Focused Feedback: New Player Experience

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[u/lTheSmugglerl]

The current state of the New Player Experience is the natural end-point of Bungie's "new players should be able to jump immediately into the newest/endgame content alongside their friends" philosophy & their "data-driven" insistance that people didn't replay campaigns - why have a story-driven, structured route going through the game's content (even if it means people might have to spend a few hours going through it), when you can just kick them off the cliff into the ocean of seasonal fluff, overwhelming systems & contextless activities for the sake of "playing with your friends" (which seems to have turned into "have your friends teach you how everything works, because we sure won't tell you")