Bungie has announced that it'll be hosting its annual Destiny 2 Showcase next week, on the 22nd August. Naturally, it'll feature fresh info on The Final Shape — the shooter's next expansion — Season 22 of the game, the next reprised raid, and "more".
If you've been keeping up with Destiny 2, you'll know that things have been more than a bit rocky in recent months. Following the release of Lightfall back in February — which seemed to divide opinion on its own — Bungie has struggled to keep a lot of players onside, with some decisions on playable content and the game's structure being quite heavily criticised by parts of the community.
From the outside looking in, it must look like one heck of a toxic relationship. Destiny 2 has managed to maintain a healthy player count all these years, but its a source of near constant drama in the news cycle. This showcase, then, will hopefully give Bungie a platform to spread some positivity for the future.
What do you want from this Destiny 2 Showcase? Are you still playing the PS5 and PS4 shooter? Scavenge some ammo from the comments section below.
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Occasionally. Last expansion I bought was Witch Queen on sale. Worth it for cheap. But there’s just not enough content to keep me going for long. Add the fact that they want you to buy a pricey expansion every year PLUS a season pass…no thanks. Shame they’ll likely do the same with Marathon. I miss the Bungie from the Halo days. They offered great single player plus multiplayer. You could buy a couple of map packs if you wanted, but that was the extent of the fleecing. Destiny constantly has its hand in your wallet, and doesn’t offer enough value.
I love how the company that’s supposed to be advising other Sony developers on how to build and nurture a live service platform are the very ones neglecting, and unable to fix, their own broken and burning platform.
maybe shut it down and move on to fully focus on the new scheme you have cooking in the over (marathon), rather than milking this one until those entrapped in it fully lose all positive sentiment for it.
Game is still awesome, my kids and I play a few times every week and we have fun. Problem is seems some peoples whole existence is tied into what happens in the game, specifically pvp, and they are the loudest ones. Look forward to seeing how they wrap things up
I’m actually starting to think now that the reason Bungie shot down the factions 2 multiplayer is because they saw Naughty Dog as too much of competitor that was perhaps doing a lot of things better than expected.. I played Destiny 2 for the first time not too long ago and initially there was a lot to do for myself, definitely felt a bit overwhelmed even, but I would definitely say that the LightFall campaign was the low point of the experience. I would say that they Witch Queen was really good though, definitely my favourite.
@redd214 Problem is people wanting the game to be better? That's quite the weird take man.
Some positivity..?
I think half the fanbase is fed up with them. So some is just not going to cut.
I wonder if Sony regrets buying Bungie.
@Nepp67 you missed my point. Hope the next expansion meets your expectations! 👍🏾
And yet it’s Bungie telling Naughty Dog and Sony that Last of Us multiplayer isn’t a good enough game to launch.
They can start by returning the paid for locked content back to the customers who paid for it. That is the only way I will return to anything bungie now. That is in spite of the fact I love the playability of their games
@IslandLogic Since the Bungie acquisition announcement I’ve been saying that while it has potential Sony overpaid for them and it wouldn’t be a good fit for PS Studios, and honestly nothing we’ve seen suggest otherwise, specially with the TLOU Factions debacle.
They lost me a long time ago when they started removing expansions and stories you paid for. Making it confusing to follow anything that's happening with the world and not to mention the limited timed story events on seasons you can't interact with.
I'd love a D1 remaster of sorts. That game had it's issues but it got better and better as time went on.
People shouldn't judging Bungie's role in TLOU Factions been delayed because non of know the state the game was in.
@redd214 I’ll stipulate that no other game comes close to the highly-polished shooting…..I also agree there’s lots of fun to be had there.
And you play Destiny w/your kids. That’s an awesome experience to have and I’m totally jealous. I haven’t had a friend group for Destiny since the first game.
You’re only diagnosing one part of the problem though when you nuked the PvP community up there.
What about Gambit? The mode that Bungie left to die? What about the fact that Bungie recently said (in no uncertain terms) it’s too difficult and costly to make new Ritual armor every season?, but it’s not an issue to drown an entire tab of The Director with Eververse and an endless parade of costly ornaments?
What about the fact that on the whole the cost of this game has gone up while we’ve gotten less and less?
I understand where you’re coming from. But to say that it’s the Destiny PvP community doing all the groaning is a bit out-of-touch with where we are presently. It’s everyone, across the board. There is general dissatisfaction with Destiny 2 across the board. But the vocal portion is just a drop in the bucket of the playerbase, so I don’t know where we go from here.
