Let's just be honest with ourselves. All bullshit, formality and misguided respect aside.
Bungie is lazy. Period.
With as many talented people they have, and the sheer number of staff they have on hand, plus all the external help they receive, with as much money they've pulled in from game sales, DLC and microtransactions, along with promises of an improved toolkit and development process and with all of the feedback and outcry from over the years, there's just zero, absolutely ZERO excuse for there to be even more re-skins, missions taking place in existing areas (like in Destiny 1) and just the overall shallowness of everything. The art is nice. The environments look cool, but that's about it. It's funny because I didn't expect much and had very low expectations, yet I still end up unsatisfied. I guess I was hoping that maybe they'll exhibit a spark of inspiration and a sense of nuance and depth.
Nope. Instead, they do the bare minimum, knowing people like me will buy it. What a shame. So much potential, yet they seemingly just don't give a shit.
To insinuate that they only release the bare amount of content because they assume people will just buy it?
To say that they seemingly "just don't give a shit." You know, because they've spent the last 10 years working, trying to figure this concept out, reacting to fans, taking shit, working anyway, trying to build this out clearly means they don't care.
But yes, Bungie is lazy. Clearly. That's why human beings that work there go into work everyday. To tickle their buttholes while they see the dollar signs going up. Death threats, attack on their character and morals? Pssssh they getting the monies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Being critical of a video game: we need to be. I've been extremely critical of Bungie, 343 Industries, DICE and other developers whose games I love. Because I know they are listening. I see them respond on Twitter, respond with patches, blog posts. But also because I know that they also want the game they are working on to be loved. No one puts in effort into anything just cause. Particularly in a space as gruelling as game development. If a game doesn't fit what I want it to be, Halo 5 comes to mind here for me, I respectfully share my criticism as to why its not working for me and then I... stop playing. It's not worth the frustration, the anger for me. And it's an indicator to the studio that perhaps the design decision they made isn't reflective of what the player base, providing them another metric to bring back in and try to fix.
But to level baseless accusations at a group of people doing a thankless job (Because lets face it, making games for the gaming communities we have now? Completely, utterly thankless).
Share your criticisms, vote with your time and effort. But remember that these developers are humans.
Geez.
