My mother raised me correctly, so I've been smacking that like button on your channel for several years now! Seeing you react to one of my videos was super cool, and also kinda surreal. Thanks for checking it out on your stream, and I'm glad you liked it!
You hit the nail on the head with this video. Teaching HS Health, we covered videogame addiction and the first note was how devs utilize tactical reward systems akin to gambling. I uninstalled D2 with the release of Lightfall and have been able to enjoy games I've been neglecting.....Bungie is the closest to Ready Player One that any dev team has ever come. Great video, Renn and thanks for increasing its coverage, Cross! 👍🏾
you absolutely hit the nail on the head with this video man. ive never been able to explain the feeling from this game, but you just did it so perfectly for everyone. you earned a sub from me my friend
I started playing D1 a few weeks after The Dark Below dropped. The reason I still play today is because I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since. I’ve never experienced anything like that before in any other game.
Here here. I keep chasing after what I found and experienced in Destiny 1. Season of opulence is the only time I found what I was chancing for and that’s when I I got addicted again and I have been chasing for that ever since. I feel the reason I still play today and am still addicted is because I know destiny 2 can provide what I’m looking for unlike before i simply couldn’t find it.
Small anecdote. I went to high school with Renn, here in Nevada. He featured our city multiple times. The DUI counseling is on Wells Ave. (Don't ask me how I know). Renn and I were in very near grades. I did not recall this man until seeing his face just now. I'm gonna be honest, my memories of Renn are only filled with kids picking on him due to his solitude and he rarely spoke. (Also because he looked exactly the same here as he did when we were 15, a 30 year old man.) As a shy person as well, I only spoke with him a handful of occasions. And I'd have to say I'm really impressed, with both Renn and how small this world really is.
I was addicted to D2 but once I realized how 1. I wasn't having fun chasing items, 2. Once I got those items I just vaulted them shortly after, only to chase the next item. and 3. how much money you have to spend to experience the game, I just quit. I realized why I originally played video games, and that's to have fun. D2 is just made to keep you playing, not to be fun
The addictive qualities of this game have been well documented back to Destiny 1 days. Some redditors on the Subreddit did a deep dive on it a little while after D1 came out. I forget the specifics, but I believe Bungie consulted specialists in the field of addiction and gambling to help formulate their reward strategy.
They literally said this in the video. One of the guys who did the first study on addiction mechanics in video game was hired by bungie only a few years later
I started in early season 16 and I definitely see his point. I even started at veteran rank when the Guardian ranks released and didn't really feel like I earned it. That being said tho, I did do a lot of research about the parts of the story I couldn't play and everything that happened before Witchqueen
I read something seriously depressing today - The Last of Us multiplayer was put on hold after Bungie came in to Sony's fold and criticised Naughty Dog's live service model for their multiplayer game. All I took from that was "Not enough cynical casino-style exploitation".
I’ve broken the bad relationship with Destiny but I can’t say it was by choice. Life went on and I grew up, and a lot of my friends stopped playing. I’ve still been able to keep up with the game and have fun, but not grind out every activity or get the items I want because of that. But, it’s a choice I’ve finally been ok with after a long time and it’s definitely been a better experience for me 🤣
Zero excitement for any engram since I have everything I want besides another roll of the Heliocentric Sidearm. I've had 6 exotics this week. I've had 1 new sidearm (since the it entered the world drop pool)
Man that RuneScape comparison hit me, i felt like shit when i lost my bandos an torso kit from shitty friends. But i still had 99 mining! Lol. RuneScape definitely kept me playing more then destiny has especially now coming from an original d1 player back in 2016 i stopped. And now ive played for 3 months of destiny 2 an I'm constantly trying to find a replacement.. P. S this is literally the only comment I've ever made on a RU-vid video.
I never really thought about how addicting Destiny really is, despite the times where the game was in tough times. I started playing Destiny in 2014 as a 5th grader. At the time I’m writing this, I’m now a 2nd year college student and still play consistently. I do play other games too, but I have not found a game that gets me hooked back on so easily as Destiny does.
