Bungie Asks Why You Haven't Been Playing Destiny

Bungie is worried about the lack of players logging onto Destiny recently and have sent out emails to users to find out why.

[-Foxtrot]

How long have you got...

Wish I got this email. I would have given them an essay

[SolidStoner]

DLC and pre order stuff kills all my games! Also grinding or/and repetitive missions!!!

[thekhurg]

My response would have been because of a lack of match making for raids.

[kickerz]

Yeah I wish I got that email also. My issues would be lack of match making, bungies bad servers (should use dedicated servers), definitely lack of things to do, reward system ( people who get the least amount of kills sometimes get the best rewards) and finally Kings fall hard is like the only thing to do now if like me, your chasing 310+ gear. So that's it for me, I've given up, after spending lots of money on the game and all its expansions. Destiny 2 better be a hell of a lot better.

[breakpad]

@ Foxtrot nailed it...or just say its another damn boring futuristic Activision-logic FPS game

[kmeck518]

The reason for me was absolutely the lack of matchmaking for the end of game material (raids and nightfall)

[Kidmyst]

I stopped playing a couple months after it came out. I did the story and looking at the grinding needed to level up Vanguard rank and the others, I just said forget it. Too many other games coming out I'd rather play that repeat and rinse every day. I don't mind leveling up characters and stuff like in games (BF/COD), it's different there. Destiny just felt much slower progression.

[bennissimo]

And too many little kids.

[asadachi]

lol, well said

[Heyxyz]

I wouldn't need an essay. The only words I'd need are "I sold it."

[RedDevils]

I gave it back to gamestop for their 7 days return policy lol

[XanderZane]

Played for about a week and then got distracted by other better games.

[Christopher]

#l. Because I hated that the time and effort of another person was more valuable than my own. RNGesus was a horrible element when you guys decide to revert back to Yearl concepts of that while removing any option for us to roll for new gear or guest for most exotics. That guy who got lucky and rolled the weapon with the perfect stats versus me getting nothing or a weapon that was only good for destroying.

#2. You progressed the MMO concept way too fast. Usually there is one to two years time before an MMO advances and changes core concepts as it relates to game mechanics. I'm not talking about weapon/class balance issues, but economy, crafting, questing, etc. In one year Destiny made enough changes to equal that of six years in your typical MM0.

[Kribwalker]

I'm pretty pissed that the 400hrs I put in the first year mean nothing now. Everything i worked for is useless and the gave us no options to upgrade it. Also the $100 I spent on year one content is useless.

They should make the old raids harder level and give you upgraded versions of the gear.

The entire house of wolves content became worthless not even 4 months after I paid for it....

I could keep going

[DanteVFenris666]

What mmos do you play?

I'd say the complete opposite. They were trying to get people hooked like an mmo without the vast content mmos add. Wow litterally added 1000's of hours each expansion as well as large updates. Eso has basically rewritten their entire game in two years while adding upon tons of new content and features.

Well those have been my fav mmos so wont speak for others.

[Christopher]

***Wow litterally added 1000's of hours each expansion as well as large updates. Eso has basically rewritten their entire game in two years***

WoW has each expansion every other year. ESO did that in two years. Destiny did multiple major overhauls of systems to change how people do things in just one year. And, they then made old equipment obsolete after only 3 months, not after a year or two.

My comments were in relationship to their overhauling of the system to update it to encourage new players. MMOs do that, but they do it less often than Destiny while also providing a ton more content to experience.

[Aceman18]

I stopped playing before the end of October, and haven't touched the game since.

[Xb1ps4]

I stopped playing it a loooong time ago was disappointed the moment I got it and realised it basically had no story but the bit it did have was interesting... Stopped because it felt like I was just not progressing to anything, I never got a special gun, helmet.....anything. I rarely got that special coin or what ever it was to buy the special things from that guy on weekends... And just got bored of doing the same thing over and over and over.. I'm very much into a good story meaningful progression on my character. I tried to play it again a few weeks ago but it's been so long I had no idea what was going on anymore and really didn't want to buy more dlc since the I got the first dlc and was disappointed with that too.

I did enjoy the mechanics though and the game is very tight, maybe bungie should of or maybe they can still take this in a mass effect kind of direction?

[lxeasy]

Game's overrated...that's me reason. Don't like it.

[lobocob]

Literally not a reason

[lxeasy]

@lobocob the last option is "something not on this list (please explain below.)

That's my explanation for no longer playing Destiny.
Make sure you read ALL the options before trying to turn down someone else's reason.

[Parasyte]

So you're a hipster?

[Joe913]

I havnt checked my email but I hope they did email me I also got a lot to say I let a lot slide but they made it to hard to level up to the point you just quit playing.

[thorstein]

And then lied about it and said players didn't understand how to level up.

What a joke. I knew exactly how to level up, I just couldn't get the randomly dropped gear without putting in twice the amount of time I was already giving the game (250 hours).

Then they started nerfing guns that people enjoyed using... and then hid content that they had paid for behind a pay wall (DLC).

I can't believe they don't understand how they ruined their game. Why did TTK take away everything I had already invested in and cost me 79 bucks for the same experience as new adopters?

[showtimefolks]

oh i know why

you promised a better game, a more complete game yet deliver a game which wasn't all it was suppose to be. oh also you ripped people off by removing content from the game to later sell as dlc

destiny was originally suppose to be like:

halo gameplay with improvements
mass effect style universe/story telling
borderlands style loot

now the only thing that was achieved was halo gameplay with improvements

why can't destiny 2 be a story rich game with an awesome universe? you want my $60 than

make the story atleast 20-30 hours in destiny 2 or whatever the next destiny

[thorstein]

If I got the email, my reply might be simple because they wouldn't want to wade through all that I found wrong with their policies and not their game.

Here is what I would say, "Where is Jupiter?"

It was there in the original game I bought, just awaiting an expansion.

[-Foxtrot]

Here's the thing. When they do Desinty 2 the entire PR campaign before release will be "we've listened to feedback, this will be the game we wanted for Desinty, we won't let you down" blah blah blah...people will buy into it with some really well put together trailers and before you know it people will be hyping up the sequel to it's release. Starting the entire process again

What they need to do is drop Destiny 2 and just focus on Destiny with expansions.

