Wow! You have been playing for 4 whole years!?!?

I was also surprised by the blatant season of the splicer mission brought back, game is a actual scam.

The final scam

Summed up my feelings for me here. I mastered new raid, got the Iconoclast title, and all the red border guns i want/need, all the Adept rolls I wanted from the raid. Now what??? Theres nothing to really challenge myself with all that fancy new stuff outside of low-mans and my friends are all done with destiny rn

You're passing judgement on episodes before the first episode is even complete 😂😂

I have no idea how anyone can keep playing Destiny 2. It’s so boring and the power chase just feels completely pointless. It’s just a never ending carrot hunt for a carrot that’s expired and moldy. Destiny 1 had dry periods, but the power chase never felt pointless.

braindead take

I do t get how anyone can defend this game let alone play it. It is just so bad. People still gatekeeping so hard for this it’s pathetic

Calling the TFS a scame is w weird take but do agree about episodes kinda being a scam but hopefully in episode 2 if they didn't lie, won't have time gate.

Keep in mind Episode 1 enjoys the content of Final Shape, an expansion very hyped By Bungie & the community. An expansion that is was delayed & then Bungie did a lot of layoffs. So its the Episodes 2 and Episodes 3 are those things that will show you what Bungie can do with limited resources. More importantly you should look how grindy the Episodes/Seasons are.

Final shape was fine deluxe not so much

This is how Bungje works, they’ve been a consistently scummy, low-effort lying company. It doesn’t matter because people have such low standards and will defend them with any number of copes. The seasonal model was absolutely terrible and content dry to begin with.

Dude, endgame for this game is pvp, who cares about raids?

You know the timelocks are going away next episode right ?

Another month goes by, and the Steam Player numbers continues its nose dive into the Abyss. August 2024 average steam players of ~37,000. Peak Online during the Month, ~67000. Down from ~62,000 and ~101,000 respectively in July 2024, which is Down from ~123,000 & ~315,000 respectively in June 2024 with The Final Shape Release. Let's have a look at Lightfall, you know, that universally panned expansion, which we could expect to do well based on the good release of Witchqueen. Highest peak on Lightfall release? ~317,000 Highest average players on Lightfall release? ~135,000 (About 1:1 for Lightfall to The Final Shape on both Average and Peak) Lowest trough in Lightfall year? February 2024. ~33,000 average players, with a ~47,000 player peak. Hmmm... February 2024, Month 12, sentiment at an all time low, barely scraping through with 33,000/47,000 Month 3 of The Final shape, barely scraping through with 37,000/67,000 "But it's not just Steam" / "There's other factors that influence Steam's metrics" Absolutely true, I don't dispute it. But if you think Destiny is in a 'healthy spot' right now, you've been woefully misled by the Final Shape hype. The players have up and left, and even the release of Act 3 AND an Exotic mission, wasn't capable of breaking the 57,000 peak player mark, and the peak for the entire month isn't capable of breaking 70,000 players. The third month of The Final Shape is just marginally better than the WORST Month of the entire Lightfall year. And we're only 3 months into the year, and Act 3 hasn't even concluded, so this isn't even a downturn due to poor delivery on a new season/episode (per se) The game is literally in the same spot now, as it was before the 'Into the Light' update. It has absolutely hemorrhaged players worse than any other year, at an absolutely record pace. Tell me, how active are your clans? If yours is anything like mine is, I'm certain you're discussing (and playing) other games than Destiny right at this very moment, and have been for weeks, if not month(s).

If we're honest about it, the man raises a lot of fair points here. Bungie always lying about something.

They are to CHEAP to upgrade the engine. So they can only use what is already in the OLD engine. It is not capable of handling all that content at once load times would be FOREVER.

Here before this guy is proven right

Theres still people playing d1 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉

look as much as the blame is on stinky pete i feel like destiny realistically would have never reached this state if the devs still had passion for the game. No reason someone would keep working on a butchered corporatized version of the game they were hired to make unless they only cared about the money. 80% of the gameplay loop sucks because the devs dont even want you to enjoy the mmorpg aspects of the game. All the content that would "save" the game is put behind paywalls in a FREE TO PLAY GAME which goes against the entire point of f2p. If they wanted to save their game they would focus on giving people an ACTUAL reason to pay for season passes (unique cosmetics, non gameplay related items) but instead they sell power to players and get away with it because the community is full of cope artists

Bro 😂 Just stop playing the damn game. They're on their deathbed. Crying is not going to change ANYTHING. This is not a "listen to us" situation anymore. It's too late. What's done is done. Move on.

This is ageing like fine wine..... Which is a bad thing

2.8 million dollars on classic cars btw

Something didn’t feel right to me before final shape came out, the leadership @ bung, Sony, etc.’s behavior & decision making, combined with my experience dropping 100 bucks on Lightfall and how quickly it made me realize how recycled & repetitive this game is…all of it amounted to my decision not to give Bungie any more money for something I started buying in 2020 & they wanted me to cough up another 100 for now. I’ve spent a total of 20 bucks on silver over 4 years. I spent over 300 buying this game over that same amount of time. I decided not to make it 400 and decided I’m never even going to try anything they ever develop again. Pete Parsons is a sleaze, F- him, to hell with spending money on a game they decide I no longer own on a random Tuesday

"This is just recycled content." Aw, first time? Sincerely, a 10 year Titan.

"I'm tired of it, I can't take it anymore" thats what most people said after Lost Light. 3 Billion of someone elses money and they they still couldn't make it work. They earned the L here.