I don't have friends that enjoy the Destiny grind and will ask me why I still play. Show me a game that delivers an experience comparable or better than destiny, and I'll be the first one there. Warframe was close but wasn't really quite there for me. Sometimes the game goes stale. But then just try playing a different class with a different exotic and the game will feel new again. Idk if I'll stop enjoying doing GMs and carrying people who think it's impossible
@@ResidentRecon89 it should be cuz if i recall correctly, while they were partnered with activision at the time, activision had patented the work the psychologist did. part of the reason why loot boxes were so addicting, too in older cod titles. I feel like having this knowledge for me made it easier to break away from bungie's abusive relationshit lol.
I'm addicted to destiny but I'm constantly having fun with it. Ever since my friends first got me into it years ago I've loved the gameplay. Not the loops or the story necessarily, but my god is this game fun to actually play in. The movment, the skills, the shooting, the combat. I could genuinely just run around patrol zones for hours just because it's fun for me.
@@brunoutechkaheeros1182 If you're watching this video, I'm assuming you play the game as well. If you don't have fun with it, why play it? To keep up with the meta? For what if you don't even like it? You're playing yourself. 😂
Been playing since the beginning of D1 and I feel the exact same, If the story and season are good that's a bonus. I just like playing and shooting stuff, Im a simple guy.
Absolutely. It stole like 5 years of my life and made me super unhealthy so who knows how many years it knocked off. So crazy to see that one of the creators legit knew these things and was like eh... Implement it!
The addiction is finally waning for me. I'm at a point in my life where I need to make hard choices on what and how I spend my time. I'm going to see the Light and Dark saga through, and then I'll be ready to set the game aside for good
The problem isn't exotics themselves but how Bungie handles them. It doesn't matter if they introduce different types of tiers of weapons if all they're gonna do is reign them in every single time. Exotics don't feel exotic because Bungie doesn't let them be anymore because you'd then be able to break the gambling loop they've created.
@@Kratos176 They could easily just ban certain exotics from PVP as the sandbox is technically separated based off what they have said before as they have been able to mitigate certain weapon issues. But it could all be a lie.
Exotics engrams don’t feel special anymore cuz most players have all world drop exotics unlocked. Once you obtain a weapon, it’s yours forever. You’ll never lose it. You can pull it from collections. As for armor exotics, most players also have great rolls that make multiples a waste of space. It’s not that they’re not special anymore, it’s that the majority of players have all exotics and multiples are just a waste
@@thatoneguy2136 I don't really agree with that there were tons of exotics that everyone had in D1 that still felt exotic. Problem is there's more ways to break the game in D2 and so Bungie tries to reign shit in more. Though you're technically not wrong, its really the fact that maybe only one exotic is worth it per character and none of the others come close unless its super niche.
I kind of agree. I'm more of a PvP guy and nothing hits better than the gunplay (although the ability-spamming has been getting worse and worse). I look forward to every Friday and getting to play some Trials with the boys! It's what get's me through the week sometimes.
Trials is boring. I never understood why or how people enjoyed trials. Not judging, can you explain to me the attraction of trials vs other fps? I honestly just want to know. I always seen Destiny PvP as an amplified Advanced Warfare. You literally just had to play the magic to win. Whoever is best at manipulating the magic wins. Weapons aren’t scaled fairly. So when people say gunplay, it’s just impossible to be true.
@@espectrodelayautja6320 i somewhat enjoy trials myself due to fact i’ve been going flawless more often then usual in solo queue and i find it exhilarating. The reason why is bc i never know if i will actually go flawless or not and when i do its the best feeling bc that means i won 7 game in a row (obv with double mercy) but still i consider that a huge feat and also at least imo the games are interesting. whenever the game is tied 4-4 and u have an all out brawl between both teams inside a bubble and opposing well just punching like crazy to get control of the zone.
