Out of the loop. Why is Destiny 2 sinking? Didn't the game use to print money? Did the money not get reinvested back into the live service (like how FFXIV funds get vacuumed away to prop up the rest of Square Enix), or did Bungie make some bad artistic choices, or what?

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

There are several contributors here.

Halfway through the lifecycle of Destiny 2 so far, Bungie realized that they have an insane amount of technological debt, and started cutting content out of the game, because it was unsustainable otherwise. The original promise was to rotate the cut content back in, but it was essentially just a lie.

One other outstanding issue is how bland, underdeveloped, and uninspired things are. Every update is "two tokens, and a blue". Every new event is either standing on a plate, or throwing a core. Core game systems don't work. The entire new season is fundamentally broken, and took away thing people still liked, just to return a ton of things people despised.

There is a lot more to it, but the core of the issue can be narrowed down to the business leadership being completely out of touch with reality, and bleeding resources

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Game had its big final several years in the waiting boss show up and its storyline basically ended. Now it feels more like we're doing post game sidequest stuff.

Also theres various reports of bungie firings and d2 being in maintenance mode while they try to push out a tarkov knockoff

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Everything I've heard about marathon is that's it's becoming less and less like tarkov.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe its changed up since I last read about it, but when I did it, iirc it was an extraction shooter, they brought a bunch of Tarkov guys out to try it, and asked them if they'd stream it if it was live, to which all of them gave a hard no. Maybe it hadn't been cooked enough yet so it didn't have a compelling vibe, or maybe Bungie decided to change shit up since then, couldn't say. I'm not a extraction shooter fan in any case so the whole thing has no appeal to me.

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

After that they changed creative director, and since then it's been becoming less extractiony and more hero shootery.

[–] Renacles@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I don't have high hopes for any game that goes through such a drastic change late in development.