In the mean time they need to make a single player focused RPG, sci fi game like Borderlands, Mass Effect, Halo because the focus on multiplayer and pleasing all audiences is what killed the game. Expecting us to play with our friends on the same maps over and over, grinding, creating our own replay value instead of putting work in to add more overall content.

[spwittbold]

Halo gameplay with improvements? That could not be farther amor the truth.

Destiny literally felt like it was a downgrade from Halo 1. Master Chief collection is itself, infinitely better and more enjoyable - and all of the games are between 6-10 years older than Destiny.

I bought Destiny on the first day because of the 'Hype," found it boring after about 3-5 hours and realized that the environments were incredibly dull and boring, character models and AI felt like they were copy and pasted from Halo, and the loot system is horrendous. Came back a few weeks later because some friends got it, we "forced" ourselves to play through it - finished it, never went back. "Ending" to first one was dumb as hell, story was almost non-existent.

So many better games out there that are more enjoyable with much less of a monetary investment.

[JoeMcCallister]

@Foxtrot - they've said that's not happening - they're moving on to "event based" focus which is not the most popular with fans and is a poor choice if you ask me. Hopefully that means they're moving on to actually apply those lessons to an actual fleshed out Destiny sequel but they're not doing expansions any more.

They won't just "drop" Destiny 2 - remember it's a 10 year plan. They've got to bring out another game and it has to sell millions, so they've got to apply the lessons from year 1 and 2, Taken King, and all their moves so far. If they didn't come out and say "we listened" then we'd all be here wondering anyway so they might as well head it off at the pass. I agree they've got to make a downright compelling experience, and to think they don't know they messed up with Destiny the first time around is a bit naive. The real test will be how they apply the lessons on the next go around and if the studio is allowed to have the control they need to make it solid, or if the Kotaku story for 2017 is "How Destiny 2 Failed from the inside"

[iKenny]

Amen brother...amen!

[3-4-5]

* Initially I really liked it.

But once I had to basically pay an addition $100 to keep playing it I was done...didn't take that step..stopped after first expansion.

solid game....but it's a solid $60 game, not a $160 game.

[Seraphim]

not having dedicated servers for PVP is one small yet significant reason. I personally don't play much PvP but I really enjoyed Crucible. Had there been dedicated servers I'd have played a lot more and likely still be playing some if for nothing else to play some Crucible.

Bottom line a lot of it comes down to content. We got Vanilla Destiny then milked to Oblivion on DLC and an Expansion and each time it was rinse and repeat, boredom after far few hours back. As gamers we need more to do, more to explore, more new, more to play. This kind of game needs more Raids (even updated to keep old ones relevant), strikes, new areas not retreads, EVENTS, YES EVENTS based on both PvP (Iron Banner is great but there has to be another option that can be popular as well) and not just PvP Events but PvE too. etc. etc. Might I add separating weapons/stats for PvP as well?

Destiny is a great game and it baffles everyone I know who loves it how they've not only failed so miserably but mismanaged everything. If they want to maintain gamers they really need to offer more in terms of playable areas, things to do, events. All while finding a way to keep our attention while not stripping us of all our beloved belongings just to get another 10 light levels whose relevance is only in the Heroic Raid and possibly Iron Banner to some extent.

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

"Why haven't I been playing Destiny?"

Because I don't enjoy paying for the same game 5 or 6 times.

[nosferatuzodd]

well said I'm thinking the same thing FOX
the loot system sucks your playing for a year and cant get a dam jade rabbit and some one comes in 5 minutes and got one and youre suppose to feel good about that
that game sucks

[Neonridr]

wow, very well said Fox.

How about there is nothing for me to do aside from running the same raid 3 times.

I am not a huge PvP player, so IB only moderately interests me and Trials even less.

[Frodosmugins]

I would start with

" I have not been able to play the game since the dlc as mine is a digital purchase and the download does not work or cuts out eventually" PS3*

I gave up at the end and moved on to other games

[Drithe]

When Destiny first came out there were not that many games for the PS4 so it was really the only thing in town, imo. Now there are a ton of great games to play and everyone remembers how Destiny bled them to death for 2 years with the same damn game that had absolutely NO STORY (They cant even explain who the exo female is!!) and a tremendous lack of content.

I, for one, will NOT buy Destiny 2 until ALL the content is out. If it takes 2 years, then it takes 2 years. But BUNGIE really screwed the gamers big time with this game.

Too bad really, the music, graphics, and gameplay are awesome.

[sanosukegtr123]

I like destiny but that online is required not really my thing. Like cod and gta online is optional which I like. But it's like borderlands but not as fun like borderlands.

[BEASELY]

Kids on N4G are the biggest Destiny haters on the net, and I can guaruntee that they're terrible in the Crucible almost every single time. This game is not Mass Effect, stop thinking it's supposed to be.

[-Foxtrot]

We probably are terrible since we haven't played it for so long...you know after we were bored to tears with it.

" This game is not Mass Effect, stop thinking it's supposed to be "

That's funny because the PR leading up to the games release kind of gave off that impression.

[BEASELY]

"Kind of,"

That was your impression, and you took away what you did. Do I blame you? No. But the prospect of this sprawling open world with character interaction/dialogue choices, world-effecting consequences, and heavily RPG-rooted features was never touted. This expectation was a product of insurmountable hype.

Bungie never once tried sell to Mass Effect: Halo.

[SeanScythe]

Fallout4, The Division Beta, and soon Dying Light the following.

[vacoby5]

If you're psn let me know if you're interested in co op in the following

[ZaWarudo]

I have other games to play.... I only pop on for Iron Banner now, which hasn't been fun since the last weapon balance patch.

[FPS_D3TH]

Yup. I do this and agree with the changes.

[kbozz71]

They even managed to screw the IB up this last time as well. As a matter of fact, this last Iron Banner was what finally broke my Destiny addiction and I uninstalled the game.

