‘Destiny 2’ Has Lost The Trust Of Its Players

I’m sorry however this has simply gotten ridiculous.

Late yesterday after but once more a variety of fan theorizing, Bungie confirmed that at the very least a part of the central mechanic that Destiny 2’s total Revenant episode is predicated round just isn’t working:

These are tonics that are supposed to work as short-term weapon focusing buffs to focus on farm weapons you need. Destiny 2 gamers have puzzled from the beginning if these have been working proper, with the newest idea being that they could even focusing a distinct weapon than what they are saying. But they could simply not be working in any respect. I’m not even certain if that is saying that the tonics on the Tomb of Elders web page don’t work proper, or all tonics simply don’t work proper in Tomb of Elders. I’ve a tough time believing any of them work as meant.

But at this level, it’s now inconceivable to imagine that something on this sport works as acknowledged. Destiny 2 has misplaced the belief of its gamers with this taking place simply too many instances.

The different, greater instance of this was “weightgate,” the revelation, once more, discovered by gamers, that sure perk pairings had been near inconceivable to get on account of how perks had been organized within the API. Eventually Bungie acknowledged this situation, mounted it (supposedly) and provided some god rolls as compensation. But this was a bug that seems to have been in existence for years. That’s doubtlessly lots of of hours of farming a loot system that was damaged at its core.

The notion after that was that there could be conspiracies lurking round each nook if issues had been really working as meant or not. And even when the tonic situation began out as a idea and sounded a bit paranoid, guess what? It was true! They’re damaged!

So a lot is damaged. My predominant character, my Warlock, has been unable to brew tonics since primarily week considered one of this season, nearly eight weeks in the past now. I’ve instantly labored with Bungie on getting this bug mounted and it…nonetheless isn’t, regardless of their efforts. I’ve associates the place this has occurred on their solely character, in order that they’ve barely engaged with the season in any respect. Also yesterday, it was introduced {that a} tremendous disabled within the current dungeon has a mid-January goal for a repair. Progress crawls for a lot of of those points.

While Destiny has all the time handled bugs, that is untenable. We can not belief any inner system just isn’t bugged ultimately in opposition to gamers. We can not play new content material with out some sport breaking bug or one other affecting at the very least some measure of gamers.

Obviously an enormous issue right here, if not the largest, is Bungie’s layoffs, together with a big portion of QA, the undervalued group that catches issues like this. I do know folks on QA and they’re nonetheless working laborious, however these layoffs have badly harm the sport itself. I’m not blaming these which can be nonetheless there, however the management that created this case within the first place. But the consequence is similar, we can not belief this sport, these techniques. It has given us each cause to not.

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