It's no secret that the community feels a bit tense right now with Bungie's engagement and some of the issues we've been experiencing throughout the season. I see numerous complaints and hate threads over certain topics that really drive players insane, but I want to directly ask those who genuinely dedicate their time to this game.
What are your biggest pain points? What is driving you away?
If you could write 3 quick sentences to detail out what you feel is lacking, or what genuinely frustrates you, I would love to see what the community as a whole is feeling.
With over 4K hours in this game, I've been through my fair share of ups and downs with the community. I know that regular delivery of content for a live service game is immensely difficult, and Bungie as well as many others will continue to try new things.
I'll share my 3 primary pain points myself, summarized as best as possible.
Poor story delivery. The weekly drip feed, and overall presentation of what actually is an INCREDIBLE story and lore is just delivered to us in such an un-captivating way. It is appalling how good of a narrative exists, and yet it's given to us in such a lack luster fashion.
Instability, performance, connectivity. We all know these issues have gotten worse, and now far more ridiculous than ever. My clan mate was getting repeated errors just for using arc on a Titan and killing an enemy. I miss when lag was the only slight concern.
Time invested = little to no return. This one is hard to specify, because I do think some of the more recent loot has been awesome. Spare returned in a disappointing manner, but many new weapons are genuinely good. However, the high end activities of the game feel almost useless. Why do a master raid? Why farm GMs? Why reach max rank in comp? There is not enough return for more egregious time investment. Some of this ties into overall fatigue and just sheer experience, but something has to be engaging no?
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1) The DCV. It's obvious to me that on every stated objective the purpose of the DCV has failed. I lump sunsetting in there too because what's sunset gear but content we paid for that Bungo didn't have the stones to vault with the rest of it? Nothing like the backhand of half-measures after a slap in the face like that. 2) Marathon. Instead of investing in the health, stability, and infrastructure of Destiny 2--the game their entire customer base is paying for--Bungie has poached their best staff from D2, hired a boatload more, and given all the stuff D2 players have been asking for for years, along with all of our money, to a whole different game at the direct expense of the one that's actually functional and live. Instead of hiring more staff, giving us new pvp and gambit maps, new strikes, dedicated servers, all the content all of us veterans already paid for back, along with a whole suite of QoL changes and whatnot, Bungie's been sitting on their laurels, knowing they have (potentially had) no real competition, and diverting all of that to other projects. 3) Datto. Because he doesn't care.