This is what its come to. I bought a glove exotic engram just to feel any shred of excitement from Xur this weekend. Didn't really even need it, the only gloves I don't have are Sunbreakers and I would seldom even use those. Ugh. I guess getting a second character to 32 can be my weekend goal. It blows we are a month away from any meaningful changes to this game. So many things are still broken. Yes it was refreshing to hear they know how awful their code is in plain English, but they also failed to mention how glitched to fuck their beloved new hard-means-hard Crota's End raid is.
It has to be a skeleton crew actually still working on Destiny 1, the majority of which are prioritizing DLC and how to assure the changes maximize the incentive to buy it, not enjoy it. The rest have fucked off to Destiny 2. I hate the patronizing tone everyone takes when someone complains about something needing to be fixed quicker. "Oh, I'm sorry are you a programmer?" No, I'm not. But I have watched countless other games, equally or exceedingly more complex, with way fucking smaller budgets and teams than Destiny get larger patches done much quicker, more frequently and with a shit load more transparency and a lot less condescension from the devs. If they actually thought any of the things we have been complaining about for months were a big deal, they could have fixed them if they wanted to. But that requires them spending their money, and why would they want to do that when minor fixes don't = more sales? There is no way Bungie doesn't have the resources and talent to resolve the majority of our laundry list. Those resources are just working on the expansion/sequel whatever it turns out to be to get another $60 (probably will actually be $90 again) from us. This is fine for a company to want to maximize revenue, but I am done with hearing people pretend that some how Destiny has reached the fucking singularity with code complexity that simply cannot be resolved or adjusted in a timely manner.
I'm sorry for the cynicism but I am sick of them telling us that they value our time, our money and us as a community, but then all of their actions being the complete polar opposite of that. If they came out and said, "fuck ya'll, it would be a relief. But no, everything with this game is a carrot on a stick. From the loot system to the way they talk to their community. Yeah you feel like you are wading in the same pool of shit, but I promise the good stuff is right around the corner. CE HM put a lot of us on the brink, but I can definitely see HoW being a genuine breaking point. Not just a bunch of heated posts on GAF, but walking away from this game completely, and unfortunately the community and never coming back. I know I am certainly leaning that way if some major changes aren't made leading up to and at the launch of HoW. It is such shame because not only the potential Destiny has, but how great the community is that has formed around it, all willing it to become this better and more exciting game. We are on your side Bungie, but we all have our limits.
Sorry for the rant, but it does help to get this stuff off your chest sometimes. It sucks feeling frustrated about a hobby that functions primarily as a stress reliever in your day to day life.
