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Destiny 2’s most controversial follow isn’t any extra. Bungie confirmed throughout its 2022 showcase immediately that no extra of the loot shooter’s content material shall be vaulted. That announcement comes after a number of fan complaints lately as enormous parts of the sport had been eliminated to make room for brand new expansions.
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Beginning with the 2020 launch of Beyond Light, Bungie has been “vaulting” previous content material, deleting total campaigns and planets, to attempt to preserve the sport’s digital footprint and technical calls for inside motive. But that’s additionally led to the lack of any semblance of an entry level for brand new gamers, in addition to the erasure of a few of Destiny 2’s finest story beats (I’m taking a look at you, Forsaken).
“We’ve also been working on the Destiny engine behind the scenes, preparing our technology and our game to last for many, many years to come because Destiny 2 is not going anywhere and neither are your expansions,” Destiny 2 normal supervisor, Justin Truman, mentioned throughout Tuesday’s showcase. “We want this story since we first communed with the Darkness on the Moon to be fully playable from start to finish and we’re happy to announce today that we’re not planning to sunset any more expansions.”
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What Truman is saying is that Bungie needs some stage of continuity between the launch of Shadowkeep in 2019 and the conclusion of the Saga of Light and Darkness with The Final Shape someday in 2024. That four-part arc revolves round encountering The Darkness and its brokers, and is pretty much as good a place to begin as any to cease pruning. Seasonal content material, in the meantime, will seemingly nonetheless proceed to filter out yearly.
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One clear takeaway from Truman’s little speech was that Destiny 3 will not be coming anytime quickly, if in any respect. Destiny launched again in 2014 with Activision because the writer, an organization infamous for the aggressive annualization of gaming sequels. Bungie broke from the Call of Duty maker in 2019, nevertheless, and was bought earlier this 12 months by Sony. The launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X would have been a pure peg for Destiny 3, however as an alternative Bungie launched a new-gen replace for Destiny 2 on the finish of 2020.
This places the sport in keeping with different large MMOs like World of Warcraft and Warframe, which regularly iterate somewhat than rebuilding from scratch each few years. And whereas it’s positively extra sustainable from a growth viewpoint, I’d be mendacity if I mentioned I wasn’t barely disenchanted. I’d like to see Destiny take some large dangers and make some enormous adjustments after The Final Shape concludes. We’ll see if it might nonetheless handle that evolution on the present basis that launched again in 2017.
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Of course, Truman did solely say that that is what Bungie was “planning” to do, and plans can all the time change, particularly if the technical constraints grow to be too large down the street. Destiny has promised (and carried out) a whole lot of issues over time that it later reversed course on. Hopefully an finish to vaulting content material isn’t certainly one of them. And solely time will inform if the stuff that was already banished will get a second likelihood in some unspecified time in the future.