Why I don't play Destiny 2 anymore

I get this question fairly often, so I figured I would answer it in this little short for you guys. Have a good day :) #Shorts

[@EpicNNG]

Why are there so many fragile PVP egos in here I was just answering a question not threatening your trials KD relax lmao

[@ZEROmg13]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO??? you going to play Destiny anyone???.......................lolololol just kidding.

[@michealmoffit1448]

How did you pull off a 288 crit

[@irule-nj6eu]

@@michealmoffit1448 my guess it was mayhem crucible mode where everything hits harder

[@ImEido]

@@irule-nj6eu momentum

[@USA92]

Try to remember your talking most likely about children. Children with possibly mental health issues. Try to slow down and think about what you are doing. And with who. Is posting videos so important that get them upset worth it? Would you do this with kids in a hospital setting? Would you do it with your partners child? The majority of those who play destiny are children. It’s one thing for bungie to prey on kids like it does but what is your excuse? Takes two to tango. So sad so many like you just don’t slow down and think about what your doing. Families. Importance of life instead of ignorantly enabling and ignorantly interacting with most likely children. Do the right thing even though society seems to you to be saying “oh just do what you want” Though not really society more like a number of posters.

[@Lau_wings]

I used to love destiny and destiny 2, hell I have about 3k in D1 and about 2k hours in D2, but the grind is real and its just not fun anymore, I can 100% understand what you are saying in this video.

[@czsup8967]

It’s not just the grind it’s just not that fun, the only thing that brings me back is the movement and gunplay. But than everyone cheats in crucible so it’s really disheartening.

[@kydwi]

Exactly

[@shahrozeshaikh1517]

You get bored of the grind eventually when there is not much content

[@longxiao9823]

That’s pretty much the same thing with all of the “service type” online games, like WoW, Warframe, Overwatch, Battlefields, etc. people spend thousands of hours and dollars into the gameplay, and at one point they just “decide” that it’s not that fun anymore

[@Tedforsure]

@@longxiao9823 *i mean sad part if u actually think what "fun" has bungie put into destiny 2 this season besides override.... Nun in crucible (aka the pvp part of the game) since when? i mean kid sumday u gottah stop blamin ppl if the company (aka bungie) not doin shit with they game and keep puttin the same fuckin shaders for bright dust, no reason for me to stay🤷🏿‍♂️* *[Side note im mad af about the shaders]*

[@khanson211]

I felt the “married to the game” comment on a personal level. Literally why I never started playing destiny 2. The first one consumed my life lol

[@hockeyxgamer]

SAME

[@LTR1420]

100%. The whole time I no lifed the first game, I was in college. Now I unfortunately have to be an adult and work. I just don't have that kind of time anymore lol. I noticed the less I played it, the less fun it became. It was definitely a grinding gamers wet dream.

[@coolisticdude10.09]

@HARRYRANTS as a destiny 2 player, i am glad to be ruining gaming, one step at a time

[@coolisticdude10.09]

@HARRYRANTS you can drop that anime villain act now lmao; you sound like you’re a 14 year old writing their fan fiction

[@coolisticdude10.09]

@HARRYRANTS holy shit this is fucking killing me. “you aren’t getting pissed so i’m blocking you” please tell me this is satire lmao. also don’t block me, i’m begging you. i want to see what other kinds of bullshit you can spout out of your mouth as you try to insult me

[@wotwott2319]

It's a big problem when a game feels like a chore rather than a fun time.

[@RAIDINGFRIDGES]

FACTS.

[@TheKevit07]

And that's it. Since I left, I went back to school, got back into lifting and other priorities. Don't feel like I need to hop on my computer every day, but I do play on occasion.

[@toffee5266]

Facts. I just stick to d1. No pressure, so much fun, beautiful, play at whatever pace you like. I feel I can never catch up to d2. Even after they stop updating it. It’s just flooded and boring

[@ijustbevibin0425]

It’s only a chore to him not to you dummy you not getting anything out of it he would get money but it just doesn’t interest him it’s different for him and someone like you😂😭

[@Just_Jae19]

Yes

[@thomasabraham3107]

I relate to this, I just got a super demanding full time job and when I get home the last thing I want to do is "grind" some meaningless bounties but unfortunately if you want to be at the appropriate power level for raids and trials and GMs and shit that's what you have to do. I hate the feeling of "needing" to play something rather than wanting to play. You take a week off and you are 15 levels behind everyone else

[@davidssubwaycookies190]

Yea Its like, my goal was basically to get every exotic in the game but as for the ones locked behind raids, yeah it doesn't sound fun to me. Ofc I guess if I found friends to play with it would be interesting. The presage was honestly the most fun I've had and using weird load outs

[@kawaii_kraken]

I had that issue too.. try afk farming

[@lexc1560]

I can’t play a game that feels like a job. Battle/Season passes are the most I’m willing to do. Not all games need to be commitments.

[@davidssubwaycookies190]

@Sith 3P0 yea I need to get on that, maybe I'm just hovering until I get a build for every light subclass but yea.

[@johnromero6315]

@@davidssubwaycookies190 I'm in a similar boat now. I had to leave my last clan because of some... issues with the clan leader and some of his flock. The game just isn't designed to be fun for solo players. At least not for very long. I can at least solo the dungeons and exotic missions, but I miss doing raids. And LFG has been a mixed bag for me over the years since Destiny launched.

[@junk_bear]

What he’s trying to say is he already has a relationship with borderlands.

[@meltedWax169]

@troll nation what dlc?

[@fv2977]

Friendship ended with Destiny, Borderlands is my new best friend.

