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[German Shocks]

It was destined to fail.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Best I can do is season 2 of marathon.

 

[Nydius]

What made me give up on Destiny 2, ultimately, was Bungie's greed. As much as I was annoyed with content vaulting, it was when they started trying to extract every dollar out of their players when I finally checked out. The Bungie Anniversary stuff should have been completely free, not a $25 "premium" add on. Then paywalling dungeons behind deluxe edition expansions or season passes, or selling them separately as a premium.

Hell, I just took at peek at the current state of D2 pricing. As someone who quit after Beyond Light, if I wanted to come back and have an as-close-to-feature-complete game as possible, I'd have to shell out $150 for:

• Destiny 2: The Legacy Collection (2025) [$70]
• Destiny 2: Year of Prophecy [$80]

Even then I still wouldn't have access to the dungeons from the last three expansions included in The Legacy Collection and would have to buy the keys separately.

Bungie's greed is what killed Destiny, nothing else.

 

[reezoo]

100 devs at 200K each for 4 years is 80m. What the hell these games spending money on ? I think there's crazy amount of slack in gaming industry causing it to go into crisis.

 

[LordCBH]

Run D1 classic. Gated progression like WoW does, and just layer each expansion on bit by bit over a year.

Easy money to just 60fps it. Sell it for $40 to include all D1 content but offer eternal mode for all content at once, and a classic mode like I mentioned above.

Brother I would spend $60 on that no cap. Add in cross play to it and I'd likely buy it on both my PS5 and my PC.

 

[sainraja]

I just think this is reductionist mentality because that could be said for litrelly any game.

Firstly there's a few things one the reason destiny 2 flat lined was because bungies poor management, destiny 2 took a major hit because years back they neutered a ton of the best talent and put it on Marathon so destiny 2 lost priority.

So bungie should have just kept putting out Destiny even if they wanted to work on a new IP? Obviously focus is going to shift if that is something they wanted to do. I don't like it either so I don't really disagree.

With better leadership if bungie was made to allocate 100% on destiny 3 you're running at full force, everything is all ideas... The idea that d2 is it is just silly because there's litrelly any story that could be told, new worlds a whole new saga, in gaming it can go anywhere.

Where could they have taken the game by putting a #3 at the end of it though? just a shiny new coat of paint with more strikes, more raids, more dungeons and new loot. This is basically the formula they were following.

D3 also would've brought new engine to make a good feeling game feel even that much better, a new game gets people excited again with new loot, new quests, new worlds, new possibilities, maybe they have a new mode that becomes fan favorites like iron banner, or trials etc..

Destiny 2 was that new game once. People wanted gear they had in Destiny 1 brought over. Bungie responded by doing just that. What makes you think Destiny 3 wouldn't face the same thing? Seasonal weapons ended up being mostly reskins of weapons from before. How many different shapes of all the different weapons could they keep putting out for D3 that would have made a difference? It didn't for D2.

To me, when someone says what exactly can d3 do that hasn't been done in d2, tells me they aren't and weren't invested in destiny. Because in that game the sky was the limit, d3 with a full on bungie is the difference. Destiny hasnt had priority and 100% attention in years and that's why it went on autopilot.

How much could they really change about the series though? Expectations have already been set, the formula has been mostly set. Any time bungie has deviated from that, they have faced criticism, which they prob shouldn't have listened to.

D3 would've absolutely been a hit.

 

[sainraja]

Run D1 classic. Gated progression like WoW does, and just layer each expansion on bit by bit over a year.

Easy money to just 60fps it. Sell it for $40 to include all D1 content but offer eternal mode for all content at once, and a classic mode like I mentioned above.

You're forgetting how entitled gamers are. They'd complain about that too lol.