#if you still enjoy the game and are going to play lightfall thats fine

[amiryllisthorn]

like you have this new activity called the coil, which is an activity meant to do multiple runs in kinda a rouge lite style of loop, and its actually pretty interesting!

HOWEVER

its still the same seasonal weekly bullshit that bungie seems like they will not get away from.

you do an interesting thin, listen to someone, do some bullshit chores(in this case BLIND FUCKING WELL WITH NO CHANGES OTHER THAN ITS SLIGHTLY HARDER)

fucking MORE MONETIZATION WHERE THEY WANT PEOPLE TO PAY FOR EXOTIC GUNS

and this is just a personal gripe but god I do not want to see a fucking billboard for the witcher when I am SUPPOSED TO BE SEEING DIALOGUE FOR THE MAIN FUCKING STORY

and on that note, the utter absurdity of having these macro transaction armor sets (that cost as much as full games btw) of wolf themed medieval armor, and NOT having new Iron Banner armor is just a choice.

Joe Blackburn wants this game to be as good of a narrative as past games such as Halo or Marathon, but as long as they keep treating the game as a cash shop first, and trying to get people to log in every week, it will never be that.

FF14 gets people to log in by having good content, that is approachable for new people to get into(multiple free xpacs) and is just fun to play. It has its own issues sure, but it isnt asking you to pay like $200 to play the god damn game.

Oh and lastly, the fact that Bungie is essentially refusing to actually acknowledge the mass layoffs, outside of some really fucking stupid comments from pete parsons, and like a paragraph or so in a halfassed twab, and how the poor execs didnt take bonuses is just fuckign insulting.

How Bungie fired 100+ people, including some of their longest employees, in surprise 15 min meetings, or by locking them out of their terminals is fucking amazon level of fucking evil, and I want the community to always remember that.

a friend of mine called Destiny 2 the RWBY of video games and I cannot get that out of my head.

[thefirstknife]

Getting real sick of a certain subset of Destiny players complaining that it’s a baby game and crying to Bungie to nerf exotics and abilities when their ENTIRE POINT IS TO BE STRONG in specific ways as if they are being locked into using them.

IF YOU WANT AN EXTRA CHALLENGE STOP BEING SUCH A DPS GOBLIN AND JUST EQUIP SOMETHING THATS NOT TOP TIER META AND STOP COMPLAINING JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

MOOD. Go off.

It's incredibly annoying to me. They always use the argument of "the game should FORCE me to do things, I should not SELF-IMPOSE challenges." And like. ? I'm sorry but what? It's a video game for a big audience, it's here to be playable and accessible to the widest possible playerbase. There are plenty of ways to make the game difficult for yourself, so knock yourself out if that's your thing, but don't force others into it.

Like, I enjoy hard content, I regularly at least attempt day 1 raids, I do master raids, GMs, solo and solo flawless content and all that. But only when I want to. Sometimes I don't and I don't want to suffer in a patrol zone or struggle in a seasonal activity I'm doing for the story. The majority of the players don't want that. Designing games for the professional gamers only has NEVER been a good idea and never will be. Fifty streamers can't sustain a video game. It needs casual players who will want to come back to the game instead of feeling defeated.

One of the reasons I really enjoy helping others is because I know that casual players tend to struggle in stuff that's basic activity for me. I've seen people unable to get through a strike. I've sat for 10 minutes rezing someone who couldn't do the jump in a seasonal activity. I want those people to be able to play basic content without feeling frustrated and I want them to know that there are people out there who will help them out.

And this doesn't apply just to basic content, although it should start with that. I think all dungeons and raids and everything should be things that all players can complete. Fine, doing a master raid with all challenges should be tough, but it should be achievable with time and practice, not impossible. What a lot of these "pros" want is just completely divorced from reality.

It takes days and days of practice every time a new master raid is out for me and my team (all with thousands of hours of playtime) to get comfortable to finally finish it. We're far from casual players and it still takes a lot of time to be able to finish hard content. Making it even harder is insane to me. Like, if something is so hard that my team full of people, each with 5000+ hours of playtime and a coordinated team that's been raiding together for years now can't finish it, that means it's absolutely impossible for probably 90% of the playerbase. That's wild to me. Raids and GMs should have more people playing them. If master raids are too easy for you, Mr. I-Play-Destiny-For-A-Living, that's on you buddy. Unequip the super god tier god roll meta guns and loadouts or play something else.

And ofc, another excuse they make is "if I don't use meta, I am not going to win a raid race!" Then don't. Idk. Let me play you the tiniest violin. This affects literally nobody except a grand total of 50 people. Run your meta in day 1, and play with random shit otherwise. Play raids with all white weapons. Play without mods. Play without a HUD. Do things solo only. I don't know, make up a way to spice things up for yourself. I'm not interested in that and neither are 99% of the players out there. The game is genuinely hard enough for the majority of the players. On top of that, I am here to feel like a powerful space fantasy superhero. I am NOT here to die to dregs in patrol zones. If there's ONE thing that I know for a fact that put people off from Lightfall (as in this year of Destiny), it's the difficulty changes. They're annoying, frustrating and for some a barrier to entry more than anything else.