[RAM0N]

Becouse the grind sucks

[Hoffmann]

That headline made me laugh.

[XanderZane]

Me too. It's like, "Millions were playing and now they are not. Where did everyone go. How can we get you guys to come back?" Begging for gamers is never a good thing. They want to be WoW, but that will never happen with Destiny.

[Hoffmann]

That it got so many players in the first place was weird already.

[Jonin7Spartan]

They should just look at their Damn Forums if they want to know why people aren't playing anymore.

[Get_A_Job_Foxtrot]

Because Destiny isn't all that unique?

[BEASELY]

Name a game that's like it and I'll wait aaalll day. And don't say Division or Borderlands, I will laugh at you.

[corroios]

I play the game, but they need to update so many things...

Nightfall must give better stuff and unique weapons and armors should be there also.

Vanguard strikes that are not being used, i dont know why but many dont appear like the Archon and one on earth.

Cripthgraph and dead orbit or other should also give better stuff when you lvl up. You get stuff with 280 when you are above 300... For what?

Exotic weapons must be better then legendary and should all have arc, fire or void

A lot more new weapons and armors.

We should be able to get 320 stuff beside the raid. When you kill a ultra or something like that.

new multiplayer modes, somekind of surviver would be cool, also a new type of extermination, where your team must kill every single enemy with a time limit and so on.

Prison of elders must be updated!!!

New strikes, new planets, new missions

Well i could go on...

[rdgneoz3]

"Vanguard strikes that are not being used, i dont know why but many dont appear like the Archon and one on earth."

They updated certain strikes for the Taken King in addition to the new ones. And for some reason they thought it would be a good idea to not include the old strikes with higher level mobs, instead of leaving them for dead. Sad, because you tend to get the same ones over and over.

Overall, they need more content than just the events that they have for a couple of weeks once in a while.

[Erik7357]

I want a story and interesting characters

[Apollosupreme]

Because I'm ****ing bored with it. The game has no soul.

[Eiyuuou]

A better question is "Why would I?"

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I quit playing Destiny when Bloodborne and Borderlands came out. That was almost a year ago. Then I went back to Warframe. Plenty of other games have released in that time, and this year is somewhere between ridiculous and why don't you want me to have money. There is literally nothing to do in Destiny, which is a shame because it started out with so much promise.

[Get_A_Job_Foxtrot]

From what i hear, warframe is about on par with Destiny, even has a decent pvp mode, gets huge updates and is 100% free. So why go back to Destiny?

[reallyNow]

how IS warframe?

[Null]

I played it when it first came out and it has more content and more to do than a full-fledged $60 game called "destiny". It's a pretty fun game when you're playing a group, but I don't play it anymore because it got really grindy, bogged down with scammers, useless micro transactions and VERY repetitive after a while.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

It's probably a little tough for new players to get into, but like I said, I wouldn't be playing it for the last 3 years if I didn't enjoy it. It gets new content every single month, and if you don't mind RNG based games, there is a lot of stuff to do, especially with the new systems they've introduced in December. It's hands down one of the better free to play games available.

[reallyNow]

hmm maybe ill check it out. I've been looking for a new MMO to try and I've gotten desperate enough to go back to Conan.

[akurtz]

it was pretty great and fun but the pvp just became laggy and got worse and paying so much for the DLC killed it too

[gamer9]

Needs a lot more content, varying missions, and a story, and 4 player fireteams, and then I’m back in

[Jonin7Spartan]

PVP with atleast 16 players

[Elda]

I'm playing 6 other games,I was playing a lot but I've slowed down to playing once a week or 2 weeks.

[pompombrum]

If Bungie need to know why people are starting to leave, they're more *beeped* that I realized.

[UltraAtomic]

XD Well! Maybe, just maybe it would help! not too try to force people on buying your dlc's. XD

[2cents]

Because I think it is rubbish. Thanks for asking.

[SegaGamer]

I agree. Maybe they should stop going on about how great they think their game is when really it's not special at all. Filling it with tons of DLC isn't going to help things either.

[OpenGL]

Yep, I got it at launch and quit playing it within a week. It hardly had any content to start and then they wanted another $40 for content updates that didn't even include new areas.

Then the Taken King came out and I wasn't even allowed to buy the Taken King DLC without owning the previous DLC, which meant that I had to either spend $60 on the new Taken King edition of the game or spend $80 buying the old DLC and The Taken King. Fuck that.

[GrimDragon]

Lol silly rhetorical questions. This game had sooooo much potential. But somehow someway a company as experienced as bungie suddenly just didn't know how to keep a good game interesting.
I love the loot and RPGs elements but again it all came together so broken and every attempt to fix it made it worse. (Ex: separation of light....but not really) imo if you want to create a persistent mmo it can't be so rediculously small with planets that seem to be the size of a small island and keep your players doing the same exact thing a jillion times in hopes of getting a weapon that will help you survive a raid long enough to get another weapon that will help you do the same thing another jillion times rinse and repeat. This alone made me despise this game.

It's lore is rich, graphics, on point, gameplay buttery smooth...but the basic foundations of what can make or break a game are just a travesty in destiny. Great ideas implemented so poorly. If you don't have friends good luck enjoying this game as you will be completely locked out of raids that could be fun....but only maybe the first 20 times you do it. The game is far too extremely repetitious I completely lost interest in any legendary weapons as it all ends up the same new weapon same planet and enemies. Material collection is a frustrating bore, and exchange rates are absurd. With every update the game became more and more of an unbalanced mess. Than came the micro transactions to really raise my blood pressure. At that point I was done I finished Ttk story in two days maxed out my warlock in about the same time.

You can't have such low level caps in a game like this. You will start to lose interest in what it is you were striving for. I dunno.....there's just so much wrong with this game. Sadly it's ideas will be taken by other companies and made better. You had something good bungie but you really screwed it up.
I will never play destiny again. Perhaps if destiny 2 is everything you promised I'll come back...but don't blame me if I don't hold my breath.

