it's because I still feel *so* burned by Bungie and Destiny 2 that I feel reluctant to give them any more money (ultimately whoever I pay from D2 or CoD the same person gets the money). Look at the the first few pages of this thread. I was so excited to finally be able to play the game that had dominated the last few years of my gaming time on PC. I was so excited that, against everything I normally do, I pre-ordered the Legendary edition. I was such a Destiny fanboy that I would defend everything about that game...
Destiny 2 just felt like a slap in the face. For ever decent change they made the game took a thousand steps back. I just felt insulted. Then the two pitiful DLCS came out and made it even worse. The Dark Bellow and House of Wolves were far from stellar DLCs but they were much better than CoO and the Warmind DLC. In D1 I would spend hours grinding strikes/raids/heroics etc just to get that perfect Int/Dis rolled piece of armour - that was the fun part of the game to me. Getting a T12 armour set built around your class. The mod system in D2 had potential to be great and it turned out to be the most basic and boring thing they could've added.
I can rant for ever about how they ruined D2 to cater to people who would never play it for long enough to moan about the end game. But I just felt like they didn't care about the people, like myself, who grinded a lot. And I was far from a hard-hardcore player (had about 1000 hours - rookie numbers really). As much as I want my Destiny fix, they ruined the game so much from D1 that I really don't want to give them any more money
I got about 300 hours out of D2 up until I last played and despite that, and despite the fact I gave my PS4 away, I'd give anything to return to D1. Was the much better game. Now we just have token and lootbox as the main hook.