[@Hunted83]

I play Destiny 2 but, that's just killing time on the wait for Halo: Infinite...so, there's that

[@2inches2hard]

@troll nation what dlc are you talking about

[@tensazanmato]

@troll nation what behavior?

[@johnnestoryak5118]

Destiny was a lot of fun when we were fighting to be on a fireteam , must all my friends have stopped playing and it really isn’t the same feeling.

[@upperjohn117aka]

Gotta build a new group i felt the same and with vog ive created a clan with the people i lfgd with were at like 30 members already and its slowly becoming a party again

[@draxs3439]

@@upperjohn117aka what do you play on?

[@upperjohn117aka]

@@draxs3439 pc

[@HerrscherOfDead]

I really liked the game and didn’t mind the grind it had for the most part. But, when every dlc is or big update is “hey remember that gear you worked hard for and love? Yeah, well it’s useless now gl getting it again and again.” I hate grinding when I can’t see an end. Otherwise I love grind games.

[@GBA_Raspberry]

They've changed the grind a little bit. Now every update the power level is only going up by 10.

[@IndicesDon]

Sunset is also gone so after every dlc your stuff ain’t useless just infuse it wut

[@HerrscherOfDead]

@@IndicesDon u right mb I will just go back to grinding the same strikes and nightfalls on repeat for 3+ weeks for more light level so i can infuse the gear. Silly me

[@UndeadAhead]

@@GBA_Raspberry the problem is, the update made me lose my weapons or something. Power level went back to 0

[@thermalrain_yt9725]

I hear that all the time but what are you seriously gonna use better devils forever? New guns come out use them. It's like Mario 3 players saying oh wish they didnt make this so we can still play the original mario

[@AzimuthPrime]

Its gotten to the point now where EVERY season is just "Season of the Chores" and it has just lost what made it fun. The constant demand to powergrind just to be able to participate in the harder endgame modes is just very time consuming and I wanna play other stuff but tbh I'm working on my fomo management because at the end of the day none of this actually matters in life when you step out the front door.

[@perceusshadowmantle9538]

@Bruh Bruh thank you Bruh Bruh

[@avvie8838]

@Bruh Bruh thank you Bruh bruh

[@f3nixfire]

They changed the seasonal power increase for that reason. The light increase only goes up by 10 points now between seasons, so if you hit the pinnacle cap from last season then you're already at the powerful cap for next season so any new endgame content that gets released you can do immediately now going into the new season.

[@f.p.5410]

@@f3nixfire It can be hard to hit the pinnacle if you work a full time job. For example, I've never been able to (I believe I got to 1316 this season, idk) but yeah the 10LL increase was a great improvement for me. As Azimuth said, it's all about FOMO management, as someone working full time (or if you just don't want to spend hours on bounties for whatever reason) you just have to accept that GMs are almost impossible for you. I reached the point where I still like the game even if I can't experience it fully. Who knows, maybe I'll hit pinnacle in Season of the Lost.

[@f3nixfire]

@@f.p.5410 Ya, I also work full time and have other games I like to play. I hit the pinnacle once during season of arrivals cuz it was an extra long season. I hit 1318 this time around and didnt even play the last month of the season. You dont really need to hit the pinnacle cap to experience everything in the game. With artifact power you can make up the difference and GM NF is the highest light level activity and even then you only needed to be 1325 to do GM NF. Anything above 1325 does nothing to help you. I hit 1334 without trying all that much. My season rank was only 132. So you can do everything in the game pretty much immediately from the start of the season. Light level doesnt have much impact like it used to.

[@stussygrn]

So I'm not the only one. Love destiny 2 but the grind is boring!! Started playing other games and just enjoy playing them, yall feel me?

[@siriusvittorio2099]

To be fair. That can be applied to any game. You play a particular game for a long time and you'll get bored of it eventually, it's just how it is. That's why I typically try to swap it each day or every few days with something else

[@t3hSpAdEs]

Being a Destiny player is like being in an abusive relationship. I know it’s bad for me, but I still go back

[@gintonicx6]

@Andrew C its crack in digital form...

[@d1000nuts]

Wow, you literally encompassed how I feel about destiny with this short. The grind day in and day out…I just can’t do it on Destiny anymore, I’ll play for a solid month, but then I move on to other stuff to avoid getting burnt out.

[@andreasspyrou7245]

Finally, someone that gets why i haven’t reached the pinnacle cap, receptiveness=not fun

[@830whart]

As someone who has over 5k hours on just D2, I feel you. I stopped playing a long time ago and I don’t miss it at all.

[@notimportant8002]

all good items and content are locked behind grade A+ pve fire team grinds. really sucks when you just wanna be a lone wolf light god

[@ledzep1023]

Probably because Destiny is a PvE game with a PvP mode

[@nbridges7321]

Seems to be a growing sentiment shared across the community. I just came back in Beyond Light after a 3 year hiatus and even I gotta say there's not much holding me in the game anymore

[@Weinmaste]

Wow, I just commented something similar. You can miss over a year of gameplay, come back, and it's the same strikes and pvp maps from the beginning of D2 it seems. They need to wipe all those and come up with something new. It's always the same thing over and over, nothing ever changes.

[@MattyKwik]

Dude! You summed up my EXACT situation. I can't back, because it showed up on Game Pass. Which meant my brother and a couple of friends were able to play. So I installed it again and grabbed a season pass. Turns out all of my stuff, from 2018 was suddenly garbage. I needed to, basically, start all over on all 3 characters. Then I get into the game and it's like ... exactly the same, tedious grind as it's ever been. I did a strike and it was STILL the Inverted Spire. WTF? The same one I was doing, when it launched in 2017.