I stood there thinking. I had a hand cannon, a sniper, and a Gjallarhorn. It had been almost 9 years of the same weapons, and nearly the same bosses. The same cadence of friends falling off to find more, names changed, but faces didn’t. I had finally beaten destiny
I’ve been hooked since D1 Beta. Destiny 1 and 2 are the games that pulled me away from COD and Borderlands. I still love Borderlands 1 and 2 though. I still play them sometimes. The Halo’s and God of War games have had me hooked also. Especially the newer God of Wars with New Game plus. Also been getting hooked on Cyberpunk after the newest update. That game is really good now.
I think the main problem for a lot of people is they fell off the curve and are left in an eternal struggle to catch up to those that didnt and that becomes their focus instead of enjoying the content as it comes
Yeah this, making destiny a live service game was the worst decision bungo made. Its a vicious cycle of repetitive content farms and playing catch up, and the fact that once you miss it, you miss it is extremely discouraging especially for new players
I've taken breaks multiple times, and once was many months, and during those months, if I even thought about Destiny, I would have a visceral shudder in my body. I don't think I've ever gotten back to the level of addiction I had before that break because I can still remember how it felt to think about it... the dread... Destiny 2 asks too much from a player and yeah, it's not worth it. So now I play to get the lore and raid with friends and that's about it
Yeah, I've taken breaks many times but at this point, I feel like I don't really want to play the game at all anymore. Any interest I have in the story of the game can be fulfilled by watching it on youtube to an extent.
600 people admitted they have an addiction and 400 couldnt admit theirs lol. But he articulated it perfectly when he said i would most of the time log off feeling unsatisfied and craving more.
Love Renn man, I'm just glad there are so many good games that came out this year. I can't imagine only playing Destiny 2, just like hopping back on the game week to week (sometimes skip a few weeks) and do the Raid with clanmates & catch up on the seasonal story.
Destiny 2 was very addicting for me when i started playing, but after awhile I realized they can't keep my attention solely based off "do this raid and hope you get the exotic" They really expect their game to have infinite playability based off dangling a gun infront of you while having the audacity to say "its not about the exotic its about playing hard content". that stuff just doesnt work anymore when you have nothing to show for it. regular exotic engrams felt nice when you were new but now i just farm Vex strikes for whatever exotic i dont have yet.
Yeah, I burned out from the game last year trying to craft every single weapon with all the enhanced perks "just in case". Then the new xpac from WoW released and I realized how good it felt to just play a few dungeons and the raid every week without literally marrying the game and ended up quitting Destiny. I came back recently, but now I just don't give a shit if I min max everything like I used to. Just enjoy the game play (that is excellent tbf) and close it when you don't feel like shooting around anymore.
That's what happens when there is no end point to the grind. You're never quite working towards an ultimate goal. Everything is just some sort of farm.
But they don't expect it to have infinite replayability. I feel like people have the misconception that you're MEANT to play Destiny forever. Do not do that. You will get burned out. Play what you like and when you're not having fun, take a break. Even during dry spells like back in S15, Bungie recommends playing other games. Just cuz there's something to do, doesn't mean you have to do it.
@@CL-vw5bbthey say this and keep punishing the players for not playing Destiny with all the FOMO and grind. Sure, it's healthy to just stop and play another game, I did it, but I did simply because I dont care anymore about the game. If I cared, the punishment they give would affect me
@@dostrendmurdoc2775 How are they "punishing" you? Lmao. The only things that come and go are the seasons and Eververse stock, and that's how it works in every live service game. I take breaks and I'm fine, I play a few hours each week but can still raid and do whatever endgame content I want to. You guys vastly overestimate the importance of video games, grow up and get a real addiction like crack or something
I started playing last September, became hooked almost instantly. I've got 1165 hours in the game, watched all of Byf's videos to learn everything I could about the lore, etc. But over the past few months my addiction has been fading rapidly. Lightfall really bummed me out, and despite the story improvements from Season of the Deep and Season of the Witch, I'm finding it really hard to stay interested in the game. The seasonal activities are an absolute slog, chasing god rolls feels pointless because I already have really solid builds for all my characters, and I have no desire to go after new seasonal weapons because most of them are mediocre at best. For months I used to play the game every single day and hardly touched anything else, but now I play the game maybe twice a week. I'm probably gonna quit after The Final Shape.
