Because subjectivity is a waste of time?

Let's presume that this is true;

Whether one's time is wasted or not depends on one's preferences.

Thus, discussion of wastes of time is subjective.

Thus, discussions of wastes of time are wastes of time.

Thus, this is a waste of time.

...What do you know, I didn't find a contradiction.

:P

I can think of nothing less interesting than everyone having the exact same gear

Who says that having no RNG loot would mean every player would use the same stuff? That's the false assumption right there.

I think once a series of simple, predictable and repeatable actions is linked to receiving a particular bit of loot, drops of that piece of loot will proliferate. Gjallahorn is thought of as being valuable not only because it is good, but because it is relatively rare compared to other similar weapons that are almost as good. Its inevitable proliferation would lead to complaints (like the one you yourself have made!) to the effect that content is not challenging when you have such an overpowered weapon.

Myself, I think the Destiny universe is more interesting where some things are rare, but not every mission is impossible.

Life is much better for it I assure you.

Either you failed to understand what I'm referring to, or you're trying to refocus the conversation and act like I was being dumb in focusing on what I did, and I don't think you're dumb enough to not understand. Either way, you want a Hawkmoon? Well too bad.

That's my entire point dude. If I buy a game, whether or not I get to experience part of it should NOT come down to being 'given' it. Not RNG, not the whims of the developer. Nobody but myself.

I know that's your point. Everyone with decent reading comprehension that's read one of your threads knows that's your point. I don't care any more.
You acted like a child in that post and I felt like pointing it out. (clarification: you acted like a whiny little kid in your "why can't I have fun too?" yelling post, and then a snotty pre-teen in your "yeah sure, sarcasm" post) Maybe pointing that out is not the most mature thing in itself, but I'm dropping the discussion now, so the direction depends on what everyone else does.

It needs ONE exotic per weapon type, and one legendary per archetype.

Yes, because Bad Juju and Red Death are completely redundant.

And so are SUROS Regime and Hard Light.

And there's no point in having Thorn and The Last Word in the same game, right?

I get what you mean about the amounts of Legendaries per archetype, but one Exotic per Weapon type? At all, period?

That'd be stupid.

If you ask me, there should be (roughly) an Exotic for every archetype, and I think there should be multiple Legendaries per archetype, widening up some variation within one archetype. Which, you know, is how it is, at least for Legendaries.

The guns being diverse is to appeal better to various playstyles; if you don't think it's really accomplishing that, fine, but your "fix" is taking it further away from that. Because you want the weapon system to be the same kind of thing as Halo, where there's just a grand total of two guns in any given category.

The larger and more varied categories are one of the things that is very appealing about Destiny, to me. I don't see why anyone would want rid of them.

The only way to get what you desire is to convince yourself in your deepest heart of hearts that you don't want it. Then pray to RNGsus and ask him to give it to someone less fortunate than you (maybe that noob who cost you your last crucible game). Only then will RGNsus be moved to bestow upon you that for which you currently lust...

He speaks the truth. I mean look at Beorn.

The only way to get what you desire is to convince yourself in your deepest heart of hearts that you don't want it. Then pray to RNGsus and ask him to give it to someone less fortunate than you (maybe that noob who cost you your last crucible game). Only then will RGNsus be moved to bestow upon you that for which you currently lust...

I will say it, Bungie and every company that does exclusive content for a given console are dicks.

I would amend that, since Naughty Dog, who does so much exclusive content for playstation that their entire games are exclusive, are certainly not dicks.

I don't fully understand this.

You are a dick if your multiplatform game has exclusive content on one platform which is not the result of a technical compromise.

Sorry, I should have been more precise. This is what I meant.

I will say it, Bungie and every company that does exclusive content for a given console are dicks.

I would amend that, since Naughty Dog, who does so much exclusive content for playstation that their entire games are exclusive, are certainly not dicks.

You are a dick if your multiplatform game has exclusive content on one platform which is not the result of a technical compromise.

I can't wait until I get to be disappointed and outraged! I'll start formatting my ragepost now to save time.

