Forsaken couldn’t save the PS4 clan (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Sunday, October 28, 2018, 06:37 (2295 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Leveling up from 380 to 598 was maybe the best “grind” so far in Destiny. It felt like no matter what I did I was rewarded with higher and higher level gear. So I could do anything I wanted and was the middle of the pack of our Raid group. It was such a difference from things like D1 where I (and most people) got stuck be cause we couldn’t get the one piece of Raid gear we needed. Or some of the later D1 expansions where you practically had to do X to get Y so you could advance your level at all.

I just wish Bungie would set the timing so everyone could take part in the activities closer to the same time. A two month gap between the play all day streamers and our DBO team who was not lacking in dedication or skill is just crazy. Imagine if Last Wish had been a 500 level activity! The whole community could have been a part of the race instead of what? Six teams?

That is absolutely by design.

If Bungie was to prioritize giving the maximum number of players a chance to raid blind, or to participate in the race to do a world's first, they would delay even making the raid accessible until the fat part of their playerbase-level curve hit at least the minimum requirement for the raid.

Streamers absolutely do not want this. None of them who have spent years building up an audience and spend a lot of time grinding want to end up losing out on a milestone like that to a group of players that nobody knows.

I don't necessarily think that Bungie really cares that much, either individually or collectively, about what it is that streamers want-- except insofar as that many of them (and their fans) complain loudly when the game is not meeting their expectations, and while Bungie would perhaps please more players by delaying the raid, Bungie cannot derive a significant benefit for themselves by doing so because that approval is diffuse, while streamer disapproval is not.