“hey let’s release the same thing over and over again, charge almost full game price for it, and whenever something new comes out, just delete everything they’ve already paid for.”
“hey why aren’t people continuing to buy our game…”
Yeah. Great mystery, that one.
Bungie will never get another dollar from me.
In fairness, they did stop deleting content… but at the same time they stubbornly refuse to restore the content already deleted…
Except seasonal content. I wouldn’t care about the activities, but there is story stuff that directly continues story of one expansion and also leads into the next. Sometimes it is standalone, but also may or may not end up relevant later.
I was really into Destiny but once I got off that train it felt like I just can’t jump back on.
I hate that they deleted stuff but I can understand arguments against the size. It’s at 130GB without all of that missing content.
I can’t. There are games that are even bigger than that. Red Dead 2, for instance.
Jedi Survivor.
Master Chief Collection.
Any other actually big game that’s come out in the last ten years.
Edit: I actually found 25 of the Biggest Games By File Size
I’m seeing reports of Black Ops 6 being 300?
But seriously, 130GB isn’t awful considering at the time most people had ALREADY downloaded it in smaller pieces.
I loved D1 and D2, putting in literally THOUSANDS of hours, and dropped it like it was hot when they cut out 1/2 the content in the game. Restore the vaulted content and I’ll come back. Without that, it’s clear you don’t value the time and money I invested.
Yep, fuck all that.
Ignoring the stuff I paid for, I don’t find any of the content they replaced it with (mostly if you buy more shit) satisfying at all. The original enemies were incredibly well designed and enjoyable. The taken weren’t bad. Most of the rest very clearly didn’t have the time put into designing them. They suck, and I don’t want to play them.
I don’t care visually, necessarily, though that sucks too.
I’m talking about the behavior. The fallen’s tools were built to play together to make encounters play one way, the hive a different way, the vex different, the cabal different. Each set was well balanced inside itself to work, but they also worked well allying with other races.
Their evolution over time has been into gimmicks and spam that don’t make encounters compelling at all.
I stopped playing because the story’s over. The storytelling was the main thing that kept me playing for the last few expansions, and with The Final Shape being the finale to the main story, I just don’t have a reason to go back to it right now. The episodic content is way lower quality than anything Bungie’s put out before, and I kind of regret buying the deluxe edition of TFS because of that, as I have no intention of finishing the episodes.
It is still sad to see, though. I made a lot of really good friends through Destiny 2 and have a lot of great memories of times spent playing. Even though I’m no longer playing, it still feels like a pretty big loss seeing the community begin to fade away.
It’ll continue becoming worse too.
Most of the people I know are fed up with the issues. When frontiers comes around, I will not be buying it, at any price.
Bungie have shown that they are unable to improve things long-term. It’s always a bungie (sorry) cord jump, except with every bounce they sink deeper instead
In addition to other comments here, I also stopped playing because I moved to Linux and not gonna keep a windows partition alive just to play D2.