[@seventh-hydra]

@@Weinmaste Nah it's the exact opposite. They already did wipe everything. And yeah, new PvP maps and strikes would be cool, but... But it's also kind of fucking stupid that you can't even play the Red War or the Forsaken campaigns anymore? That you can't go to Titan, Mars, Venus... That there's just a truckload of content outright missing, raids, strikes, quests, activities like escalation Protocols, weapons, armor, shaders, icons, so on. It sucks ass both for gameplay and for people who actually want to follow what's going on. And then on top of that, sunsetting gear, removing seasonal content, so on, forcing you to constantly grind for something that can't even be re-used, upgraded, or enjoyed later. But then also making you pay for it by locking prismatic lenses and other things behind a massive 80 dollar paywall. It'd be the equivalent of Game of Thrones deleting every previous season when they release a new one, and expecting you to actually care about it. While also making you pay 80 bucks for a recap.

[@mitchjames9350]

@@seventh-hydra I reckon they should bring back Destiny 1 content such as Taken King etc.

[@Deenverse]

For me the epitome of gaming was when destiny came, It was my first online game , I made friends all over the world and they stayed with me for 4/5 years. Dubai, Germany, india and etc etc. the raids were amazing, the crucible was amazing, exploring the planets, grinding for guns. I still remember unlocking galahorn I don’t remember the spellings. I miss vanilla destiny.

[@rymazon]

What is that? You paid $200 for all the dlc’s? Well we are removing all that from the game. You can pay even more for the new dlc to replace it! 🤗

[@tensazanmato]

Facts!

[@kaiserumbra4978]

Honestly same, I love destiny but I like to vary what I play day to day to avoid boredom and that cuts me out of a lot of content I stopped trying to keep up after I missed 2 back to back seasons because I was caught up in other games.

[@psfreak333]

I only do 1 character now so I can get everything done in a day or two and I can still go hard at other games.

[@guygiy909]

Facts I’ve always been a 1 char player. Idk how you’d have time in your life to do anything else constantly grinding 3.

[@zeru4600]

@@guygiy909 grind 3 characters bc its 3x the rewards.

[@theinstantnoodle9628]

Former Titan here. I couldn't have explained it better. It's either play it all the time, or don't play it at all.

[@joshbailey1321]

We just gonna ignore how he's one-tapping everyone he looks at?

[@LuminaTheGun]

It's a mode called momentum control. All the weapons do extra damage

[@joshbailey1321]

@@LuminaTheGun oh yeah. Was kinda hoping it was a buff/perk/mod that I could get tho

[@UhmBruh]

@@joshbailey1321 there's a charged with light mod that's out, two rapid bow kills, sniper kills, or handcannon kills charge you with light, pair that with the high energy fire mod and the Le Monarque bow(one headshot) and any aggressive frame sniper(one to the body) can one tap in just about every situation.

[@Gabe-eu6sk]

@@UhmBruh where do I get this mod good sir???

[@kilo_games]

I was just about to ask this myself lol, only time I've one shot was in iron banner

[@SpartanD63]

D1 was a game I would play every day, running raids even if I didn't need to, consuming all the lore videos I could, just because I found it fun and had a good group. It also had exotics to work for that felt unique and powerful. D2 lost a lot of that feeling and, in its current state, just feels like I don't really have much reason to actually play anymore

[@vogavation]

I took a 2 year break, and I completely agree with you. After 2 years, it sucks because you missed out, but you also have a lot more stuff to do

[@leilatumbleston8966]

I lost that desire to play from January 2018 all the way to July 2020 where I had a huge recreational void to fill. You couldn't have convinced me not to play outside of that hiatus, but during it I just lost all animus for the 3chars weekly grind, as you describe it.

[@christianabraham1963]

You're not missing out man I just quit after playing every day for at least an hour since release. Can't do it anymore can only get kicked from so many raids and try to enjoy the game. Community just isn't what it used to be, too many sweaties and toxic people unfortunately. You can't find the good ones as easily as you used to.

[@astonmartini6970]

Lol you must be fucking up constantly if you are getting kicked from that many raids

[@christianabraham1963]

@@astonmartini6970 nah I just don't use meta weapons or armor so I'm not doing the damage people want me to. I'm not last but I'm not up there with the others and people are too fanatical about using the absolute best at every second of every encounter and I just want to use what I want to and shoot and loot. So that did it in for me. I went back to fallout and haven't regretted it since. It's nice to use what I want to and be able to please everyone and have fun doing what I want. If I wanted to be dead nuts efficient and use the best of the best right down to numbers I'd go to work. But I play to unwind and shoot and loot.

[@abitofsupport601]

@@christianabraham1963 just curious but...what kind of lfgs are you joining? If it's sweaty try hard lfgs that say kwtd and "must have X clears" or stuff like that you are at fault for expecting to get into those groups with non-meta gear. I agree that non-meta should be allowed. But you are probably trying to interact with the part of the community that doesn't think the way we do.

[@christianabraham1963]

@@abitofsupport601 that's true. I do clear groups because I like getting them done within a few hours vs a half a day or so. So I guess that makes sense. But that just raises the problem the game isn't fun anymore because people can't raid like they used to and I have to rely on others to do their part like I do to accomplish something. Whereas in fallout 76 that's never a problem.

