And you (Bungie) wonder why, among other reasons, people stopped playing this game more and more? Others and I told you a few years back that making exotics available to everyone easily will ruin the entire core gameplay loop of the exotic chase, the mystery of the game as well as the feeling of standing out from others.
Today, Destiny 2 isn't a loot shooter really anymore. It has become a -blam!--show of garbage (literally). We get crammed up with so many items that our Vaults are bursting from being full. Exotics don't feel unique anymore, even Legendaries are the new greens people don't want to manually dismantle anymore.
Because of a friend I am playing Destiny 1 again so he has a guide and company to experience what Destiny 1 was like (he never played it before). And it is honestly very sad how both of us, with completely different interests in how RPG systems should work both agree that, even after 8 years since the last update, Destiny 1 feels massively superior in how valuable loot is.
Just to sum it up again for all. In Destiny 1 legendaries and exotics are quite rare, even in the endgame. In Destiny 2 legendaries are the new greens, Exotics are the new blues.
And all of that for what? A chunk of the playerbase complaining they have bad luck in a game IP [b]literally running on RNG systems[/b]? Because they don't felt their "time valued" or "items being kept away from them" or "I payed for this, where is my content"?
Bungie, you as a company, turned your target audience from a looter-shooter oriented crowd to a crybaby-infested, instant-gratification playerbase that never is happy (IRL those are also called Narcissists btw.). And as the saying goes, "you reap what you sow".
Destiny 2 is for many reasons in a horrible state right now. One of them being that nothing regarding gear has unique value anymore to the players.
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Edited by Ghostfire239: 5/21/2025 3:00:08 PMI agree, exotics being more rare would be a good change, however they also need to actually feel powerful (at least powerful in PvE). Majority of them often they feel like quirky gimmicks and not worth considering in any serious content. I’m not going to suddenly value exotics like fighting lion or sealed ahamkara grasps because they’re harder to get now. They’ll still extremely niche and generally uninteresting. Exotics need to be really powerful, or do something so unique that it’s worth chasing (for example Mask of Bakris, straight up changes your dodge to an almost teleportation styled ability). If they’re gonna be more rare they need to actually be worth the chase and that rarity.