They deleted content I paid for. I couldn't be happier to see Bungie collapse.

The Bungie I knew and loved died when they got rid of Marty, and later Joe Staten.

Suck on eggs, Jason Jones.

Probably because it makes a ton of money. The opinions of people who post online represent a small fraction of people who play games.

Destiny definitely isn't in its greatest state right now (and honestly, hasn't been in a while).

The answer to why they haven't "ended it yet" is: Because it still makes them money.

Realistically though, if you look at any big discussion for a game you'll always find people who dislike it (because they tend to be louder than the people who are spending their time playing the game instead).

I used to really like this game. The gunplay and art direction are spectacular, although I got bored of the enemies. I stopped playing a while before they deleted whole planets and questlines, and haven't felt an urge to go back. Shame, because nothing else quite scratches that itch.

I honestly tried to get back into it with an old account. Apparently, the entire world went up in power level with no exceptions, but not my character - meaning there was literally not a single enemy I could kill across the PVE environment to gain better gear/levels to contend with enemies.

I did not feel like making a new character or redoing the tutorial so I decided to not even bother, taking it as a sign the game was poorly thought out.

I'm a bit surprised nobody mentioned the kernel-level anti-cheat, especially with Lemmy being a very security/privacy-centric place. That was implemented years after people spent money on the game and then basically stole the game/content unless you agreed to a huge change to the policy.

I stopped playing because they implemented that. There's zero reason for that to ever be a thing in order to just play a game. Especially with the amount of machine-learning we have on what is and isn't possible for humans to do, detection is completely possible server-side.

I stopped playing when they gutted the game, best decision ever.

I have never played Destiny 2 and wanted to try it out one month ago. I asked on Reddit what to do as a free-to-play player to get a good insight of what the game has to offer.

The gatekeeping was unreal. They said unless I'm willing to dedicate hundreds of hours I should not even try and rather uninstall the game immediately. For sure they made it feel that new players are not welcome.

Playerbase toxicity was a harsh reality. The game story, even in the broadest sense, was hard to grasp. The new player experience in-game was miserable. I have no idea what their money making plan is. Live service games need new players to stay healthy.

I appreciate the shout out to Guild Wars there. Aside from the opaque learning curve it's one of the most player friendly live service games going.

I mean, Destiny is falling apart right now, give it another year or so.

I still play, I can see me running out of desire to play as much with the changes to the way new content is delivered.

Unless something changes soon for the better I can't see the game staying afloat for more than the next couple of years. Which is a real shame.