What are you talking about? PvE in Destiny is barely a challenge. And I’m not claiming to be some PvE god! But soloing? Sure, that’s where it gets spicy. In a fireteam of three, though? You might as well let your abilities and auto-targeting weapons handle the work. Between room-clearing explosions and tracking projectiles, the game practically plays itself. So again, what are you talking about? The endless whining about how “hard” this game is feels like people allergic to putting in effort. It’s like saying we should turn basketball into patty-cake because Timmy can’t dribble. Is that really the bar now? The problem isn’t difficulty—it’s the lack of engaging mechanics. Remember the Shield Brothers strike? You actually had to think—plan how to bring those bosses together to drop their shields. Now? Every encounter boils down to "stand here, grab buff, shoot shield." Rinse and repeat. It’s not a challenge; it’s a checklist. And catering to casuals? That’s a barrel without a floor. Bungie keeps trying to please everyone, and in doing so, they’re driving everyone away. It has to be the gameplay that keeps us coming back—not some shiny new subclass, game-breaking weapon, or flavor-of-the-week ability. But that’s what the weekend warriors need: quick fixes, low effort, and high reward. Bungie needs to decide who this game is for because right now, the middle-ground policies are killing it. It’s not for the casual mentality of “low effort, but I want it all.” That mindset ruins the game for players who actually want to earn their progress. And don’t even get me started on PvP. You cry about getting stomped in PvP but want PvP acolytes to roll over for you like PvE NPCs. It’s ridiculous. If you want everything handed to you, fine—but don’t expect the rest of us to stick around for a game designed to reward mediocrity. Destiny thrives on challenge, mastery, and growth—not participation trophies.

Bungie has applied this "all or nothing" concept to everything. Titles, guardian ranks, weeklies, the list goes on. You can basically play this game for 10 hours per day, complete 99 % of it and have nothing to show for it - because unless you finish that remaining 1 % - or in some cases only that 1 % - you'll get nothing. Outcome, everything els becomes pointless. Bungie could have set up so many goals for the casual crowd and solo player if they just ditched their insane concept and didnt cater to the "content creator clique". A bunch of the content creators don't even play enough to be at 2010 yet - they just pull people from their follower lists to knock out the latest drop so that they can make a video about it.

Yep. They have disconnected with the regular players. Now, all they have are the "elite" that play 1 day and go stream another game.

I agree the game has become way too hard and not fun anymore.

Bungie catered for the 10% and lost the remaining 90%, whosoever was responsible for that cratered the Game.

I also agree with a lot of things Kaia Faven said about the direction of this game. I also am an older player 60ish and have been in the game since day 1. IMO, if this game is to survive, they need to find a way to bridge the different skill levels and make it worth everyone's time. The game has become unbelievably grindy, and more times than not, for nothing worthwhile. I believe the game took a turn for the worst when they turned strikes into speed runs, might be fun for the upper tier players, but not so much for me. I wish Bungie would stop "Fluffing" content (going from one side of the room to the other, then back) listening to some stupid storyline that I don't care about so they can add more steps to ths quest. I don't care about the story, at all. I have almost 1000 pieces of lore and have yet to read one of them. I think this game is in real trouble of going dark if they don't find a happy balance between enjoyable vs grindy content. I also agree that Bungie appears to be making content a little over the casual players head, which helps higher tier players with content for their streaming gigs, which I think, Bungie feels it needs to keep the game out there because the DLC's havent been up to snuff and for whatever reason the bugs don't get fixed. My 2 cents, anyway

I agree with much of what you are saying! I have played Destiny since the beta as mostly a solo player, and I have been in clans that have moved on to other games and fallen apart. Getting triumphs in Destiny 2 as a solo player is next to impossible. I am 75 years old and still play about every day, doing strikes, weekly bounties, etc., but doing things that require a six-man fire team is not happening.

The issue here is that Bungie really wants this game to be all about spamming abilities, they calculate what damage we can deal with the right build and make the content around that. This way makes playing this game "your way" nearly impossible. I honestly don't know why they want us all to use abilities pretty much only. Makes chasing for weapons quite pointless.

They started making changes for the top players/streamers, thinking that people play this game because of them. Wrong, streamers play this game because people do. Nobody is playing, all these streamers have jumped ship to other games even after getting what they wanted with harder content, no crafting, etc.

It's not that it's difficult.........it's that it's stupidly tedious.

The difficulty has defo increased. Best thing I would suggest is craft a good build with high stats in resilience, recovery and then work on how you are going to survive. A solar weapon that has heal clip and incandescent will go a long way and heal you up on kills.

😂😂😂

Coming from a casual player, the game isn’t that hard. I don’t know for you, but 90% or the time this is build issue. I’ve been trying out a Titan build Void + Doom Fang + Choir of One, and it’s like playing CoD with god mode (maybe not in GM). But the game does not give you any clue on that, and some people are clearly under prepared for the activities they go in.