Destiny 2

As a side effect of the Vaulting process, the new player experience and onboarding for Destiny 2 became one of the worst for any live-service game, ever, and no real effort was made to address this issue, with onboarding mostly pushed onto players and external sources to bridge the gap. Starting Destiny 2 as a new player is confusing right from the jump. Where the original story and experience would have slowly introduced the player into new gameplay mechanics and concepts, and built the player's understanding of the world, characters, and story through multiple missions and cutscenes, most of

This goes hand-in-hand with the FOMO structure, seasonal failures, and disappointing loot systems in Destiny 2. Sunsetting was the act of assigning an expiration date to gear and weapons that players had worked for. By giving existing gear a time limit, it invalidated the time players spent working on those exotic items. This was, in many ways, an issue of Bungie’s own making. Many other live-service titles have gear that becomes obsolete or ineffective beyond their initial introduction. Games like Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft allow incrementally more powerful gear to show up as the

Moving over to Marathon is the main priority. Potential for new projects in the pipeline. Bungie has made it very clear that their work on Destiny 2 is stopping, aside from one final update to send the game off into the eternal sunset. However, it was only in 2022 that Sony acquired the developer for a small sum of a few billion dollars, and they clearly still want to hold onto at least some part of the team. While Halo is very much in the arms of Xbox, Bungie's next steps are going to be very important for the developer's future. The obvious shift is to Marathon, which has already carved

No word of a threequel yet. Active development seems unlikely at best. I was there when the first trailers for Destiny 2 dropped, and as a big fan of the original, I was really excited to see where the franchise was going next. Now, when it came to their monetization model, I wasn't exactly a big supporter. The concept of having to drop $40 every few months was far from ideal, but I was still glad to have some additional content, at least until a third game launched. The gap between the first two games was only three years, and after that, the sequel received a steady stream of DLC that c