I hold zero hope of the raid loot drops ever being addressed or changed. They are going to continuously move the goal posts until they can start hyping Destiny 2. They will introduce challenge mode, so that will be the new carrot to chase. Then there will be the next minor event or time gated bit of loot to keep us going. But hitting LL 320? They are hyper aware that they don't want you to do that easily and all these drop issues are not issues on their end but carefully crafted hurdles to artificially prolong the end game. And that right there is the crux of the crota, the artificial lengthening of the end game content.
We now know that it has been a game of catch up for them since a year out from vanilla launch. Everything they have had to do has been a compromise of resources. They clearly stated the purpose of micro-transactions. They need us to literally buy them more time. They need TTK content to pull as few resources as possible to focus more on Destiny 2 so they can maybe finally get ahead of their never ending game of catch up. Their entire financial and developmental structure regarding TTK content right now can be summed up as, "stall." They have to keep us around with as little as possible. If you think stingy raid loot isn't an intentional design to achieve this, you are delusional. The same way they won't ever acknowledge weapons parts, and just let everyone slowly forget about them. It artificially lengthens the end game. Time gates, RNG on RNG on RNG hurdles, weekly gates, daily gates, economy nerfs, etc, etc. We got so caught up in all the new TTK content we didn't realize that under the new veneer, not only is it the same old Y1 Bungie, they have doubled even tripled down on what we considered anti-player anti-fun practices. We were so used to chasing the carrot, all they had to do was swap out the carrot with a banana and we all went ape shit.
When I play end game Destiny content and hit these walls. I don't feel like the game is challenging me, I honestly feel like the developers resent me and my time. It is a shitty, frustrating feeling. I hit my Destiny "rock bottom" prior to HoW release when I realized I was regrinding for the same old shit that I had already worked to unlock and upgrade before. When you finally just stop turning on Destiny for a day or two, your realize how easy it is not to play their exploitative end game content and move on. But until you hit rock bottom, you find yourself logging on. I think KF HM went too far and people will be leaving Destiny in droves by mid November. Well done Bungie, you won, you made junkies of us all. So....you got any of them time gated exotics?
