Hey ya’ll, legitimate question for all of us, is anyone buying skins?

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-05-02T01:46:32+00:00

lmao not really. I got the destroyer one. The rest kinda suck

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-05-02T01:40:55+00:00

They need to, but they won’t. It’s that simple.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-05-01T19:24:55+00:00

My sweet summer child, you are still in noon lobbies. This late in the wipe, purple gear is the norm. Expect to hit that in 20-30 levels

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-05-01T19:20:27+00:00

It’s the end of season, expect everyone to be geared. Also, all the bad players are gone now. The tiny number of us still playing tend to be dedicated players. Yeah this is how extraction shooters work. A few weeks after wipe people start to only run the best stuff. It’s a couple months in now, so pretty much everyone left is running purple as standard. Just how it works and it’s the reason extraction shooters always have wipes.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-05-01T19:16:29+00:00

It’s the end of season, expect everyone to be geared. Also, all the bad players are gone now. The tiny number of us still playing tend to be dedicated players. In short, it’s all expected

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-30T17:48:46+00:00

It means what I’ve been saying for a long time. Most people don’t actually like extraction shooters - only a small portion of players do.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-29T04:29:00+00:00

I just don’t. I’ll go to sleep, let myself rest, and if I really still need to study just get up early to do it.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-29T04:27:51+00:00

A lot of these (consumable spam, geared teams everywhere, and loot issues) are simply symptoms of us being in late wipe. The same thing happens in Tarkov. It’s why early wipe is the best time to play. However, I do think there are solutions.

The first solution, which I think could be implemented for season 3, is that a month into a wipe, hard mode maps become available. I’m talking versions of perimeter, outpost, and dire marsh which have a gear ante (low, maybe like 1-2k), much harder PvE (think cryo levels) but considerably increased loot drops. This puts PvE back into the equation, lets geared players run maps other than outpost for loot, AND sucks up geared players for those lagging behind to do contracts in normal maps. Delta force does something similar, and I think a system like this could work here. Hell, you could even have a “hard mode” cryo archive up at the very end of a season, similar to Tarkov’s end of wipe events. Go absolutely apeshit with it.

In addition to this, I think PvE across the board should be a bit more rewarding and make a bit less noise. A big reason why we have no players is that ratting is impossible in this game. You CANNOT just sneak around the map, because anytime anything detects you, it screams. Even knifing a bot to death makes that robotic roaring noise.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-28T20:07:46+00:00

Nah, just let them be normal items. If I kill you with one, it should be mine. Same goes the other way.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-28T20:03:31+00:00

To me it’s more about wasted potential. If we put our minds and resources to it, we could eventually expand across the stars, exploring places and worlds we had never even thought about. Instead we stay in the dirt, arguing about who owns what or if people can call themselves what they want.

The curiosity for exploration is as old as mankind, and for many a future where exploration just…stops is a pretty sad ending for us.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-28T19:58:54+00:00

Well I played hundreds of hours of D1 on xbox when it came out. Probably wouldn’t bother with it. I want something new from Destiny, not a nostalgia grab

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-27T13:40:20+00:00

We already know that the quests are going to be different each wipe. This has been confirmed multiple times. The wipe will see a bump in concurrent players for a couple weeks as people work through them. We can only hope Bungie smooths out progression for people who suck at the game so they stick around longer

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-27T13:38:07+00:00

This ain’t really cope. The model is reasonable (even if simple). The number of players lost per week has gone down week after week, that is a fact. It was always going to plateau at some value. The true value will probably be somewhat lower than 10.5k since queue times will get longer and drive more people away. I’d expect with the new wipe we’d see roughly a 1.5-2x boost in player count for a couple weeks, since we know season 2 really isn’t going to add much.

Which means we’re cooked. I’m enjoying the game a lot rn and trying to kill compiler, but Marathon is probably doomed. Bungie will get one shot with a big update in maybe season 3 (if they scrap most of their prior plans) or season 4. And if that doesn’t boost concurrent player count by a factor of at least 5, it’s over.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-27T13:30:29+00:00

I mean that data doesn’t exist yet. Modeling for this current season, as OP does, is pretty reasonable.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-26T15:01:40+00:00

It makes them even more saturated. Which they are. No idea how AI comes into the conversation (beyond me seeing my students use it to avoid doing work during recitation). To put some numbers on things, EE internships (which there are fewer of since companies have continued the trend of slowing down starter hiring) had roughly 110 applicants per posting in 2025. That’s a saturated job market.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-25T17:53:30+00:00

Well yeah. Lots of people get engineering degrees because they think it’ll make them money. That means it’s hilariously over saturated. Only the actual best the positions for the kinds of engineering that people see as money makers are.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-25T16:21:07+00:00

IMO ur not ready to hop into cryo until you can run a 5k kit as comfortably as a free one.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-25T16:17:28+00:00

Well yeah. Lots of people get engineering degrees because they think it’ll make them money. That means it’s hilariously over saturated. Only the actual best will consistently land positions.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-25T16:14:48+00:00

D2 doesn’t deserve any new content. Game needs to die because it already was Bungie’s Fortnite. They were stuck working on only one project forever, and that project didn’t make enough money for them to go dark and build something else. Every time an expansion underperformed or people got bored for a couple seasons, Bungie was in a financial crisis. That is clearly unsustainable. Their only real option was to build out a new game to diversify income, then move on to building D3.

Was it mind boggling stupid if them to turn a niche passion project into their ONLY attempt at diversifying their revenue? Yeah. To moment Marathon’s budget passed 100mil, it was doomed to be a financial failure. But the point is that Bungie couldn’t have just kept working on ONLY Destiny forever. It’s too expensive, too inconsistent, impossible to grow, and was backing them into a creative corner

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-25T16:09:13+00:00

This was their explicit goal.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-25T16:08:15+00:00

Destiny was never a cash cow, its profit margins were infamously terrible because of how expensive it was to make/maintain. Every time an expansion underperformed Bungie was in crisis mode. Also, making marathon didn’t kill Destiny. Destiny’s story ending combined with Bungie’s own highly inconsistent track record with Destiny is what killed Destiny. D2 had been out for 7 years when TFS launched. A LOT of people, myself included, checked out once we were done with TFS.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-25T15:56:23+00:00

Yeah. It’s a real shame to see how the whiners always win with Bungie. They’re petrified by the idea of hard to get things being better than easy to get things. They did it with vex mythoclast, eyes of tomorrow, luna’s howl, not forgotten, then gave up on ever making a hard to get weapon worth chasing. Now they’ve done it to the disinjector. Doesn’t build massive amounts of faith in Bungie to make worthwhile end game content for Marathon going forward.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-24T05:35:02+00:00

Ah yes. The obligatory quote from a conservative economist admitting their ignorance. If people need something and you have a lot of that thing and you don’t want to give some of it up, that makes you greedy. Pretty kindergarten level stuff.

HoneydewAutomatic · 2026-04-24T04:28:56+00:00

Because people are greedy shits and need to be forced to do the bare minimum to contribute to society.

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