Today I watched a Bungie stream that openly spit in the face of their paying customers (by far not the first) Months before beyond light we were told sunsetting was a necessity for the health of the game, I watched as weapons I spent 100’s of hours grinding for became irrelevant, and now they are the excitement of the future as your boot licking streamers make videos in excitement about their return.
For example, I’m no pvp god by any means so much so that me and my Service Revolver (probably the only time I’ve actually ran a positive kd) went head to head with meta Lunas Howl for months grinding wins that barely gave me rank only to lose two to three times as much with a loss. Only to finally get it after it had been nerfed and changed to a 140. But, I was proud because my arthritis riding hands finally did it.
Last week I decided to play trials for a new Summoner (which I rarely play because I know my place in this game) Only to find out it’s locked behind (must be unlocked in collection despite having two previous versions I’ve grinded for each time in my vault).
But the killer for me is Midnight Coup, by far my favorite from og D2, 40,292 kills I have on it and now I’m expected to grind for it again when you’ve removed the content that’s the reason it even exists. Shadow of its former self. FU straight up. Your business practices are truly unbelievable even after all the apologies, layoffs and threats of being taken over by Sony, and the we must do better post.
After 7 years I’ve officially uninstalled D2 and yes this is my airport and I’m announcing my departure. Why because Bungie deserves everything that’s happening to them. Despite everything they continue to do the same with promises of change but actually don’t. Your motto seems to be throw this nostalgic stuff at them to make them happy, I’m only now realizing what 90% of my friends list that used to play this game before sunset realized then and stopped playing simply because of your charades and bad business practices.
I’m not going to engage your reply’s against my thoughts. This is how I feel, keep being a sheep and throwing money at the screen. FTP (the downfall of D2) makes any argument irrelevant to me at this point because some of us worked our -blam!- off irl to be able to play this game and Bungie didn’t give af.
Edit: By changing Rampage on Breakneck to Subsistence and also making all the year one weapons that had different burns all match the same as what is in collections, they've proven it's possible to bring the originals back with updates.
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Bye, see you in 2 months! Joking aside, sunsetting served a purpose. Was it a perfect fix? Nope. Was it better than just letting things go? Yes. Most Pinnacle weapons (Recluse, Mountaintop, Luna’s, 21% and Loaded Question) were so strong that nothing else could even compete. To get players to put them down, they either needed to make things even stronger (yes, power creep is a thing) or remove the problems. Would the player response be any better if Bungie just nuked Pinnacle weapons like they did to heavy GLs in Shadowkeep?