Unfortunately, Bungie’s model doesn’t require it to be fun. They’ve carefully built this game around three pillars - compulsion, persistent grind and FOMO. Look at the original Halo games - these are examples of the opposite. They built these games with fun in mind, and it was enough to capture a huge audience *at that time. Halo guns were (for the most part) balanced. Destiny’s aren’t, and it isn’t because Bungie is incompetent. They constantly shift the ‘metas’, so we will continue to grind new loot. They persistently rotate content in and out of the game to keep you logging in. If the game was fun enough on its own, the guns would remain balanced and there might not be such a need for rapid content delivery. I think there are two reasons for this model. One, it has been wildly successful for them (despite experts on the forum claiming they are running the game into the ground). But also - I honestly don’t think ‘fun’ is enough to captivate today’s audience - not in the long term. I come from a generation that played games for fun. I’v dumped thousands of hours into Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. But picking those up recently, I found myself putting them back down as soon as I beat them 100%. I hate to admit it, but I found myself missing the dopamine associated with obtaining new loot, accomplishing new tasks, etc. And if I feel this way, what chance do you get gamers have, being steeped in this model their entire lives? TLDR: It doesn’t matter if people have fun, so long as they continue to sign in.