I dont know why they just dont make this shit easier for noobs to buy and play. Its something like $160 or some shit to be all caught up with expansions and DLC and thats kinda expensive to just dive into a game you dont know shit about if you never played it. I guess you can always try the free shit but that locks you out of all the cool stuff.
Also Ive been playing my kids account so I can catch him up a bit and its silly how much grinding you need to do in order to be caught up. Like the soft cap should be like 10 away from 1580 because as it stands now its a shit ton of grind to get to 1580 from 1530, the soft cap. And thats not even considering the gear grind, the exotics and all that other shit. they do level you up to 1570, 10 under, to do the seasonal stuff but still, the matchmaking pairs you with other noobs and its a fucking struggle to get through the 3 man seasonal shit especially the seraph stuff 10 light under. And none of them even had the champ mods, at least none that ive played with so I dont even think they do a good job explaining all that shit either. I had to literally equip both hand cannon and pulse to stun the champs in the missions i ran with the noobs. It was a mess. I think a good tutorial would be good here explaining the mods and shit, but I guess all that is going away with new expansion anyways so my point is moot.
Man IDK, I think if they streamlined the new player experience a bit and made shit more concise, more easy and easy to acess, more people would play i would think. Insead I see people just quitting at the daunting task of leveling up, gearing up, and being curb stomped by content like that.