Luke On Sunsetting (Destiny)

by kidtsunami , Atlanta, GA, Thursday, December 17, 2020, 16:08 (1219 days ago) @ cheapLEY

I don't agree with everything Luke says, but I think he thinks pretty long and hard about how Destiny works, and for the most part, I find his solutions to be well above the bottom of the barrel, when looking around at what others are suggesting. Sunsetting sucks, but I don't know what would make it better. I haven't heard any suggestions from the community that solve the problems BUNGIE needs to solve - just saying "hey, don't do this thing we don't want you to do" doesn't really help anything. They're doing it because they feel they have to, and nobody, so far, has provided an alternative that works for them. I don't like that, but I don't think they're smoking dope when they're planning.

What problems are they attempting to solve? I am genuinely asking, because I don’t think we’ve ever gotten a legitimate answer to that question. I’ve heard that it’s about balance and not having to work so hard at achieving it. I’ve heard it’s about making new stuff more appealing without having to make broken OP weapons to replace old OP weapons. Sunsetting demonstrably doesn’t solve either of those problems. I genuinely would like a frank discussion with Bungie about what they are trying to accomplish with sunsetting.

I think the example that clicks best with me is Mountaintop.

In short I believe that balancing mountaintop would either require every other gun to be changed or for mountaintop to simply not work anywhere close to how it does currently.

Sunsetting allows me the ability to use it in control, a random strike, or even the existing dungeons while encouraging me to mix it up during Nightfalls/Empire Hunts/Master Lost Sectors.