No more Destiny expansions (and no Destiny 3) as Bungie cut-backs hit | This Week in Videogames

Remember when Bungie said they were “not that type of company” when their workers asked if executives were going to take pay cuts to save jobs? Because I sure do

You’re leaving work late after a hard day of coding. You pass Pete Parsons pulling out in a new Porsche. You wanna be nice so you say nice car Pete. He grins, looks you over and says, “you’re inspiring my man, burning the midnight oil. I’m telling you, you stay the course, keep working hard like you are now” he lovingly taps his car “one day, I’ll be able to buy another one just like it.”

So the 1 billion to retain staff...wonder what happened to that.

Bungie has been a predatory entity since Destiny 1 dropped. The writing was all over the wall. But I dont have time to explain why I dont have time to explain...

"We had to slim down the operations due to someone's financial mismanagement. So we have to let you go. On the plus side, you get to admire my collection of expensive cars while you walk to the doors."

Imagine your boss shows you his new car as he fires you lol

"It's a hard time being a Destiny fan right now" I feel like you've said that like 10 times over the past couple of years lol

A hardcore FOMO based live service game that has taken content that people paid for away and announced a final expansion doesn't do to well in current playerbase? I am shooketh. It's almost as if people don't like having taken their hard work of years (that has been driven by FOMO mechanics mind you) away again because the developers want to do a sequel that will give more initial sales. Bungie will never see another cent from me or anyone in my group of friends after that shitshow of sunsetting. That company is dead to us and will join Ubisoft and EA in our "no buy" list of devs/publishers.

As a lapsed player, Bungie made it so hard to get back in if you lapse. For new players it was almost impossible. It was a fundamental business mistake not to attract new players, it was an ever dwindling pie

When Bungie started deleting earlier content for Destiny 2 they made it more or less impossible for new players to get into the game, it killed them

I remember being 11 years old and sitting with my dad in a restaurant reading the game informer magazine about Batman Arkham knight I stared at the Batmobile for so long just imagining what it would be like to drive it and thinking how good the graphics looked, that’s still one of my favorite memories with my dad

turns out the final shape was a sports car

Bungie somehow seems to forget that THEY ONLY HAVE ONE PRODUCT, yet they seem to put their focus towards everything except the one thing making them money. Their senior leadership needs to be gutted they simply don't have the first idea on how to run a gaming company it seems

Is anyone really surprised by what Bungie did, people have been noticing the red flags for years but when a new expansion drops everyone forgets and moves on.

I honestly tried to get into D2 during the Witch Queen expansion, and the game is outright hostile to new players. Short tutorial and then literally everything at once: story cutscenes showing up in any order, strikes, raids, PvP, Crucible, timegated old expansion content, why aren’t you working on the season pass, are you not pinnacle light level already, Iron Banner, why are you such a blueberry, don’t you know every hidden clue and game mechanic… And on and on and on. I quit after doing GM strikes when I realized I was just bored of it all, same enemies, same content, all of it just not fun, and it still felt like I had to sprint constantly to keep up (and not just literally).

If you torch and rebuild your “goodwill bridge” enough times, eventually people will refuse to cross it, regardless of what’s on the other side.

Wow, these “difficult decisions” sure are becoming more common lately

Honestly - the only reason I haven’t played Destiny 2 is the convoluted policy for paid DLC that would later be deleted, the game doesn’t offer much in terms of new people playing it, and if anything, just makes me wanna just put up my old Destiny 1 file

“Destiny is one of the greatest franchises in the history of video games”? Uh… No. Just no. I like the gameplay and gunplay but most of the rest is extremely debatable.

You know what WON'T suffer from the effects of lay-off on production? The microtransactions. If anything, they'll push their horrendous monetization even further.