TL:DR -Casual gamer enjoys Destiny 2 but is also disappointed with the lack of content and how Destiny 2 is just Destiny 1.27 -Keep the non Raid/nightfall paths to max power level. -Add more content for the hardcore gamers -DLC is not worth the price. Think of the children! -Lift your game Bungie So, I jumped into Destiny just after Taken King dropped. It was a great game, I thoroughly enjoyed it and spent 700 hours playing it. I am by no means a hardcore player of Destiny, purely casual as I can only jump in for two to three hours every second day or so and the odd epic gaming session now and then. Destiny 1 had an epic grind for a casual, which was fine, as I slowly discovered what activities I could do solo that would see my light level increase. I also had a friend join up for Nightfall strikes, which at first took FOREVER to finish as there was just the two of us, but we slowly ground our light level up so that we could do nightfall’s every week with a bit of a struggle here and there but still finish them. Now however, with the timers, we just gave up on trying to two man it with low light. (Yes, I have read people love the timers and if you’re a full team of 3 maybe they can be fun, but just in my instance and the way I play with just the one friend. It sucks a bit.) Then we would jump in to Iron Banana to get higher level gear again. Good fun and face paced adrenaline filled PVP. Even though I usually hate PVP as I suck, this could still be fun. Eventually I had a Saturday night free and was in the mood to just give the Raid a go. After finding some random people on LFG, in we went. One guy was an absolute champion and had the patience of a care taker looking after special needs kids. I am not a newb so could make the puzzle jumps and hold lanes perfectly fine after maybe a failure here and there, but there was one guy who was an absolute potato, but, our care takers patience and willingness to tell the 2 or 3 complainers in the group to STFU and wait for the potato, was fantastic. We all landed up just cheering on Mr Potato. Good times. I made friends with some of the fellas and we still sometimes just play together (now days they ground out D2 and just moved onto other things). I only ever did the raid maybe 3 times, but it was fun. It just took too much energy and time as a casual to get into week after week. After a while, but before the Iron lords content, I sort of slowed down with Destiny due to life and just getting a little tired of Destiny. Moments of triumph dropped and I would jump in for a session a little more often but was basically waiting for Destiny 2. Being an adult with a proper job etc etc, gaming cost basically nothing in comparison to the other crap I buy, so I pre-ordered Destiny 2 without a second thought with all the DLC included, because I thought, "Hey, Taken King was amazeballs, I'm sure Bungie will do a similar release schedule" Destiny 2 drops and I get right back into the universe. Life is good. Now there were 12 weeks roughly between release of Destiny 2 and Curse of Osiris. 1 - Titan at lvl 20 2 - Start Hunter with a friend 3 - Start a Warlock 4 - Hunter and warlock at lvl 20 5 - 2 characters at about 265 power level 6 - Start only jumping into destiny 2 for Powerful engrams from Cayde and Hawthorne 7 - 3 characters at 280ish 8 - 3 @ 290 9 - 3 @ 295 10 - 3 @ 300 11 - 2 @ 305 12 - 2 @ 305 and Titan @ 304 due to RNGesus screwing my Titan and not giving him the gear he needs from powerful engrams. Ah well. Over this 12 week period I got ALOT of exotic engrams, which was freaking great to start with, but then after getting Riskrunner, merciless and freaking cold heart about 15 times each, exotics lost all meaning to me. Screw them. Don't even start with the "what took you so long to get to 305?!" As much as I would like to max out my gaming hours, life, gym, girlfriend, friends etc all come before my need to max characters in a game :) So, from about week 6 onwards Destiny 2 turned into basically what I used to use Quake 3 for back in the day. Which is to say, a graphically intensive game of Solitaire/Minesweeper. I wanta game to kill some time with and just chill. However, I want guns instead of cards and mines. I enjoyed that I could do the weekly powerful engram activities on my own to slowly grind up my characters without the need to go into Raids and stuff like that. Jump in on a Tuesday night, get the Flashpoint and Clan engrams for hunter. Do the same for the Titan on a Thursday. Finish off the warlock on Saturday or Sunday. That's basically 4 hours a week with some messing around thrown in. Oh and I played less than an hour of PVP due to getting in and feeling like my character was a sloth unless I had Mida to bring my speed up (no, I did not meta the entire time, nameless midnight was great), and no, before you bitch about "you probably got your ass handed to you" my KD was 2.x and 4.x or something around there for the few matches I played. Time to kill is RIDICULOUS! PVP is just not fun and why the hell would you remove the ability to choose a game type?! Meh. Whatever, I'll just play solo. Now, Curse of Osiris dropped, and I got my Hunter to max level in an hour just messing around. I haven’t finished the story because I want to make it "feel" longer as I hear it is extremely short. For me the cost of the DLC means nothing. I do not care. However, if I were a kid now days that had to spend his pocket money or whatever. 20 dollars to get maybe 3 hours of content?! I would want to use one of the MANY useless exotics to bludgeon the crap out of someone making the decisions at Bungie! Also, on exotics again, Prometheus Lens is getting calls for nerfs… screw that. Call for buffs! Destiny 2 is watered down already! Buff the crap out of everything, we won the god damn Red War… why not let us feel powerful with a face pace?! So yes, while I love that Destiny 2 was well focused on a more casual gamer (like myself), it feels like even a casual gamer is missing out on a lot of content by the end. Bungie, please don’t keep letting us down. For me I’m afraid it feels like, if Bungie does not pull a second Taken King level of goodness out of the bag, I’ll have lost all faith in Bungie and throw them on the EA pile.