I think this is the time I put this game down for good. I am writing this retrospectively. Destiny 2 has always ebbed and flowed for me, the seasons where this game was at its best it was an all-encompassing experience. When bad seasons came around I stopped playing until it was worth picking up again. After forsakens year I find the good seasons fewer and farther between.

Season of Opulence, Season of Arrivals, Season of the Splicer, and Season of the Seraph I wish you well. You made me fall so much in love with the writing and world and gameplay of Destiny. Its secrets, its raids, its depth of mechanics.

The state the game was in with build crafting and mechanical expression in Season of the Seraph was unbelievable. It was such a wonderful time to play the game. I miss it dearly. The game has not had that spark for me since the countless reworks and simplifications.

It feels like Bungie doesn't really learn the lessons of its past content. Of how abysmal the game feels when appeasing to certain groups of player, how disastrous Destiny was mechanically in The Red War. How Forsaken brought what people loved about the original Destiny experience back.

It feels like Bungie hates the idea of a high skill ceiling in its PvE content, it feels like they just want the game to be plinking things from safe spots with long range weapons in GM content. Every time the playerbase sinks its teeth into the tools that Bungie gives us to mess around with they take them away. The orbs of light changes, the mod reworks, the survivability changes. The game has just gotten less and less fun to play, less and less fun to build around in, less fun to raid in, less fun to do the end game content in.

This year was the nail in the coffin. I tried, and I can't. Goodbye Destiny.