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Edited by TwoKicks: 6/10/2020 6:29:40 PM
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Sunsetting overshadows your live stream

I watched the live stream this morning and got extremely excited about all the new content coming this Fall. So after the long wait for the download to finish and the many warnings about my connection to the Destiny server I was finally able to log on. The wait didn't end my hype, the new video and story missions were really cool. After I finished the and acquired my new grenade launcher and did one of the boring new public events from this season I was still excited. Then I looked at my weapons and armor and saw Bungie is already implementing sunsetting. We aren't affected by it, but it's there and looking and ready to destroy our inventory and vaults as soon as the new expansion comes this Fall. I immediately lost any motivation I had to play this season. Every strike, crucible match, Gambit match, seemed utterly pointless. What is my goal? To receive armor with a time limit? What if I get busy with work/school/life for a few months? It doesn't matter to Bungie if you enjoy playing the game as long as you are buying new content and that is clearly apparent. Sunsetting weapons I get, Bungie is too lazy to find a viable solution for balancing so just hit the refresh button. Sunsetting armor after the grind you made to masterwork it? After you made it the only decent reward from the season passes? It saddens me to see people support a company which has fallen so far out of touch with its player base. Bungie has been my favorite developer since the first Halo but they just can't seem to get out of their own way since D2 launched. I was expecting good things after the Activision split but it's just more of the same.

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  • Edited by Noble 6: 6/10/2020 10:44:50 PM
    You wanna hear the biggest joke about sunsetting? They announced that Last Wish and Garden of Salvation loot would be an exception, in that gear from those raids (which will be relevant in year 4) will have a higher power cap. Well, just check the max. power level of any LW/GoS gear in the game right now, I'll wait. Back? Good, now you'll have seen that it has the same power-cap as everything else that will be retired at the start of year 4. 1060 power, across all raid gear. So what they probably meant was that gear from those raids will have a higher max. power... if you get it again in year 4. Kind of exposes (unless it's a mistake in the UI*) that sunsetting isn't about keeping the game fresh, it's about letting you grind for half the stuff you already have again. It's about artificially extending play-time without putting in the extra effort on Bungie's part to make sunsetting TRULY work. *I doubt it's a mistake in the UI because they also re-released old weapons this season (like from Reckoning) and they're the exact same guns, except that they expire a bit later now, because they have the new season's emblem attached. They know what they're doing. EDIT: So apparently it's been confirmed by Cozmo that it is indeed a mistake in the UI and they're gonna fix that next season. Maybe take that with a grain of salt, but also, as I wrote down below, this doesn't really change my opinion about sunsetting, given that they are already re-releasing the same guns. But at least this is *something* I guess.

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