I know the servers are trash still, but even if they were fixed, I'd still hate the majority of the game, and I'm sorry for the long post, but I got some stuff I wanna get off my chest. TLDR: This game's activities are rigged for failure, and the amount of advantages and unfair power gaps the enemies get make them annoying and tedious. It isn't fun anymore unless I'm playing easy stuff with my friends. If anyone thinks I need to "get good", continue reading the post and you'll see why I'm upset. The biggest problem I have with D2 right now is the fact that Bungie thinks difficulty is entirely based around modifying the game to make it unfairly disadvantageous for the player. Right now it feels like every time I die it isn't my fault, and Idc if anyone says it is. I find it unfair that enemies can kill me through any sort of obstacle regardless of how it happens. To add to this, the modifiers are way out of control. D1 nightfalls only had 5 total, that was the max. Now even normal activities have 5 modifiers, arguably less as some do almost nothing, but my point stands that the game looks far more intimidating than ever before. I've soloed GMs in multiple seasons prior to LF, raid bosses, and even every dungeon flawlessly except only the newest dungeon because the bosses have overinflated health bars. I just don't want to torment myself to this -blam!- anymore. I play D2 very rarely now, and when I do, I only play the easy stuff because that is the only time where my health doesn't magically go from full to 0 in less than a second because the AI just swaps who it dogpiles on. Keep in mind, I use many different strategies that make survival easier, resistance mods, and 100 resil, and I still die in just a few pea shooter shots from Deep dive enemies, an activity that is SEASONAL! Seasonal content shouldn't be doing equal damage to a master activity! Idc if it isn't a darkness zone until the boss, because these aren't master enemies, and their damage doesn't go away when you reach the boss anyway. Certain difficulty modifiers need to just straight-up be deleted, and many of the enemies need drastic nerfs in damage. The enemy should be SMART, not all brawn and no brain. This is what made D1 so good. It felt good to pick a fight with the enemies, because no matter where you were, they would fight back and do reasonable damage. in D2, these enemies make illogical choices, and are just plain stupid, and the only thing making them difficult is the damage they're doing that will instantly kill you in certain scenarios when they normally otherwise wouldn't.

1. Not being able to use my sunset weapons even as they release the same exact weapons, some of which are behind a paywall 2. The good raids (Scourge, Crown) are sunset, along with the good campaigns and seasons (red war, forsaken, black armory, opulence). 3. New seasons are boring with the missions and story, and that the forsaken pass was over delivering content, so nothing that comes out with be up to par with what I consider to be prime destiny which was that time

I'd just like to take a second to appreciate how awful the dialogue writing has been recently. Also their 'storytelling' has devolved to voiceovers narrating their new garbage slideshow cutscenes, characters blatantly spewing exposition at each other over the guardian's comms channel (like unrelated chatter while we're in an active combat zone, it's so weird. Also our enemies (Savathun, the nightmares on the Leviathan, Xivu Arath, to name a few) are frequently in the comms channel too for some reason?), and "witnessing conversations" at the holoprojector.

My largest complaints are: -Most parts of the game don't feel rewarding for the amount of time spent doing the activities. Mainly raid exotics. I don't want to do the raid 20 times just to get a niche exotic. Just give me the damn gun after five clears so I can play with it once and never use it again. -Lack of new crucible and gambit maps -Too much stuff in eververse. Let us earn raid ornaments like in last year of Destiny 1. Now when I log into Destiny, I only play to have fun. But there's only a few activities that I enjoy. I can play crucible solo and have fun with any gun I want. The other stuff are raids and dungeons, but those I like to play with friends. And even then, the only raids I like are DSC, Vow and half of RoN. Once I gave up on the game being rewarding for the time I put in, I began to play purely for enjoyment of the activity and gameplay. With friends, more things are fun. But solo I realized how little there is that I actually want to do.

*Crucible lobby balancing *The paywalls content is being locked behind. *The RNG for certain activities *The lack of engaging content *The amount of error/network issues I have per week. *Bungies complete lack of accountability *Devs saying bad things about other companies. *Other things I can't say because I will get canceled. I want to quit so bad. I've invested so much time more than 4500 hours into this game. I'm stuck riding this train until it no longer goes. I hope TFS is a banger. I latch onto the things I love and won't quit them. This is quite possibly the worst relationship I've ever been in right now at this moment. There are still blissful moments, that's why I'm still here.

Game just doesn’t feel that fun anymore. It just feels awfully shallow and very welcoming to hollowness. Like the game play is still really fun but just the activities we have rn are so boring.

“With Marathon Bungie is clearly focussing on PvP and from the ground up the integrity of the experience has been absolutely critical. And it was non negotiable that bungie was gonna be investing in dedicated servers for Marathon, disconnect recovery […], like without those elements none of this matters.” Scott Taylor, the former project lead of the Forsaken expansion, actually said this on the Marathon vidoc. This is such a damning own goal that I’m surprised it hasn’t been quoted more often in the community. Dedicated servers is unequivocally one of the most requested things from the Destiny community since the game’s inception. And here is Bungie inferring, officially, that a game without them doesn’t matter. Destiny is near the end of its lifespan. Bungie isn’t shy about making this clear either. This game has become simply a cash cow for the whales who will consume micro transactions. The “final shape” of the game. There is no passion from the developers any more, their interests are elsewhere. And to the hardcore fan base who have nothing more to do, (apart from the absolutely captivating fishing gameplay…), no more secrets to find, and not much else to look forward to in the future of this game, they are being continually reminded of Bungie’s dwindling interest in the franchise.

The whole game is a pain point. Regret ever picking this thing up tbh. Only reason I play is cuz it was free. I wouldn’t spend a penny of my income on this garbage.