[@paradoxlaboratories8005]

There is an important difference between ‘new’ content and ‘more’ content. Every season, every expansion, it feels like we get more of what we’re used to. More exotics, more strikes, more ornaments, etc. But the last ‘new’ feeling thing we got was Stasis and before that, I suppose it was the introduction of the first Dungeon and the Scorn in Forsaken. Other than that, everything is just recycled stuff we’ve seen before. This season’s Override event is just a slight variation of the same system we have seen done countless times, killing enemies that drop motes and depositing those motes into a bank. And every single season, we get another exotic weapon. Honestly I don’t think we need any more exotics. There are already sooooo many. The game needs to learn how to evolve over time.

[@mobius_1-978]

Me and my friend stopped playing this summer for the exact same reason! We just weren’t feeling the fun anymore and it was a chore to hop on destiny to grind before the weekly reset. The transmog system really did it for us too. As soon as we heard about how bad the grind was gonna be, we knew that bungie just didn’t care about their community and really only care about making people either cough up money or playing 100 hours a week. I was very excited for the transmog system and it was the only thing keeping me on the game but then I heard it would be capped at only 2 sets!! Ridiculous!!

[@lumi0ff]

Don't forget about shaders for 300 bright dust

[@mobius_1-978]

@@lumi0ff bro that was one of the worst possible things bungie ever could’ve done.

[@jaderabbit1896]

New players: Will you have fun Vets: well yes but actually no

[@upperjohn117aka]

Well yes but no but that feeling getting a god roll will give you a high

[@LordPenguin-qx8td]

The problem for me was the money, I wasn't receiving what I was paying for. This is my opinion at least

[@ml8184]

After watching this video, I realized i was a little burnt out from this game ( a sudden onset of depression, irritability when dealing with other player's behaviours in strikes when teamwork is crucial nowadays ).It used to be fun, like some of the comments here has mentioned, it started to become a chore and the grind is real, the fear of missing out if I stop can become a pressure to need to continue grinding. I guess it is time for another D2 detox and transition to another game to bring the joy of gaming back into my life again. This was a much needed realization after watching this. Tq for the reminder that games should be fun. Much thanks and God bless.

[@stephaniecarey1065]

Completely understand what you're saying. Your content is some of my favorite, whether it is BL3 or D2!! Keep up the good work, Fishstick! :D

[@Yu7Zi]

Same thing with me. Used to love D1 and D2 in the PvP glory days of pinnacle weapons but now there just isn’t much reason for me to jump in every day like I used to. Bungie has made Destiny into more of a live service rather than focusing on creating memorable experiences.

[@TonyStark-yu4ot]

I have to take a one season long break from the game every year to avoid going insane

[@WatchFelineSpine]

a game should never make you feel like you’re running out of time or missing out on things, that’s why I stopped playing it. I actually went back to d1

[@skyoncloud5180]

I don't play Destiny 2 since I missed a season because of work and they removed a bunch of locations and made it so I couldn't access the previous story, only the current one. I hate that. I should be able to play any story i want without a time limit.

[@Luckydave123]

Aint possible D2 had long loading times and Bugs because it was too Big for old Generation consoles. This was the only way. Now it runs fine. And bungie would never give up on old Generation consoles because thats where most of the Players are still playing on.

[@RiderZer0]

I feel him. As much as I would love to play destiny it requires way too much time that I just don’t have in my life. It’s seriously a bummer.

[@ADreadedShadowGaming]

I still play and enjoy it, it's slow now and I've been playing Borderlands over grinding resets.

[@soksocks]

This is how I felt with Warframe. Played since the beginning and stayed with most, if not all updates up to when Wisp dropped. While the grind in Warframe is very tedious to abysmal, I still had fun regardless. That's maybe because I had friends to play with. But when the new open world area Fortuna dropped, that's when I started to see a big decline of me coming back. I couldn't get myself to grind and it just felt like a chore when hopping on. There wasn't really anything for me to grind anymore. I got mods that I wanted, frames that I really liked and built them up, and same for other stuff like weapons. I do occasionally check in at least once every 2 weeks because I'm like 2nd in command of a clan, just to see what's up. I still see a couple of committed friends playing, but others haven't been on. From what I can recall, a friend hasn't played in 3 years, yet being in one of the top position. Other than that, Warframe isn't a game I can really commit to anymore. It's fun for a few couple of hour, after that I move to something else

[@Bositive_]

it's been weeks since i played , is it fun.. yeah .. devs are taking this game and stretching it out so thin on there "seasons" content rather than giving out the old concept to 2 expansions 1Big DLC , honestly it worked for destiny

[@upperjohn117aka]

The problem with the 2 dlc 1 expansion is it just left soo much down time the seasonal model is ab it better in that aspect but the content feels a bit more hallow as a result hopefully with the staff increase we will see larger seasons

[@Bositive_]

@@upperjohn117aka very true but it also gave them time to make some nice content

[@upperjohn117aka]

@@Bositive_ kinda but really what did we get we got cos which was garb warmind which was decent but had a public event as its thing pretty much any seasonal thing the we had black armory which was just what we are doing now just less complex then we had gambit which was garb then we had opulence which was good but again weve had that in the seasons i feel like we arent missing out on much except the raids

[@Bositive_]

@@upperjohn117aka no 100 percent - that was a total mess on bungie's behalf , i'm saying why that model was so great was because of the years that past in the course of D1 , Crota, Kings fall, Rise of iron , destiny's greatest memory's was on that model , i enjoyed the new missions - kinda like when Cayde did that mission with the guardian at crotas end and you had to be sneaky and kill both daughters at the end of the raid area with spindle , to me that was fun and we need that destiny into this destiny

[@upperjohn117aka]

@@Bositive_ i think the reason why those were so good in some aspects was because we still had a sense of wonder in the world but now its expanded so much its different though i do think we need different kinds of missions besides run and gun stealth would make it fun

[@itzzvoid-8127]

I love and hate destiny, I can’t find another game that interests me like it does but I also hate some of the things that have happened to it

[@nbridges7321]

This comment right here is my feelings in a nutshell. No other game has captured the same gameplay feel, but I'm getting more and more tired of the same grind that's not looking to change much anytime soon

[@poggersplayer69]

@@nbridges7321 it changes when major dlcs drop. So I just take long breaks and come back a couple weeks before the dlc drops to catch up and get all the good stuff from the past couple of seasons.

