My desire to play this game took a nose dive. I was really digging the game up until the past couple days, then it just sorta fell off. I progressed reasonably quick, I actually had decent luck with the cryptarch and PvP rewards, I was already 27 when people found out about the cave. Been at 27 for what seems like forever due to lack of shards dropping. I have 28 Ascendent Energy for weapons, I think I've gotten maybe 5 shards this entire week, I just got my first exotic weapon last night, but I really don't feel like playing to upgrade it. Yesterday, I was pretty much done with the game, and then my buddy told me about being able to get Queen's gear to break for shards, so last night I did a couple missions and finally got some shards rolling in, a glimmer of hope. Then, while I'm at work, I find out about the hot fix which pretty much deflated the little bit of desire I had to play.
Great game play, just too much missing. Also seems like Bungie threw a lot of basic game design fundamentals out the window. Forcing players to leave the game to learn about the story is just flat stupid, I don't get how that idea made it past the white board.