved the lore and watched tons of lore vids and would delve into the grimoire cards. A day one beta player who hardly played another game lol. Even though every game has its lifecycle we were told from the beginning that destiny would be a ten year affair. An epic journey unlike any that had ever come before. So yeah, we want blood sweat and tears to carry over. Those of you who don't care obviously haven't done every challenge of every raid. Or been to the lighthouse. It's simple.. That all being said, I don't want to play this last tiny bit of new content. It all just makes me mad. Will I play destiny 2? Maybe... Once I read some reviews, watch some vids and see what direction the series is heading. Call it selfish, stupid, or whatever but I think I'd feel better if the game was just ending instead of basically being erased and started over.. Such a shame. Good luck to all you guardian's. I wish you all the best.