Jason Schreier interviewed Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, 09:55 (1773 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

“Highest levels” is nebulous at best of a description. There is no meaning to it, so you would need to be more specific as to what you mean, because I can’t think of anyway to play Destiny where you are forced to Engage the game in any way you don’t choose to.

It’s been a problem since nearly day 1!

I liked raids and crucible. Can you play raids without first leveling up? No? Well gee then I have to level up and grind for powerful rewards even though I don’t want to.

I get this feeling that it's not just that you don't like leveling/power level (we all know you do), you just like to have access to all content to play at your convenience. If there was a campaign that you didn't like and there was endgame content at the end of it you would be saying they should allow you to play the endgame content before the campaign. You would then consider the campaign to be a "grind" and thus in your way to enjoying the game.

To be fair, that's kind of true.
To me, the Forsaken campaign is dumb. The writing is bad, the missions are weak and overly long without substance, and the mandatory climb from 30 to 50 was annoying (though Comp helped me grind through quite a few levels)... Unfortunately, if I want to get started on any Season Pass stuff, I have to play through the entire campaign, even though it's unrelated to (the bizarrely-named) Forsaken. Sure, once the whole thing is over, I'll hit 690 and be on my way, but man is it frustrating. I ended up putting it off the past couple of days, and just playing other stuff, because I wish I could just skip that fluff.