I really enjoyed destiny 2 in the beginning few years but I got sidetracked with work and didn't play for a rew months and they finished the dlc I was on and changed the game that much I'm yet to figure out how to carry on with my character.
I now refuse to play it.
It should be called destiny and have all destiny 1 and 2 content ever made accessible in the order that it all came out, just figure out the levelling to match up for the whole destiny experience.
I'd definitely be interested in that!
The main issue is we were supposed to be on a third game by now, but they decided to keep on with D2 once they split with Activision. I DO ABSOLUTELY agree that the monetization is greedy, but not for the reason OP says. Eververse, dungeon passes, event cards, all that. But not having cross buy for expansions isn’t greedy, it’s normal. FF14 does the same thing with expansions.
I don’t like the content vault, I really don’t. I see why it’s there though. The engine for this game is a shambling husk. Now we get patches and fixes pretty quick ever since BL dropped in 2020. Prior to that it took months to get even small changes because of how the game was designed. Interestingly, take one of the exotic guns: Witherhoard. It applies a DOT when you hit an enemy with it. In earlier content, it broke it because the enemies would take the DOT off screen between phases and soft lock the encounters.
IMO, I’d rather have D3 and have D2 continue to exist in its Shadowkeep state from its final season that year, but I also remember how this game released and the absolute shitshow year 1 was and I’m not exactly certain they wouldn’t repeat that.
I 100% agree it’s not a great solution. Hell, I don’t even think it’s a good solution. But it was either that or D3 and they chose to not split a community between 2 titles. So far everything they’ve trotted out of the content vault has been free to play. The leviathan destination, cosmodrome, Opulent weapons, VOG, the new raid coming next week, and they’ve said multiple times vaulted content won’t be coming out as paid content and, so far, they haven’t given me a reason to not believe that statement.