EFFORTPOST [Effortpost] Destiny 2 gaymers are melting down and losing their jobs over a couple of leaked PowerPoint slides

https://x.com/Destiny2Team/status/1646967503690813441

If you are unfamiliar with Destiny 2, it is Bungie Studios' second best franchise ever (out of two). It's like World of Warcraft meets Call of Duty except instead play as solders, you're space wizards.

The median Destiny player has like 3000 hours logged in, proving that g*mers are subhumans who deserve less than nothing.

Earlier in March, there were some leaks of new weapons which are basically same as old ones, and some "exotic" armor pieces (which everyone has) would get like 5% worse: https://x.com/Bungie_Leaks/status/1637247451882225666

Today, Bungie made a surprise Tweet sounding like a BPD foid with all that "you breached my trust" and "I won't have s*x (secret summits) with you (streamers) until I can trust u again": https://x.com/Destiny2Team/status/1646967503690813441

Coincidentally, around the same time, a big Destiny streamer called Ekuegan made vague and ominous tweets - also sounding like a BPD foid - of basically "YOU'RE not breaking up with ME, I'M breaking up with YOU!!" He ended up 🔒ing the replies like a b-word.

https://x.com/Ekuegan/status/1647254421514928129

Good morning. I don’t think enough about people that have wronged me or situations that have wronged me. I have gotten to a place where I am happy with who I am in life. I personally know the truth , I know who I am and I’m happy knowing it. Only god can judge me

Meditation ❤️

Complete with self-harm too!(?)

https://x.com/Ekuegan/status/1647297350652788738

Punching bag or not, I’ll be here . Time to experience new games .

https://x.com/Ekuegan/status/1647307333226352640

Blessing in Disguise. I see the real ones

Cue Liana "Hippy" Ruppert, a beloved community manager for Bungo and actual BPD foid. She went on to tweet how this deeply affected her and proceeded to argue in her replies:

https://x.com/DirtyEffinHippy/status/1646972800949944320

Sometimes this job hurts. I don’t think people realize how attached to folks we are. As a human, not employee: when that trust is betrayed, it hurts. Same thing when I was a talent manager: it’s hard when you genuinely care. And we do. Please don’t abuse that trust.

We want you to succeed. I’ve seen so many creators lose entire brands because of one decision. If you’re under NDA, no matter the nature, HONOR that. Don’t show your friends, no matter how much you think you can trust them. VALUE yourself, because you’re amazing.

One last thing: we have people that handle this. Please do not try to seek out leakers, attack them, or seek to harm. Let our teams handle these things, it’s part of the job. Your job is to be amazing, be kind, drink water, and absolutely pwn as a Guardian 🤙🏼

She also made a 26-minute long video on this shit

She also got ratioed in her own replies lol

Reddit reacts:

New tweets coming from the Destiny 2 Team twitter suggest the leaker was a community member who leaked info from a community summit (🔒d by jannies)

Paul Tassi, who somehow gets employed by Forbes to write about this one video game, wrote an article on it.

https://x.com/PaulTassi/status/1647283010868314115

This is not a witch hunt, this is reporting. He is the one Bungie has accused of being the leaker. He denies it. Please read the article

Forbes: "The Alleged ‘Destiny 2’ Leaker Is A Well-Known Streamer, And He Denies It Was Him"

Here's a bit of the article:

In a DM conversation with me on Friday night, Ekuegan confirmed that he has been accused of being the source of the leak by Bungie. Ekuegan is a high-profile Destiny 2 streamer and YouTuber who is famous for having run over 6,000 Grandmaster Nightfalls.

Each Grandmaster Nightfall takes ~20 mins to 1:30 to complete. There are 8760 hours in a year.

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While cooking up this writeup, I came up with this line which I didn't get to serve:

Glaives are like spears except gayer.

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Glaives are spears that you swing with like a sword on a stick to cut down peasants from on horseback.

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glayves

Better than MegaMan games using rod.

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I hated both those games because you're forced to do these stupid fricking puzzle games while shooting at some bad guys. One r-slur forgets to step on the puzzle square and you just lost 45 minutes of your time. I'm so glad I stopped playing videogames a long time ago.

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The game is way too confusing. I thought I was doing the "main campaign" and ended up on empty planet with pyramids and purple rivers, looking out into the abyss of space. Everything else was just grinding caves for loot and currency.

Genuinely think you need some form of autism to enjoy it.

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destiny 1 somehow avoided this problem with a less cohesive design. the solution? not deleting half your content and having a simple quest replay option

destiny is such a frustrating failure. the end of d1 year one and the beginning of year two were so fricking good despite all the r-slurred decisions and cut content. then they released d2, ruined the weapon system, replaced all the gear, and made all the characters marvel r-slurs. I quit shortly after and the two times i went back it was even more convoluted and worse

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You forgot to mention the best part. The started to fix the game again with Forsaken in D2, narrative and gameplay were both on a good track, then they released a shitty expansion while announcing some of the worst FOMO content ever devised in a video game. Everything you had earned up to that point would be made obsolete and all the content you had bought would be removed from the game. The backlash was so severe that they had to scrap their original plans for obsoleting your gear every 3 months and settle on a half measure of only obsoleting everything you'd earned up to that point.

Destiny as a franchise has some of the most consumer-hostile monetization in a video game, beaten only by pay to win mobile game trash, but somehow g*mers still eat it up because the guns are fun to shoot and the world is kind of cool. I can't imagine still giving money to a company after they take away something that you payed for.

