Destiny had a lot of problems spanning years.
The eververse store in D1 supposed to only fund events like the dawning and more.
The bad original story
The eververse engram lootbox rigging
Curse of Osiris
Shadowkeep
Lightfall
Pvp being left unattended for years, with a VERY small amount of maps being added over its run.
The story going into more about relationships than being a soldier of the dark and light and saving humanity from the brink.
Constant FOMO, seasonal content grinds being vapid or filled with go here and talk to X. Then go to teleprompter and talk to x
Microtransactions on everything.
Low amount of cosmetics to earn unless you paid a fortune.
Meta shifting or soft sunsetting of power constantly ruining your builds you spent hours making
8 years to get loadouts in game.
The overdelivery line.
Pete Parsons and his wheels
Stealing art
Sunsetting campaigns so people dont know what happened unless they watch a YouTube video.
Charging for seasons, putting unique gameplay modes then deleting them next expansion.
Bad MMO features because the game was originally designed NOT to be an MMO.
I can go on and on but the downfall of bungie hasn't been fast, its been slow. All these things point to why another player dropped off year over year, then something happens and another one drops off. It repeated even up until final shape which people just checked out for and it missed its revenue targets by a mile.
I know it happened because my brother who was a die hard fan, sinking thousands of hours just cold turkey quit because of the building pressure and annoyance with how bad the story got. Opting to hard pivot into FF14, A genre he didn't even like before and making it his main stay.
My point is bungie had lightning in a bottle and chose to nickle and dime, put out things way too fast to make them as good as they can and ultimately made bad content in a lot of places and those things cant exist in this market that we'll anymore.
Im sad to see it go, gave me real good friends and people who look out for me even when i cant be around to do the same. Even sadder to see it go after the Moments of Triumph update knowing things like this were always possible.
But im not gonna sugar coat it, the game was a mess with moments of being one of the greatest there ever was. (Still sunk many thousands of hours though, and id probably do it again)
So basically Sony shut Destiny 2 down because they felt threatened by its overwhelming presence, and they obviously can’t make new successful live services if Destiny 2 is still in the picture…
…Is that the message between the lines that I’m understanding correctly?
Bungie was the dream job. I feel beyond fortunate I was able to work on Destiny 2 for the past five years, to see Marathon grow into its own, and to have met so many talented and kind people. I'd do it all again.
If you need a visual/graphic designer, I'll be looking for work.
Destiny is the greatest gaming franchise ever created and it is so awful that the people who helped create it are being let go today.
To the developers who made this wonderful world, THANK YOU SO MUCH! You deserve better, and I know you’ll go on to do great things❤️
And with that, it looks like my time with Bungie has come to an end. It's been a pleasure, and I'll have more to say and show off later. This job was a dream I still can't believe came true.
Bungie Strong
Destiny Forever