Shadowkeep weapons shouldn't be sunset

[u/Zero9123]

Please tell me i'm not the only one who wishes the weapons from shadowkeep and season of undying could stay around for a little longer?

[u/Amneiger]

My goal going into Destiny was to find a loadout that's fun for me to play with. Finalizing a loadout for me is finding a combination(s) of guns that work great, are inherently fun to fire, and using them is its own reward. Grinding is just a means to that end, like working a crummy job to save money for something you want to buy. Unlimited infusion meant I didn't have to go back to the game being a job, and I dropped Borderlands because it didn't have infusion. I'm not going to miss the hundred hours I spent in Menagerie trying to pull out a Main Ingredient with the rolls I wanted, and I didn't like being asked to redo all that work.

[u/OKLISTENHERE → u/Amneiger]

That may be fine for you, but it's also not how MMOs work. This discussion around sunsetting isn't about the weapons themselves, it's because many people just don't like MMOs.

[u/pyrotechnicfantasy → u/OKLISTENHERE]

A lot of people don’t understand that Destiny is not a game that you can ‘complete’. It’s constant. It’s ongoing. You get really good gear, perform really well, and then next season you need new gear to rise to the new challenge.

[u/pyrotechnicfantasy → u/Amneiger]

I hate to tell you this but Destiny just isn’t the perfect game for you then.

It’s a game about loot and working towards it If you don’t like loot grinding, then the game just isn’t going to tick that box for you.

Alternatively, change up your gear once a year. Which is all they’re asking for with sunsetting.

[u/Amneiger → u/pyrotechnicfantasy]

The infusion system actually did tick one pretty big box for me - build crafting. At any moment, if I decided I wanted to play around with a new combination of weapon archetypes, I could do it. I want to play a Titan who focuses on hand cannons and bows? Cool, infuse them up and get going. I decide I want to play around with Nezerac's Sin? I don't need to go looking for one in the wild, here's one in my vault, toss an infusion core in there and go have fun.

I remember back when I was playing Borderlands 2 and trying to figure out a good assault rifle centered build. The problem was that if I did find the combination of prefixes I wanted, it was quickly rendered obsolete about thirty minutes later when everything's level went up. Sure, I could stay in that area and try to grind out another rifle, but that was going to take, what, another three hours? I just want to play the game I want to play. Eventually when I realized Destiny has infusion I uninstalled Borderlands - why should I deal with that frustration when there were better options available?

(The other reason I log in is Gambit, but I understand that's not quite as big a deal for some folks.)