I'm basically in the same boat as you I've sunk waaaay too many hours into d2 to just drop it and not look back I have most of the weapons in the game and have pretty good guns for pvp and pve the only thing I really do now is play the seasonal content for the story level some crafted weapons and raid for weapons and do private PvP matches with friends I'm probably gonna quit after final shape it depends on what they do.
Im the same lol started in beyond light and Im pushing 2000 hours but now with there being no light level grind, theres much less incentive for me to log in. I have soooo many rolls, every exotic, lots of builds, etc etc Ill just hop in for seasonal stuff, raids, and trials. Starfield and the First Descendant beta kind of broke the cycle for me a bit cuz I was grinding destiny for 2 weeks straight in anticipation of those 2 games and then I didnt touch it for 2 weeks after that lol now Im actually jumping into other games Ive been wanting to play for a long while
That guys video was really on point. I know for me, Destiny 2 was definitely a unhealthy addiction and it was an excuse for me to avoid the real life issues I had going on. I would play all day after work and after every play session I always had this feeling of "what am I doing with my life?". I have been off of the game for a few months now and feel better about where my life is going and addressing the important priorities in my life instead of constantly pushing them off day after day to play Destiny.
I think I'm managing it mostly well. I can go without playing it for a while, bit I just REALLY enjoy playing this game. To the point that I think could be called an addiction.
I think I used to be addicted to destiny, but after some time I realized a lot of the things that Renns brought up in his video, like the whole casino thing. It's not just in Destiny, it's in most looter shooters; that idea of "spinning the wheel" to try and get that perfect godroll, that one perk you're missing on a gun, that one item, that one armor piece. There's just always gonna be that one thing you're missing, and no matter how much time you spend to get it, they're just gonna replace it next season with something shinier and newer, so I thought to myself, "wtf is the point." I still log in to destiny from time to time to check out what's new and I probably still for the forseeable future, but I refuse to let it or any other game designed to make me forget about my life control me anymore.
The part about waiting a few weeks is 100% true. The times i've had to take a break I've completely lost interest in it after say 1-2 weeks without playing. Then takes months to go back.
11:00 That literally happened exactly as described to me, last night. Destiny's movement is SO smooth, geometry, gunplay, even my old strand build I still had equipped, it just destroys shit. Amazing feeling.
On the topic of drops and exotics feeling exiting, on Forsaken they had it. I was playing like a mad man to get the OEM an Ursa drops, and when i finally did, i jumped. It felt like a drop in early D1, where you had something trully special. I dont know how put it into words,but if you kniw, you know. Exotics NEED to be hard to get, NEED to be a ultra rare drop, because this way, they FEEL exotic, like Ghally once did. (im not saying to make them overpowered, but like Aztecross said in the other video, make them unique by doing something you cant get other way in the game)
I am in the midst of a big switch in the games I play. It is intentional. It is hard. Going from Destiny 2 to Stardew Valley is such a shift that I am forcing upon myself. Glad to see the fact that AAA gaming studios hire behavioral scientists to be getting more well known. If anyone needs help - come play some Stardew with me! She never disappoints or makes false promises!
I haven’t played the game in months. But it was hard not to pick it back up the first week or so. It was honestly like an addiction. I wanted to level up, felt like I’m missing out or doing something wrong by not playing. I’m free from the game but it was hard.
