Destiny 2 aimed to simplify loot farming with a new feature, but repeated a mistake from WoW.
What is this mistake? Bungie introduced the new portal system with the release of Forsaken, through which players can start and repeat activities. The portal system serves as a kind of activities hub and replaced the Pathfinder system.
The system offers a customizable difficulty and various modifiers, allowing players to tailor the missions to their own demands. Additionally, you farm your top loot here. The core idea behind the portal system is to give players more control over the potential rewards of the activity.
Within the portal, certain missions have proven to be particularly rewarding since the system’s launch, as they can be completed relatively quickly and easily when you want to farm the best loot to increase your power level. The remaining missions are ignored. Even worse, all content that does not appear in the portal is affected, as you only get the loot you need to reach power level 400 and above there.
What does this have to do with WoW? A player compares the current situation of the portal system on Reddit with the dungeon finder in WoW. He is convinced that Bungie has just made the same mistake in Destiny 2 that Blizzard made with World of Warcraft back in 2009 with the release of the dungeon finders.
The player states that the WoW community started to repeatedly play the quickest dungeons for daily rewards after the dungeon finder’s introduction, completely ignoring other dungeons. His thesis is: “Players will always take the fun out of the game when the system encourages them to do so.”
He believes it is human nature for players to seek the easiest path and grind as efficiently as possible. The choice that these games give players is merely an illusion. There is always one optimal option that everyone plays because it leads to the goal the fastest and easiest – even if that takes the fun out of the game.
The post collected over 2,500 upvotes on Reddit within a day and received much agreement in the comments, including from former WoW players.
Why is this a problem? The grind for power level is a motivation for many players in Destiny 2 to play and a significant driving force. If this grind becomes faster and more monotonous, players could lose interest – especially if increasing the power level is such a laborious and time-consuming task.
Especially players who want to complete new raids in contest mode are dependent on a high power level. If their level is too low, they are not competitive. This is even more critical considering how many players cheated in the World First race: Countless teams faced the new raid in Destiny 2, it turns out: The majority of the best have cheated.
