I love experimentation. However, this experiment has failed on a creative level.

Ok, you can sidestep all you want by mentioning Halo 5 but what about Destiny, cody?

You complain that it's a grind and the same content recycled, but STILL you play.

The raid was awesome. Not much else was. I beat hard mode. Now I take a break.

You don't take breaks. I never, EVER see you on anything else online in PS4.

I'm taking a break now actually. I also took one for six months this year.

We come back to this all the time with you: you are addicted to this game and you know it and yet you still can't put it down.

I will play as long as there is cool stuff to do and the bullshit isn't too much to outweigh that.

They're like the only games with Macintosh support.

I used to play Starcraft a bunch. Not so much anymore. Starcraft 2 isn't very good.

But that's in part because I find Diablo to be considerably more rote and simple compared to the activities I enjoy in Destiny.

I do too. I think that's why it works. Diablo allows me to grind while watching Parks and Rec or something, or listen to a podcast. Destiny requires just enough engagement for me to not do that but not enough engagement do fully hold my attention or make it fun to grind. Like just about everything in Destiny, it's this weird middle ground that just doesn't quite work.

Elite: Dangerous and Pandora have allowed me to appreciate this kind of leisure activity. Gotta be jumping all over human space for a couple hours? Toss on some jazz.

And it, like you said, just kinda works in a way Destiny doesn't.

I love experimentation. However, this experiment has failed on a creative level.

Ok, you can sidestep all you want by mentioning Halo 5 but what about Destiny, cody?

You complain that it's a grind and the same content recycled, but STILL you play.

The raid was awesome. Not much else was. I beat hard mode. Now I take a break.

You don't take breaks. I never, EVER see you on anything else online in PS4.

I'm taking a break now actually. I also took one for six months this year.

We come back to this all the time with you: you are addicted to this game and you know it and yet you still can't put it down.

I will play as long as there is cool stuff to do and the bullshit isn't too much to outweigh that.

You should cut back on the member berries.

Competition for attention is harder than its ever been, and as a consumer I have more options than ever before. This is good and bad.

Either way, you look at the past with Rose colored glasses too much. You don't want experimentation or trial and error, you want the same thing over and over again, which is why you can't put Destiny down.

If I wanted the same thing over and over, I'd be playing Halo still. Do you see me playing Halo 5?

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I love experimentation. However, this experiment has failed on a creative level.

Ok, you can sidestep all you want by mentioning Halo 5 but what about Destiny, cody?

You complain that it's a grind and the same content recycled, but STILL you play.

You don't take breaks. I never, EVER see you on anything else online in PS4.

We come back to this all the time with you: you are addicted to this game and you know it and yet you still can't put it down.

Because you don't really want to.

You don't like MMOs or RTS games. As for Rockstar's games, you just never bothered picking up Table tennis or GTA.

I love RTS.

GTA never did it for me. I only ever played 3, but it controlled horribly. Plus, the modern GTA games are the epitome of busy work disguised as content.

I mean seriously, do you think people would be trying to shove microtransactions into everything and sell games as a service if it wasn't working? Of course, most companies aren't Rockstar or Blizzard and aren't going to have that sustainability from a single release. But microtransactions are a thing because they work. I hate them as much as anyone, but it's a war we've already lost. We're clearly in the vocal minority on that front.

Yes, they work (for now), but they simply hurt the games they are in creatively. There will probably come a time down the road when people change their minds, and we go back to the way it was before. As a result, we'll get games that are even better.

I don't play rockstar games nor blizzard games. Guess why? I don't play Valve games because they haven't released the next part to Half Life yet, but see nothing wrong with their console releases that lack microtransactions.

You should cut back on the member berries.

Competition for attention is harder than its ever been, and as a consumer I have more options than ever before. This is good and bad.

Either way, you look at the past with Rose colored glasses too much. You don't want experimentation or trial and error, you want the same thing over and over again, which is why you can't put Destiny down.

If I wanted the same thing over and over, I'd be playing Halo still. Do you see me playing Halo 5?

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I love experimentation. However, this experiment has failed on a creative level.

But that's in part because I find Diablo to be considerably more rote and simple compared to the activities I enjoy in Destiny.

I do too. I think that's why it works. Diablo allows me to grind while watching Parks and Rec or something, or listen to a podcast. Destiny requires just enough engagement for me to not do that but not enough engagement do fully hold my attention or make it fun to grind. Like just about everything in Destiny, it's this weird middle ground that just doesn't quite work.

That's ironic coming from the guy that made a post about how Destiny should be more like Diablo III, but Destiny's grinding doesn't even come close to being as fun as Diablo's, and Diablo doesn't ask me for money for light up armor.

I like Destiny "Grinding" way more than Diablo2's. But that's in part because I find Diablo to be considerably more rote and simple compared to the activities I enjoy in Destiny.