Sorry, but I'm still on the fence.

by kapowaz, Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 11:20 (4294 days ago) @ Cody Miller

This is why the social aspect turns me off greatly, since it's anti-social in a way, encouraging interaction through abstraction rather than actual exchanges.

I can't help but nod along to this. One thing that the Halo series was especially good for was acting as a medium for social interaction but without any abstraction — you could gather your friends (in person or online) and have a blast together, be that in co-op, firefight or PvP multiplayer. In fact if you look at some of the more popular games with a multiplayer component over the past few years (WoW, Diablo III, Guild Wars, TF2 etc.) this is a big part of their appeal: they're a sandbox for having fun with your friends.

Maybe Destiny will still permit this more traditional, less-abstracted kind of social play. I'd hope that whatever they're cooking up isn't going to render it redundant, at least, because I suspect you're not alone in wanting something that's more pick up and play than invest, engage, socialise. We shall see.