[Khaotic]

Well said. I feel the same way. 1400 hours and after 5 weeks of the taken king i felt betrayed. This should go down as 1 of the most mismanaged clusterf##$k ips in history. It was bungies to make great or screw up and man did they screw it up. Day 1 player and hundreds of completed raids. Im not coming back

[Mr-Dude]

1400 hrs and 5 weeks of ttk? And then you realise Destiny was not that good?
Dude....

I played the story ehm singleplayer missions, did the vault of glass twice and realised that Destiny was not what Bungie promised. So maybe like what 10 hours or so?

[JeffGUNZ]

@ Mr-Dude

I think he is referring to the fact that all the money and time spent in the first year was completely thrown away with TTK. They showed good signs with the house of wolves in the sense you could bring up your favorite weapons to the new damage levels and then with TTK, they just stopped. All gone. It's like one step forward then 2 steps back.

Also, how they handled year 2 support is laughable. No real DLC and dumb events periodicall that mean nothing. This game is SO stale now. The division will steal a lot of players and I hope they learned what NOT to do from Destiny.

[Khaotic]

@mr-dude yes your so kewl. See most people that stopped playing say it was because it was boring but more likely they were just bad at the game and couldnt stay alive and raid teams would kick them. Most games have a lackluster story. Destiny was fun in year 1 at least for me. But like i said i dont follow the hate bandwagonn and can formulate my own opinions, and i was good at the game. Its always its not what they promised. I dont remember one time where they said i promise this will be in the game. Enough ranting im sure you get the point.
But that said they made it worse every expansion imo

[Mr-Dude]

@khaotic
I consider myself a veteran gamer, play enough games, have enough virtual trophies then maybe most people (7515 and 89 platinums) which is not for boasting. But I am not a weak gamer. I just saw right trough their bland game.

But I had great hopes for Destiny, and felt effd in the A by them.
I get your point by the way

[formanbradley]

https://youtu.be/CLlvm2erco...

Here's a straightforward 3 minute video showing everything that was cut. 100% factual visual evidence, you can't PR your way out of this, Bungie.

Feel free to throw this video around on Bungie forums if you want to raise uncomfortable questions.

And F*** randomly generated loot in the a**, the only reason it exists is so 12 year-olds can stand a chance at getting the same gear as experienced players.

[yomfweeee]

Things get cut from games just like movies... this is normal.

[formanbradley]

What's not normal is taking the story and rewriting it entirely from scratch so it doesn't include the areas that they have cut (to be sold later). Not to mention all this cut stuff is from TRAILERS. Even the lead writer quit a year before release for this very reason, because he didn't want to put his name on the story that we eventually got... because there was no story

[yomfweeee]

Sorry but all that is based on a random reddit post. Even if true, have you considered there is a reason Bung8e gutted the original story? Maybe it was worse.

And once again, trailer footage being cut from the final product is quite normal.

[formanbradley]

A random reddit post that has been corroborated with tons on evidence that all fit together perfectly. And why would that reddit post get removed? Why would another false story report get left on there and receive a flat out denial from Bungie where the prior received a paragraph vague politician answer and got removed from Bungie forums? People like you are the problem with the industry, basically just a f*** doll for major publishers to milk. And do you know what? I don't feel bad for you.

[yomfweeee]

I'm the problem with the industry because I don't believe a random reddit post?

Tons of evidence? What evidence? Yes, the story changed. We know that. But all the stuff about why the writer left... there's nothing to back that up.

Like I said already, we have no clue how the story was. Maybe it was terrible and why they wanted to change it.

You guys act like their was some beautiful story they got rid of... no one knows that.

You're on here throwing insults at people because they have a disagreement and somehow I'm the problem with the industry? People are spending 100, 200, 300, 400 hours in this game. That is getting your money's worth.

[thorstein]

Excellent video. It seemed like it could have gone on and on.

I would love to see one that shows all the MP maps that suddenly vanished once the expansions released.

[phoenixwing]

It's a pain in the butt trying to get a game together because of lack of matchmaking. Secondly i downloaded it digitally and rather wanted the space to be made for other games on my 250 gig ps3.

Also the whole game content wise is short as hell and not so inspired. I mean I skipped over the main story to play the taken king story mode. Also the story progressions for all the other dlc are a jumbled mess on the galaxy map. There's no option to just follow along the story you have to manually find them like a game of hide and seek.

[yomfweeee]

This game has way more content than your average game. Oh wow it is so hard to find your quests? Like the mark that it puts on the planent/moon and then the area that is highlighted containing the quest..... so difficult.

You skipped the main story and you're complaining about content?

[phoenixwing]

It is hard when there's the main story quest, the dlc for house of wolves, the dark below, the other one and taken king all jumbled together, and you're supposed to go to each planet to find the right one. It's annoying. The main story I played for awhile and then skipped. It was always your little box trying to scan something over and over while fighting some waves of enemies. It was very uninspired.

[nosferatuzodd]

have more content than most game REALLY! if you believe that then something seriously wrong with you guy

[yomfweeee]

Nothing wrong with me. It has a lot of content. If you play through the story and you think that is the whole game.... then sure it may seem short... but that's now all it offers. Strikes, Raids, PvP.

Destiny has more PvP maps than plenty of games that are purely multiplayer.

Strikes and raids are a first in a shooter game.

[sullynathan]

Lots of devs send this kind of email. I've even gotten one for cod

[formanbradley]

Omg I would have a hayday
Artificially inflated skill gap
Lags even on splitscreen and LAN (every game since Blops 1)
Immature skate park maps and crap
Outdated game engine from the 90's
The community in genreral
Microtransaction gun skins that affect my experience (how you may ask? because I don't want to see some 12 year old with weed camo in a "realistic" war game)
Low replay value to give incentive for you to buy season pass
Crappy campaigns (except for CoD 4, WaW, Mw2, and Blops 1)
I could literally go on for days

[gums007]

It looks like you just have a problem with life. Good luck with that!

[sullynathan]

Ok

[Relientk77]

Because I'm sick of the repetitiveness and grinding

[Duke19]

Why do I get the feeling these surveys will be printed out, and immediately thrown onto a pile of burning money?

