Firstly this is not an essay points are not structured. This is an active conversation and I do Intend to hear and respond in turn. You can not appeal to everyone with rng based loot period. In destiny 1 we had the pursuit of the thorn, the gjallahorn, and the vex mythoclast, and even that last piece of armor keeping you from that light level you need so badly; I had friends, strangers and family that all experienced destiny and were grinding in game for many of these things even after them becoming obsolete, however, they were desirable rewards from endgame content. Legendary rewards felt legendary and exotics felt exotic. Then with the introduction of a vendor capable of re-rolling weapons at the cost of some weapon parts and motes in the house of wolves expansion allowed people to grind materials or take on content for a chance at the roll they wanted. The endgame drove people on it gave the community life it gave them a goal and excitement; our efforts and persistence being rewarded with gear with notoriety with infamy with envy with loot. For those with limited schedules but still wanted rewarding and challenging content without organizing 6 people or looking to lfg? There was no guided game system, there was the nightfall a truly endgame experience with penalties to a fireteam wipe a high chance at exotics or legendary gear. within the crucible, there was the iron banner and the trials of Osiris. There was so much to look forward to when it was new and as it grew old it did need to change but it did not need to be removed all the gear from year 1 was ripped from us the tier 12 builds we grinded for were removed so year 1 players were not even able to participate in the crucible properly to "encourage" players to purchase the taken king. I have purchased 2 copies of destiny 1 on each release of a yearly expansion for playstation and xbox you can see in my accounts nukarabbit, solastarabbit, asmodeus Incubi and any number of other handles I took in the lifetime of this game. I believe collectively I had spent around 4000 hours in the game collecting grinding and playing and with the release of destiny 2, I had purchased it on pc in hopes that I could play with a larger friends group. only to find what was severely disappointing 2 weeks later a game that lacked a serious endgame, random loot, and missing any serious changes justifying a departure from destiny 1 and the time I had spent there. The tower was destroyed our loot lost? then why is the mida, hardlight, knuckle head, celestial, frosteez, graviton, lucky rass, ahamkara spine, and any number of other gear here? why was the eververse store a clear cash grab not only added back into the game but half of our content locked behind its paywall as you proceed to xp throttle players? So as a long time Destiny player what did I get from d1? an exotic? legendary? shader? bay even just an emblem? No, because I choose to switch to pc I was punished; even though my accounts are linked through bungees services. How can I say fix your game when it's becoming so clear that the game isn't what needs fixing. It's not the corruption in the dreaming city that we should concern ourselves with as guardians in the second year of destiny 2 its the corruption poisoning Bungie and Activision. I want to support Bungie I want to support Activision. My first shooter was halo; my second was halo 2 which with my friend we beat in 3rd grade. Its something I was immensely proud of and 5 years later I received halo reach for my birthday; it was the first time I had taken an active role in the community. I made maps I read Bungie updates I saw Bungie look to their community for input and even published some custom game modes. however with every passing game and expansion since then I see a departure from those values. Community outcry is met with long testing periods for balancing pr speak of we are looking into issues instead of treating many of us as the adults we are. When changes are made they are pandering rather than definitive. Meta's should not revolve around the strength of weapon classes and archetypes. It should evolve around the users of the weapons that is how you balance a class-based shooter and beyond that the classes of this shooter. You give hunters an exceptionally strong PVP oriented exotic the word husk crown an armor piece that restores a little health and starts the classes regeneration upon class abilities use, which could then be stopped by hitting them right after their regeneration started. Then you release the one-eyed mask a titan exotic which upon kill of an enemy that has damaged you, you not only gain overshield which continues to generate after being shot but also grants increased damage, changing the ttk for them and on them and that feels fair and balanced to you? I spend time in your game I love your game but this feels bad it feels wrong it feels unenjoyable at a casual and competitive level. Give us a reason to stay give us something to fight for because I know I'm not the only one to feel this way. From the moment forsaken dropped I had grinded for the dredgen title only to find it was time-gated after 4 days I had acquired my title and was immensely satisfied. Today I read that you will be increasing the spawn rate of the malfeasance boss rendering my effort pointless and the loot common that I had acquired. All that I had spent my time on for these 4 weeks invalidated by a change to a spawn rate of a random boss. The very reason I came back was the difficulty of that title the rarity of the loot the joy of accomplishing something either no one or very few had done to that point was stripped from me by your choices. To me, this is as if you had changed your mind about the difficulty of the last wish raid and granted the title wish granter to anyone who had finished the raid. It would be unfair to that first team to finish the raid. Just as this is unfair to the people who played for 8 hours for a malfeasance and 32 hours for the rest of the title and that's if they were lucky, It was work it was hard with everyone running with sleeper and 1000 voices and instakilling primevals with ikelos shotguns and super abilities so why would you take this from the people that tried so hard to acquire the title. message me pm me contact me I'm everywhere as SolastaRabbit. Prove to me, prove to us the community that you listen. Talk to me, talk to us, show us you listen. I'd appreciate it and I'm sure so would much of your community talk to us.