I think I've felt trapped in Destiny for a couple years now, honestly. Breaking away to take a break and play other games in recent months has felt amazing, because I'm finding that other games give me the satisfaction and happiness that destiny hasn't for a while. We'll see when/if I come back.
Welcome to the outside, this is my second time on this side of the fence but I feel my self getting dragged back in. I’m starting to wish I never returned to destiny in 2019
I come back to Destiny usually at the start of a new season. If there’s a new raid out like Crota, then I’m locked in to playing the game. But as soon as I’ve run the raid a few times, that satisfaction I was chasing is completely gone. And that feeling fizzles out faster every return. Being a longtime player means I have great guns and most of the raid exotics, and there’s not enough for me to come back and chase the whole season. I think live services have overstayed their welcome, and for a lot of gamers like me, we’re just not buying in anymore. It’s one of the main reasons I couldn’t buy Diablo IV when friends asked me, because I knew it would be the same. I’m glad there are so many good games like Baldur’s Gate, Hades, RE4, Street Fighter 6, etc. coming out this year. It feels like games are becoming fun again, and those games continue to highlight the flaws live services contain in their system.
People rly exagerate with destiny. YOU CAN PLAY IT NORMALLY. JESUS! I barely play it and can recognize both it's negatives and it's positives. D2 is a good game, people just get addicted to it and instead of blaming themselves for spending so much time on a videogame, they blame the game. It's like blaming a slot machine for your gambling addiction. Or a cigar for your smoking addiction. You can play the game without being addicted, that's how you should play it.
@@bienben64 Yes. A downside of the game. Too expensive and recycled content. Totally agree. Good to see someone who doesn't blindly scream at the game for no reason.
Fantastic video, personally I am not addicted to Destiny if I have something I wanna play. And sometimes I just don’t feel like playing, but I do get on every week to do the story because I am invested into the characters and world. Lotta good points and some I don’t necessarily agree with, but overall a very useful video to show to some players who just need to get off and away from Destiny.
I essentially made this point in the comments of the OG video and got lots of replies saying that I'm lying and that I'm actually addicted lmao. Like damn, it's possible to just play something when you want to play it and not be addicted.
Yeah I just sort of quit playing when I stopped having fun. There's no point in coming back all the time to grind that god roll or that exotic or whatever, if you're not going to enjoy any of it. At some point, watching a number go up isn't enough to keep me involved. I don't really get how people can get to the point of playing constantly when they're not even having fun. Just do something else, eventually you won't even miss it. I quit playing after finishing the Witch Queen campaign and every time I think about coming back, I remember all the things that made me leave in the first place (and the fact that most of those things have gotten even worse since then doesn't help.) I've never gotten to a point with any game where I feel "addicted," even with some of the most infamous "addicting" games out there. If I feel dread every time I log on, I just... stop logging on. Don't let the sunk cost reel you back in.
I used to be hardcore addicted. Season of Arrivals was were i learned i could step away for awhile, come back, and not miss much. Ever since then i have done my weekly checklist of activities then go play other stuff. Bungie making the story a weekly drip has helped with me not feeling bad for going and playing other stuff.
Awesome video. To the point of not being able to tell the difference between a newer player and vet, that’s when I look at the player’s build. When I see a player running a specific setup, weapons, mods, etc. and I know it’s a good build, I usually say “this guy knows his shit.”
Watching the look on Ross' face slowly go from being "this is a meme vid" to holy shizz this is serious and most likely predatory was worth pushing the play button. I've known about this aspect of destiny's game play for quite a while now. There is an episode of the Netflix series -Explained- that covers the mechanism of Gambling addiction. Destiny is a big, glorified hamster wheel, the reason I'm a PvP main and not a very good one at that.
When I am kinda young, my kind of game is that of competitive-ish FPS like: -Counter Strike -PUBG/Apex Legend -DotA 2 etc. to name a few But now as he said Destiny 2 is my retirement home, I am close to 40 now, I had a kid. With destiny, I can chill and mindlessly kill stuff go on and off whenever i pleased. in the vanguard, have fun with the story, seasonal stuff, and fool around inside PVP without getting too overly competitive or like kind of HAVE to win it or i get stressed out.
