Just reading the update news and noticed this... [b] "We noticed that players felt Lost Sectors were useful, but disliked the fact that they couldn’t enjoy them with a fireteam, so we moved the faction tokens from the destructible items to the chest at the end of the activity. The destructibles will still be featured as a daily milestone and are still available to help your fireteam clear out the Lost Sector."
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This is a sad ass lie period. They didn't like the fact that during the last faction rally, people simply destroyed the items for tokens and farmed to the max number of packages without having to mind numbingly complete the useless sectors every time.
If they wanna make this change to try and keep people playing longer, that's what should be said, not this sad ass lie about wanting to do sectors with a fireteam. Like whose ass did they even pull that out of. Not even a good lie for christs sake. smh. I'm sure I'm like many people who wont even bother to touch this faction crap after the first one anyway but damn Bungie, grow some -blam!-ing balls and tell the truth...
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First, the complaint certainly was made, and by all accounts, it is at odds with some of the core design philosophies of the game. Any component of this game that can be enjoyed solo (lost sectors) should be equally, if not more enjoyed, with friends/others. Not less enjoyed, as was the case with the first faction rally. Now sure, this likely wasn't the main reason they pushed this change, but I think your expectation of that sort of explanation is faulty. That just isn't how communication is done these days. They're going to spin it to make it sound good. And seriously, can you really fault them for wanting to remove counter-intuitive farming methods? This absolutely needed to change. The way it was set up wasn't fun.