[ScorpiusX]

I love playing games but this game more than any always brings up stuff that for some reason is not fun but yet some tool thought it is . Perfect example never have you had to climb to view a fight , but now you do , best part environment around you is useless

[FamilyGuy]

What part is that? Climbing to view a fight?

[ScorpiusX]

side quest after TTK, where you must place a beacon.

[Canthar]

I prefer to play solo and with few people I know playing this game and a lack of matchmaking.....oh and I don't find PvP to be fun...

[reallyNow]

I got tired of trying to find a competent raid.

[Knightofelemia]

I tried the game out and I thought the game was borning.

[lobocob]

so borning

[NeoGamer232]

Because there is no definitive start and end to the game.

Its like Dori in Finding Nemo:

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...

In Destiny:

Just keep playing, just keep playing...

No real purpose nor meaning. Just keep playing.

[SH4RPest1]

I have limited game time and having a match making system for Raids would have been nice. I liked collecting rare weapons & armor. Also, the repetitive grinding got old and boring after a while.

[Crazay]

Too... Many... Reasons... To.... Type....just.. Scrap it all and move on to a new IP.

[MilkMan]

I wanted to play games this year, so I cant actually answer this question. This game is the poster child for crap.

[Fin_The_Human]

I just don't have the time... With work, family, socializing and trying to fit fitness its hard to even get one hour worth of play time.

I truly envy people who can sit down and plays games for hours upon hours.

[Mr-Dude]

i would think that those awesome adventures of yours would consume all your time

^^

[Khaotic]

Socializing can be cut out, i talk enough at work. I love my wife and kids and they get my attention at home. I would rather game than hav regular social interaction outside of what i just talked about

[DJustinUNCHAIND]

My reasoning would be "because every other game isn't Destiny".

[curtis92]

They forgot the checkbox: "Was not the actual game we hyped for years"

[Artemidorus]

Because the BETA felt like a Halo PC mod.

[Deltaguy]

raid is boring, loot system is trash, pvp lag, unbalanced weapons bungie lies constantly..been free of this game since october..

[Tetsujin]

I was tired of being lied to about the game itself. I stopped when Dark Below released and haven't looked back since. With new games coming out Destiny is a bad memory.

[wh0am1]

Hearts of Stone.

[Razuel]

This game was so dead last night! It was reset, and my friends list of about 8 pages for destiny and only 4 were online. So we did elimination instead, where we kept facing long wait times, drop outs, and matchmaking with brazil. Brazil! wtf.

[Onixg5mer]

Because it is not on PC yet

[Tsuru]

Im not playing it cause its not on PC.

[vega275]

As a Xbox one and PC owner. I didn't feel like waiting a year for DLC. Since it's not on PC is also another reason I didn't buy it.

[Tru_Blu]

The fact that DLC actually makes the game have LESS content. Yes they add in a few missions but then they only put those new missions in the rotation for nightfalls, ect.

[xActionBasturdx]

Simple...it just got boring. Constantly doing the same missions...the god-awful rewards system...no match making for raids which is the biggest turn off for me...it's just underwhelming all around...fun at first but really dropped the ball on content and replayability which is strange considering all the dlc they put out

This game seem like it don't know if it wants to be an fps or a make shift mmorpg...damn sure makes you grind like it is one only difference is the reward system is beyond terrible

[Mrveryodd]

Bungie , never played it.

[Silver_ShadoWolf]

The Division came in and stomped on your game, leaving it to be fossilized and forgotten for millions of years until it can be turned into oil.

I'm not even joking. I played the beta and was like "Ha! Well, I wonder what I should do with Destiny."

[big_dom_part_2]

Because it's shite is the short answer.

[crazyclown]

Everyone went to the division, a much better game in every way.

[Sevir]

The changes to this new model, being stupid events and not content DLC. Not being forth coming about the road map for the game.

This time last year we were hearing about "HOW"

Currently ain't squat we know of.

The game simply has nothing worth returning for, and it sucks to say it given that I've pour close to 900 hours into it!

I'm looking forward to The Division and all the other games coming out. When something worthwhile gets here for Destiny I'll take a look. But they are handling Year 2 like sh*t

[SouljAx360]

I got sick of playing it. The grind was okay at first, I'm used to it as a RPG lover. But then doing those same bounties over and over and over to level up your weapons and armor just got too boring. Doing those same strikes, the general of the big guys, the scream queen, the big spider that leads to the big eye. Just got old. Witcher 3 came out when I stopped playing it haven't looked back been playing game after game having a blast.

[Fin_The_Human]

Just don't have the time.

[maybelovehate]

I enjoyed Destiny very much. But most of my friends aren't playing anymore and it is too hard to find Raid groups that want to have fun. My friends mostly aren't playing because they got mad at the pricing for the Taken King. Personally I didn't have an issue with it, but they did so it is what it is.

[lildudexst]

Lol it common sense at this point why nobody playing.

[Poroz]

It's not out for PC :(, I totally would of loved to check out this title.

[Oreic]

Lack of depth and content, too much focus on the few boring raids and pvp...

[Xasthirion]

It's funny cause almost all of these comments are made by people who either never played the game or only played it the first week it came out. Pretty much every single complaint has been addressed that you guys have...you realize that games, especially online ones, can change DRASTICALLY over time right? The game was meh when it first came out but it has improved ten fold. Give The Taken King a try, the difference is night and day between what you played when the game first came out and what it is today.

As for the people who actually DO still play this game and actually know what they are talking about, the lack of any new significant content since The Taken King is the reason most people have stopped playing recent. As for me, I stopped because they raised the level cap from 310 to 320 too quickly in my opinion and I felt like all the work I did to get 310 stuff was almost immediately undone. I was kind of pissed off.

[Tankbusta40]

Funny I saw a ton of comments about raid matchmaking which hasn't been addressed... Also Bungie made zero changes after the first week so get some perspective.