[@outdun11-_-77]

I stoped playing for the rediculess amount of dlc's you have to buy in order to keep up

[@tractorcannon8487]

A lot of people complain about grinding. But for me, a person who’s always bored, grinding in this game is fun and it gives me something to do.

[@alexrangel490]

I usually find myself taking a break from it for a few months than coming back. It gets me hooked for awhile and then I take a break again lol

[@DedicatedSlaya]

I agree. I quit awhile ago too. I was like, "It's not you Destiny... It's your Roommate 'Bungie'!!!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@venvvs]

Game fell due to greed and lack of innovation. Destiny 1 was better, and rather than making a sequel, they should have just updated the game and innovated. Bungie lost their minds and need to be treated accordingly, which means us turning out back on them until they get their sh together. Stop spending your money on them.

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

My Raid team Literally stopped grinding destiny every day in favour of Grinding Elder Scrolls online... And these guy were the type of guys who'd complain if you weren't grinding destiny every day... They haven't touched destiny in 2 months... They played Destiny every day for 6 years... That should tell you enough.

[@JeremeyD]

I gave up after sunseting the grind seemed pointless. Thanks your guides helped alot though.

[@EpicNNG]

Glad I could help

[@CrKrypt]

Soooo true. Haven’t played for like a month and feel great. I’ve been grinding on New World instead😂

[@chonkytemmi4652]

Not gonna lie, I feel this, I preordered D2 a year befor it dropped, I got the edition that gave you the first 2 DLC, for an extra fee cus I loved the first one so much I thought fuck it. Then after season 3 they changed the upgrade system, and it turned me away cus it made it so much harder to up your light lvl. I came back to it at the beginning of this month, I was flooded with shit loads of content, I thought awsome, I got something to play. I didn't think much of the Red War and Curse of Osiris being cut from the game because I was genuinely having fun with friends, but I found out today, there's a few exotics I can't get unless I want to pay for last season, it left me thinking, ya know, I dropped extra money on this game to get the first 2 DLC, the same 2 DLC that were cut from the game, I grinded my ass of for items and odements, that I can't use anymore, because the armor they go on doesn't go past light lvl 1100, like the Dead Orbit legendary armor odements, and weapons of the first 3 seasons, no new player is even going to know who Cayd-6 even was, and these fuckers have the audacity to tell me I can't get The Deadman's Tale, or the Hawkmoon because I didn't pay for the last season, like bitch you stole money from me when I bought the gold edition of the game and you cut the DLC that came with that, out of the game I should be getting these seasons for fucking free. I love doing the challenging things with friends, but the only reason I play on my own is to keep up with them when there on, and I'm not. I like playing it, but to have Bungie cash grab me like that fucking sucks ass especially when my dudies are running older exotics from prior seasons and I have to go threw a pay wall to get to those exotics, after I forked out extra for DLC I can't even access anymore.

[@psnrunehq665]

I can relate to the marriage comment. I felt like I got married to Destiny 2 and RuneScape which are both extremely grindy games lol. Something else that I don't like about Destiny 2 is that your progress doesn't mean anything anymore after a few seasons. I remember grinding like hell to get to level 750 and just recently I played the game again and all of my characters started this season at level 1900. I also remember Randy's Throwing Knife being locked behind a quest and now they get handed out like candy.

[@triedtime9573]

I put over 3000 hours into bl3 until I got burnt out. I then started playing destiny 2 up till wonderlands release. You are absolutely right about the commitment. Really fun game, but grinding light level all season for no climax gets stale quick.

[@gintonicx6]

Im at this stage where im preparing to quit the game, gonna finish the season and leave.The game is like this endless loop you cant get out of...

[@dunamiswihmee]

I’ve been saying this for the past 3 years... you literally have to be grinding everyday just to barely keep up with the life time grinding. And I’m telling you I gave up destiny for 3 DAYS and I feel like I accomplish so much in real life whether it’s relaxing enjoying a drive watching some shows I never had time to watch. I’m like wow not worrying about grinding really helps you de stress. The game is not even fun it’s literally a chore as someone mentioned. I feel like I can breathe. Let someone else stress their life away. I actually am looking for a new new game that will be chill and not so stressing. Sorry bungie you had your time but your game is dying. I just hear grinding and I wince it’s having a toll on my health. If it were fun that would be different but the story is like the battle of Goku and frieza 30 episodes for one little fight. Gg bungie gg.

[@gintonicx6]

Im with you on this 💯 gonna quit also

[@yournan6199]

Damn I've never seen anyone else say this, it's straight facts despite how much I used to love destiny. You shouldn't have to feel like you're being left behind if you're not playing almost every day

[@burna.k.a.turtleonalog4327]

I love destiny, but I fully understand not wanting to play it every week. I usually play destiny when there is new content, and usually don't only play destiny the whole week

[@filip9587]

It literally took me like 200+ hours of grinding ascendant shards and exotic ciphers just to get half of the Exotics in the Monument of Lost Lights.

