Funny, I GOT paid to test it (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 23:55 (3837 days ago) @ Speedracer513

I don't presume to be able to speak for Scheddonardus, but I think his point is that since there are not really any new mechanics to hard mode, it's not really any different. The difference betwee normal and hard is really not much more than the deiffence between the normal level Phogoth strike and the Weekly Heroic version of the Phogoth strike. It's not that they should have waited until now to release even the normal mode raid - it's that they could've released the hard mode back then with the normal mode. They obviously weren't working on any new mechanics that needed to be implemented, so it kind of feels like the normal mode version we've been playing was no more than a beta version for what we have now.

I was personally hoping for weight of darkness during the Crota encounter. You'd have lamps by the stairs on either side. Your sword bearer couldn't jump, so he'd have to run the gauntlet so to speak to get to Crota, get his hits in, then immediately walk off the side so as not to die to Crota. Your team would then have to clear the way for them to walk back to the lamp, and keep them alive.

But did you really expect new mechanics? Vault of glass hard and normal are virtually identical.