Sooooooo does anyone else find this Niobe labs puzzle thing kinda dumb? Why does bungie think we want to watch streamers figure out a puzzle?
Edit: this twitter thread sums up how I feel.
https://twitter.com/PaulTassi/status/1082731503522668544?s=19
Edit 2: another good article about the problems with Niobe Labs
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2019/01/09/good-morning-destiny-2s-niobe-labs-still-isnt-solved-a-community-event-gone-wrong/#73f5dbf24097
Edit 3: from Mayhem420 in this discussion:
The last forge will be available at 2PM PST based on bungies twitter
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The problem with this is the difficulty & the sense of urgency that is artificially created by the streamers desperate to keep audiences enthralled & subscriptions up. Decisions like this place the contentout of reach of the vast majority of gamers who have to work 7-8 hrs a day - the prospect of sitting in front of yet another screen for hours on end and compete with a bunch of streamers who play the game for a living is in no way incentivising or rewarding. It’s self-defeating. The same thing happened with last wish and the commencement of the curse. It is creating a disassociation between the content/story and the playerbase - I don’t want to passively watch another team rush to complete it first. I would rather solve that puzzle & digest that content in my own time but that choice has been taken away. In truth most of us don’t have the time or inclination to solve this ourselves but I wouldn’t mind betting that we would like a degree of involvement! I imagine we will be treated to an unlocked cutscene opening the forge with a degree of fanfare (& yet another trip to Ada-1)- then its back to business as usual for the vast majority of us throwing balls at a monolith... Come on bungie get back in touch with the players before you lose yet another large chunk of us in a months time. Yes some of us may come back for jokers wild but as you learnt with Forsaken a great deal don’t.