15 Weirdest Gaming Stories From 2017

Destiny 2 Anti-XP Gain

So first Destiny 2 strips nearly everything that made Destiny 1 so great in its final year. Then it relegated many items earned through in-game play behind the Eververse cash shop. Then it offered no end-game for hardcore players. And then it throttled XP gain for players, likely to push them towards buying Bright Engrams aka loot boxes. Bungie would later address this, saying that the system was “not working as intended” and would remove it. Then it went and doubled the XP requirements for Bright Engrams. We could go on but really, we don’t want to.