Well folks, this recent TWAB has seemingly caused even more community outrage than what it probably set out to resolve.
The issue at hand, once again, is sunsetting. It's a topic of conversation that has continued from the time it was announced, through the time it was implemented, and now after a few seasons of it having taken effect. In this particular case, sunsetting in relation to reissued loot.
Note: If you are from /r/all, I left a small section at the end explaining what sunsetting is. Welcome!
Forsaken and Shadowkeep Sunsetting
Since the beginning of sunsetting, one of the top complaints was the sunsetting of loot tied to the Forsaken and Shadowkeep expansions. Some feedback was specific to Forsaken and Shadowkeep by name, while some said that DLC loot should not be sunset. While not the main topic of discussion here, it should be noted that some players may have different interpretations of what "DLC" includes, so keep that in mind.
Nevertheless, Bungie sunset the loot anyway, much to the disappointment of others.
Reissuing of Forsaken and Shadowkeep Loot
First, I want to make something perfectly clear here: a lot in the community did request that Bungie add new perk options to weapons if they were going to be re-issued. This is what Bungie has done in the reissuing of Dreaming City and Moon weapons by introducing them with new perk options, some tied to specific dungeons.
Yet, this still triggered pain points in players for a few reasons:
- Players are unable to raise the infusion caps of existing weapons and armor that they have.
- Due to (1), players having to re-grind for weapons and armor that they already have completely invalidates grind-time already invested.
- Not all loot was reissued: loot that could be targeted via the Lectern of Enchantment was completely ignored. This leaves a lot of expansion weapons still sunset.
- For weapons that were reintroduced, there is no guarantee that players will be able to obtain a roll as-good or better than their existing rolls.
Let us not forget the blaring issue here: Forsaken and Dreaming City loot was sunset just two (2) months ago, and the player base is now being asked to re-grind again for the sake of grinding.
Content Creator Fatigue and Unrest
In what appears to be a rare instance in Destiny's entire franchise history, the player base and content creators are more or less completely united on the feelings of sunsetting. The recent TWAB has functioned
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I [56M] rent out a house my late brother left me. I had a long streak of good tenants, until the one before the current one, who was named Jamie. Jamie was a 30 year old, low-income single mom of three kids. To my knowledge I was the first person she’d rented from, as she had lived with her mom and boyfriend before that. She was a nightmare of a tenant (no regard for the rules, late with payments, destructive of property, moved in multiple people without my consent, very rude, and many other things).
Perhaps the worst thing about her was her disobedience of the HOA rules: though they were explained clearly to her many times, she violated the rules on an almost daily basis and racked up a fee of $800 by the time she was gone. She refused to pay this fine and I had to cover it in full. I was able to evict her after four months of her living there.
A little while after she was evicted, I began getting calls from prospective renters inquiring about Jamie, meaning that she was putting me as a reference (probably not the smartest move). It’s likely she was expecting me to give a “neutral reference”, where the landlord simply confirms the dates that the tenant lived there and says nothing else. Well, she was wrong. I gave terrible (but completely honest) references. Five or so prospective renters contacted me over the course of the next couple months and I told all of them the truth about Jamie. These calls stopped after a while, indicating she wised up and stopped listing me.
Just recently, I received a phone call from Jamie. She told me that she has been unable to find a home due to not having any previous landlords to list as a reference (landlords see this as a big red flag), and that she lost her job shortly after I evicted her. She said she and the kids had to live with her mother, who is in her words an “abusive narcissist”, this whole time. Jamie told me that this is greatly affecting her mental health and that she has reason to believe her mom may soon kick them out, and they have nowhere to go and she fears they could become homeless.
She was begging me to start giving “neutral references”, so she can have someone to list as a reference and have a better chance of finding a place to rent. I told her no, reminded her of what an awful tenant she was and made it clear that if anyone contacts me about her, I will give an honest answer. She continued to plead with me, and eventually broke down crying. I had to hang up on her.
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