It's wild how intentionally they are shitting all over their players and the game. Solo strikes after a decade of feedback asking for them, ok, finally. Infinite and targetable pinnacles, man, that new seasonal power system makes this almost feel like a necessity, good that it's here, but all of the parts surrounding it just sound even more annoying than what we currently have. Everything else, 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 Fair and equitable start for everyone! Except it's literally not, and won't do a -blam!- thing about actually keeping things even in the community. It's a kick in the balls to the engaged, and the casual won't even notice. Same idea with guardian ranks which were already a dogshit system. Oh everyone is going to be level 2 now? -blam!- that -blam!-. "Hey hey hey the portal like bro dude the portal it's like uh a clearer and easier to engage with system. We went ahead and buried everything in even more tabs and menus, require you to add modifiers to get loot that will be worth a damn, oh and the modifiers? Don't worry, we heard your feedback loud and clear, y'all hated all the new ones we've brought out lately so to fix that we made EVEN MORE DOGSHIT ONES so you can play the most unfun version of Destiny EVER! I know that sounds awesome but it gets even better, we wasted our time and Sony's money, creating modifiers for our streamers that almost no one will use, but if you do you can pretend to be your favorite streamer who barely even registers on the charts! Wait, people still stream this game right? Where's Datto... Hey we heard your feedback about not wanting to have to play the campaign over on multiple characters and we've decided, you're right. You should have to play it so many more times than just 3! In your new favorite menu, The Portal™, we've set up the campaign and new destination to be an endgame pursuit so you can just run it again and again and again and again and again, so you can get some shitty loot that we'll make even shittier in 6 months! No longer do you have to do it 3 times, now you're gonna have to do it ad infinitum! Huge hobby game, big grinders only, up top no-lifers! Oh you didn't like that one? Oh uh... Ok... Rare miss for us, ok ok ok we gotchu hold up. When you get tired of doing the campaign over and over, you can uhhh... Do... Umm.. oh -blam!- I almost forgot you guys hated sunsetting right, all those amazing seasonal playlists that had almost no one running them but clueless first timers who didn't know any better, they, THEY can be our "new content" and like um it'll feel like new content because you can smear SO MANY dogshit modifiers all over them so you can get bare minimum loot. Huh? Huh?! Sounds amazing right?! High 5 team, we really nailed it with this one. Money please 🥺🫱 we really need it because we -blam!- up our other projects so bad. Whoo Destiny 2 though, wheeeeooooo!"

Watching the stream, it was a drinking game, the amount of times they mentioned "content creators" or "influencers" the game is only catered for them. Meaning massive grind for content videos and then guide videos can be created for efficient grind. The game is not for the average gamer these days, only playing games as a job is Bungie's new philosophy.

Bungie thinking grind is content really has killed the game

I think part of what bothers me in their presentations, is that they are just poorly made presentations. Sure, I can appreciate the developers doing a deep dive discussion, but it comes off as if they are really trying to stretch time I don’t know if they’re trying to replicate the casual vibe that warframe dev streams have - but that is for a fully free to play game. But destiny is produced by AAA Studios, so I expect a certain level of polish and professionalism in their presentations. I get that there’s a certain level of distain for “corporate speak“. It’s just I personally would prefer something like a ViDoc that gets straight to the point. Like, I have seen update presentations from mod teams working on fan projects have which came off as more professional than what I have seen with “edge of fate“.

So all the other expansions where they basically throw the entire story in your face for the reveal....suddenly they can't show anything because "spoilers".

Hey, they wouldn't want to over deliver now.

I actually laughed out loud when they said “we listen to feedback and monitor the data.”

This will probably, more likely than not, be the first expansion I will pass on since D1. SUNSETTING IS NEVER A GOOD THING. also no mention of pvp at all? What a -blam!- joke. let’s make the most mid pve looking content and then completely ignore pvp

To each their own. But I don't want an item that's only effective for six months. Maybe there will be a "workaround," but still, it's like a disadvantage in general if one doesn't have current weapons and gear. Not with what's coming in two weeks...

Agreed lol „grind it til you hate it“ 😂🤣

Get Over It.

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Not showing the Seasonal Content because it might spoil the story is the weakest excuse ever not to show it off. What could it possibly be spoiling? We know Edge has to deal with the Nine and Kepler, so the location won't be a surprise. If it's dialogue you're worried about, you know there's an option to mute it? We're two weeks away and all we're being sold on is old content and Sandbox charges.