Daily Reaction: Is the Drama Around Destiny 2 Exotic Nerfs Overblown" - Videogames Blogs

Daily Reaction: Is the Drama Around Destiny 2 Exotic Nerfs Overblown"



If you were anywhere near the Destiny community in the last 24 hours, you probably heard a collective explosion of outrage, anger, confusion, and a whole bunch of other feelings that people can?t even seem to put into words. Ahead of the June 4 Season of Opulence update, Bungie let everyone know that they would be nerfing some Exotic gear that has become too powerful and makes designing new challenging content a, well, challenge. Yup, Bungie mentioned the dreaded ?nerf? word, which makes players go ballistic. The response to the Destiny 2 Exotic nerfs is a kneejerk response, one that doesn?t largely understand the bigger goal outside of not wanting to lose unlimited ammo capabilities on their sniper or literal constant supers that trivialize any challenge. As a Destiny player myself, I don?t agree with the overblown response from the community. There?s a certain entitlement that everyone seems to have to ?their power fantasy? with no regard for the game development side of things and the difficulties that come up when players can literally have infinite powerful ammo or infinite supers that deal extra damage and heal in the process. Power weapons are designed to be spikes in the gameplay, not the sole source of DPS (damage per second). Supers are designed the same way, special moments that either deal a lot of damage or save the team. Bypassing the economy of occasional power spikes for God Mode might be a rush, but there are a lot of problems with taking on that kind of po...
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