Mod system needs to be experimented with a lot more. Everything got stale so fast when lightfall dropped, the difference between most people's PVE builds is if you generate orbs on melee or grenade kill. I could play around for ages with pre-lightfall mod system, incorporating wells into teamplay, ability gen, etc. I understand that dumbing down the mod system is helpful for new players and making the game less intimidating, and we might be stronger than we've ever been in current sandbox, but god mods are so underwhelming right now. Would appreciate some more buildcrafting options, it's all been shifted onto the subclass and picking an exotic.
It's shits and giggles until some Titan slaps on Sythoceps and Dune Marchers/Antaeus', Warlocks with Ophidians and Transversives/Stag, or Hunters with Stompees and Knucklehead/Bakris
Destiny 2 player progression is a beautiful thing. When you enter the game, you have a sense of excitement and exploration. Then soon you become committed. But eventually you realize that not only are you committed, but you are not satisfied after you're done, leading to FOMO and addiction. Finally, years down the road, you find that dream clan where you have met great friends to play with after work/school. You complete all content and love to do so. And that and only that is when you realize that you're not addicted because you are missing so much, you are addicted because it's your social lifestyle. It becomes fun. That is where I am now, 4 years later. I'm ok if I skip a week and play Minecraft with my clanmates, because the content will always be there. That is unless there is a rotator or event or Iron Banner or something. But you get what I mean. I'm addicted to Destiny 2 not because I need more, but because I have fun with friends that I love. :)
Imagine if guardian ranks added up after every season. So if you’re 11 2 seasons in a row, it shows 22. And so on. And then make a leaderboard to display that and maybe locks some shaders or emblems behind it to add some value to your time
This is why Bungie said that they don't want to "OVER DELIVER" I'm so glad I've let it go like a bad ex. I can miss a whole expansion and not care. There's just not that many games that feel like D2. But, there are many games. And I learned that the hard way.
Definitely not addicted. Barely touch this game anymore. And Bungie is the reason, not the game itself. Bungie said "if we overdeliver, we fail" but the reality is, Bungie underdelivering, is a bigger fail. They've not only made me hate the game I've loved for nearly 10 years, but they also have made me hate themselves. I refuse to buy Marathon, or any other title under their development. And I'm ending Destiny 2 with Final Shape. I'm already this close to the end of this saga, I'm just going to finish it, and say goodbye. I'm not starting the next chapter of Destiny 2. I'm not touching a Bungie product again. And I'm not getting treated as a fool for wanting to enjoy my passion of gaming by a developer, again.
I was formerly an addict to D2. but with changing circumstances in my life I had to cut back, do some soul searching. I tried some other games. I played Vermintide 2, and a little of Deep Rock Galactic. They had very similar grindy lootbox and season pass systems. I looked at how much there was I 'needed' to unlock and I got disheartened. Watching this video helped me realise a couple things. When I quit Destiny to go play the Mass Effect Trilogy, I noticed a LOT of similarities between the two, but, at the end of a few missions in ME, I felt satisfied that I could call it a day. same with the story, even though ME3's endings were... controversial, i still felt satisfied. like "Yeah. that was a good game." Destiny (2) never really did that for me. I am much happier not playing it anymore. I still keep up with the lore via Vaati etc. still watch the occasional funny kill clips/videos. Overall, I'm a happily retired D2 player.
I've personally been having a good time playing anything not by Bungo. Y'know, good games. Getting caught up in Genshin Impact again for a good story, enjoying Lost in Random alongside Horizon Forbidden West, on the way to Spidey 2, while still awaiting Elden Ring's expansion. Good times in gaming. I have been hopping on D2 once in a while to help out friends, though, which pissed off my roommate and he wants to kick me out, now.
