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11/27/2017 4:18:47 PM
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It saddens me reading these posts, it really does.
I was technically a “day 2” player, as I had some network issues when Destiny came out, that prevented me from playing. But I enlisted the help of the tech community in the Bungie forums, fixed some settings, and I was playing. From September 10th, 2014 on, I was racing home from work to play this game as much as I could.
Played a ton of Crucible from the get go. Wasn’t even that great, but I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Got pretty good at sniping. Hated shotguns.
Loved all the raids (yes, even Crota) for different reasons, though the Vault remains my favorite.
I did preorder the game and season pass, so I’m stuck with Curse of Osiris and whatever comes after that. But as for DLC after season one, I think I’m done. I’m going to move on to new horizons. Destiny 2 just doesn’t have the “it” factor the first one did. Also, Destiny 2 didn’t innovate on the first one at all. The way they neutered the Crucible is so aggravating:
- No dedicated servers after they were demanded
- It was made SMALLER instead of larger like people wanted
- Less of an ability to pull off “MVP” plays
Of course, there are many other issues. They’re too much for me, personally. And it really sucks.
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Agreed. There’s nothing revolutionary or groundbreaking at this point with the Destiny universe. All of the promises and vision gone as they turn the franchise into just another CoD reskin in space using the traditional FPS genre recipe. Boring. Just like you, I felt connected to D1 from the start, stuck with it through the content dry spells and kept hope that it was going to involve the dream that was once Rome. I too pre-ordered the DLC with the base game, but feel so burned I don’t even know if I’ll come back for it. I don’t even watch many of the Destiny YouTubers anymore, the one thing that really kept me going during the content spells of D1, but I’m starting to see even some of the former diehard content creators are starting to openly question the content/direction D2 is headed (probably cause their views are starting to drop).
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What really sucks is that, for Bungie, this was bad timing as far as I’m concerned. I had just quit playing Paragon shortly before D2 was released. I don’t know if you’ve played Paragon, but it has gone through so many changes, that eventually drove off Day One players as well as Youtubers. The changes were enough for me to literally cold turkey it. And it happened right as D2 was about to release, and so D2’s lackluster release followed along the theme of broken promises and boring, watered-down gameplay.
