Gonna start this by saying this is just a vent and an emotion dump and I’m not looking for anyone’s feedback, whether that be Bungie or the community, I’ve really no interest in dealing with the community and its toxicity. And I also know, just by saying that I’ll get attacked, but I get attacked on every post I make by tough guys on the other end of the internet. So I’m just going to post this up and forget about it, no interactions whatsoever, so any of the drama seekers or douc**bags that are just trying to stir it up, sorry not sorry. Now, I actually love Destiny and I used to love playing D1 especially, but also D2. I used to love Bungie as Halo 1-3 were my high school years of gaming and that’s absolutely why I dove into Destiny so willingly. I can still remember playing the beta(not long after the Titanfall beta) and I was just blown away by what my future gaming experience was going to be. Now fast forward 10+ years and I just feel like I can’t deal with Bungie anymore. At some point, enough is enough. Bungie has absolutely killed all of my motivation to play. I’ve been around since D1 beta and am probably not playing next season and most likely never again. I’ll still keep up on what’s going on and if something sparks me then maybe, but bungie just completely took my drive away to play. Between having to regrind all new armor and then remake all new DIM builds to work with that armor and rework all 80+ DIM builds I already have with new armor and then having to grind out a crap ton of new weapons with random rolls just sounds soooo exhausting. All the streamers and anyone that has 8-10 hours to dump into the game every day doesn’t care because they can and will eventually just brut force the rng and regrinding but for anyone with a real job that demands 8-10+ hours a day and has kids and sh*t to do in real life does not have time for this new investment. And again why? What’s the point? Just so bungie can invalidate that grind? This new armor will be invalid in another two years and the guns will be invalidated probably within 5 seasons…. I mean bungie just made rocket sidearms and they’re starting the nerfs already. I get it, they’re strong and everyone uses them, and if there is one thing bungie hates, it’s when the entire community only uses one thing. Bungie only has 2 ways forward for weapons and that’s sunsetting or power creep, and both invalidate players time. And for armor, they’re doing this “soft sunset” with adding the new better armor, which invalidates all the time spent grinding perfect artifice armors. Bungie really only has one true way forward I think, and it’s D3. The community is too invested in everything they already have in D2 and are split down very harsh hardcore/casual player lines. But they also can’t just make a D3 to start us over and wipe our gear and then just give us more of essentially D2 gameplay, a D3 would need to be some monumental jump forward for destiny to even make sense to build. But now that they’ve added prismatic in D2 and they’re about to introduce armor sets and they’re trying to redefine class rolls, they’d have to innovate beyond that for D3, when some of, if not all of that, could have been saved for D3 if they’d already been working on it. But instead bungie was busy working on a million other projects that, surprise, surprise, didn’t pan out. Leadership and decision making there is a joke and I wish they would have just stayed with activision at this point. Sure we would have gotten the CoD treatment, which sucks, a game every year or in destiny’s case, a game every two years, but at least we wouldn’t be having these arguments and we’d have a larger player base because there would be many more places for newbies to jump in and better onboarding, and yes I know we’d be having different arguments if still with activision but honestly anything is better than where we’re at. So that’s why I feel like D2 is probably over for me and a lot of other players. Bungie is just an untrustworthy and delusional company at this point lead by out of touch suites. And now comes the obligatory: “Bye”, “Get good”, “casual”, “live service isn’t for you”, “Destiny players when-yada, yada, yada”, “I’ve got a real job and life and love the changes”. I don’t care and like I said, I’m not responding or even reading any replies so unless you get someone else to chime in and you get your jollys off them, sucks to suck toxic f***. Byyyyeeeee!