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7/3/2025 3:38:10 PM
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World Tiers Aren’t Challenging—They’re Just Tedious
All Bungie’s done is scale up enemy health and damage while stretching out the same content. The only real change? Everything becomes a bullet sponge, you take more damage, and your time gets chewed up faster than your ammo.
Yes, world tiers drop slightly stronger gear—but not enough to justify the extra grind. It’s still the same slot machine, with marginally better numbers that’ll be obsolete in six months anyway.
It’s burnout design, plain and simple. The goal clearly isn’t fun—it’s padding playtime and calling it “progression.” The loot treadmill keeps moving, but the scenery never changes.
Bungie’s devaluing player time in a big way here. The higher you climb, the more you realize the grind isn’t for better gameplay—it’s just for slower dopamine hits.
Live service games used to be about keeping players engaged. Now it feels like they’re trying to wear us down.
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13 RepliesWorld tiers aren't inhently bad IMO. They work in[i] Division 2[/i]. Barely live service with near endless content options. I thought they were very well implimented in [i]Outriders[/i] which isn't live service at all. A great way to set difficulty and get rewarded above your level and rewarded for playing with others. Of course, those games released with world tiers fully integrated. Bungie is papering over Destiny 2 and planning to make a Destiny 3 Lite on a terrible foundation. It's doomed to fail. Destroying everything players have worked for, paid for, and earned just for the sake of giving the hardcore & streamers something to grind. The only way this would work for the masses is if it felt like a full and new game. At best it will feel like an early test build of Destiny 3 on an old game engine. If I'm wrong and miraculously Sony pours money into D2/3 for it to grow & improve, I might play it. I'll still be angry that they killed Destiny 2 in order to make it happen. A game I spent 100s & 100s & 100s of dollars, and 1000s of hours on and Bungie stole back from me.
