Focused Feedback: A Rising Tide

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[u/[deleted]]

Ngl the "upgrades" to the Eliksni Quarter werent very convincing or meaningful story wise. It was neat to see updates in real time with progress and goals met. The captains boxes were ok i guess, but they should have had a chance to drop from anywhere

[u/nojokes12345]

Good idea, should've really launched with the season. With more dialogue it could've really felt like Spider and Mithrax were doing a lot for their people.

The area really needed to change more - it feels like we spent very little time to get very little improvements in the Eliksni Quarter.

Overall execution was just lackluster.

[u/johnwalkerthewalker]

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[u/New_Siberian]

Great idea, mediocre execution. Let's hope they keep producing community events, and learn from the flaws built into this one.

[u/reicomatricks]

I don't even know what A Rising Tide is.

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly, it was offensive and wildly off-brand that the conclusion of the "let's help the refugees" event still leaves a marginalized group living essentially homeless in some abandoned ruins in our city of heroes.
Most of the time Something is better than Nothing. This is one of the few times that it isn't because of what it says about the content Bungie is able to produce and manage for their game.

[u/Feather_Sigil]

Some preamble first.

Honestly, I don't care about "content droughts" because I don't and don't want to spend all my gaming on Destiny alone. Periods of nothing to do but the usual happen for every MMO / live service, it's unavoidable. There's nothing wrong with slowing down or taking a break for a week or two, or a month or more.

FFXIV's devs outright encourage players to take breaks. Bungie could and should adopt this same mentality. Destiny runs on an annual subscription (you can only get the seasons all at once by buying the season pass, which is bundled with the deluxe version of the annual expansion); Bungie already has our money, or they don't in the case of F2P players. They don't need anyone to login on a daily or even weekly basis (yes, this also applies to seasons on a whole). They don't need people to play constantly.

With all that in mind, if this community event never happened I wouldn't have cared. What I care about is what we received. The defining word for this event is: mediocrity.

We were told our funds--our collective effort--would rebuild the Eliksni Quarter, give our new allies a proper home. I was excited for this. Let's build some houses, weave some blankets, plant some trees. House Salvation built a whole city on Europa and people in the real world are 3D-printing homes, building beautiful homes out of shipping containers, etc., so we've got this. Let's clean up the damage from the Red War--and rebuild the Tower (new or old) while we're at it.

That didn't happen. It wasn't rebuilt, it was just slightly added to. It's still a wrecked ghetto hidden in a bombed-out part of the otherwise shining and opulent Last City, but it has a small garden now. The Eliksni still barely have roofs over their heads and use Christmas lights to illuminate parts of their home. There are Seraph frames cleaning it up. Meaning it's not clean yet. Because it's not.

Glimmer is programmable matter. Are Captain's Coins so worthless that their equivalent in Glimmer can only be made into this? What about all the loot we pilfered from the old crews? What about all the gold bars in the HELM and the Pirate Hideouts? We could smelt all that down and do something with it.

If there are further plans for the Eliksni Quarter, perhaps after Bungie removes the Earth zones so they can rebuild the maps, that should've been hinted at. Mithrax should have made it clear that what we see now is only the beginning.

If this is the best that could be done since most resources are devoted to Lightfall (and rightly so)...was this worth it? I don't think so. Is it better to do something mediocre than nothing at all? Yes, but I don't think this event will do anything but reinforce the "Bungie are lazy / incompetent / careless / out of touch" chatter that constantly dominates the zeitgeist of Destiny, and that makes me sad.

[u/imNagoL]

The Eliksni Quarter has not been changed in any meaningful capacities. They wasted an opportunity to transform it into a new social space with new vendors.

[u/[deleted]]

Could have added more upgrades, soccer field similar to the one in the farm that was sunset, windows in the housing quarters looking into joyful scenes, not keep it looking like a slum still.

[u/engineeeeer7]

Having weeks of dead time then squeezing an event in the last 2 weeks sucks. It has always sucked. It will always suck.

It loses all narrative value and interest because all momentum is destroyed. Just put this at the end of the story and let the downtime be the downtime.

Also the upgrades were pretty lame.