[@jerz3y]

It took me 2000 hours to get them all originally

[@Zephyr_The_Robot]

I decided to stop playing the game after they started removing content they decided was "unnecessary" to the game. More content and more planets is never a bad thing, And then removing these things just showed me that I can't really Put faith in the game to keep around the things I enjoy about it. I spent Money on the game when it 1st came out, I bought curso, I bought curso asires and warmined, and now, and now, that's money wasted because the game is now free to play and those 2 DLC's are no longer available to play. It feels as though any moment, for any reason, things I enjoyed about the game will cease to exist. I also Agree with everything you stated in this video, destiny begins To feel like less of an enjoyable game and more of a job or chore than anything else. The last thing I want to be doing is grinding at the beginning of every season in order to be able to have fun.

[@iTzTraffy]

The game going F2P was one of the worst decisions they ever made, especially for PC and the hacker problem. They could at least have given something to the players buying the stuff, but they were like „yeah fuck you, thanks for giving us money, we‘ll gonna take the shit out of the game“

[@iTzTraffy]

@Shaper_Void yes it was, but instead of taking it out, they could have given the y1 guns like all the Leviathan guns random rolls. Tbh though that argument is stupid, what‘s the point of Last Wish? At that point the loot it dropped wasn’t powerful anymore - useless so they could take Last wish out of the game too and put 1K into the Kiosk. Would be just as stupid.

[@Zephyr_The_Robot]

@Shaper_Void Edit: Spelling Mistakes. No content is "useless" it just needed work. The content was fun and fine. The rewards were the only issue, they could have just given all of but just given all of the rewards random rolls like the rest of the weapon rest of the weapons in the game, but instead they decided to take mama but instead they decided to take the laziest way possible and remove the content from the game rather than working to improve it. Rather than taking time to make people want to go to these planets, They just decided to Get rid of the content nobody played without looking at why Nobody played that content. Rather than fixing the problem, they decided to Throw it out the window and call it an improvement. It's not an improvement, it's being a lazy developer. Point. Blank. Period.

[@brooksmanis7782]

@Shaper_Void it was useless because bungie made it that way lol you can't blame players for not touching that content its the devs fault ever evolving world means changing the environment and activities and gear in those locations not completely throwing it all into a dumpster.

[@gobdor4579]

Im one of the og destiny players like I've played since year 1 on D1 so I was literally there when it first started and honestly after year 3 of d1 I just fell out of it, like I got destiny 2 messed with it got bored quickly and then dropped it, then like a year later I got back into it just because I missed the old destiny but I never really fully got back into it it's such a commitment like this dude was saying like you constantly gotta be buying new dlc and if you aren't constantly playing your gonna fall behind its definitely something I could only have enough time to play when I was younger

[@to181]

1000% reason why I stopped. Funny Borderlands series and Destiny are like two of my most favorite games too. Borderlands you can play at your own pace except for the occasional seasonal event. Destiny is 24/7 365 grind and it can tunnel you into only playing D2 and preventing you from experiencing other games.

[@LordJoker88]

I got about half way thru I knew where this was going, as much as I love the gameplay, the game does become a chore half way thru a season for me, I then get on at least every weekend to visit Xur and do little tasks, but the only time I grind is probably the first 2 months of a new season

[@saltwagon2676]

I stopped because the grind is too real.

[@chrisg_fpv]

It's a great game to leave for a while and come back to. I didn't play Destiny 2 for over 2 years. It's fun to play again.......for now.....

[@boxerboy860]

I just came back since 2017 lol

[@chrisg_fpv]

@@boxerboy860 lol nice. Well have fun again until the next break 👍

[@thenerd173]

For me it's this, on top of the fact that my 110 dollar initial purchase was made redundant when some content was made inaccessible recently. All the p2w DLC's that are priced the same as full-scale AAA games are ridiculous, and the season system only served to stress me out an unnecessary amount. I initially quit after being disappointed with my purchase (expansion pass 1&2. I thought it would be an expansion pass for every expansion, but I was severely baited by a Gamestop employee.). Then when New Light released I got back into it with some friends, had fun for a month or two and then even more DLC released. I quit again instantly. Royally pissed off with the game. Especially since I'd hoped that they wouldn't pull the same thing as D1 did with this one. Now I commit to other games. The idiotic season systems still exist and battle passes are at their peak, which forces me to stay in a couple of those games as well. I'm pretty disgusted by the massive, greedy corporations that surround our hobby and the fact that nobody seems to care about it anymore. They're pulling such cheap tactics and everyone is just accepting it. There is no longer any diversity in a gamer. You're either known for playing this game or that game, there is barely any in-between anymore.

[@mygoodsir8358]

Yeah I feel you, I go through a cycle that consists of being super into it, then not playing, then slowly getting back into it and currently I’m trying to get back into it, but it’s hard with other games getting such good updates.

[@thethinker7020]

I'm just now hitting this stage. Grinded in this game for awhile now. The friends that still play are the only reason I get on now. We all get on together like once a week. Pretty casual. I like that we aren't all grinding like our lives depend on it anymore lol

[@kevinhorn4219]

These are my exact feelings, also. Not only a lifetime/daily commitment, but also the financial commitment is a bit absurd. I’ll hop on every once in a while and see what I missed, grind a bit, but then it gets boring and lack any entertainment value with a quickness.

