It's kinda sad.
The new areas are tiny, and completely feel like all the old areas - except for that last one on the Moon, that last big room looked nice.
The story? I read about that in an online gaming magazine article. Did not get it from the game.
Locking out people without DLC from Weekly and Daily stuff is inexcusable.
Limited Playlists for the new PvP DLC is very annoying.
The artificial progression bottleneck on the Raid Gear with 21 Raid-Only Ascendant Materials feels forced, and whether or not it might be common for MMOs, the gear we had now feels kinda useless, especially with the new Raid starting at 30. Should've been 28, then you should've adjusted the loot drops on the Vault of Glass, and you wouldn't have had to sell all those crappy "cheating" level 31 gear (with another forced progression bottleneck in the form of commendations).
This is not an expansion, because it does not expand. It recycles. As much as I love this game, this "expansion" feels like the worst money grab I have witnessed since Candy Crush Saga.
Whoever thinks these are good decisions you are making, Bungie, whoever thinks that this is what the people want... he's not right.
Give us a story we care about, not something some chick in the market tells us. Where are the gripping cinematic cutscenes (we can skip on a 2nd playthrough)? Where's the dread? The imminent danger? You didn't even integrate the Trailer into this "Expansion Story", and that was the best and only story part of the whole thing.
Don't make us feel like we wasted our time doing stuff. VoG Raid Gear is obsolete, old Exotics cost really rare stuff to upgrade if you even get a chance to upgrade them. It you felt the need to bring players with less RNG luck up to a certain level, maybe you should've adjusted the loot drops on the VoG, and added a Raid Gear Set Bonus of One Light Level with the DLC (so full raid armor goes up to 31), then started Crota's End at 28, instead of that horrible thing you did with level 31 gear for sale. Because let me tell you, Level 30 does NOT feel like level 30 in the new Raid. The top gear from the main game should STILL be better than anything you could buy from vendors in the DLC, while all parts of the DLC, except for the Hard Raid, should still be accessible and doable by most everyone with the gear they can and could buy.
Expand, for God's sake. This is not an expansion, it's a map pack, some horse armor and a bit of recycling story DLC. You better completely re-arrange your priorities for the second one, and I mean in a HUGE way, with HUGE new areas and PLANETS, HUGE (amounts) of completely new and DIFFERENT enemies, HUGE amount of Story.
And don't ever, NOT EVER lock people out of features from the main game they bought by making them DLC exclusives. Even it's just for a day. Or an hour.
-blam!- you for that, Bungie!
There. That's the very first time anything I wrote here had to be censored. So I -blam!-ing hope you get I -blam!-ing mean it.
That's the lowest of the low, scum of the Earth move I could think of for this game, and you went ahead and -blam!-ing did it.
-blam!-. You.
My disappointment in you is limitless.
I love this game. I've spent hundreds of hours on this game.
YOU, Bungie, are the people making me regret that. You continue to alienate your players, since with almost every improvement some ill thought-out short-term adjustment comes along to make it all worse. You twist your own game into an abomination by selling minimal content at ridiculous high prices, then restrict how and when we can play it (PvP), and even go as far as taking game modes AWAY from people that didn't give you 20 bucks for a lot of nothing.
And I am getting heartily sick of it.
Seriously, it breaks my heart what you do to this game. And what you don't do, but know SHOULD be done.
Steps taken forward, then sleepwalking back again.
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I literally got a PS4 to play this game. I could have stuck with Dust 514. Seriously. Look that game up. It's low rent Destiny. BUT I DON"T PAY TO GRIND.
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Agreed!
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I agree I can guarantee that at this rate there will not be a 3rd destiny and if there is it'll only be the hardcore fans that can't get it in there heads that this game is a recycled pice of poo
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Very well said. So much wasted potential with this game, it's more than sad - it's horrific! Make the grind even more of a grind??? Wtf?!?
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This missing content and missing variety in the main game plus the non existing support for this community made my choice to wait for the DLC release one of the best I did this year. And oh boy am I happy I stopped playing and that I didnt invest into this crap for money-dlc that this turns out to be. Again.
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100% agreed. It seems us, the players, and Bungie are [b]Poles Apart[/b]. I wish I could [b]Take it back [/b]but I won't get a refund :( When I first got the DLC I thought Destiny was [b]Coming Back to Life [/b]but now I'm [b]Lost for Words[/b] :)
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Agreed 100%. I guess we just had our [b]hopes[/b] set a little too [b]high[/b] ;)
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Very well said.
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I wonder what kind of a mess will happen for players buying only the second expansion....
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Probably gonna have to buy the Dark Below first :/
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I think a lot of people feel this way about the game. I enjoy the shooting, but the content and volume makes the grind a truly miserable experience at times.