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Some players noticed that the longer they played Destiny 2, the slower they’d progress, despite the fact that they were repeating the same activities. The first time a player would earn 5,000 XP, they’d see a large chunk of their XP bar fill. The second or third (or fifteenth) time they earned the same number of XP, the bar would get a much smaller chunk.
The whole issue is a bigger deal than it might otherwise have been chiefly because of the way XP is tied in with Destiny 2’s Eververse microtransaction hub. Bungie could have had any number of reasons for designing the XP system the way they did, but many players were quick to ascribe the most obvious (and nefarious) reasoning: that Bungie wants players to feel like they’re making progress more slowly in order to encourage them to spend money to get Bright Engrams faster.
The whole issue is a bigger deal than it might otherwise have been chiefly because of the way XP is tied in with Destiny 2’s Eververse microtransaction hub. Bungie could have had any number of reasons for designing the XP system the way they did, but many players were quick to ascribe the most obvious (and nefarious) reasoning: that Bungie wants players to feel like they’re making progress more slowly in order to encourage them to spend money to get Bright Engrams faster.