I played the game for a month and I I never have a reason to go back like many people... Your whole comment about how people should give it a try because a year after release it got an expansion? Give me a break games shouldn't take a year to improve and gamers surely shouldn't wait that long to experience the full product

[FN4GM]

Destiny aka scapegoat gets blamed for so much that tons of other games do and nobody bats an eye about, COD is just as boring and repetitive, Halo is just as boring and repetitive, yet people still like to single it out and bash Destiny, why cause other people are doing it and kids nowadays want to jump on the bandwagon so they feel like they have friends. This is just a questionnaire its nothing unusual or unique lots of company's use them for various reasons, but unsurprisingly the kids have used it as yet another reason to bash, so write your essays if it makes you feel better, just be sure you write one for all the other games doing the same stuff, games you probably play and enjoy like a hypocrite.

[Dark_Crow]

Nope.
Destiny is an mmo shooter. As an mmo shooter it sucks. Not much to do. Therefore boring.
Cod is not an mmo it's a multiplayer focused game and that's where the fun is people knew what they were getting.
Halo again is not an mmo. You got single player and co op with difficulty levels. And awesome multiplayer. The best fps multiplayer in a long time with modes like warzone and forge which allows for constantly more content and the content updates have been frequent.

Destiny just doesn't satisfy in any department. Neither in the story or in the mmo endgame.

Different kinds of games buddy.

[PX54]

Everyone I know blasts pretty much every FPS game there's been very little innovation in the last generation

[Shelkm]

1. Lack of content
2. They destroyed the reward system in TTK. End game content (raids, trials, strikes) used to be fun and worth doing until they created mediocre rewards that never drop at a beneficial level. I'd much rather have materials to upgrade my items / or maybe just set light level drops in end game content... ex: normal raid 310, Combine hard / challenge back to one raid 320... Trials packs: 310, Lighthouse: 320.... Also the weapons are not exciting at all, I really miss how special end game weapons felt (give us burns back)!
3. All the new exotics came from time gated systems. While this is a good idea for some items, it really takes away from the awesome feeling from getting a rare drop that you have been playing for. I miss grinding for items like gally or getting that exotic bounty drop that felt rewarding upon completion.
4. Lack of story: this kinda goes with lack of content but it really would be nice to get more information on this universe Bungie has created. Also TTK still hasn't tied up the queens story, and I am really interested in finding out more on that subject (maybe this is what will reward us the last ship waiting in the kiosk)
5. Servers and connection issues in matchmaking (giving people advantages in competitive multiplayer such as trials)

All that said, destiny has been one of my favorite games I have ever played on console. Until recently I logged in regularly to play, but the game has definitely gotten stale. I just hope they address these issues with whatever they have planned for the future of Destiny.

[Tobsesan]

I bought it day one and stoped after the first month. Its just not my thing to play the same mission a million times just to get random loot. You could he the best player in your team but someone who stays afk can get better stuff....

[shadow_satey]

Short answer: I just don't care. Game came out, looked uninteresting. Yeah, made by the Halo guys. Must be good! No. Was in the Beta, and from what I saw looked boring and uninteresting long-term. Then they wanted a 10 year lifespan, and I thought MMO. And I hate mmo's. Subscriptions, and just adding newer and better gear to keep you coming back. Not interested.

Now, what they could do is add more interesting gameplay than "every first-person shooter ever invented" and go from there. Look what GTA does. You can do almost everything. I keep coming back there, once in a while. The trash-talk community of GTA is terrible, but with friends, it's nice. I don't know. A 10-year life cycle focus on one game that is entirely a first person shooter is pretty boring, imo. I don't know what you can do to fix that, but I'm pretty sure you will figure it out. Good luck, Bungie!

[majedx9]

Am still stuck on VOG I can't even level up stuck at 29

[Nineball2112]

You have no idea what you're talking about, do you? LOL

[Perjoss]

Having to use external methods to find people in order to experience what is supposedly the best content in the game. They dont see this as a problem but the trophy stats say not a great percentage of gamers have completed a single raid.

[Derpy]

Mostly because I'm not a fan of FPS or MMOs.

[Kojjikaneshiro]

That's easy cause you're game is tired like your talent level Lol.

[plmkoh]

All these disgruntled comments about Destiny here and I can bet we will all make the exact same mistake by buying The Division. That is why these games will always be made.

[windblowsagain]

My mate lent me the game and i played it, but it became boring very quickly for me.

Normal MP modes were awful.

Wondering if the division will be the same. Just get boring.

[rainonparades]

This could have been the game of 8th gen but greed

[Knushwood Butt]

Cos I sold it

[Ol_Boy]

Because I don't support devs that scam their customers. The locking content already on the disc behind invisible walls only to sell it as dlc later on did it for me.

[Picnic]

I only played the demo.

It's simply not my kind of game at all as I don't like RPG games. I don't like any form of entertainment where there's supposed to be a mysterious lore to the whole world but it just all sounds like moody rubbish to me (because it is, if you don't care for the world or the characters then you never become immersed in it enough for it all to not annoy you.
Metroid Prime is the only scifi game that had lots of logs to read that I like. That's probably because it's a 3D platformer at heart - you could reskin it and call it Banjo Kazooie. It's a traditional Nintendo or Rare-like platformer game at heart which I love.

And, as a shooter, it seems lacklustre. So, if I was to ever play a Bungie game, I'd play Halo.

[Zjet]

Because its online only. Give me offline play ill buy it straight away

[cfc83]

Because i was utterly rubbish at it. Felt like lacking in content aswell as i was only interested in MP. Story was garbage.

[cyber_daemonx]

Seriously Bungie? Got bored of Destiny. Too much grinding, too repetitive, no raid matchmaking, rip off dlc, no real story etc etc... Got bored ages ago.

[Dark_Crow]

I need story in my shooters. If no story then I need lots of fun areas or enemies.

Got none of that in Destiny so...stopped playing after reaching top level.

[philm87]

Was well into in but it put me right off as soon as I saw the price of the expansions, particularly as I thought that amount of content would be included in the main game.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Because when it first come out I was told it's an MMORPG and after playing WoW, Lotro, Tera, GW Etc I expected something similar in terms of depth and content and instead got...well, Destiny.

