<p>In a lengthy post on <a title&equals;"NeoGAF" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;neogaf&period;com&sol;forum&sol;showthread&period;php&quest;p&equals;148984121&num;post148984121" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">NeoGAF<&sol;a>&comma; Destiny game designer Luke Smith made some statements regarding the future of Destiny and what fans can possibly expect next from the game&period; Specifically&comma; he was responding to a fan&&num;8217&semi;s post regarding the next upcoming standalone expansion for The House of Wolves&period; Smith responded to criticisms about the upgrading of Exotic weapons and gear and the purchase of new armor&period; It was encouraging to hear one of the game developers actually address the game&&num;8217&semi;s problems head on&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;99 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad135805 " id&equals;"quads-ad135805" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"3000">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Smith said Bungie is not ready to announce anything official&comma; but he said the &&num;8220&semi;mistakes&&num;8221&semi; made with the first DLC for Destiny&comma; The Dark Below&comma; and its reward economy will not be repeated&period; After the release of The Dark Below&comma; existing Exotic weapons received a damage increase&period; However&comma; players who already owned those Exotic weapons could only get the new buffs by taking the weapons to Xur to upgrade them&period; This cost valuable resources&period; Not only that&comma; it reset all the weapon upgrades of the Exotic weapon back to zero&period; This greatly frustrated fans&period; According to Smith&comma; it was a mistake&comma; and it is a blunder that The House of Wolves will not repeat&period; If there are changes being made to the upgrade system for Exotics in The House of Wolves&comma; I am totally on board&period; That sounds like a positive change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another fan complaint was that vendors began selling gear that basically made it pointless to compete in the Vault of Glass to earn certain vendor gear&period; This is another mistake Bungie plans to address with The House of Wolves&period; I am not as interested in this issue&period; The true problem involves the painfully frustrating and random loot drops from the Vault of Glass&period; However&comma; this issue might be more important to other players&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Luke Smith claims that Bungie will &&num;8220&semi;continue to improve acquisition stories and frequency&comma; lessen the grind and get players to the fun parts of their arsenal faster&period;&&num;8221&semi; Honestly&comma; that sounds great&period; However&comma; if Bungie is not serious and does not deliver on that promise&comma; it will be very frustrating and upsetting&period; This particular remark by Smith must be marked down&comma; so Bungie is held to the proclamation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;99 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad135804 " id&equals;"quads-ad135804" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"3000">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Another issue Smith discussed at length concerned amending the game&&num;8217&semi;s Shard economy&period; Smith claimed&comma; &&num;8220&semi;The part where this didn&&num;8217&semi;t work as well as we&&num;8217&semi;d hoped is with the Shard economy&period; Shards are a barrier between you and equipping a sweet new piece of gear&period;&&num;8221&semi;  There is an easy solution to this&period; Exotic weapons and armor now only require one Exotic Shard to complete the upgrades for the weapon&period; So&comma; if Shard economy is the problem&comma; then make it so Legendary armor and items require fewer Shards to complete their upgrades&period; Same thing with Energy economy for weapons&period; Again&comma; if Bungie is serious about fixing these things&comma; then it is time for the company to put its money where its mouth is&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While the changes have not been implemented&comma; it is still encouraging to hear a game developer for Destiny address these issues&period; Smith actually acknowledged fan complaints and stated how Bungie will address them in the future&period; 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Jeffrey Harris, a pop-culture, entertainment, and video game journalist and aficionado, resides in Los Angeles. He is a staff writer for games, movies/TV, MMA and Wrestling and contributor to Popgeeks.net and Toonzone.net. He is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin's Radio, TV, Film program.
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