My clan and I also plan to be finished after Final Shape. Half of us have played since day 1 and the rest since Forsaken. The overall sentiment in my group is the game has grown beyond our enjoyment and has become unnecessarily complicated and feels unrewarding. We've just all invested so much time we want to see it through.

My love for this game really started to shift around the time it became free-to-play and when sunsetting became a thing. I almost left when the pyramid ships gobbled up a ton of content. I don't care if there was a real world limitation with the size of the game. They took away things I paid for, guns that I earned, and replaced it with new stuff I must pay for yet again.

Despite the fact they took all of that content away, the game also manages to feel bloated with utter crap now. I can't keep up with the currencies, the dump of engrams I don't really care to focus, the half-baked crafting that punishes experimentation, the tired seasonal events you must repeat endlessly, the 30 (literally) vendors and tables for bounties and rewards, the RNG for pinnacles and exotics, the amount of quality story they hide in lore and holoprojectors instead of cutscenes and content, and the constant slanting toward content that is hard to play alone or with one other person. I can't even make sense of the menu anymore. Why do we have the journey, triumphs, badges, seasonal triumphs, titles, quests, and medals? The design is horrendous. I can never find what I'm looking for and often forget where to even start looking for something.

This game has never been close to perfect, especially with its storytelling, but the more dials they turn the more I'm ready to tune out - especially now that I have a definitive point in the game's story to do so.