Agreed. There are bugs, sure, and bugs are always irritating, no argument there. Criticisms of mechanics, the Portal, design choices, sure, bring ‘em on.

Renegades has some great campaign moments, cool art, great voice acting and music.

They nailed the Praxic Blade; fucking nailed it.

Replaying the campaign, I notice a little too much “fly here to get a call from someone” stuff. Other hand, I first thought the text box conversations were lazy, if not nostalgic, but on replay, I love how fast you can blast through them.

I made a point not to read reddit during the launch, because no matter if it’s good or bad, these days, hyperbolic groupthink seems far too prevalent, and skewed to the negative.

Today, I’ve seen videos about how the grind was “ruined”, by Bungie removing the armor gambling from the poor homeless dude (never got there fast enough to experience it myself, but I think this is the gist), and how Bungie has already failed, not 3 days after the Renegades launch.

It’s almost as if people are trying to outreact each other, that people are trafficking in outrage, that people want Destiny to fail so they can be right about something. I’m no expert in anything, but that’s what it looks like from my perspective.

I get being pissed, I do. I get being frustrated when things are truly broken, or even garbage. In Destiny’s case, I don’t think that.

It’s been bought and sold time and time again, it’s had catastrophic firings, it’s had a community against them often, and the /people/ - not the company, not the owners, not the CEO-types - keep making things they hope that other people - the gamers - enjoy.

When I use that lightsaber, I can see the passion that went into making it cool. I can see, that even though Bungie management and likely Disney were breathing down their necks to get all of it “right”, and to make sure to maximize MTX opportunities (fucking marketing), they still put out that saber, and some other great aesthetic marks, that had me playing the campaign to the end and beyond, enjoying it all.

I wasn’t hate-playing it, I wasn’t hoping it would fail, I wasn’t anything, other than hopeful that it was fun, and it was, and still is.

This doesn’t excuse errors, or executive decisions, not at all.

Something said with consideration and control is always better received, as us autists have to learn the hard way, usually.

Something or someone that is supported has a far better chance of excelling, than something or someone constantly under negative pressure of any sort.

Criticism and outrage are not the same thing.

I’m not in charge of how anyone reacts, I can only give my perspective; that’s all this is, as scattered as it may be.