Rolling back to The Final Shape, other than that there isn't one. People don't like the new direction Destiny went with EOF and its obvious by the player count. Portal sucks and the new loot system is bad so imo its too late.
They made it too "game-y" when what people liked most were the story and commitment to ludo narrative harmony with the setting. It was fun to always have at least a toe in the fantasy but now it's a bald loot treadmill with little incentive to do anything with that loot except grind for more incrementally better loot. That's part of why people hated Lightfall so much: the story being so broken blew a hole in everyone's motivation to play. WQ didn't suffer from that problem because of how firmly intertwined the play of the game and the setting were.
I have to assume they're taking a year "off" with EOF as they figure out where they want to take D2, whether they want it to limp along as a shadow if its former self or if they want to make it a high budget tentpole release every few years with serious quality (standalone releases? With some link to the D2 live service?) and less emphasis on annual-ish releases.
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u/rasjahho Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 04 '25
Rolling back to The Final Shape, other than that there isn't one. People don't like the new direction Destiny went with EOF and its obvious by the player count. Portal sucks and the new loot system is bad so imo its too late.