I'm disappointed and outraged about not being able to be disappointed and outraged! *cloaks*

I understand what you are saying. But what I'm saying is for people like me, it's a lose lose situation. I say people like me because I picked up an Xbox for Halo, and then I picked up a Xbox 360, Now because of Destiny, I picked up a XBone. I don't like playing stuff on the PS, not because I think it's a bad console, I just don't like playing with the controller. You can say "It's on me" but I guess it's my fault for choosing between playing a console that I like with less content or choosing a console I don't like just so I can play everything that was developed for a game. Yeah, it was totally all my fault.

And that's if you only take Destiny into account. For someone like me who's into racing sims, there was never any choice. PS4 doesn't have a Gran Turismo game out yet, and even if it did, the last couple entries were pretty meh. I was always going to have an XBone, period. So the choice for me was either play Destiny on that, or buy BOTH consoles (not really feasible).

I like cookies more than I like spinach. Your argument would be that it would be better if I just spent my time eating cookies. That's obviously wrong, and you would never actually MAKE that argument (about food) - and yet you're making it here.

That's not actually the argument I'm trying to make at all (although mmmmmmmmm cookies ;p)

I'm not saying you should only ever play PvP. I'm also going to avoid running with the PvP vs PvE comparison since there are separate bounties for both which makes my point a bit foggier. Sticking with your analogy: I love cookies, and I enjoy eating spinach from time to time as well. But if I sit down at 10pm to relax, have a cup of tea, and I say to myself "a cookie sure would be nice right now", I don't want someone to intervene and say "actually, you're going to have some spinach right now". But that's exactly what Destiny does, IF the player cares about making progress with their gear (as I do).

Sometimes what I want in the moment and what I want overall are at odds - and I'm glad that there are systems in place to keep me from letting my id make all the choices. :)

I would probably feel the same way, IF I thought there were some intentional design at work with the selection of bounties each day. But more often than not, I go to the tower to grab bounties and say to myself "really? The Archive, AGAIN? That's the 5th time this week!".

On that note, I did have some great luck with complimentary bounties a few days ago, and it was AWESOME. I was working on 5 or 6 bounties that all could or must be done in patrol mode. It made Patrol 10 times more fun than usual, because I had so many goals to work towards and juggle. I was hunting blades of Crota, while looking for public events, while completing patrol missions, while getting fusion rifle double kills and generating orbs of light.

That was a great case of bounties compelling me to do an activity I wouldn't normally do, and I ended up having a great time. I'd love to see combinations of bounties like that more often :)

people can complain all they want about RNG sucking... but not even having a chance to "earn" something through RNG is even worse.

This might sound kind of dickish, but I'm tired of hearing this argument, so I'll say it anyway:

That's on you.

It was made very, VERY clear during the ramp up to launch, and when pre-orders were being accepted, that Destiny on Playstation would have exclusives. Maps, Armour, Weapons, Alpha access.. you name it.

I understand what you are saying. But what I'm saying is for people like me, it's a lose lose situation. I say people like me because I picked up an Xbox for Halo, and then I picked up a Xbox 360, Now because of Destiny, I picked up a XBone. I don't like playing stuff on the PS, not because I think it's a bad console, I just don't like playing with the controller. You can say "It's on me" but I guess it's my fault for choosing between playing a console that I like with less content or choosing a console I don't like just so I can play everything that was developed for a game. Yeah, it was totally all my fault.

I will say it, Bungie and every company that does exclusive content for a given console are dicks. I'm sure PS strong armed Bungie into doing it, but I don't care. You have to have some damned integrity.

And for the record, I wasn't "In the know" about all the exclusive content for PS. Until yesterday, I didn't know about any of it except the weapons. Maybe I'm just oblivious.

Okay, rant done.

It makes me chuckle to think of how people were like "It's probably crap weapons that you'll dump after level 5" or "An exclusive Strike? I bet there's at least 20 strikes!"

Yeah, it seemed like a reasonable assumption at the time. Usually platform exclusives are just cosmetic fluff.

Not only that, but when it does become available, most people will also go seven months without it dropping, Xur aside...

I can't wait until I get to be disappointed and outraged! I'll start formatting my ragepost now to save time.

No, I don't dislike the game at all. It's just that the parts I DON'T like are MADDENING!

...only because you choose to let them be so. You may not have all the control you desire when it comes to randomly acquiring things, but your reaction to such scenarios is subject to no such RNG.