So THATS why it was addicting, Bungie literally hired a specialist in that regard 😳 Me while EA and Ubisoft have failed at that front lmao Ubisoft if you want Division 3 to be addicting, hire a specialist or something or it’ll be the same shit again :v The First Ascendant and Borderlands were addicting so those companies get it. But I lost so many hours in games like Elden Ring or now Baldurs Gate 3. Don’t have much hours in D2 compared to D1 really which is good, there’s other games to play out there, explore them
Thank you for all your content. For $100 a year, destiny is decent entertainment…and if you have friends to play with it is a plus. I try not to overthink it. Sometimes I just put Sintica up on twitch and relax.
And now you know why Saint 14 feeds PIGEONS!!!! I quit a while back due to the politics Bungie supports.... but yea I knew they were using addictive tactics in the game for years... go touch grass fellas!
My inventory is not completely filled with exotics, and I've lost interest in them. My reaction is less "I GOT GJALLARHORN!!!" And is more "Nice... Anyways..."
Its funny how people are still trying to label gaming as an addiction. Its not your just playing hours and hours and hours to grind on a game you enjoy. And honestly destiny doesn't take that much to reach max level. Its the raiding and going for perfect god rolls on guns thats the grind. Right now the game is in a state where its going to be the same thing for a while for a couple of years until a new raid or dungeon comes out, thats pretty much the only real change. Thats when i come back to destiny 2 is for new raids. I even take breaks from destiny 2 and still catch up. I can even grind out an entire season and stop. Dont think its an addiction, addiction is just an excuse for peoples bad habbits.
Astecross, you're making a video right now about the research done on Destiny 2 being so addictive and then at 9 minutes you say hey I have an idea we need to make a new kind of item that's even more rare. Wouldn't that just add more to the addiction high of getting that rare rare item I mean now that I watch your video I knew all along deep down inside that I was addicted to Destiny but now this is just nuts. I really need to quit cuz I'm losing sleep.
D2 needs to be more like Borderlands. Said it in 2014, saying it now. Side note, I love that guy was talking about giving up D2 while playing the infinitely better FFXIV.
Small anecdote. I went to high school with Renn, here in Nevada. He featured our city multiple times. The DUI counseling is on Wells Ave. (Don't ask me how I know). Renn and I were in very near grades. I did not recall this man until seeing his face just now. I'm gonna be honest, my memories of Renn are only filled with kids picking on him due to his solitude and he rarely spoke. (Also because he looked exactly the same here as he did when we were 15, a 30 year old man.) As a shy person as well, I only spoke with him a handful of occasions. And I'd have to say I'm really impressed, with both Renn and how small this world really is!
I lost jobs and relationships over Destiny. My addiction was really bad at some point. Baldur's Gate has let me out and when Final Shape comes out, I'm leaving Destiny behind forever. Forever. I'll watch the show or movie or whatever, but that's it. Destiny will never be what I want it to be. Never.
I have not played D2 since March 2nd, I have a strong will, although I am not saying I will never play it again but for now, I'm good, I watch Aztec every day because he's awesome!!!
Video games are supposed to be my escape, not another trap. I wish games would get back to pure satisfaction and not addiction. It makes the developers seem so sinister, straight evil since they're purposely trying to addict us. Addiction ends lives. It shatters them. Why would anyone purposely try to get millions of people addicted? It's crazy to me.
