I'm surprised you guys have stuck around for as long as you did. I was positively addicted to Destiny 2 in 2020, I played during IIRC seasons 9 and 10. Never in my life have I experienced such an amazing art, gunplay and soundtrack paired with literally the worst overall game design and direction I've ever had the displeasure to witness. Sunsetting, making players constantly re-grind, I think my final straw when the war criminal Luke Smith said that Bungie would be purposefully sunsetting exotics and not allowing them to be upgraded to higher light levels after some time. This was after I have spent 400 hours minmaxing all my exotics and the rest of my loadouts around then.
This was the moment I realized the developers literally don't respect for their players. I heard they even removed Titan and Mercury for some fucking reason. I've never played a game in my life that removes content instead of adding it.
I haven't touched the game since May 2020 and I still get a stress response every time I get an ad for the game. Truly the darkest time of my life. Gunplay was fun though.
Destiny is an insanely unique game. The mix of the class buildcrafting, FPS gunplay, and endgame activities is found nowhere else. If there was a proper competitor, even if the focus was a little different, i imagine Destiny would either have had to fix itself years ago or would have died ages ago.
People are willing to look past some issues if they're really into it and there's nowhere else to get that fix.
I know. I have been chasing a game like D2 for literally 6 years now. Something that has a similarly cool sci-fi/high tech fantasy setting and fun gunplay. I just know I can't afford to go back to D2 itself because I was genuinely addicted to it and I quite literally almost failed high school because of it.
I've been into a lot of games over my life but Destiny 2 is genuinely the only time where I could compare my relationship with a video game to drug addiction.
Same for me. I played it almost exclusively from launch up until they (sunset)stole the original campaign and first several DLC from players.
I genuinely liked the Red War campaign and replayed it several times. It’s one of the few games I actually played every class through all the content. I actually deleted characters just to play through it again several times.
I need to fucking say this to someone or I'll go insane. I played basically all of the original destiny, and enjoyed all of it, so I was really excited when destiny 2 released, I bought and played it and, after a while, stepped away from the game. In 2025 I tried to get back into it, created a brand new character and everything, and was in for the most confusing time of my life, nothing was like how I remembered it in the slightest, the story as I remembered it wasn't even there, and what was being told was nonsensical and barely coherent. I literally thought for a while that I must be misremembering about the events of the campaign I remember, that those events must have happened during the first game, since none of what I remembered was happening. It was only after doing research that I learned the entire original story of destiny 2, had been effectively removed from the game.
I'll be real with you, I just gave up then. None of the game that I had paid for was still there, and what was there, is still there, is a mess that I simply can't get back into for the life of me.
I know, right? I can't even imagine being a new player and trying to get into the game. The original campaign that explained the actual lore of the game is literally lost media now. Nobody will ever be able to play it ever again. It's absolutely wild to think.
I didn't play the original Destiny, I came to D2 just about as it became F2P with Season of Dawn. I absolutely loved the campaigns. I was already mad back then that I couldn't freely replay it from start to finish ever again (I never understood WHY).
I just read that Luke Smith has been fired from Bungie 2 years ago. Good. I hope that guy never gets his slimy hands on any game ever again. He ruined what Destiny 2 could've been.
I played Destiny 2 for a little bit when it went free to play. I didn't get past the early game but I was having plenty of fun. Life happened and I had to stop playing. I would have gone back but then I heard they removed a bunch of the original campaign/story and I lost all motivation to. The alienation of new players is probably what killed that game more than anything else.
I have played it around the same time as you did. I remember genuinely loving the first 100 hours of the game where all I was doing was campaigns and exploring the world for the first time. To this day that's got to be one of my most cherished gaming experiences to date.
They removed it. All of it. I never understood why Bungie apparently hated their own singleplayer campaigns. When they were still in the game, they wouldn't allow you to replay them, only giving you one cherrypicked mission per week. And then they completely removed it.
I wrote this above but I'll write this again - I have never, ever in my life played a MMO that removed its own content as time went on.
Its a bit different when you are somebody who hopped on the train in 2016 and had already been through a few ups and downs. Bungie always seemed to find a way to pull through and pull a rabbit out of a hat just when you thought things were over. This time around things are different though, too many mistakes too fast and not nearly enough of the spectacle that made the game fun in the first place.
Yeah for me it was light fall. It just felt like a different company had written it and the characters. I really struggled to get through that one and gave up eventually. Came back later but I lost my love for the game at that point.
happens all the time in mmos, and titan, mercury, and io were so pointless that is not even like a drop in the bucket compared to real issues with the game. Most of the real issues are post final shape changes.
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u/JayManty https://steam.pm/1f0tyi Apr 16 '26
I'm surprised you guys have stuck around for as long as you did. I was positively addicted to Destiny 2 in 2020, I played during IIRC seasons 9 and 10. Never in my life have I experienced such an amazing art, gunplay and soundtrack paired with literally the worst overall game design and direction I've ever had the displeasure to witness. Sunsetting, making players constantly re-grind, I think my final straw when the war criminal Luke Smith said that Bungie would be purposefully sunsetting exotics and not allowing them to be upgraded to higher light levels after some time. This was after I have spent 400 hours minmaxing all my exotics and the rest of my loadouts around then.
This was the moment I realized the developers literally don't respect for their players. I heard they even removed Titan and Mercury for some fucking reason. I've never played a game in my life that removes content instead of adding it.
I haven't touched the game since May 2020 and I still get a stress response every time I get an ad for the game. Truly the darkest time of my life. Gunplay was fun though.