[@isaiahkoufos3573]

You guys can’t complain about Destiny not having enough content and then later complain that you have to play too much to be caught up with everyone

[@seanbarrett3744]

Started in the D1 beta and still off and on play D2. Its like any other game out now a days thats an online game. Requires a lot of your time. I usually just jump on and play a lot for afew weeks then take a break for other games until a new season or expansion launches. The game feels like its actually in a good place right now

[@DukeYeet]

Destiny is definitely one of the most forgiving games to take breaks from. You don't have to be married to the game to do raids every few weeks and get the new exotics to play with you just gotta play a little for a few days. A game I played, called genshin impact, is the most time consuming game with nothing to show for it. I put a year and a half into that game when one day I realized that spending and hour everyday doing stuff cuz of FOMO and a garbage gacha system, that it might be a waste of time. And it was. Destiny is nothing like this and I love it for that

[@checkthisout771]

That initial pinnacle grind is rough but just by doing that each week you’ll reach the level for GM content well before they’re available. You can push higher now for master VOG if you care about a single weapon roll once a week. Doesn’t feel worth it though and honestly isn’t completely necessary anyway. If you reached GM content you’re probably fine to try Master VOG if you can play smart. I log in long enough to raid in search of the ever elusive (at least for me) Vex and run some GM content with some friends and then I put it down to play Control (the game, not crucible lol). It’s honestly a big relief to just play and not really care when I can’t or don’t want to. And if I decide to jump back in, at least for the rest of this season, I can go straight to the end game content with no worries. All that said, I fully understand how you feel. Something about destiny lately has left me feeling like playing just about anything else.

[@albertolopez-espinosa9373]

Once they added time-gated seasonal content that was it for me. Destiny is meant to be a collectathon and knowing that if you don't grind every day after work you'll miss out on badges and armor permanently feels unfair and designed to trigger FOMO. After that it became difficult to enjoy since you knew you were on a timer and you couldn't rotate and play other games too. Giving up on it entirely made that FOMO go away but I still miss the world and the lore sometimes, and raids were some of the most fun I've ever had in a game.

[@tensazanmato]

This right here hits home, I miss it, but I don't miss feeling manipulated all the damn time.

[@ThePackman627]

Yeah but this year they made it so you can play the seasonal stuff after the season ends so it's way better than it was last year

[@albertolopez-espinosa9373]

@@ThePackman627 this is news to me. Would you say that it's friendlier to casual players now?

[@ThePackman627]

@@albertolopez-espinosa9373 yes I would say so. It can be hard to keep up with but starting with season 12 when beyond light released they made it so all of the seasonal activities tied to the season would stay the entire year and then they would go away once the next yearly expansion would drop which would be Witch Queen. So the wrathborn hunts from season 12, battlegrounds from season of the chosen, override from season of the splicer which is the current season and whatever seasonal activity for next season will last all the way up until WQ. Bungie did say that they are going to continually working on that and most of the players are hoping that they do something similar to Halo where you can continually just buy previous seasons

[@braeden9350]

You near perfectly put into words how I feel about destiny. I miss it so much but I want to do other things than spend all my free time grinding. The grind isn't fun enough to warrant sinking so much time into the game.

[@lhazelnutl3714]

Unfortunately I gotta agree, unfortunate because I’m growing up and as it is I have school, sports, a job and other activities. I don’t have time to play and soon I’ll be an adult and have even less time. I think I’ll still follow the game because I do want to see where the story and state of the game will go.

[@Weinmaste]

My gripe for destiny is that you can literally miss a year or 2 of gameplay, come back, and the only that has changed in that time is a few sandbox changes, guns/meta shifted a bit. They need to overhaul and get all new pvp maps, all new strikes if you want the average player base to continue to come back to the game. It's the same shit from like 2 years ago, it's stale as hell, that's what grinds my gears.

[@PacificPortal]

This has always been my problem w destiny, sometimes it gets to the point where it feels more like a job, not to mention the fomo and replaying stale content.

[@Folowersofchrist]

I'm a huge destiny fan and I think you are right this game needs to be played a lot

[@darkmatter7442]

I love gameing and I can relate to this. I used to play lineage II, Unreal Tournament Doom quake . It consumed many years of my life, it was fun and I’ve got infamous on many servers 😁. But I don’t see any sense in investing so much time in games and build skills which have no real life use. I still play games but now just offline. I turn them off when I want and no one can force me to wake up at 3 AM for a effing Raid. My advice to gamers which reached the point that they realize that they waste time, build some actual useful skills( codeing, languages, gym, 3d design or whatever) and invest as much time as they wasted in games and you will make yourself proud of real achievements. That doesn’t mean stopping gaming just reduce it to what it is leisure.

[@unknown20005]

i mean thats fine if you dont enjoy it then there is no point continuing i had a stacked setup on an xbox one account but my main issues were i didnt have a clan to support me in destiny 2 and alot of my friends both older and younger became super toxic and in the end i was all alone and being solo for most games is a major struggle especially on destiny 2 essentially i abandoned everything i had setup on xbox for 10+ years and switched to ps4 back in 2019 and now almost 3 years later i have so many friends and a very active clan im in and i run at least 2 raids a week and im even more stacked then before only thing i miss is my god roll claws of the wolf and being able to play phantasy star online 2 pretty much i threw away everything i had and knew for something i knew nothing about and had nobody to help me and it ended up being one of the best decisions i made in my life and it went about as well as it possibly could have and it was one of the biggest decisions in my life and can i ask what bow that hes using in the video cause it looks pretty good for crucible

[@Shadow-7]

I completely understand it lol, the commitment isn’t for everyone I am fully committed and I can’t stop (I genuinely enjoy it because of the options I have)

[@tylertice6588]

I stopped playing because they fucking deleted two of the three expansions I bought and didn't offer refunds. Literally one of the most scummy things I've ever seen a company do

[@ThaGodLegacyHD]

I'm right there with you. I picked up season 14 battle pass and basically still level 64 lmao. I spend more time playing Apex and other games. Destiny2 feels like a full on commitment mixed with a lot of chores. It's only rewarding to those who no life D2 all day and night. Idk how people play D2 24/7 all year without burning out and throwing there PC/console out the damn window.

