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Edited by Whiskey:
12/13/2023 6:56:03 PM
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Sad, Frustrated... idk...
TL;DR - Sad and frustrated at the lack of incentive the game gives me to play at this point in my D2 history (almost 3k hours), and at the lack of desire I have to do these things.
Going to keep this pretty plebian since I see no point in being aggressively upset...
This morning I logged in to do the weekly story as I do every week, since I am in the office on reset day. I went up to speak to Riven, got the next step, read it, stared at my monitor for 2-3 minutes and turned my xbox off...
First time i've done that with a main quest step, [u]ever[/u]. I don't have an interest in doing another coil to collect things i've already collected hundreds, if not thousands of.
It makes me incredibly sad. I've got thousands of hours on this game. I love the lore, I have all the books. I love the storytelling. But I couldn't be bothered because the weekly MAIN quest step was "do the seasonal activity" again.
It's not that I don't have the time, I am just not interested enough to slosh through 15-30 mins of seasonal activities, to end up running a Riven's Lair, to get an egg where the chest should be, to go back to the helm, to run a lost sector in DC (that still doesn't have alt LZs), to get a 30 second conversation BACK in the Helm, to be left disappointed after sleepwalking/speedrunning through the actual gameplay of the weekly quest.
I figured okay well if i don't wanna do the quest step, maybe I can do something else, OH the Dawning is live! Same thing... Memento is baller. Really cool. The weapons? not-a-one. Armor is purchase only. I don't buy the event cards. What is there to chase?
So now, I haven't done the weekly quest, AND am uninterested in the seasonal event going on.
I am really sad, really frustrated, bored, pissed off, dejected, unmotivated to play; and I wish something would happen to bring that spark back. Maybe it's the fact that I have everything already, maybe it's because the content isn't great, maybe its me just being pessimistic.
I don't feel the love anymore, and it really breaks my heart.
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Edited by Codykins: 12/15/2023 1:48:34 AMI understand completely. Been around since the beginning of Destiny 1 myself. Although I play on PC now, that obviously wasn't always the case. I was re-arranging some displays in the other room, and I walked by, sat down, and picked [url=https://i.ibb.co/kSTH2Dd/D2-Limited.jpg]this old relic[/url] up and just kind of stared at it, smiled then sighed, put it down and walked off. I've made my fair share of memories; most of my friends that I used to play with on a constant basis and do raids with back in D1 have long since quit, and while the nostalgia does trickle back, I came to terms long ago that the 'Destiny' game model / design I used to be so excited to play everyday, is long-gone. I log in to do some casual PvP and keep in touch with the few old friends over the years that still sometimes log in to play, but besides the weekly story mission, there's very little actual progression once you hit 1810 and get all the gear you really wanted. If they wanted to keep player retention with a somewhat good idea this season (since it is 7-months long), [i][b]they should have brought EVERY Nightfall weapon into rotation[/b][/i]-- atleast that would have gave people a reason to log in most weeks to get Nightfall weapons they missed. [u]My main advice is a decent-length break-- play other games[/u]. I've been having to do so every couple of months just to keep the idea of booting up the game passed the title screen relevant without hitting ALT+F4 and loading up another game. I plan to see the game through until The Final Shape, and after that, it's getting uninstalled and put into the Steam Library for good, and I won't even consider turning an eye to Marathon after seeing what Bungie has become and done to this game.
