Every genre employs features that are popular in other genres. The fact that ME, RDR, Skyrim, etc. are all single player RPGs does not negate the fact that their more robust story-telling can still be imported to some degree into other media like FPS and MMOs. In fact, both ME and RDR employ their own FPS elements in gameplay precisely because those elements are themselves popular. MMOs and single player RPGs share many common features already. Indeed, Elder Scrolls, for better or worse, is introducing an entire MMO franchise. And even though you feel GOW pvp was lame, at least it featured specific contests that Destiny pvp mysteriously does not -- such as capture the flag (also featured in RDR pvp). There's no reason that Destiny could not have borrowed the best elements of these other franchises, regardless of whether they were developed in the context of a single player RPG, an FPS, an MMO, or any other genre. I mean, at a minimum, would it be so terrible to at least employ enemy leveling? I don't exactly feel challenged on planet mission bounties annihilating Level 4 fallen on a regular basis, which is one reason that when doing those mission bounties I try to be near where public events will spawn. Please understand, I am not trying to convince you that you shouldn't enjoy Destiny. I'm still playing it too, after all. However, the lack of story telling, less-than-robust open world, and the odd omissions in pve and competitive gameplay content certainly are curious and, at least to me, disappointing. If it doesn't bother you, I understand and am completely fine with that. But ask yourself, if Destiny is intended to rely upon cooperative gameplay, and yet a significant number of original players leave the game due to tedium, doesn't that at some level also harm you? I mean, the more people playing Destiny the greater the pool of cooperative teammates, not to mention competitive pvp opposition.