[@nathanbolt1064]

I feel this video so hard and everything you said was true, can’t keep grinding the same game forever and ever it has to stop eventually

[@LBenn302]

I quit during year one. I went flawless quite a few times and just got bored. They still didn’t have shotguns as secondaries and so on. I recently came back to the game after VoG came out. If I’m being honest, there’s soooo much content in the game. I can see if you’re a die hard player and really love the game and complete the game as a whole whenever a new season comes out. But man did this game come a very long way from its beginnings a few years ago.

[@hikagekagura9060]

If season passes were switchable, if nothing ever got sunset/vaulted, maybe it wouldn't feel like a huge commitment

[@808Paint]

I took a long break from D2. Trying to get back into it now is ridiculous.

[@swarlly]

Dude this. I was fairly good at D1 to the point sbmm would put me with popular destiny content creators. But I could never take a break from the game. If I took a month to play something else it was a grind to get back where I was. I was playing just to keep my skills and it was no longer fun. I was losing hours of sleep too. I finally decided after the botched Curse of Osiris expansion for my health it would be a good idea to drop the game. The games a life commitment and there is so much more important than staying competitive at a video game.

[@MarcoBarroca]

I don’t necessarily agree. You can play Destiny on a casual basis and still have fun. Seasonal challenges are a great way to get some hours in each week and they don’t feel as bad as the bounty grind. You get some story beats, play the new seasonal stuff, some ritual activities and by week 8-10 you are ready to take on the end game. All that with maybe 3-4 hours per week.

[@_ExTitus]

This is very real and true. It'll likely stay a lifetime investment of time. The loot and frind will never be worth the infinit amount of time the game asks for. Not to say it isn't rewarding at first but it's an endless treadmill for people that don't make it their job

[@OQO00]

I got into destiny about a month ago, spent 7 hours a day grinding to catch up to the meta so I could finally play the "best" content. Turns out that was even more of a grind, so i did that for a few weeks. Then the season reset came and I had to grind my light level all the way back up again. By the end of it I was left with a mediocre at best load out and my relationship, school, and heath all deteriorated. I don't understand what the point of playing this game is if it isn't your actual job. You can't get anywhere playing 1-2 hours a day. Unfortunately for me I value my real life over a raid emblem so I quit destiny a few days ago.

[@eagles7235]

I felt that.....every single word. I immediately knew Destiny was the game for me on day 1. The grind, the nightfall cheeses, burning bosses and trash mobs, all of it......But now it just feels.....empty to play. Many LFG teams want people that just don’t meet requirements and I’m one of them. I’ve never gotten any raid exotics, never played a grandmaster with friends, never went into Trials, because no one wanted to play Destiny. And honestly? I’ve been playing many other games to avoid playing it. I’ve been enjoying replaying all the Halo games again, along with the Crysis saga. (Sorry to rant to no one, but that’s my opinion. Idc if you read this or not.)

[@buckaroobanzai2551]

Your no nonsense guides were my favorite.

[@johnromero6315]

I could probably be classified as a pretty huge Destiny fanboy (fell in love immediately during the D1 beta on my 360), but even I haven't been grinding the same the past year. I'll play the story for each season and maybe a few dungeons/raids, but the back half of each recent season I usually have to take a break because of how incessant the grind it. It never feels like you're actually finished with Destiny, so you have to learn to remove yourself once you stop having fun.

[@PkKingSlaya]

I only log in when the big bad comet expansion gets added in anything else in-between is just a cash grab, so I’m thankful for KZbin because it’s my source for keeping up with the game while I enjoy another one.

[@hamburgerdog25]

I feel the same way about finding time for Destiny because it requires SO MUCH TIME. I'm a full time nanny now for my niece and nephew and I have little to no time to play anymore (which kind of sucks because I'm missing a lot of the seasonal events and storylines. But at the same time its nice to not feel like I gotta commit all my downtime to a few tidbits of story and mayhem in the crucible now and then)

[@StonedElk420]

As a d2 hater personally, and a d1 beta veteran, this is the one time i can say destiny is actually fun, albeit only temporarily

[@enzudesign]

D1 vet here. Totally agree after playing 7 years I love the game but now I make sure I take time off here and there. Warframe is similar in how it's a life partner not just a game imo

[@SupremeGon]

Bungie just needs to un-vault everything. All the strikes, planets, guns man just anything that was ever in D1 and 2 that's not currently usable or playable should all be accessible in the game. That would make Destiny feel like an actual growing world and add so much variety back to the game. Plus it makes paying for dlc feel better as it won't just feel like we are paying a timed subscription thats only endgame is to be vaulted anyway.

[@biglew174t4]

I felt the same way it is a life commitment and for me to stop playing indefinitely I had to delete my characters I feel so much better now I can play other games I really wanted to play

[@pinkattero2855]

Yeah I take these "Destiny consumed my life" comments to another level. My dad got into the game as his first main multiplayer game. He hasn't got tired after 2 years but I have after over 6 years of d1 and d2, every dinner its just Destiny talk as he explains a new gun he's got and berates me for not playing and helping him do raids. I just can't stand what the game has become microtransacrion/ battlepass and weekly grind requirements. I just miss sniping people with Stillpiercer from up high on the dreadnought, and hunter blink, rip my dreams after it got taken away, probably because of the pvp sweats but hey ho I guess. No more blinking through cover to say hello. Unless I want mask of bakris and a 30 sec dodge cooldown, wait does it even go through soft cover? I'll have to check it out soon