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by p1necone 1564 days ago
> Destiny 2 ruined this for me in a big way with how they are not just introducing new content but also removing old content, content I paid for and now can never access again.

There are good reasons why this can be healthy for a game that's constantly evolving with new content and is intended to be live for like a decade+ like Destiny. By sunsetting old content periodically they have a much easier time balancing everything, and making sure the world is consistent. They can also do visual improvements over time without having to polish an ever increasing pile of old content.

See also: leagues in Path of Exile, set rotation in trading card games.

Destiny is an MMO, you should know going in that it's a live, evolving beast. Not something that you can rely on staying the same forever.

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PoE leagues are exactly what I expected from Destiny 2, so I was pretty confused when I realized there wasn't a "main game" to go back to. Whatever you didn't accomplish during the season was lost when it ended, and nothing you worked to gain was guaranteed to be worth anything next time.

I suppose it was my first "MMO" because I certainly hadn't played anything with that type of model before.