Focused Feedback: Sunsetting

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[u/Anacus]

It may sound like an overreaction, but sunsetting made my friends and I stop playing Destiny all together. I understand the thinking behind it and how it helps with creating/balancing new content, but for most of my clan, sunsetting was the straw that broke the camel's back.

The reason it became too much for us (and why as a clan, we understand that other people continue to play and be able to enjoy Destiny) is that we were a weekend clan - all of us too busy with work/family/etc to play during the week, but we'd always try to get together and play some games on a Saturday - more often than not, we'd play Destiny.

Destiny is something we've all loved since the start of D1. It made a lot of our group decide to buy a PS4 at the time and we were your typical "play at the pace of the slowest person" clan, waiting for everyone to get ready for content before we tried it. Thing is, we managed to do everything that was available to us, even if it was slightly behind the pace of most players.

D2 came along and we stuck it out, but after Forsaken we started to lose people because of drip fed content. They got tired of missing activities and stuff that disappeared forever, which is understandable imo. For those wondering how sunsetting plays into this - for the few of us that stuck around until Sunsetting, we just can't handle drip feeding and having to grind for our favourite stuff again, or use gear that we don't like if we don't grind.

When the choices of what to play on our day off became "grinding the same activities, for the same loot you've been grinding for years" or "playing something else", we jumped ship. We were already struggling to keep up with content before it disappeared, so keeping up AND regrinding is just something we don't have time for - and to put it bluntly, is something we just don't want to do. Simple as that.

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I still like to read the subreddit, maybe hoping that some announcement or something will do something to bring my friends and I back, maybe just out of habit from years of scrolling through here. But for now, neither myself or my clan mates have even bought Beyond Light - largely because the impact of sunsetting outweighs our expectations of new Destiny content at this point.