While it is commendable that Bungie has finally taken the time to address the concerns of the community after letting feedback fly back and forth for the past two weeks, I have found the way they have touched on concerns very vague and more troubling how they have completely omitted some them. You say that you are listening to our feedback earnestly Bungie? But then go and block the comments for your two new posts about the future of the game. That is equivalent of putting on headphones as someone is speaking to you. Not only is this total restriction of feedback the exact opposite action to your words it has also allowed you to avoid two very universal and highly expressed pieces of feedback from players and reviewers alike which are the story and mission structure.
How is it that despite the near unanimous bashing/condemnation of Destiny's story everywhere have you completely failed to address it in your Dev notes? How is it despite players and critics nearly reaching a consensus on how repetitive and stale missions are have you missed it?. It wasn't until I read your other Dev note about the formula for strike missions that I lost all faith. Are you seriously trying to convince me that a bug was responsible for the difficulty of strikes? Despite it being the same quality and difficulty in the alpha and the beta?. Feedback for the strikes has been the same since the beta it is a bit late to blame it all on a simple bug.
It is understandable that for PR purposes everything must be presented in a positive no matter how twisted it is but you really have stretched goodwill far now. You had a perfect opportunity to demonstrate your commitment and you have made your attempt to do so as underdeveloped as your game.
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I'm honestly shocked by some of the replays that are trying to justify turning comments off (by blaming trolls and whiners). This is basically like saying "they do not allow people to say anything because they care". So I guess the best way to work with the community would be to disable forum, right?