Please stop listening to streamers and do more things like this to connect to your community. Maybe read your subreddit and understand why the top posts are all about how the game is dying. You guys made horrible decisions at the beginning of season 2 and deleted the casual player from the equation. You had unemployed players “exploiting” your looting system. Then after you guys were made aware it was already too late, but continued by nerfing our cradle system progression AFTER the unemployed maxxed it out so it doesn’t effect them. Casuals love the first day of the game and hate it once they realize there are 3 guns to use to win fights. D-54, Bully, and Mizzy, then since you kicked every casual player in the ankles from poor decision making most people quit and I can’t even get my friends to retry it because it was such a bad experience.
To be clear I was a sweat and played with sweaty friends, but once that is boring there is no content. I understand the game is new and you guys have great plans for the game. I do not expect an overnight success nor do i expect the game to be perfect, but you guys have bugs in the game that are so quirky and so infuriating that it makes players never come back. The ladders are a perfect example. They have been issue since DAY 1 and they have not been mentioned or fixed. If you drop down from a ladder you will teleport to the top because of desync. I have never had so many issues in a game regarding ledges they grab or they dont grab it’s a gamble.
We NEED these things.
Shoot ranges - we can not live test hard to earn weapons without risking them, so we can not even gain reps in how a weapon is properly controlled.
PvE versions of every map - we can not learn maps when the only people who play your game is unemployed no lifers hunting you when you dont even know where a hallway leads. Not only that we can only learn movement patterns and how to traverse by putting ourselves through torture.
Story Driven Questing - all of your quests give each faction a personality not a story. It was fresh in season 1 and boring in season 2.
More events like C.A.R.R.I.E - giving dedicated players ways to farm gear and ammo from barters and completing eventing events that might give a title or something exclusive. Make them hard and make them unique.
All this being said I really love bungie I support you guys on this project and I think the gunplay and game is so clean and beautiful. You guys just need to stop expanding when there are clear issues that need to be fixed. People are mentioning on every post you guys make of what the issues are and instead of creating a plan to FIX the issue you guys create new issues and add more systems to accommodate those issues instead of resolving them. These are bandaids and bandaids are bad business practice on a AAA game developer.
Im not upset, I am disappointed.
@MarathonDevTeam you guys are listening to streamers who play the game 12 hours a day and none of the actual player base that is casual and has fulltime jobs. The progress felt amazing this season as someone who has a fulltime job. Everytime you guys nerf loot I am set weeks behind no lifer’s.
@mikelawrence941@TheSCIF Mr. Common “Sence” not Sense, google how rain is made. When a dust particle floats into the sky and gathers moisture it gets heavy and falls. When you get bombed you get rain.