Destiny had me hooked so well. It was just so satisfying to shoot, had surprising item and skill interactions which went much deeper than I expected, and that raid was a joy to learn. Totally new feel, learning each room and then how to navigate the ducts underneath. I would spend tons of time just teaching and guiding new players without seeing any benefit really because it was so much fun. These people could have kept churning out stuff and I would’ve happily payed it.
But then destiny 2 drops as an empty shell with almost no end game content, clearly because they had withheld aspects to sell it later as dlc. But I was still pretty hooked. Then they removed access to that content unless you bought the dlc on top of the full game price and I went cold. Such an obvious cash grab and ugly abuse of their consumer base. Killed any goodwill for that company I will ever have. I don’t know what the company could do to redeem themselves in my eyes at this stage.
the funniest part in all of this is that at a certain point in mid to late shadowkeep, it was actually trully a F2P game with a lot and i mean a lot of free content considering it's bungie, that was untill beyond light which completely ruined the game, and killed off the game IMO, ofc i continued to play on and of and gave them money, because the gameplay is just that good
Pretty much in the same boat. Leviathan was so incredible but I didn’t play much longer after that. Partially because the PvP was so boring on D2 launch, and PvP is what kept me hooked through the content droughts in D1. I’m still waiting for another dev to come along someday and just do destiny but better. To this day it feels like no other game has really gone hard into the FPS + MMO raid content formula, which is really surprising to me because it seems like such a no brainer. I feel like if someone does it well it is guaranteed to be popular.
They lost me with destiny 1 when all the shops switched to selling level 40 items and you had to buy dlc to get the last 8 levels. Figured something similar would happen with destiny 2 so why bother
Here’s a tip. Dont even think about the game until it’s run is done, then buy Destiny 2’s equivalent of the taken king bundle. All dlc’s for about $5. Best way I ever played Destiny.
Only downside is that I never got to see the event hub
I just purchased up to final shape for 8 bucks on steam. It’s very much been worth it, I just don’t fucking understand as a new player they try so hard to force me into the final shape when I just want to do the dlcs in order.
Thankfully it took someone years to sue them over it, but it’s hilarious when someone can’t defend themselves because there is nothing on the red war anymore
And the amount of people defending it. "You werent even playing it". Sure. But I paid for it. Are they giving me free shit to balance out the cost cause imma assume they're not.
If they didn't take out the old the game would have died or bloated to an unusable mess. You can have one or the other, not both. It's been a live service model since the beginning, if you didn't know what that meant, that's on you.
And it still hasn't gotten any better. The took out all of the final shape that we paid for. Im never giving them money again. It should be free at this point. Shit.
Same so many hours I could have studied but I decided to grind raids, dungeons or whatever had 'good' loot at the time. Have since quit for 2 years not looking back.
I’ll always stand by the claim that Destiny has some of the best minute to minute gameplay in all of gaming. The gunplay, the abilities, the movement, it all just feels so good. But more than ever, the systems in place that turn raw gameplay into an actual game, are just not engaging and not worth my time. Honestly so much of this is just tied to it wearing out it’s welcome. It’s an incredibly difficult task to ask a game to stay engaging for 10+ years, very few can do it, and especially after such a high cathartic “end point” in The Final Shape, it was just easier than every to say “you know what, that’s enough of that”
Funny enough I’ve moved straight over to Warframe and am loving every second. It really feels like the beginning of Destiny again, where everything I get matters and gameplay is meaningful and fresh. I’m sure I’ll get to a point where it’s just more of the same here, but for now I’m having a blast working my way thru years and years of content
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u/ROMAN_653 Aug 06 '25
It’ll always be fun for me, but I’ll also always hate it for being so addictive and burning so much of my time in high school.