Destiny 2 Edge of Fate is the worst-performing expansion in the MMO’s history as player counts continue to fall
Destiny 2 Edge of Fate is the worst-performing expansion in the MMO’s history as player counts continue to fall
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Never even heard of it, so that’s not a good sign.
Careful. You’re going to attract the cultist who can’t handle criticism of the game.
Just let it die and either make a new game to regain player trust or just fade into obscurity
Not surprising. People have been ditching the Destiny treadmill for a while now. Doesn’t help that half the game has been removed so you can’t really onboard new players very well.
The foundation of Destiny 2 has always been good but my god the way it’s been constantly mismanaged since launch is astounding
It’s doing pretty bad playercount-wise on Steam compared to previous ones. Every main expansion broke 200k concurrent, this one only managed 90k. Which isn’t entirely unexpected considering they finished off the series’ previous story arc with the last one and a lot of people left, and they’re also not doing too hot in the public eye right now.
Don’t worry, guys. Marathon will save the studio.
I’m glad I finally uninstalled the game last year.
The quality of their releases has always been dubious and it feels like it was designed to take up all your time so you can’t play other games. Now that I’m not playing Destiny I have so much more time for other games, including multiple MMOs. The fact that I have time for more than one MMO now shows you how much of a time sink Destiny is, cuz MMOs are known for being time sinks
Jesus they made another? What content did they vault now to release that, lol.
Wait. Wasn’t the last expansion supposed to be the last one? Just let it end.
Had a lot of changes, and an odd choice here and there. Too much rolled out at once, tbh.
Oh, and the menu to access active content looks like hot garbage.
Only a Destiny 3 that is actually a sequel/spin-off and not just a continuation (unlike D2 from D1) can save the IP, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon.
Its really a shame how badly Bungie managed this game. I absolutely loved Destiny 1 and even the first year or so of Destiny 2. I took a break shortly before they made the vault announcement and at that point I knew I wasnt coming back.
I definitely miss what the game used to be, but cant say I regret my decision in the slightest.
Should honestly of just focused making Destiny 3. I’m sure plenty of players who stopped playing with TFS would have returned for it
the last expansion marketed it as “the end of the era” and so naturally people left the franchise. Bungie shot themselves in the foot with that.
Also the content itself is just not that interesting. One of the core mechanics they kept coming back to was this idea you could become an electric ball (which cant use your guns, armor etc that you grinded for) lots of bizarre choices here.
As a fan I wish they would have made a Destiny 3. Destiny 2 has outstayed its welcome.
The logical conclusion point of the game was The Final Shape. My entire Day 1 team checked out after the game concluded as did most of my clan.
This is just continuing for continuing’s sake, likely to fund Marathon.
Comments have no idea what they’re talking about. The reason this is happening is because the last expansion wrapped up the 10 year story, and it was a wonderful sendoff, probably the best bungie thing since Halo Reach.
But now it’s the MCU post endgame situation, if it ended so well why continue? And it’s why I and 100k other people just dropped the game.
That’s a win in my book.
They finished their 10 year saga and people saw as the perfect spot to jump ship.
I jumped back onto D2 last night for the first time since Beyond Light, since I was feeling a bit contrarian and wanted to see this for myself. I was actually surprised – I’m not saying the new player onboarding is great, but it’s significantly better than what I remember it being even when New Light launched. They’ve clearly put some work into that part of the game.
My experience last night was of making a new character, getting the intro cutscene I remembered, and then a second intro cutscene summarizing the Light and Dark conflict and the fight with the Witness. I was then dropped in to do the first few missions in the Cosmodrome, and so far everything still made sense. Then at the end of these missions (which involved a trip to the Tower, where the Traveler was still in the skybox), they played another cutscene that narrated “my” actions from the end of the tutorial through the events of Witch Queen, Lightfall, and Final Shape, ending with a big bold “PRESENT DAY” before dropping me back into the modern, unphased tower. That’s the part I was really impressed with. I got to see the Traveler leaving in that cutscene, so I wasn’t surprised when it was no longer in the sky in present day. Again, continuity intact and everything’s being explained.
From there, the new UI touches made it pretty easy to tell where I should go and what I should do. Story content from The Final Shape and earlier is all clearly marked as “Legacy”, so there was no confusion about what was current and what was me digging into older stories (which is optional, because again, the intro sequences and the UI updates made it perfectly clear that these things already happened and that we’re past them now).
