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12/7/2015 11:59:22 PM
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A toxic community is the direct result of lying to, and ripping off your customers.

People complain about how toxic this community is. Yet they fail to realize this is simply the result of bungie's decisions. Think back to the last time you put hours of effort into this game and got nothing. You were frustrated right? You finally achieved something difficult and got... nothing. Hard mode King's Fall, finally beat Oryx and you get a 301 gun... What?! You spent hours running strikes in year 1 to get enough weapons parts for reforge rolls, to get that perfect perk set on your gun. Let's say it took over 100 rerolls at the gun smith. You love this gun and use it all the time in pve, it works just the way you like it. It perfectly matches your play style. Now it's useless in the Taken King raid and missions. You've put days worth of time into a game that could be great, only to see it devolve into microtransactions. This is after paying for DLC, which was really just cut content from vanilla destiny. You realize bungie is simply activi$ions bitch and is conditioning everyone to accept microtransactions, eventually leading to pay to win. This feeling you get is frustration, disappointment. The more often it happens, the more negative your feelings are about the game. This is simple psychology. Bungle specifically designed the game mechanics around psychological tendencies to get us to play more, like gambling addicts. The net result? Eventually everyone gets fed up, angry and disillusioned. I'm a day one customer and love what the game could be. It is incredibly frustrating watching bungie turn it into Farmville via microtransactions. So quit bitching about a toxic community. You'll join our ranks eventually. As we all know, the game is dying. These facts are simply the result of bungie's actions.

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  • The toxicity comes from a large group of outspoken people who constantly keep comparing what we got to what we COULD have gotten, or what we SHOULD have gotten. People are never going to be satisfied with Destiny because it's never going to match up to anything that they could possibly imagine it to be in their heads. I thought Destiny was going to be something more, and what I got was something promising. I'm not going to sit here and cry and whine and complain about Bungie "stealing" my money from my wallet or anything like that. I'm glad to have experienced Destiny for what it is, through all its highs and lows. I haven't, nor will I ever sugarcoat this game to my friends if they ever show interest in purchasing it. It's a fun game, and I enjoyed pouring hours of my life into it. It's far from perfect, and Lord knows there were a ton of low points in the game's still-going lifespan. People forget what fun in a video game is. Someone's going to reply to this and ask me several questions, all of which pertain to the monotonous grind of Destiny appearing fun to me because I'm a simple sheeple, or a cawadooty fanboy with a short attention span. But what made Destiny fun was everything I did along the way, all the good AND the bad. That's enjoyment, you won't know the good times unless you go through the bad ones. Otherwise, you take it all for granted. Mind you, this is all some profane sounding bullshit when I'm just talking about a game, but oh well. [spoiler]tl; dr people will never be satisfied and I'm typing this on no sleep at 7:43 AM[/spoiler]

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