It's telling that the EPIC raid race had basically no community engagement (I didn't even tune in at all, I just left one of the checkpoint bot streams up for an hour to get the emblem). From what I've read, the first three bosses were basically the same with slight tweaks, and a mechanic from one would appear in the next one you did. The redone final boss was apparently above and beyond what anyone expected, but also probably going to be an LFG killer like the majority of Salvation's Edge.
But honestly, who cares? The game's in a death spiral and everyone knows it. Bungie once again made everything overly complicated for no good reason, throwing out a system that, while not without issues, at least could be understood and generally worked for most players. They failed to wow anyone with the first expansion of their brand new saga, whose content amounted to "replay the campaign a bunch of times." The raid is about the only good activity they've released, but nobody knows because there aren't enough people playing for a healthy raid community, especially since nobody wants to teach another mechanically complex raid after the last one (granted, a little less so, but we could have done well with something relatively simple (and fuck the super hardcores for complaining about RoN)). And meanwhile, every single week we get another tone-deaf update with empty "we're listening" platitudes and nothing actually addressing the gigantic elephant in the room that is "nobody likes this stupid grind" (another fuck you to those streamers who are now quitting after getting what they asked for because they were too stupid to realize their desires for more grind (read: more content for them to monetize) would kill the game).
You'd think that by now, we'd get an actual message from the game director about the monumental fuckup he presided over, with player numbers dwindling to historic lows and general sentiment in the gutter. But nope, Tyson Green remains completely silent, won't appear on camera, won't write out a state of the game article, won't even fire off a single post anywhere about the game. It just makes it seem like he's either completely ignorant to what's going on (which would make him very stupid), or that he doesn't care and he's going to keep on doing what he's doing (which would make him a bad director). Even if the truth is something more innocuous like he just doesn't feel comfortable in front of a camera, that doesn't matter because he took on a leadership role, and what the game needs now is a visible display of that leadership.
Fuck, a couple years ago, I would've been super excited to get an Iron Axe exotic, and now we're getting it and I don't care. I haven't even played for like two weeks now, and that hasn't happened for literally years. Shit's fucked.