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came back to play specifically because my consoomer rl friends were losing their minds about forsaken. that gambit gametype was neat but the next expansion came out by the time i was around and as you said it had all the fomo stuff and i was just done.

oh that’s another thing. basically 0 times did a portrayal of someone mentioned in the surprisingly readable lore turn out well.

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Genuinely think you need some form of autism to enjoy it.

It's worse than that. Every time I find a Raid group on LFG, it's full of Bri'ish :marseybong:

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What did you move on to? TTRPGs? Card games? Board games? War games?

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ranked competitive gooning :marseycoomer2:

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I'm so glad I stopped playing videogames a long time ago.

Good, more Resident Evil 4 Remake for me :marseywholesome:

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>no midget napoleon

>no b movie camp

What's the point?

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The incels are right about Ada's VA, she's shit

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Knife fight kino

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Here's the knife fight kino.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16816728062290952.webp

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YES I want to go in on the raids because I’ve liked destiny lore and want neat armor but all the jumping puzzles and squinting at the screen for tiny symbols and in what order you shoot them or kill enemies in or whatever is not what I want to do in a fricking fps

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They left Halo and that series went to shit while Bungie never made a good game since.

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>out of two

Marathoncels seething rn

trans lives matter

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they’re making another game and i just know it’ll be shit

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Are they really? Yeah, they'll probably pack it with woke nonsense, sadly.

(Like trans lives matter)

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its going to be a knockoff tarkov shooter lmao

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Dear Destiny fans,

:#marseyropeyourself2:

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:#marseydisagree:

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:#marseyropeyourselfmirror:

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Great post!

Paul Tassi, who somehow gets employed by Forbes to write about this one video game, wrote an article on it.

That guy is not employed by Forbes, but is a "Senior Contributor". IIRC, contributors are not compensated for writing articles (by Forbes at least, I'm sure they can get paid by writing about specific companies / products :marseymerchant:).

They are glorified Medium writers but they get to say they've written for Forbes.

Here's a guide on how to become one from a guy who works at a digital marketing agency.

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Ain't no way this man gets paid a janny salary for Forbes and writes book series called "HEROKILLER" while living in Ohio :taylaugh:

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They do it for free?

Trans lives matter

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And still no new Crucible maps

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That’s what really fricks me up. The last new map we got was fricking disjunction. piece of shit.

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https://x.com/MJWaldo/status/1647047394704388096

I feel bad for guys like Cammycakes who are skilled enough go pro at the other half of the game but Bungo's just like "lol who cares"

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I love cammy and his wizard beard

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it is Bungie Studios' second best franchise ever (out of two).

Marathon gets no respect :mar!seydepressed:

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Nor should it

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Halo gets taken over by Microsoft and it's complete shit

Bungie tries to make Halo MMO and it turns out it's complete shit

Bungie breaks free from Microsoft and makes their crown jewel Destiny 2... which is also complete shit

The life of a Destinycel is a sad one...

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The median Destiny player has like 3000 hours logged in, proving that g*mers are subhumans who deserve less than nothing.

I ain’t that bad

:#marseysweating:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1681614918894623.webp

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Shouldn't time wasted also be 1160 hours and 40 minutes?

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:#marseyagree:

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Lmao neighbor missed the best season

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The ones I missed I just did next season since you can still grab the quest and do the event

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I mean season of dawn

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Oh yeah I 100% missed that first couple they did

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:marseyitsover::marseyitsover:

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lifetime triumph

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What about it?

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I actually liked Destiny 1 post-TTK and got pretty deep into it. Sort of picked up D2 and tried to like it (the original campaign wasn’t half bad) but dropped off once I got a real job. Tried getting back into Destiny recently and it was like that one time I tried to get into Dota 2. Why is all this shit inaccessible now? Why do I have to spend so much time figuring out what is and isn’t relevant?

It’s really atrocious product design/marketing when I have to spend multiple hours trying to figure out what to spend my money on.

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Why does it matter if got leaked anyways... Not like this is a spoiler or somthin

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That's the funniest part: it's basically over nothing. Everyone and their dog knew Starfire Protocol was going to get nerfed because every single Warlock is wearing it

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They broke NDA :soycry:

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The ophidian aspect melee range nerf surprised me.

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The leaks reveal the next season's weapons and theme as well. In addition to them completley removing light level for just a normal leveling system shared between characters.

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It's like World of Warcraft meets Call of Duty except instead play as solders, you're space wizards.

That actually sounds fun. I've been ignoring this franchise because I hate everyone I've met who plays it, am I wrong to sleep on it?

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Its hard to get into but when youre already into it its really good(in spurts). Im one of the strags OP talks about with 2000+ hours on it. Its my favorite game, but it does make me rage sometimes.

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It's the only first person shooter where you can do this.

It's free to try. Make a character, run through the intro quest and then hop in the Vanguard Ops playlist. Bungie is your drug dealer offering you free lines of high-grade blow to get you hooked.

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The only time Destiny was ever good was at the end of Destiny 1. It has always sucked otherwise.

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Who cares?

The internet is not for children, frickboy.

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Why the frick are you on this website then, you dweeb

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Stop marginalizing me and my people.

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hypothetically speaking if someone was to make fake leaked screenshots of a company slideshow about taking more money from players and “focusing on diversity” how mad would g*mers get

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Where's the PowerPoint

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