You should see the new cock-blocks put in place for The Dark Below
All exotics getting bumped to new damage #, but with a huge cost:
7000 Glimmer
Weapon (Maxed or Wherever it's up too)
1 Exotic Shard (cost 7 Strange Coins from Xur or Dismantle an Exotic, which will net you 1 or if Dismantled a full maxed bubble 2-3 (not sure on this), only when he shows up and has that same item for you to upgrade)
Your new weapon starts out higher than when it was fully maxed, but now you have to fill up all the bubbles again and lose the perks the weapon you got used too
Also ranking up factions got overhauled and locked down from people burning their marks and getting way too ahead
Now you need a commendation (rank up, might be RNG), then you can use that commendation to either purchase 1 armor or 1 weapon of your choice, have to repeat if you want something else...
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense going the path they're on unless they're desperate to pad things out. I mean, what other game completely overhauls its leveling system 3 months in to make it more difficult? Changing what's isolated in the new DLC is at least understandable but impeding the progress of newer players too? Who does that?
That doesn't even get into their insistence on using an NPC who is only available for not even a weekend and adding more RNG too it.
I don't wanna dismiss you, but gaffers are raiding all day everyday. When they still can't get a spot or two (rarely) they fill it on DestinyLFG. I never would've thought that I could raid until I hit up the GAF community thread.
Butttttttt if you are on Xbox it's harder on Gaf. Most people are on ps4.
I don't know why that made me laugh. Maybe there should be an asterisk on who DestinyGAF can actually help.
Destiny is the only game I've seen all kinds of people put dozens/hundreds of hours into and do nothing but complain about it.
I tend to do all sorts of weird things to create my own "fun" in online games (I don't play that many).
In WoW, I have:
- Grinded Cenarion Circle reputation for weeks doing the same old dumb random set of quests, going through bug tunnels, handing in materials, and killing summoned monsters. All that just to get enough reputation for a weapon.
- While killing thousands of enemies in Blade's Edge Mountains, I ended up collecting over 4000 Apexis Shards just to get my Badge of Tenacity.
- Wanted to get 1 million gold for no reason in particular. So I decided to cut gems, put them in the auction house and undercut anyone in my way. I went as far as finding my competition on the Undermine Journal website (they track auction house listings) and added all their alts to my friends list to track whenever they come online. This also allowed me to find any other obscure avenues of making gold.
In Warframe:
- There wasn't much to do so what I normally did was collect gear and level them to the max. Then at some point, I really wanted some of the top mods at the time because a lot of builds were centered around them. So I spent hours and hours farming specific maps to get them which I eventually did. However, I barely made any progress on my gear which put me further behind because of how quickly they like to push out new items. (This was before mod trading was implemented)
Now, I actually liked WoW a lot more than I did Warframe. I had plenty of complaints about Warframe but still ended up spending a significant amount of time once I set a goal to do something. It's quite easy to fall into that trap (even if it's stupid!).
In Destiny's case, it's a very popular, $60 product. Many players may want to see all that's available in the game that they paid for. The most highly regarded piece of content, the raid, still requires a large time investment to participate in. There could also be many things to criticize about the game and still like it.
