Highlights – an Eververse armor next season is going to be moved to ritual armor, a dedicated team is going to bring free PvP map packs.
I’d honestly forgotten about participating in this community until I read through DTG’s comments on Reddit and saw all the unconstructive complaints and criticism. If you go read through, it’s patently obvious how the community has cultivated extremely toxic people.
And I remembered, this Lemmy Community exists. It doesn’t have to be at toxic. There’s an opportunity to make it a far more chill place to discuss Destiny and share constructive criticism.
While the one reddit video showing a bunch of YouTubers’ tweets on it was a little funny it also showed how many people might actually play too much.
I’ve definitely been in the position before where I played a game way too much and when it was going through a rough patch I became incredibly toxic and hateful about it. What helped me get past it was recognizing that the devs were people and they legitimately cared about the game – and realizing I could just play other games. I think the last part is lost on a lot of DTG players.
Couldn’t watch it all yet but honestly it feels they finally got a wake up call. Shame it is quite late, but better late than never I guess. I’d love nothing more than to have a reason to get back.
Honestly, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the D2 community so united in being upset than this. It obviously meant something though. Never seen a response quite like this.
I’ve been actively avoiding Reddit and Twitter so I’ve missed out on a lot of the drama, but I think the last time I saw the community this worked up was back during season 10 (Worthy). No clue if you were playing back then, but it was the beginning of the pandemic so people had way more time than normal on their hands, and the season was pretty bare bones (lost sectors, a public event, and a couple missions on the PvE side). I remember r/DTG being a hot mess, especially since the FOMO had been dialed way up with the seasonal model (everything in a season went away as soon as the next season started).
I do think that yes Bungie has been burned by the community in regards to how open they are with players. But they flip side is they need to have the communication on issues eg: the Sotg. Hopefully they keep this candid nature from Joe in the future where he can again highlight issues and gives ways to fix it
I’ve seen tons of people (rightly) point out that playlist armors rarely get used. But that’s not the point. The whole point is the blatant lie. If they knew it wasn’t worth it then they shouldn’t have committed to delivering an armor set each year.
I agree they should’ve at least communicated it well in advance. I think it would’ve gone better if they said it before Lightfall dropped and explained how it was too infrequently used to be worth it.
Honestly though we need a bit of an armor rework. There’s no reason to keep other armor pieces once you’ve gotten a good roll in a slot. After that it’s completely cosmetic. The only exceptions really are Iron Banner for reputation and raid armors for their corresponding raid mods.
