BWU (Destiny)

by scarab , Friday, December 05, 2014, 23:35 (3881 days ago) @ Ragashingo
edited by scarab, Friday, December 05, 2014, 23:39

Farming the loot cave was one of the dumber things I've seen gamers do. I think it was absolutely the right decision to remove it and I'm glad it's gone. I don't buy the theory that people really thought the game was un-fun. What we saw was merely gamer's worst tendencies (to min-max and streamline things to the extreme at the expense of having fun) bubbling to the surface. Apparently you sometimes need to protect gamers from themselves...

I had fun doing the loot cave so your basic premise that it wasn't fun and that I needed protecting from myself is wrong. Also patronising and arrogant but that is how you have been coming across for some time now. Why stop?

The loot cave let you achieve most of the grind in a very compressed time and added the chance to get intense action when the Fallen and Hive kicked off against each other. I've said this before in other posts but I think you don't want to engage with the thought that the loot cave was enjoyable.

It was canned because it was a too visible image of what was wrong with the grind. The secondary reason it was removed was because it made the grind too easy. It was too quick. You could start your day at the loot cave and achieve almost everything except story missions, a raid, and strikes.

In short, you could, quickly, get the grind out of the way and move on to more interesting things.

My Destiny experience became far less fun once the easiest and quickest way of doing the grind was removed from the game.