While the Destiny 2 community celebrates Halloween, players have become aware of a major issue in the game: the artificial limits on currencies and items that they keep encountering even during the event.
Bungie’s new version of the Halloween event has been well received so far. There have only been minor changes to the event, but the removal of the Haunted Forest has brought fresh air to the stale event. The idea of the lore book and the community armor has also been something players have enjoyed. If it weren’t for that one nasty thing: artificial limits.
In Destiny 2, there are artificial limits that many players consider annoying, arbitrary, and completely unnecessary. This has been especially felt during the event with Spectral Pages.
In Destiny 2, there are various limitations:
- You can collect a maximum of 75 Spectral Pages during the Halloween event.
- Seasonal currency (Parallax Fragments) is also limited to 3000 pieces.
- The current cap on your Glimmer is at 250,000.
- Your vault is limited to 500 equipment items.
- Players may only possess 20 Ascendant Shards per character. (40 max with 3 characters)
- The enhancement prisms are also limited to 50 pieces per character. (200 max with 3 characters)
And that was just an excerpt of the current limitations. Bungie has even more caps that repeatedly restrict players in one way or another. The farming potential for many of the materials in Destiny 2 is too restrictive.
How to farm the lore pages for the Halloween event, we have summarized in this article.
Players want the removal of all artificial limits
After the posting, it quickly became clear that this problem does not only affect the Gambit misfortune bearer.
The reddit post has now received over 6.5K upvotes, and the community is increasingly demanding Bungie to remove all artificial limits and agrees with the demand from Oravital1, who put it succinctly:
Stop putting a damn limit on everything. Glimmer, [legendary] shards, [planetary] materials, and a thousand other things. Just stop. Let us play the damn game the way we want. If I get 200 Spectral Pages and then want to turn them in, just let me do it for heaven’s sake.
Bungie has been limiting its players for a long time. The players’ demand is not new. Artificial farming limits have been a sore point for the community since Destiny 1. The Festival of the Lost 2021 has only brought this highly controversial topic back into the spotlight:
- integralofEdotdr writes: “I think one of the worst caps is Glimmer when Ascendant shards cost 50,000 Glimmer and the kiosk weapons over 100,000 Glimmer. If [Bungie] could raise the cap to 400,000, that would be nice.”
Umbral Engrams are capped as well: Players in Destiny 2 have only four chances per week for a good weapon/armor through their focused T3 Umbral Engrams. Additionally, the perk combinations and armor values have gotten worse in Season 15:
- The player SPEEDFREAKJJ notes: “Capping T3 Umbral Engrams, which have no high value, was the ultimate d**k move.”
Why does Destiny 2 limit its players at all?
The limitation is probably intended to “inflame” player “engagement”. A limitation on Umbral Engrams, for example, ensures that players return week after week to farm their four T3 Umbral Engrams. Similar to time-gating, Bungie thus stretches the content over a longer period.
Such elements that stretch the content lead to more consistent player counts. However, this is received very poorly by the players. They no longer feel free in what they can do in Destiny 2.
What does Bungie say about it?: So far, Bungie has not specifically addressed this. The last Glimmer cap increase occurred with the release of Shadowkeep in August 2019. That was also a demand from the community that Bungie fulfilled. It is therefore not unlikely that with “The Witch Queen” in February 2021, a few adjustments will also be made. However, whether all or any limitations will be lifted remains uncertain.
Have you actually reached the limit for your Spectral Pages? What is your opinion on the artificial limits in the game? Have you also lost Ascendant Shards via the post because you couldn’t have any more in your inventory? Do you feel restricted, or do you not even reach the caps?
The stark opposite are materials that no one needs anymore. The unpopular mod components, for example, can be stacked infinitely in the inventory. The difference here is: The components are useless when you have all the mods.
Bungie is artificially limiting its players
The dissatisfaction with these artificial farming limits is currently growing louder. Especially because it increasingly happens that the limit prevents players from obtaining certain items:
- Players lose the most valuable currency in the game, Ascendant Shards, because they cannot store more than 10 of them in the post and in their inventory. If the post is full because you might be spending longer in a raid, they are gone forever.
- Or players do not pay attention to the caps of seasonal currency, and without realizing it, they simply get nothing for their time and effort.
The Destiny 2 player Oravital1 experienced the same thing when he wanted to farm his Spectral Pages in Gambit.
I just did a 3-hour Gambit grind, only to find out that the Spectral Pages cap is at 75. Who knows how many I missed?
writes Oravital1 in the Destiny 2 reddit
As long as this is the case, players should keep an eye on the number of their Spectral Pages during the Festival of the Lost to avoid losing event progress.
How to farm the lore pages for the Halloween event, we have summarized in this article.
Players want the removal of all artificial limits
After the posting, it quickly became clear that this problem does not only affect the Gambit misfortune bearer.
The reddit post has now received over 6.5K upvotes, and the community is increasingly demanding Bungie to remove all artificial limits and agrees with the demand from Oravital1, who put it succinctly:
Stop putting a damn limit on everything. Glimmer, [legendary] shards, [planetary] materials, and a thousand other things. Just stop. Let us play the damn game the way we want. If I get 200 Spectral Pages and then want to turn them in, just let me do it for heaven’s sake.
Bungie has been limiting its players for a long time. The players’ demand is not new. Artificial farming limits have been a sore point for the community since Destiny 1. The Festival of the Lost 2021 has only brought this highly controversial topic back into the spotlight:
- integralofEdotdr writes: “I think one of the worst caps is Glimmer when Ascendant shards cost 50,000 Glimmer and the kiosk weapons over 100,000 Glimmer. If [Bungie] could raise the cap to 400,000, that would be nice.”
Umbral Engrams are capped as well: Players in Destiny 2 have only four chances per week for a good weapon/armor through their focused T3 Umbral Engrams. Additionally, the perk combinations and armor values have gotten worse in Season 15:
- The player SPEEDFREAKJJ notes: “Capping T3 Umbral Engrams, which have no high value, was the ultimate d**k move.”
Why does Destiny 2 limit its players at all?
The limitation is probably intended to “inflame” player “engagement”. A limitation on Umbral Engrams, for example, ensures that players return week after week to farm their four T3 Umbral Engrams. Similar to time-gating, Bungie thus stretches the content over a longer period.
Such elements that stretch the content lead to more consistent player counts. However, this is received very poorly by the players. They no longer feel free in what they can do in Destiny 2.
What does Bungie say about it?: So far, Bungie has not specifically addressed this. The last Glimmer cap increase occurred with the release of Shadowkeep in August 2019. That was also a demand from the community that Bungie fulfilled. It is therefore not unlikely that with “The Witch Queen” in February 2021, a few adjustments will also be made. However, whether all or any limitations will be lifted remains uncertain.
Have you actually reached the limit for your Spectral Pages? What is your opinion on the artificial limits in the game? Have you also lost Ascendant Shards via the post because you couldn’t have any more in your inventory? Do you feel restricted, or do you not even reach the caps?
