This post nailed what I would like to see as far as weapon and armor customization. It gives repeatability, customization, and real ownership of your weapons. I would really get behind this kind of system.

That's the thing.

I'm not sure those people understand exactly why they want it, but I do think they want random rolls. The vocal Destiny community wants a reason to play the game for 1000 hours, and if that reason is playing the same strike 500 times to get the god roll strike specific weapon, then damnit, that's what they want to do.

I wouldn't be upset at more gear to chase, more specific loot from specific activities. I wouldn't mind a bit of randomness. I just hope Bungie walks a fine line. I don't want the return of keeping a vault stuffed full of random shit just in case the meta changes.

Bungie is in a really unenviable position here. They do have a fine line to try and walk. They get it from both sides, and as soon as they bring back random rolls and whatever else, they're going to catch shit from a different group of people. I hope they make good decisions that they feel confident with, and not just decisions they think the vocal community wants them to make.

The new weapon slots are a good example. I like the old system better, but they made a decision and tried something new--I can't (or won't) blame them for that, and I won't hold it against them. I'd much rather an imperfect game Bungie feels confident in or wanted to make than the community designed-by-committee game that reddit seems to be pushing for. I want Bungie to feel like they can make drastic, interesting choices and changes and not feel like like they have to bow to reddit and twitter.

I don't necessarily think Bungie is doing that--I suspect that maybe they are just taking community feedback to heart and making smart changes that they want to make. Pre-release interviews and podcasts gave me the impression that there was a lot of debate in the studio about the weapon slot changes, the crucible changes, etc, so maybe this is just a matter of "we tried something new and it didn't work" rather than "we better change it back to get players back."

I dunno. It really seems like they can't win.

Do you have kids? Add deleting your shaders to their list of chores.

Crucible maps will be free and available in matchmaking for everyone, you'll need to purchase the DLC in which they were released to access them in private matches. Seems fair.

Translation: Fortnite is killing us

Or they are just solving the problem of fragmentation.

Can they also solve the problem of not having specific gametype playlists?

They probably did it that way because they don't want to split the player-base for matchmaking. I wonder if matchmaking has a smaller population than previously?

Likely, but it’s also the direction more and more games are moving towards. The whole “dlc map pack” thing has caused fragmentation issues since day 1. Bungie used to be able to mitegate that by making the DLC maps free over time, but these days the general move is to make additional maps free for everyone and make extra money through cosmetics and other Microtransactions.

While I agree with everything you said, I think Bungie is in desperate need of a Taken King right about now, you know? Taken King was so fantastic. Gigantic expansion with so much content and provided practically endless things for me to do and a reason to start caring about what little story D1 had. I think it'd be great to get more story in D2 that's going to start acting like it's going somewhere and going to be something.

Bungie has always had people who felt it was cool to hate on their games. Halo was like this, as well as Destiny 1.

The popularity of COD and PBUG/FORTNIGHT really tells me that people want to bread and circuses over all else. Even the D1 crucible complaints were a bit overblown or misdirected, as streamers wanted to nerf things that hurt them but not things that hurt other players (SNIPERS).

I think that Bungeie's main mistake in D2 was taking things away from players that existed in D1, notably the boss rush of the Forge and Oryx's council, sparrow racing, 6 man pvp, all gear, and not iterating enough elsewhere to compensate.

The changes to public events and lost sectors was good, but minor. Bungie needs someone to go around and say, "thats a good idea, how do we take it farther?". They have so many systems in place that just seem to be a good push away from being really great.

There is a bit of a pile-on going on through Reddit and other forums, but I can't give anyone a tough time for feeling skeptical about the new DLC. I love a lot about Destiny 2, but there are definitely some head-scratching problems with it (of the "but... they got this part so right in TTK, how did they get it so wrong in D2?" variety). For me personally, Curse of Osiris was a huge blow. This is just my opinion, but I think CoO is a truly terrible expansion. It's still Destiny, so there's stuff about it that is still fun to play. But as a package of "new content", I think it is poor in almost every way. So I can't help feeling skeptical about Warmind. I'm a bit anxious about it, really. I've already paid for it, so I'm obviously going to play it. But if it is as the same quality level as CoO for me, then my already shaky faith in Bungie as a developer will take another hard hit. I don't know exactly what that means to me, aside from the fact that I certainly won't be pre-ordering anything else from them any time soon. I really do hope it turns out well, because I think D2 still has a lot of potential.

At any rate, I love the art that they've shown. Great aesthetic. Fingers crossed :)