Overall, I was actually kinda impressed with the current state of new player onboarding. It wasn’t perfect – I got some Exotic quests thrown at me at weird times – but it was significantly smoother than I remember it being last time I played. I’m at a point now where I can jump into Edge of Fate, or choose to go exploring old content, with no major confusion about what’s what.
Good 👍
Let Bungie rot.
As a a non-Destiny player, I’m curious: was it ever explained why they chose to not continue making Destiny3/4/etc?
I read the reason they did 2 was because the engine was at its limits, yet used the same engine to continue. I imagine Destiny would be in a far better place if they had not sunset old content and just did 3, and prolly be close to 4 now.
Big surprise – nobody is gonna invest into a MMO which has been put on the backburner
They closed out a 10 years saga with the last expansion and this one is basically a reset focused on QoL changes, obviously the player count is gonna drop. 100k peak (just on Steam) after 11 years is still really good and you could probably count on one hand the games who have that. It was also the #2 best selling game on Steam
Gee I wonder why. Bungie’s upper management has always been an example of gettings things right
/s
I’m not a D2 player but I’ve been tempted a few times, but I’ve always been stalled out by this huge list of expansions and the cost.
They really need to follow WoW and the latest expansion nets you all previous ones or something
You mean the guys who have a history of taking away content you paid for? Those guys are the ones having a hard time selling something? Gee… I wonder why?
Destiny 2 is almost a decade old. I think it’s unsurprising that the player base is moving on, especially considering the last expansion was basically the end of the story in many players’ eyes.
Should have been working on a Destiny 3 instead of Marathon.
This is what happens when you treat your players like ATMs….
Bruh as soon as that ever verse stuff started getting pushed on me on every five seconds and started being predatory with their bundles etc. i dipped immediately. As much as its a cool game the writing was on the wall years ago. I hate to see game not do well but damn i hate when i game bought at full price asks me for money at every possible moment
Ohhhh bungie, you blamed Microsoft, you blamed activision, and now what are you going to blame Sony. You suck, your management sucks and all your talented devs left so your dev team sucks too
No matter what they do to destroy Destiny, they will never take away my memories of sitting in the loot cave with Peter Dinklage’s voice beside me. All those glorious drops littering the ground, bright colors everywhere. Those were the days!
At this point I just want a D1 remaster
Good. The game deserves to fail and has deserved to fail for many years now. The core gameplay loop is fun but I’ve never seen a game that so austerely and so transparently rations out the amount of fun you’re allowed to have.
Just remaster the original Destiny and don’t fn delete content.
Gameplay mechanics? Fantastic
Deletion of content I paid for and forcing people to regrind after sunsetting are re-releasing content? Unforgivable.
My group played the launch version and as soon as it was clear they were deleting content we were done. It has been fun keeping up with the drama over the years though.
Comments are so unbelievable ignorant it’s almost funny
You mean Sonic The Headhog in space isn’t what the average Destiny fan wants????
They are edging their fate if u ask me
I fell off for 2 years earlier in the game cycle and have no idea how to get back in, it’s just a soup of story.
Who knew that when you rob players of paid-for content and generally treat them like caca, that it can have negative consequences?
What it needs to do is take 100% of the D2 storyline and make the content that is no longer available and turn it into linear levels/maps so that players old and new can experience the whole story.
The new player experience is terrible and the returning player exp may be worse depending on when you dipped out. You have no context, no idea what’s going on, who some characters are or why you should care.
Gutting the player’s connection to the game is going to keep costing them players and prevent any returns.
Bungie finessed the shit outta Sony by convincing them they were worth 3.6b, that’s more then the rest of Playstations studio acquisitions combined, and the most expensive Sony acquisition ever, between the disappointing end to Destiny and all the shit surrounding Marathon Bungie has been a huge lemon.
Destiny following the wow model instead of the the runescape model is one of the biggest L’s in history, destiny raids are special.
Making all your last-season gear pointless after having awesome memories grinding them is awful lazy game design
These dumb fuckwits made what is probably my favorite game since Skyrim and then burned ALL that goodwill to the ground with shortsighted and greedy business practices.
I will not pay full game price for an expansion.
I will not pay for an expansion that is very likely to be deleted and unplayable in a few years.
Fire the bean counters and give us Destiny 3.
I’ve been a destiny fan since day 1. Didn’t even know this expansion came out.
I can’t believe people even bought this after how terrible this company has been for years now.