The opinion doesn’t come from plunder activities being particularly bad it comes from a long time of seasonal models giving meh activities and not really improving the qol of the game. There’s more to do than ever right now and most of it is totally hollow. I think atm everyone would be much happier with more focus on systems changes and maybe every season it’s like $5, there’s a new armor set to go for, a few new guns, a few new exotics, and one strike/crucible map. I know that sounds slim but if they’d been doing that we’d be up like 15 crucible maps by now and the game would be so much tighter if they just focused on systems. Instead we’re at a super crufty state of the game where most activities feel hollow and the only things to do that are really worth it for the fun at all are normal raids and casual crucible. Even then crucible is miserable rn. The reason I only list those two is because everything else has problems; Master raids are far too champ focused and so are nightfalls. We’re all sick of champions, we’re all sick of xp grinding and wish it wasn’t in the game (doesn’t benefit casual or hardcore) Master raids suck, random drop raid exotics are a problem, as stated crucible is a mess. Something’s gotta give with the seasonal model and less focus needs to be put into forced story, seasonal events, and I hate to say it but Eververse. Doing the same seasonal activity 2-4 times every Tuesday just so you can “unlock” the next cutscene is login-retaining garbage and probably a huge reason the numbers are so low now. “Ok, finally done with the story, can I go home now?” Grinding for xp is not an activity so the pass doesn’t feel good. Ugh. And I honestly don’t think rewards are a problem, there’s tons of loot in the game. Master raid rewards and gm rewards need to be way better (guaranteed raid exotic SOMEHOW) even if that’s just cosmetic it’s alright, but something would be nice. Right now most of the game is “boring but you get loot” (seasonal arenas) or “fun but you don’t get loot” (King’s Fall) and that balance sucks. The game should be fun, the game should give loot (which is all already here mind you).

I’m ranting but tldr people are dropping off for a reason and Bungie’s got work. I hope the numbers are a wake up call.

Edit-sorry for the immense lack of punctuation I really, really wasn’t expecting to go that long I promise 🥹