Narrative for a foregone conclusion.
If Final Shape sucks as much as Lightfall did, it will, and should.
Rip
This is literally the old EA stratagem. Give the “independent” developer basically an impossible goal and then go “well you failed to meet the goal, looks like you need a little bit of help from us, and by little help, we mean from now on, you do exactly what we tell you, or else”. EA pulled this off with Origin Systems and (to a different extent) BioWare to name just a few examples. It ended with complete sadness.
To EA’s credit, that charade usually took a long time to come to completion. Sony is trying to pull this this so soon after acquiring Bungie.
Sony’s games are a lot more player friendly than Destiny is, especially since their break with Activision. I like the idea of Sony taking charge a lot more than I liked the idea of Bungie guiding other properties (eg The Last of Us multiplayer, which they allegedly didn’t think was GaaS enough).
They have actively made the game less fun for me in the past few seasons. They decided that what people want is a challenge, all the time. It used to be that low-level stuff was a breeze and you could just shoot your way through it. Now, you slog through it for the same weak rewards as before, but it takes longer and is less fun. The hard content didn’t get any harder, though. Those are the people that actually want challenge, and they don’t get more of it.
And on top of that, the new seasonal content apparently has limited revives and particular things you have to do to survive. Unsurprisingly, blueberries are failing miserably at this. I haven’t bothered playing it because it’s exactly the opposite of what I want from repeated content, and I don’t want to join a guild again. While I loved my guild, I felt compelled to play more so I didn’t let them down, and I’m done with that.
Bungie needs to stop listening to streamers and fanatical players and listen to the players that are quitting in droves instead.
What? You don’t enjoy getting mapped by Cabal rockets in patrol zones?
Major expansions with missing content and glaring plot holes?
PvP with all the “balance” of a sledgehammer to the face, and whatever the hell is left of Gambit?
Recycled D1 strikes that you now have to run even more of every week for the same rewards?
