[2019] Bungie, the new nightfalls need exclusive loot.

Thank for the feedback. Want to get a bit more on your feelings here.

In Year 1, we had a bit of feedback that Nightfalls didn't feel rewarding enough, thus Uniques/Emblems/Scoring were brought into the fold. Feedback was given that the weapons were great, but the cosmetic rewards (ghosts, sparrows, ships) weren't as desirable. Forsaken added a few weapons w/ random rolls that helped to address this.

Moving into Shadowkeep, Nightfalls became a repeatable grind to earn Masterwork materials, and Exotics w/ random rolls. Do you feel that this isn't as rewarding as a a single weapon?

Thanks a ton.

Time, resources, etc.

Create a weapon for a NF which is becoming a masterwork/exotic grind, or create a unique weapon for the Raid?

There isn't always a 1:1 comparison, but it's something to help frame the scenario. We don't have the ability to create unique weapons for every single activity in the game each release, so there has to be prioritization while factoring in every reward available per activity.

This is indeed feedback that the team has heard. Before getting into this, I want say clearly, we did not take these rewards from activities and move them to eververse.

To give a bit of context, there were goals to make the entire season/shadowkeep launch feel unified by having items in the Eververse be Vex/Scarlet Keep themed. We have been looking at the feedback and understand how this led to the perception that the rewards were taken from activities, rather than created specifically for purchase.

There will always be a drive in development to have Eververse items feel tied to the Destiny universe, but we can be much better at ensuring they don't feel too thematically tied to activities/gameplay rewards.