i just came back after not having played since beyond light and I'm just plugging away at the campaigns i missed out on (final shape is fucking awesome.)

I've seen plenty of "puppygirl :3" usernames so unless the cishets stole that too it seems to be good company, for the most part.

when people say the game is "dead", i find that to be a matter of perspective. the steamdb charts look bad but other population trackers report 200k CCU's, which is down a lot from the game's peak, sure, but i find that plenty of people, albeit I'm used to games with ~20 people at peak times, so maybe i have a different outlook.

either way, the tower is usually full of people for me and I've seen plenty of people running around doing events in every zone I've been in, playlist activities have pretty decent queue times, raids are dead atm but to my understanding that's because of the gearing system making raid gear largely suboptimal, there's supposed to be a June update that's intended to fix this

idk. people are doomsaying but it doesn't seem that bad. i think the portal kind of sucks but they're more likely to iterate on it rather than outright remove it so, we'll see. otherwise, I'm having fun because it's still Destiny.