[Manubiggs]

Enjoyed the taken King and played it religiously for about 3 months, but as a married man with family it's impossible to ever finish a raid with friends.

[PX54]

I only owned it for about a month (if that) was boring as hell, just another space FPS...yawn

[DevilishSix]

Just another space FPS? Name all these FPS themed in space cause I may want to check them out.

[DillyDilly]

I would respond with I am playing other & better games

[Malacath]

Why did I give up playing Destiny?

Because having the nerve charge us £40 for an expansion when I've already bought the main game plus the season pass is disgraceful. I can buy a new game for that.

A new player could buy the full game plus all DLC and the expansion for less than I payed for just the game and season pass.

[Tsunade]

I stopped playing when the second raid arrived. I played the first raid like 50 times and never got good armor while all my friends got new armor. I played a lot in Iron Banner in order to get the cool items when the second Iron Banner came, they deleted all previous progress. I was tired of playing the same levels over and over and over.

I realized the game was just about upgrading armor and weapons and had no soul.

[blakstarz]

I just got Destiny the other day I have no idea where I'm suppose to go next.....I got on a drop-ship to Old Earth and see a bunch of NPC talking about what do I do to get back into fighting?

[Orionsangel]

Well give me a free copy and I'll play it or lower the price for the digital copy. I don't wanna end up buying a game for 40 to 60 dollars and never play it. Bungie is like the Jeb Bush of developers.

http://bit.ly/1S2AlDN

[Smitty2020]

I personally enjoy the game

[mochachino]

Lack of content.

Overpriced additional content that still lacked content.

No basis to explore anything.

Horrible story. A sidequest in Witcher/Fallout has a more interesting story and appealing exploration.

Maps/Planets are not immersive, lifeless and seem less open-world and more like linear open concept Halo levels.

The main reason I stopped playing was that I only jknew 3 people that played the game. Without matchmaking, when one person stopped playing, there was really no point to play at at all. The game is incredibly boring playing alone or even with 2 people. And going online to find people (manual matchmaking) just wasn't worth the time.

[Hitoemi]

After 1500 hrs there is nothing to do. Live events are going to cut it.

[Dowie]

I actually love the game, pumped a lot of hours into it but i'm out of things to do. I'm not the type that has to collect everything in the game but i'll go after everything that I want and I got everything that I wanted and achieved everything I wanted.

If they release more significant DLC then i'll return but for now i'm playing other games.

[InTheZoneAC]

exactly. Not playing destiny has freed up time for lots of other things.

To keep destiny fresh they definitely need a new expansion/raid every 3-4 months

[Swiggins]

Because I'm in law school Bungie, gimmie a break. These torts don't memorize themselves you know!

[cash_longfellow]

The fact that I can't play the whole game solo, and that I am locked out of some content unless I have 5 friends, that's what drove me away in the first month...and the fact that they haven't fixed this since launch is the reason I will never go back, or purchase 2 if it comes out.

[InTheZoneAC]

you can play story, patrol, strikes, crucible solo

obviously you'll be paired in strikes and crucible, but you just join and it's done.

raids are for those wanting to play with a team. end discussion

[cash_longfellow]

End discussion what? Add matchmaking then...don't act like it's okay to deny someone access to the whole game who, mind you, paid the same price as the other guy for it...Destiny is redundant, content blocked trash, and if people like you keep denying it, gaming is in serious trouble, end discussion.

[zugdar]

For me, after playing WoW for years, I refuse to play a game without a "endgame" or conclusion. Its too much of a time suck and their are plenty of quality alternatives.

[TrailerParkBoys]

Once I found out you are only allowed to equip 1 piece of exotic gear at a time I Uninstalled the game. Why wouldn't you let us deck our person out however we choose? Fun when this was the only game I had for ps4. Oh and those static environments my god everything is made out of cement. Not allowing a cheap upgrade to the taken king instead forcing players to repurchase everything they already own. Rude

[Scatpants]

Because it's boring and repetitive with a crappy story.

[lovethenoob]

what got me to stop playing was when the sparrow racing event came about...it was an alright game mode BUT BUT BUT the thing that boiled my beans was they wanted to charge $10 for a "stats" book..i know i know "YOU DONT HAVE TO BUY IT" but geez people, to me that was just the start of where they wanted to go with the game...slim content at a premium price

[Liveevirdtset]

Because of its flagrant plagiarism of the industry people have moved on to hopefully the source material (diablo, borderlands, any other shooter. Its what happens when gaming goes mainstream all who want to fit into the definition of "gamer" who never dabbled before bought into the hype designed to trend you into buying a game based on pedigree. Same situation happening with PS4 people but something because its trending and are concerned about image and due to conspicuous consumption (the collection of material possessions to compete with ones neighbor). This stifles creativity in the industry as a whole and are ultimately fueled by opinion, :)

[underwaves75]

because you should be doing Halo

[masterfox]

I don't want to wrote a wall text here on dozens of reasons why, the thing I'm going to say is devilish the way Bungie wants to retain people on playing this game but I must say Bungie is very clever for the way they are still retaining them, but is so devilish/F#$CCKED uP and MESSED UP.

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

You guys made your bed with Activision. Now lay in it. I read everything up to the release. I'm the only person is my circle of friends that didn't give into the hype and am glad for it. My fiends wanted me to play in their group so bad THEY bought me then game. I created my character and spent 5 minutes outside of that and INSTANTLY lost interest. Same happened with ESO. For me, the feeling of the games was hallow/bland and I felt it the instant I started them up. Nothing intrigued me to invest my time. Others love it somehow and that is fine... I personally feel it failed on what was promised.

[Urbz7870]

I brought the game when it was released played till level 9 and haven't played it since.

[InTheZoneAC]

*bought*

it takes no time to get to level 9, you didn't even get to experience any bit of content outside the story in that short time, what a waste.

[Urbz7870]

I'm sorry I made you feel salty from my comment cause I didn't play the game long enough cause it never caught my intrests like I thought it would.

[InTheZoneAC]

I'm not salty. I'm simply stating you quit a game after only a couple hours of playing. You completely missed out on 95% of the game.

