Why I'm leaving. (Destiny)

by car15, Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 06:13 (3936 days ago)
edited by car15, Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 06:20

I'm done with Destiny. I said I'd give the game a month before I made up my mind, but I just can't go through with it. It's too depressing. Playing this game is an exercise in frustration and disappointment. I cannot justify continuing to play when I know nothing is going to get any better about it. I actually decided I was done with Destiny yesterday, but today's "free content update" sealed the deal for me.

Too many members are saying that Bungie don't owe us this or that and that we should be grateful for "free content".

This is not "free content". It's all rehash. All of it.

The purpose of Queen's Wrath is simply to shorten the dull grind, not expand the game. It doesn't make Destiny better, it makes it minutely more functional by guaranteeing better drops.

The grind is awful. The RNG system is awful. If that's "the real game" that supposedly starts at level 20, then the real game sucks. People hate grinding for random loot drops. That's why so many players farm the cave in Old Russia. If Bungie has no actual content to sustain this game beyond the paid DLC, and if permutations on the grind are all we get included with the price of the main game, Destiny will fail.

And it already has failed for me.

Half of this community is willing to criticize the failings of this game. The other half retort with "don't like it, don't play".

Such a comment is the reason that gamers are still stigmatized. We should we allowed to remark on the shortcomings of the game without being made to feel like shit for doing it. This is not about entitlement or instant gratification. It's about the game's value proposition. Criticism of the game's flaws is the only chance we have to change that value proposition.

And make no mistake. I want Destiny to change. I don't want to see this game fail. Bungie is onto a great concept here and the foundations for a great game are all there, but the way they're going about executing on that concept is just pathetic. This cannot sustain a player base for any respectable length of time.

Bungie: Either provide a more complete experience at launch or go through with your promises for substantial free content updates. But don't do what you're doing now. Revise your strategy. Staying vigilant to your "vision" of the game won't mean anything when the game world becomes next to empty.

We ARE owed, because this game has siphoned money from our wallets and given us too little value in return. Things need to change or players will walk. Mark my words.

I'm getting out early.

If you enjoy the game, I am sincerely happy for you. I only wish that I could see what you see in it.