Bungie slashes Destiny 2 Commendation requirements in response to player feedback, and it should slash them again

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One of the most bewildering fumbles highlighted in my Destiny 2: Lightfall review is the handling of the new Commendation system. This lets you tip your hat to teammates at the end of an activity, acknowledging them as skilled or helpful or level-headed, which sounds cool, right? But the enjoyment of the system is hurt by the fact that Commendations, and I mean thousands of them, are required to progress along the also-new Guardian Ranks, and there's no actionable way to accrue them. Fortunately, Bungie's now dramatically reduced Commendation requirements in response to player feedback, but quite frankly it should reduce them again.

Per the Destiny 2 Team Twitter account (opens in new tab) – which has quickly become another helpful line straight to the devs – the Commendation requirements for upper Guardian Ranks have been changed from:

"Guardian Ranks Update: To more closely match our goals, we have reduced the required Commendations score to complete objectives across all Guardian Ranks," Bungie help explained in a separate tweet (opens in new tab). "Objective descriptions will be updated on March 16 to display the new Commendations requirements." 

First of all, why did we originally jump from 1,750 to 5,000 within a single rank? Secondly, who was ever going to get 6,000 Commendations without cheesing them (as players, very quickly and very predictably, did)? At least in this lifetime. And finally, why are we stopping here? I'm happy that Bungie's already acted on the feedback that Commendations were totally stalling Guardian Ranks, but I think the problem still lingers. 

Commendations are still required, which sucks the spontaneity out of commending a random player who really put in work. It just puts a chip on your