Now that the game is officially on its deathbed, what are your thoughts?

[All_Nonsense]

The iron bell is tolling as the cash shop is inundated with mid-tier or old outfits for $40 to make up for cratered subscriber population, loot drops for new content is just old loot from past expansion content, and mogpendium content isn't popping at all despite the "incentive" of getting yet another earring you're never going to wear.

Hardcore raiders have been shafted with the cancellation of Ultimate and no new raid content until January. Mid-core players have been shafted with the "Chaotic" raid that body-checks (SE doesn't know how to make content "hard" aside from punishing a lack of perfection), and now with the Field Operation raid that body checks with 48 players (they forgot what made Baldesion Arsenal and Bozja good). They're re-releasing Palace of the Dead for the 4th time, and Variant/Criterion dungeons - which they promised more of, are nowhere to be found. Everyone already knows the new Blu content is going to be "beat Pandemonium raids lol" and only 500 people will ever do it. The Beast Master content is going to be a bad copy-paste of Blu since that's what everything else in the game is.

The devs got mad at us during the last live letter for not playing the content they made and said "sorry you didn't like it" instead of apologizing for letting 60 year old developers continue to make content that would have been popular in 1999; ignoring a quarter century of QoL improvements and content preference changes that have occurred in the gaming industry since they made their last generational hit (it was Dragon Quest 3 or something like that).

SE has extended the dev cycle by a month each patch to deliver us the least content we've gotten in over half a decade for the same price we were promised so much more. Even the story - the main selling point of the game for years, is bad now.

The next dungeon will go like this: Pull 2 packs down a hallway, kill, pull 2 more packs, kill, go to boss, repeat 3 times. The new trial will be in/out, left/right but with different graphics and some no-name boss saying voice lines over the top of it. The Alliance raid will nostalgia bait the 22 people who played FF11 and still play FF14 with the following format: Add pack, boss, sub-boss, boss, sub-boss, boss, boss. There will be a cutscene partway through the last boss fight - that's what makes it special.

Knowing what comes next and seeing everyone leave the game, what are your thoughts? I try to bring an unbiased perspective so we can enjoy everyone's opinions


Predictions for replies:

"Just unsub"
"Wuk Lamat..."
"Actually you're wrong because"
"I took the obvious bait. Here is the dissertation I ran through ChatGPT to make sure you're wrong and I'm right"
"I'm sad that the game is dying but I'm going to take it out on the people who complain about the drop in quality and not on the devs who are fleecing my wallet to give me slop"
"This was a reading comprehension check"

[yesnt]

You can literally scroll the whole "General Discussion" forum to read the thoughts. Everything's been said.

[Themarvin]

I think that the SE team is blatently not wanting to make this game keep on running and an insane neglect of the actual player base.

You get really bad content for majority of the player base and what little that could had been good is reserved for the 1 to 5%.

Look entirely AWAY FROM MSQ... because that content is basically a one time thing ( if you like or not is not relevant to the over all problem(s) ) anyway as it is, I am speaking about the actual content to this game and it is the 100% pf the the player base being ignored, with the Savaga/ultimate mainly people getting a few additional scraps.

And that is long story short, how long can this be kept on being ignored?!?

At current rate to keep up making content they need to give at least 2-3 times as much per patch for the next year or more to be able to catch up and make older content much more attractive or updated to level 100 content and stuff down those lines.

Yes they may have written stuff up to 10.0 or long term but that is just MSQ and not the actual content that should keep people in the game, content get more and more scarce, and you have an insane amount of empty zones in this game as well and tonnes of ancient content, that should just had been updated to be fitting for the highest level.

I am tired of hearing excuses from the Hunt... that they wont up the lvl50 hunts to lvl100 including the S ranks, tonnes of raids and more that is mostly just being ran over in Alliance Roulette, and not viable for anything else.... than that... and I do not count the punishment for having to run these things at their native ilevel and job level for Relic stuff and more as a solution.

And 100s of other things... make old areas turn into level 100 areas once you hit the max level as in instance jump.... and of course with the ability to go back to the original max level for the area to help frinds and more, but being synched to the max level of the area if the case.

And much much more.

[Gwenkatsu]

I think that's All Nonsense.

[Hallarem]

As much of a meme as this post is with truths filled in it.

Simple answer, no need for long posts.

THEY DONT CARE, AS LONG AS THE MONEY KEEPS FLOWING

[MeanDragon]

I wouldn't say "Officially", but i admit this is the first time i considered unsubbing for an extended period. Until 8.0 anyway. The one thing I was looking forward too, Occult Crescent, was a huge disappointment. Especially after the Endwalker "relics".

It has gotten stale. Everything is the same now. The normal raids are fun but that does not a full MMO make. If 7.3 doesn't do anything for me I will most like take the time off until 8.0. I am already letting my small house expire this time around so I won't have anything really anchoring me to it.

[All_Nonsense]

You can literally scroll the whole "General Discussion" forum to read the thoughts. Everything's been said.

I searched the forums for "everything" and this is all it said:

"The following errors occurred with your search: The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search:
'Everything'"

Am I doing something wrong?

[Veritas-Ancora]

I searched the forums for "everything" and this is all it said:

"The following errors occurred with your search: The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search:
'Everything'"

Am I doing something wrong?

I thought this thread was trolling, but this confirms it.

Please stop.

[yesnt]

I searched the forums for "everything" and this is all it said:

"The following errors occurred with your search: The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search:
'Everything'"

Am I doing something wrong?

You need to read my post again and use your brain.

[All_Nonsense]

I thought this thread was trolling, but this confirms it.

Please stop.

The post is simply making an observation is all. I think that's what makes it upsetting for some people. Hard to confront when something you like starts to Destiny 2 itself