The power fantasy is neatly long gone in Destiny 2 with its current state and community state. You can’t go anywhere in the forums without someone lecturing you with the disturbingly common “you need to watch multiple dungeon walkthrough videos and memorize everything before attempting a dungeon for the first time”. Or “You need to look up better build videos” or “you need to use this extremely specific gear to feel powerful”. Destiny 2 is now a game that revolves around players constantly needing lectures and education from Streamers and die hards on how “you’re supposed to play the game” according to the streamers and die hards who run and dictate everything now down the very patches and reworks that occur. I like the menagerie, I like content where players are encouraged to be engaged and learn the content themselves without extremely high stakes involved. Fortnite has millions of players every month not bc people are that competitive, it’s bc all of the fun casual game modes Fortnite now offers gamers in the creator made communities and LEGO communities and music communities. If destiny 2 cannot thrive without streamers constantly explaining everything from news updates to video build guides, then destiny has no future. Destiny 2 needs to be able to have gamers learn the content themselves without needing outside help. To make top tier builds without outside help. To enjoy the game and be part of the community without having to subscribe to someone’s twitch. I distinctly remember that when I was most active, gear wasn’t very complicated. You could use all the new equipment from a season including the seasonal exotic weapon and armor and feel extremely powerful without having to do extensive research and build crafting. It was as easy as just equipping the new stuff. Now we are getting back to the point in time where new weapons are less and less viable and you need extremely specific weapons from trials endgame or a very specific event if you even hope to feel half powerful whenever you try higher difficulty content. Bungie, you are killing player counts by crafting this ideal streamers paradise game that becomes so convoluted and so high stakes that the avg gamer can’t stay involved and powerful without constant outside help. I enjoy dungeons I can figure out all on my own with friends, but I don’t like dungeons that are so damn hard that they feel like a mini raid. Or how about raids being the most unpopular activity they’ve ever been in all of destiny’s history?? Raids are too damn long, and hard and complicated for the meager loot they provide which has long been outclassed by newer versions of these weapons. And not being able to find genuinely chill gamers thanks to the crappy restricted lfg system we have now, you’re almost guaranteed to be signing up for a multi hour long toxic argument between bitter and salty gamers who can’t get past a certain encounter. If destiny 2 wants to stick around for the long run, streamers need to go bye bye. The game needs to be able to sustain itself and generate enough buzz and interest without needing countless streamers to try and muster some small amount of hype from the community to play the content that was clearly designed to be enjoyable by streamers the most. Bungie and Destiny 2 are more than capable of stepping up and being more involved in their own community rather than leave all the hype generation and all the community building efforts to streamers who are purely profit minded and driven. Streamers genuinely don’t care about the future of any game they play, if they did they wouldn’t be switching games on stream every time their view-count dips 10%