Polygon RoI article (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Wednesday, July 06, 2016, 17:03 (3155 days ago) @ Cody Miller

It's interesting that they keep speaking of hat core experience with a group of friends whom you know, yet really only the raids and trials actually embrace that. Every other part of the game sort of treats that with disinterest. I think that's also why a bunch of the game is way weaker, since it's designed to possIbly be experienced alone. I'm not saying to get rid of those things, but there should be more highly cooperative non match made activities for us, both early, mid, and late game. I don't know why they don't start doubling down on what is hands down the best aspect of the game. Something even they apparently recognize!

I think you are discounting how valuable some of the low effort activities are for teams to hang out. It's a different mode of interaction to do something low key (like bullshitting while doing patrols or iron banner) vs something tense like a Raid or ToO.

A great example of this was the loot cave, which people seem to think of fondly, and most recently the Grasp of Malok Farm. If you went over to Reddit the reception to Farming was happiness. I think the idea of "Hey lets go bullshit and do this thing, and it's not that intense, but we'll try to optimize it well" was just really enjoyable to a lot of people.