1. Corruption and greed within the company
2. Unfair pvp balancing
3. Constant nerfs
4. Irritating and fruitless grinding
5. No free giveaways unless your apologizing for something stupid you did
6. Expensive store and seasonal and yearly content
7. Not listening to your player base
8. Making easy content feel much more difficult than necessary
9. Bugs, bugs, and more bugs
10. Ridiculous currency caps
If you guys think of anymore reasons, feel free to add your input. Bungie don't care no how. They aren't like other games that people are flocking too. Gee I wonder why? Oh, maybe cuz they actually listen to their players and give them what they want instead of constantly manipulating them with devious tactics like Fomo, gambling addiction, stockholm syndrome, and so forth.
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[quote]1. Corruption and greed within the company[/quote] Doesn't exist, I'm afraid. It might be fashionable to think 'everything's a conspiracy', but this is just another example of good old fashioned incompetence. I don't think there's even a particular 'greed' element, just a very, very 'out-of-touch' way of looking at the gaming market. [quote]2. Unfair pvp balancing[/quote] Not unfair, just really, REALLY badly designed. They have a PvP playerbase that breaks out in hives every time you mention skill based matchmaking and when the only metric you use is to match with is tied to connectivity, you're going to get matched with people where the only commonality is connection speed [quote]3. Constant nerfs[/quote] [quote]4. Irritating and fruitless grinding[/quote] Once again, bad design in both cases. Games usually require the odd tweak here and there but the scale and frequency this is done in D2 is beyond astonishing. [quote]5. No free giveaways unless your apologizing for something stupid you did[/quote] While this might initially sound like it comes from a place of entitlement, why the hell not? It should happen so rarely that it should cost the company next to nothing. DE do this with their livestreams all the time and also if there's even an off chance that a rework or tweak has inconvenienced somebody to some degree [quote]6. Expensive store and seasonal and yearly content[/quote] Three different issues there - overall expense for in-game content, the fact that they even tie seasonal content to paid purchases and the fact that their yearly content doesn't yield much in the way of overall value [quote]7. Not listening to your player base[/quote] They never have - not so much a reason people are leaving now, more a reason why people have always left and why this has been such an ongoing discussion. [quote]8. Making easy content feel much more difficult than necessary[/quote] Once again, bad design. There's an old saying that you can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time. Only at Bungie would they think that pleasing none of the people none of the time was a solution to that. (the answer to this is simply selective difficulty scaling, which curiously enough they have planned for Frontiers although why it wasn't always in the game after putting an appearance in Destiny1, is utterly beyond me). [quote]9. Bugs, bugs, and more bugs[/quote] And back to competency again. Kind of forgivable for new stuff but managing to introduce new bugs to years old content certainly isn't. And doing stuff like leaving placeholder icons in place on live seasonal content where it's only one of two changes since last year should be a disciplinary offence, to be honest. [quote]10. Ridiculous currency caps[/quote] And back to bad design again. Introducing caps to currency for technical reasons is one thing but Bungie are quite literally wasting database space with their current caps, and doing so as a means to throttle the player experience. All of that being said, I think rather than listing out ten reasons why people are leaving Destiny, we should be all trying to think of reasons why were are staying, and if that isn't greater than the number of reasons to leave, welp....