I've never been so proud to say I quit playing something and never went back. Pre-ordering Destiny 1 was my life's greatest regret.

this video aged amazingly. bungie is cooked after first descendant

Destiny 2 is gayer than aids

When it comes to episodes i agree, are they a scam? No. They're getting paid less making episodes. with the time gating part being ridiculous, a thing you missed is that they're making nessus visually pleaseing in their campaign missions and refuse to implement it into patrol, if they made the gambit mode a matchmade/patrol like they did with the activity in direlect leviathan it would be way better we also visted savathuns throneworld in season of the witch but they dont like adding areas to patrols so they made it a split area I dont think they should add titan io mercury and mars back fully, sections of these areas im fine with them being reintroduced in seasons i just want the raids back The new light experience is awful and a snoozefest. agree Bungie literally JUST added armor for ritual activities. Beyondlight got bad with age. Deep stone crypt has atraks and a monolouge and people call it gods gift. Lightfalls patrol is good. only thing that was bad about lightfall was the story and half of RON (the encounters in the first half are easy). You're obviously just burnt out tbh

What they’re shoving down our throat is saint and Osiris’ gay ass relationship 🤦🏻‍♂️ I swear that this whole season is all about them being gay. Trying to force their views on us in the form of video game story telling 🤦🏻‍♂️ absolutely disgraceful

Aged like wine

im actually happy for more smaller content drops like episodes in the future. it keeps me coming back and having stuff to do. the game is so much better than it was years ago, theres actually quite a bit of things to do and chase. plenty of activities. vaulting content is the only thing that actually sucks and i absolutely hate. but you can blame people who still play on PS-poor for that.. people who complain about the game now will never be happy and should just move on to other games. i dont think anyone who criticizes the game today actually knows what they wanted from destiny/bungie.

Bro it’s been a recycling game for 8 years bro

and now the games getting gutted and looks like it will be dying.

This video is recycled content. You are just saying what everyone else is saying.

Valid points and the people that disliked and defended Bungie before the 2nd layoffs are shills who will always say whatever is en vogue. Apart from COD I think this community are the biggest simps whilst simultaneously being haters in gaming..

This was on point i enjoyed the campaign and the raid i played the first week of the 1st epsiode and havent played since i cant do it anymore lol its pretty much the same thing as a episode

It makes a lotta sense now in retrospect, knowing Bungie is literally just holding on by a thread 😢

I had the patterns for the side arm and the pulse in week 1 of act 2 so the quest to make them focusable engrams was a total waste of time not to mention that once I have all the patterns I stop focusing so I stay with 99 engrams at all the vendors because there's no point I can craft whatever roll I want

Great Title and sooooooo TRUE. Thats it with Bungie forever, they wont get any other title in the future, no one will forget this...

Yeah they’re just the seasonal model stretched out, it’s a way for them to just do less content.

Boy. I bet a lot lf the people in your comments that defended Bungie are feeling pretty stupid right about now

Why they take away all the content from the seasons when they release a new expansion is beyond insane. So much content just taken out waiting for stuff to come back. Should just rotate.

that game has always been a scam, if you fall for it its on you.

2 weeks early and this man was right on the money. Rip Destiny

Lowest preorders, lowest post launch retention rate of any major expansion, simple as that the game has been mid since forsaken, $100 a year for all the content😂 bungie nut lickers crying so hard, and what they dont realise is they caused this.

I can't even have access to my rewards of act 2 because I have to grind AF to reach level 100 of the season pass. I have finished act 1 and 2 , still here to grind AF to reach other things that the game owns me

“These episodes are one of the biggest lies bungie told”… you must not have been playing consistently for those 4 years then or did any research about shady things that happened prior to you starting to play destiny then cause they have pulled much bigger lies with xp throttling, the way bright engrams used to work and lots of prior content being “too hard” to develop while they started to increase the amount of content they put out, which completely contradicted the “it’s too hard” argument. Also… “This is the biggest drop off of players from TFS to the first episode”… where is the data to back that statement? And no, that’s untrue because the player base was packed the entire week of TFS’s launch, much more than it was over the past year, into the first week of the start of the first episode. And the worst drop off that happened was Lightfall into that first season. Once the realization of how bare Lightfall was and the raid was out, ppl started leaving in droves, much faster than they did with TFS. “Only thing wrong with TFS is episode one”…. Dude, they aren’t the same thing at all!! If you’ve been playing 4 years, you’d know expansions and seasons/episodes aren’t the same thing nor are they connected. Seasons started releasing supplemental content and they really leaned into that for Lightfall, but that was because LF was so short and quickly thrown together that they decided to stretch the storytelling out over the course of the year so they could catch up. Once those seasons got vaulted, they no longer appear for ppl playing LF for the first time, so just like older seasons over a year ago didn’t really connect to past expansions, TFS has nothing connected with episodes either. “Why can’t we go to the leviathan”… just like it’s been explained many times since season of arrivals (when you said you started playing)… any seasonal locations will continue to be sunset to make room for new seasonal locations/content in the future. If they can find ways to bring locations back via exotic missions or battlegrounds or whatever, that’s how they’ll bring it back. They won’t sunset any planets introduced in main expansions but if it comes during ma season/episode, it’ll get sunset. Not defending bungo here, but you’re just saying a bunch of things without any evidence or without looking up the answer. You can look up steam player data to gauge how some of the community is dwindling less compared to this time last expansion, but you’re not doing that. This all just sounds like you’re annoyed with the game and you’re venting about it. There’s always been ups and downs min this franchise. Ya just gotta accept it or stop for a while cause it’s not changing while certain leadership is in power at bungie.

u had me until you said final shape was a 10/10 lol. nah bro. nah. doesn't hold a candle to even forsaken, or taken king in d1.