I want this to be VERY well noted: I played this game so, so, so, SO much. Currently, I am entirely OVERWHELMED with disappointment and frustration. When Sun-setting was introduced into the game, I had very few open vault spaces. As a result, I have dismantled THOUSANDS of hours of grinding. Currently the one that frustrates me more than anything was my Kill-clip/Rampage Kindled Orchid. I will never get that back- and now you mean to tell me that again YEARS later it is all of a sudden usable again? That is absurd.

Not to mention the ridiculous lack of balancing in PvP that has made it unbearable for a long, long time. Ranged weapons like pulses and scouts are absurdly good while also being easy to use. Historically meta weapons like Snipers and 140 Handcannons are in an atrocious state right now. I am NOT saying they have to be meta, but do you know how crazy it is that snipers aren't even remotely usable if you get sneezed at? I haven't seen one in PvP in forever. Competitive game modes have been terrible, and now you introduce special ammo issues into the game? Let me explain how the special ammo in comp works out practically- everyone gets a little on initial spawn. Then whoever dies not only is behind because they lost first fight, but NOW they have to fight an uphill battle because the team that is just as good or better than you (Clearly, because they won the first fight) has a HUGE advantage over you- you lose your special and they didn't. Just leave survival. PvP has historically been the most fun when you can do fun and cool things- special ammo is a HUGE part of that! Look at Destiny 2 launch. People despised your shenanigans with the double primary thing. You KNOW that. The game was close to dying. Foresaken fixed that. Why do you insist on ruining it? It was the same in Destiny 1. That game ended with this ridiculous balancing change where now people are FORCED to use sidearms, Universal Remote, Icebreaker, and No Land Beyond.

Out of my likely hundreds of sunset god rolls, I will be going into this new season with only ONE. I promise I will see some lucky people who didn't delete these guns that I had- they will destroy me with the guns- I can't be a part of that despite being Destiny 1 Vet, a Beta player, and putting thousands and thousands of hours into the game- that Bungie just took away from me for fun. Lets be honest- if you have the Recluse and the Mountaintop and the Revoker being problem children, you can just remove or nerf or disable them, or even remove them. These are the real reasons for sun-setting in the first place.

I would like to quickly break down how much I have spent on the core game JUST for the privilege of being ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over by Bungie:
$60 Destiny Launch
$20 The Dark Below
$20 House of Wolves
$40 The Taken King
$30 Rise of Iron
$60 Destiny 2 Launch
$40 Expansion Pass (Curse of Osiris and Warmind)
$80 Foresaken (Digital Deluxe Edition)
$60 Shadowkeep (Digital Deluxe Edition)
$70 Beyond Light (Digital Deluxe Edition)
$100 Witch Queen (Deluxe 30th Anniversary)
$100 Lightfall (Annual Pass Edition)
$100 Final Shape (Annual Pass Edition)
TOTAL: >$780
(NOTE: This does NOT include other purchases such as the Silver bundles or merch or etc which yes, I have bought plenty of.)

Here is the bottom line however. While there are amazing developers making gorgeous and fun content, the balancing team and whoever is working on PvP is incompetent. As someone who has experience with data and using data, I see how elementary it is that Bungie will make changes just because of usage rates- NOT because of balance. I see how elementary it is that Bungie will sunset all of your progress, wait for you to delete it and then later say, "Oh yeah, that was REALLY stupid of us! Lets undo it!" You have even been throwing garbage seasonal content that nobody ever wanted to play in the first place into the strike playlist to fluff it up. Do you remember when people would run strikes over and over for fun in Destiny 1 because they were fun and unique and had exclusive drops? Yeah, those days are over. Hell, now your warlocks have comically flat asses and different gendered guardians have the exact same gender-neutral armor. You don't get new strikes. You don't get much new loot. You don't get new unique innovation in gameplay. You can't even re-earn the content that you grinded thousands of hours for, and then had Bungie make unusable until you deleted it. Oh and the prices- those are going up and up. This genuinely isn't the developers. This is the management. The people behind the decision making. I won't say EVERY balancing decision has been with bad or no reasoning, but it has happened enough to be annoying beyond belief. And the cosmetic issues I mentioned earlier? That isn't the developers. They could fix the guardian asses, they could make a male/female variant armor, they could do even more important things like even make a new armor set for PvP. But more-so than ever before there is a ton of garbage in Eververse. They are greedy. Let me be clear- there is NOTHING wrong with asking for money. There is NOTHING wrong for offering paid cosmetics. But it is just an incredibly bad decision to cut these corners for more money. Management issue. You don't care about me, you care about my money. Cut the development of the brain-dead seasonal stuff (I was actually impressed with The Coil because it was the first seasonal activity in years that was a bit more than run to point A, shoot for minutes, run to point B, shoot for minutes, run to point C, shoot for minutes, loot, and then repeat!) make one really good one that you update- like the Menagerie or PoE! Make more strikes and make character models with the rest of the time! BOOM instantly fixes a ton of issues. This game used to be worth money. At this point, however, they keep asking for money and they keep making ridiculous mistakes. Why do they not do this? Business. Worst case they are greedy and don't care about making the player. (Instead, they care about just doing the bare minimum- enough to keep you playing and giving them money. Why else would they cut such corners on your character's ass and gender differences in player models lmao) Best case there is some severely incompetent people behind changes, balancing, vision, and direction. (Although this one is 100% there, because WHAT IS THIS SUNSET DECISION LMAO)

I wish I could get all of my money back for content I paid for that isn't accessible. Guns/activities/etc.The thing is, it isn't even like a fair price. It is basically $100/year at this point. You know what I would rather do? Go pay $30 for GTA5 Premium Edition and not have to pay ever again, never lose the content I paid for, always have new stuff to do, etc. You know they are a live service game too right? I would rather play Warframe 100% F2P- trading and earning cool things. At least they don't pretend like their PvP is amazing, AND they do amazing things that are for the player!. Valorant/CS2 also. Their balancing isn't "Oh you are good at a game? Lets nerf what you are good at using then." (Real thing, it goes to show their terrible use of data- not just recently but also historically. https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/44879 Correlation is NOT causation! Maybe what they want is balance of usage, not competitive balance? It's seriously as if they build the game into usage balance, not competitive balance.)

You can disagree with me. I don't care. Bungie has ruined what I like about Destiny. They will never fix it. I think these other things like the PvE balance and raid and dungeons are amazing and will continue to be! but these have always been okay. To me it was always just half of the game- the "Earn loot" half of the game. Now the loot I earned is gone, and like half of the "Earn loot" half of the game is gone too. The place to use it (PvP) is in shambles. Bad game. I will still play it and be disappointed. Never paying again though. Not worth even $30.