I delayed getting this game because it looked like it was a glorified PVP game (and I know others who are doing the same), but your website says that you can do just PVE and co-op with friends, so I gave the game a go.
I finally got an exotic quest but had to turn it down because you don't just have to grind PVP, but you have to excel at it! ARRG! Finally, I had a chance to become more effective so that I could play with the people who had all been in the game longer, but no-- PVP barred the way! For example, one quest was earn 500 points where you got +5 for a kill and -2 for a death. I'd be lucky to move forward at that rate, much less ever complete it. Another was have 25 more kills than deaths which is just not attainable for me and many, many others.
Bungie, you just put a great path to exotic weapons out the reach of over half of your players. Now I'll have to go beg some advanced players to hold my hand through the beginning heroic weeklies so that I can scrape up a few strange coins a week (though rage quitting now makes sense to me). If you meant this game to be so aggravating to people who don't like/can't stand and/or suck at PVP, you should advertise it as a PVP game. Personally, I think you should be true to your word of supporting both PVPers and non-PVPers and remove the PVP requirement from exotic quests (or at least make it just a grind like the PVE, rather than requiring you to be in the top 30-40% of PVP players).
Feel free to add yelling and screaming throughout my message as this really pisses me off and definitely has me recommending against this game to the rest of the fence-sitting non-PVPers that I know (and don't know for that matter; with social media as it is, a lot of people hear from people that they don't know).
Thanks for your attention... I'm going to go alternate screaming and begging for help now...
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I'm not trying to say it's not hard but I have 7 exotics and not one of them has been worth what I had to do to get them..so I feel your pain