It is annoying as hell my trails gear that i earned felt special, i grinded for it and it was hard to get not everyone had the trails set when it came out in d2, people looked up on you because of the gear that state was perfect, you had to be there to earn it, now you can get everything back even the seasonal pass rewards from season of the worthy. Everytime i play destiny and see a event i am like ah i will get it later i dont feel like anything is going to be exclusive and i don’t care anymore, i know that you will probably pick it up later and that you don’t even have to earn it, as in trails iron banner i hate that system either you had to be there or don’t that was the unique feeling when someone asked you how it was to get that set of gear or weapon, but now a days bungie killed the urge so bad. My gear don’t feel special now everyone has it and there no exclusiveness in this game, they did such a bad job with it not everything should be re-available as specially for trails. It’s my strong opinion
Back then, I would be proud of the hours I have in destiny, today I am embaressed. I hate that I haven't played Destiny for a week and I get urges to play. I love that the last times I played I did one thing then logged off. I wanted to be a destiny streamer but the game and its players gave me so much anxiety and abuse I never even started anything. Ever since i stopped playing and played other things, i actually started getting the streaming stuff all set up and together. I haven't had to deal with overwhelming anxiety. I'm actually setting up something i want to do and i'm not scared to do it because im not dealing with Destiny 2 players anymore or the game anymore. The only times i get excited over destiny 2 is when there's a cutscene, that I dont even get to see because of other players being able to quit the cutscene for me. So its not like destiny 2 was making me happy anymore. I stopped playing cause it legit felt like i was punished for playing. All i can say is that i cannot WAIT for the first descendant to finally come out. I hope i can put my gaming time into a game that actively made me happy and want to play.
I get the opposite feeling ive been playing since D1 alpha/beta and i stopped once D4 came out and went back like a week ago and realized in seconds y i stopped playing the game. The loot sucks the "builds" r all the same on every character and there is nothing to do at all and none of the "fun" activities u need groups for and they dont have matchmaking... Does destiny suck no but its not a good game either. Its just meh. Theres no loot thats worth getting and all the coolish stuff is locked behind raids sadly with no matchmaking.
I've managed to get off the horse. I now play in 2 ways: Logging in for a couple hours on a tuesday to get the weekly story beats and check the bright dust store, then for the final week of the season to close everything out. Have gone from a couple of hours every day, to now a couple hours a week, and it feels so much better. I don't miss out on anything in the game, and I can enjoy other games as a result. Just drop the game, you'll feel better for it.
Destiny didn't ruin Destiny for me.... Playing Mass Effect for the first time last year ruined all modern games for me. I felt like I had a purpose in the gameplay in Mass Effect. Nothing in this day and age made me feel that way.
The GDC talk everybody was pissed about happened a month after Witch Queen came out when everybody was happy with the game. We all noticed it at the worst possible time we could have noticed it.
Back when you could also get green and blue engrams dropping, seeing that yellow one pop was extra special. Now when its just all purple and sometimes a yellow and because I have almost all exotics unlocked already the real surprise/OMG factor has diminished a lot
The Problem with Exotics is, they are not really random anymore. Most if not all Exotics drop from e very specific activity or even quest. like Legend lost sectors, you go in there with the expectation of getting an exotic, and after only a couple runs you´ll get something. New expansions ad way to little axotics that just drop randomly ... you get them via a quest or lost sectors. And now the Vex encursion allows you to stock up your missed exotics too, i got all but 1 Exotic that i was missing on my main from Vex incoursions instead of playing the aktivity i needed to. and the Vex Incursion drops an exotic everytime ... Wehn a new expansion ads like 5 Exotics we get 1or2 from the campaign and the rest from Legend lost sectors and maybe even 1 for preordering ... how should an exotic drop from a random mob, that cant even give you something new, feel exciting if at most its a better roll of something you allready have? We need like 10 Exotics for the Final shape and we get 1 weapon from preorder and 1 weapon from the story mission maybe and the rest should be fucking random drops and legend lost sectors have just a higher chance of droping something. right now you get the new exotics so quickly that random exotic drops are worth nothing. (Except for better rolls of curse)
19:36 This is what titles used to be for me. When you saw someones name with a purple triumph title? Yea, they had som eserious time. Now, they hand out titles like candy and theyve completely lost any and all meaning.
I uninstalled the game long time ago and never came back. This game is very bad addiction. When game launched, it helped me get over depression and unaliving thoughts but now its giving me depression and boredom.
