In an internal town hall meeting addressing a Monday round of layoffs that impacted multiple departments, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons allegedly told remaining employees that the company had kept “the right people” to continue work on Destiny 2.

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate that they make it sound, as if it's an impossible issue to solve. It's underperforming because new people can't figure out what to do in the game, and veterans cannot find enough things to do. You can only play crucible for so long.

They clearly have the artists and the engineers to do this, but they put all of that effort into new cash shop skins, rather than game content

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It doesn't help that the game tries to squeeze every penny from anyone playing the game.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

a lot of the end game content isn’t playable unless you have a guild that constantly grinds for it. And by guilds: these are guilds that are like 5 yrs old and you’re expecting these players to still want to hang around be content with grinding to bring in the newbies to the fold. Good luck with trying to find someone who is willing to teach as their interest wanes. Bungie tried enticing older guilds to teach new players with player banners to do guided runs. But that was a fail. No one has that kind of time on their hands.

Those dungeons are some of the most complicated ridiculous things I’ve ever had the displeasure of researching. Like just watching the YouTube tutorials on kings fall and how they had to speed it up and get nausea while they try to tell you all the keyhole attempts just to open the dungeon was enough for me to nope the fuck off from ever doing raids or dungeons.

And just doing companion apps to try to learn the dungeons was a fail.

games are supposed to be what you do for fun. It’s nothing but stress if one player, just one: fucks up, your whole team is wiped and you just lost the last hour or even two of play. Down the drain. You are just left with despair and hatred for your entire fireteam.

That is how it’s designed without apology.

They actually have players SAVING dungeon points on the companion app. That should tell you all you need to know about how unplayable that EGC actually is.