Bungie have said things will continue as normal on all platforms.
The grind needs to end.
It makes Destiny hard to get into, and hard to return to.
It’s not fun or challenging in any way, and it never has been.
Bungie have demonstrated a striking lack of foresight around the problems of grind too.
Getting good gear with good stats across three different elemental affinities took forever, plus extra for different builds.
And then Bungie nerfed the Intelligence stat so all the Int-high gear I grinded for is now bad.
End result, I just don’t care about it.
Still, that gear getting binned is nothing compared to the mess of ‘sunsetting’.
It also instantly made a load of older items outdated.
The only thing that happened was players deleted loads of hard-earned weapons they liked.
Bungie have since abandoned sunsetting but not restored the weapons it made obsolete.
Bungie eventually lowered the grind but why faff at all?
I just want to play dress-up with my wizards.
Looking ahead to the next expansion, The Witch Queen will add weapon crafting, which should be exciting.
But my immediate reaction wasn’t “Cool!
“, it was “How much will I need to grind?”
That was when I realised maybe I’m done with it.
The Witch Queen will also bring the typical big new grind toa new Power level cap.
Even a grind which should be straightforward, simply to the level cap, is complicated.
Grind on grind on grind and none of it is fun, interesting, or satisfying.
I’m not opposed to a little grind.
I genuinely quite like random rolls on weapons, the surprise of loot drops.
I’d be cool with random armour if not for the grind of four separate elemental alignments.
But so much of the grind could be stripped out.
I’d be happy to see Power removed entirely from gear, having Power only only the seasonal artifact.
Even that could be streamlined.
Not to mention all the other arbitrary grinds.
Everywhere you go and every menu you open leads to a miserable grind.
After 2000 hours of Destiny 2, I honestly don’t know if I’ll buy The Witch Queen.
I can’t face another year of grinding.
So maybe I won’t play at all.
Maybe I’m done with Destiny.
Maybe I’m done.
Destiny 2 is a fantastic FPS dragged down by a rubbish MMORPG.