[Budrazor]

Way too much grinding and your not guaranteed any good loot for a raid. Raids on some other games only tale half as long. They should take a tip from Blizzard's loot system.(Diablo)

[InTheZoneAC]

Wish I got the email...

-bungie's definition of weapon balancing is more like keeping pulse, scout, and shotguns in and all other weapons out

-no new strikes(a quick fix to a part of this problem would be level 42/43 year 1 strikes/raids with that raid gear being updated)

-The gear I used is leveled up, no other armor outside of the raid set is used so I dismantle it. My weapons are leveled up. I don't need to do daily bounties for any reason.

-Still missing some exotics, but I have all the worthy one's.

-going into 5 months now with no new content. A game like this must get an expansion every 3-4 months. It looks like we're not getting any expansion until at least the end of the year. Stupid timed events are pointless and don't offer anything meaningful

-my year 1 gear was made useless, so why even try to get everything in year 2 when it's going to be trashed year 3? People argue this and say how stupid to use the same thing for 5 years. Well, if I stuck around from the beginning I think I should have old gear that no one else has compared to newer players. Bungie is always talking about weapon balance. Well if you remove/make useless old weapons then that only hurts balance because there are now less options.

-crucible is terrible so I don't play that anymore.

-armsday weapons are a joke, I never use them

-xur is a joke, he will sell everything the game has to offer so it defeats the purpose of even trying to luck out and get something in a drop.

-need more weapons, more strikes, more expansions, another raid, old strikes/raids need a harder difficulty so we can play those again and not have them go to waste like they've been doing for a year...

[Vlaitor]

Geez I don't know. Between my relative at the hospital, my gf back to spain, my lawyers meetings, 50 hours of work a week, the influenza kicking at the back of my head and literally 75+ games of PS3 I never opened. It's gonna take a while before I pop Destiny back in my ps4.

[illbill27]

Listen 4real i always read comments but i never comment myself desintny was the most unfinished game put out in the last 5 years.I have been playing games since the early days of atari, I have had almost every system from 3d0..atari jaguar..all the sega's even the sega master system and every playstaion and all of the nintendos and handhelds and every single xbox..and Destiny is the first game I wanted to smash into pieces...but my dumb ass brought the download and i just had to erase it...lol

[DefenderOfDoom2]

No matchmaking for Nightfall Strikes.

No new single player missions and no new strikes which i will gladly pay for if the price is reasonable .

[Bengoshi-San]

I haven't played at all since I beat the game even though I have the taken king because I apparently can't ever play any missions, always missing some kind of pack or add-on.

This is supposed to be a "living" game and I think they failed at capturing that concept well. It's not a living game, more like a money making game.

Played it, beat it, got annoyed at all the financial road blocks... stopped. THAT'S PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

[Drakul]

there is nothing about story and missions are very very very repetitive and at the end it makes you tired of doing the same stuff.

[one2thr]

I have 37 strange coins left that are completely useless seeing that I would have to buy a dlc to make them useful again. Pfffftttttt!!!!!!!

And I was a day one customer.

[Maxor]

Because your game have no soul. I can only repetitively grind the same crap over and over for so long. Plus playing Destiny means that I'll have to keep up with your over priced content creep DLCs, no thanks. Compared to a real MMO the amount of content that Destiny gives me per DLC is just insulting.

[theFAYEsorceress]

their loot system SUCKS. everyone's grinding for the EXACT same gear. no vanity slots, no trading, and just the overall experience is so stale now. this game could have had nearly endless replay value if they simply changed how the loot is handled. they needed more variation and the ability to actually be unique. it takes away a lot of the motivation when you're basically just grinding to have the exact same loadout as someone else. all bungie had to do was take influence from borderlands and diablo 3, which are arguably the best loot-based games out there, but no. destiny still has lots of potential but bungie is too stupid to know what to actually do with it.

[FaintlyThere]

Honestly if I had to give my answer I would say that I haven't stopped playing per say but the joy is definitely gone. It's become an endless grindfest for contain that shouldn't really be a grindfest. Though but honestly I don't blame Destiny for this so much as I do Activision, The Game we were shown originally at E3 probably would have been a much better delight and after hearing podcasts Destiny sounds like an amazing game that just didn't pan out.

It was suppose to create a great story where the traveler brought the darkness with him, he's army was the vex and he roamed the universe destroying galaxies for resources and disguises himself as some sort of false god but it didn't pan out that way.

In my opinion they rushed the product too much, if they did expansions then it should've focused on various planets which included these various creatures and built up the story and overall war. You could've had dedicated servers for each planet. introduced regions like Europe, North America, Africa, etc. and included more NPC characters that you could obtain quests from, this would've helped introduce the races of Destiny and understanding of each one so they can introduce factions.

They could've introduce Faction wars and had dedicated Servers for crucible. In addition they should do away from the current loot system and make loot quest driven or boss drops like other MMOs do.

All in all in the 4 years it took Bungie to produce Destiny (i'm going by time between Halo:Reach release and Destiny release) they could have made this a much better game than it is. It's hard to imagine how they could dig themselves out of a problem this massive without completely restarting.

[cell989]

My ONLY issue, frustrating loot system in end game content. Took me months to finally get a 320 ghost after countless grinding attempts at everything. You rarely feel rewarded for your work and skill in this game. You can weather a 4 hr grindfest trying to kill oryx on hard, finally do so, and get nothing that will help you level up a single point in your light

[jtomo88]

Its annoying when you have fibre internet connection and you still get red ping on pvp. When every other online game its never been an issue.

When the game came out, wow guardian edition $140, comes with the upcoming expansions (thinking it would be like a COD purchase with the season pass) Oh sweet expansions happen to be the same missions but played from back to front and some skins!! woo, and pretty much every expansion with the exception of taken king was like that. Oh wait you want taken king on release... $60 oh and as a thankyou from bungie that taken king purchase comes with destiny and all the expansions.... WTF!

A few weeks later... "we at bungie want to reward year one players that had the guardian edition... here is a skin"

And, to finish off Bungie you added micro-transactions! you suck!