Bungie will never win back players with this slow-roll of meager upgrades. It’s too little and it’s not fast. Bungie, PULL OUT THE STOPS!!
Here are three that would make a difference and aren’t hard to code.
1. BE MORE GENEROUS!!!! – with drops, with raid rewards, with every kind of loot at every level. Double, triple, quadruple the exotic drip (pun intended) rate, increase the XP rate of medallions, increase the useless 3 of coins rate by a thousand, increase the masterwork core drop rates (for crying out loud), and increase it for armor (on all armor) weapons, etc. Throw some exotics in those loot caches, maybe a few masterwork cores… Bungie, YOU NEED TO BE MORE GENEROUS! NOW!
2. CREATE/ALLOW OP WEAPONS AND GEAR!!!! 2. Allow for, and at this point, create a few OP weapons and gear. OP stuff is always kind of fun for players (why Bungie insists on balance is stupid). This game needs to be fun again and what’s not fun about some awesome OP weapons. For example, make the blast radius for explosive radius larger and more powerful… or maybe make the Dragonfly more appropriate to it’s name (it’s currently more like a Butterfly). Increase the damage of this explosion and it’s radius. How about removing whatever nerf you put on the Prometheus Lens, heck why don’t you increase it’s damage. It was fun while we had it. What about making the Skyburner’s Oath something to remember. Increase the rate of fire, make it blow-up shields and cause damage on the first shot that hits a shield, just do something to make it fun. Create and let a few things be OP. You owe us that.
3. Flip the switch and let us go through the campaign with our new weapons and gear and just destroy everything in our path. Many of us want to go through the campaign again (the whole thing in sequence) with better loot, exotic drops, etc.
With all the communication, if you don't have something earth-shattering, you are not getting players back. You need to show us that you understand what makes gaming fun. The stuff you're giving us now, isn't enough to get players back into the game. And if you wait until the DLC? Well, it will be an all or nothing for the game. If I were a betting man, I wouldn't take that bet. Show us now, that you get us... So far, nope. It's not enough.
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Generous? I don't even play and get 3-4 powerful engrams, raid and trials weapons a week. So generous it flat out stupid.