That all said, I’m re-downloading the whole thing back onto ps5 rn bc witch queen is free on plus lol
I've played Destiny since the original D1 beta and yes, the game is at a low point right now but it's still got the best feel of any FPS and they've committed to retaining content moving forwards after technical challenges. Also, the idea that Bungie somehow told ND that Factions was ***** and Sony listened... come on. They will have suggested improvements for sure, that will now be worked on - that's called collaboration.
Bungie remain experts in FPS, in live service and in games that are just... cool. That Marathon trailer displayed the ultimate drip. A great Sony purchase is what they are.
I am on the edge of my seat waiting to see what The Final Shape (the conclusion of the latest Destiny story) has in store, they may or may not stick the landing; regardless, their efforts as devs are to be applauded. Wind your necks in Internet.
@AdamNovice while i would agree, cause thats a fair point. The flip side to that is, either A Sony studios don’t know how to recognize a good game and Bungie is wrong and has a certain vision for what it thinks is best or B Sony studios can’t develop online games and it really was that bad and that a concern all in itself. Make fun of Xbox or other 3rd parties but they have all had 1 or more huge online games that has been a huge success. Sony has not. Closest thing that comes to mind is maybe Socom but even that was niche. Killzone, labeled the Halo Killer during the PS3 got the floor moped by itself. Even tho I enjoyed Killzone 2 personally. Point is Bungie was brought in to be a major influence over the teams in making games they don’t have a history of excelling at. Either way i am disappointed about the uncertainty of multi player Last of us. No telling when we will hear more or if it just get’s canceled.
@Dusk_Actual appreciate the response, I obviously can only comment on my experience which is perhaps very unique in the overall player base.
We still play Gambit occasionally and it's still a great time for us even without huge changes or additions. As far as the eververse goes, it's all cosmetic stuff. I honestly don't have any interest at all in cosmetics so that's something that I'm admittedly completely aloof of and it doesn't bother me in the slightest that it's there. In terms of the cost of the game/expansions that's really not a issue for us (not because we're rich lol) . Lightfall was $50 and I bought on both PS & Xbox, we have gotten more than 100 hours out of that $100 expenditure so for us its not really a pain point in terms of what we've gotten out of it vs $50+ for a 2ish hour movie for example.
I tend to block out a lot of the moaning about games recently because it becomes so overwhelmingly negative so perhaps I was wrong, my wording could've been better for sure. Hope you enjoy Witch Queen and whatever comes next!
@HonestHick going to get a lot of hate for this but Bungie is overrated
It's amusing that some believe Naughty Dog is more capable of designing a live service game than a studio that has successfully supported a game with one of the largest online communities over the last nine years...
It was credibly reported that Bungie convinced them to soft-cancel the game and that the rationale was that it wasn't live service-y enough. Until Sony or ND have more to share on this I feel justified in being pissed at Bungie.
TLOU2 had once-in-a-generation gameplay and a multiplayer version would be a killer app for PS5 and PS+. The whole situation is a huge shame.
@Americansamurai1 as a lifelong Xbox and PS fan. Yes we exist, not everyone has to choose a side. I never thought Bungie even in peak Halo day’s to be anything overly special. I mean yes they made good games on that IP. But that IP has a history of not being theirs. Destiny was hyped beyond reason and it didn’t deliver fully, Destiny 2 is a joke to me. Now they are owned by Sony cause it was the only thing they could afford to bring in external multiplayer and online help for their studios, which by and large is a good thing. But i am not sure Bungie is that studio to be your benchmark.so i will deflect your heat onto myself. But you are spot on!!
I am still surprised people still defend Bungie. The bungie remain experts in live service is one of the biggest jokes i have seen in a while. There live service model is easily the worst in the business. There the only major live service game i know of to take paid content away from its customers. There model of full paid expansions plus season pass on top of that plus microtransactions is just pure greed. And to think they have only gotten worse since splitting with Activision!
@HonestHick I think it would have been cheaper if they just hired a bunch of experts from various teams like epic and created a live service team from within kind of like xdev who went around helping out the 1st party studios making live service titles.
@redd214 No I didn't, you hate the moaning and groaning of people criticizing your favorite game so you try to completely ignore it. The fact that Joe Blackburn made a personal response on Twitter to try and fix it shows that players were right to complain. Don't just try to block out every type of criticism.
@Nepp67 all good champ, you're right. Hope you enjoy the Final Shape!
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