when did Destiny become such a fan favorite?...I remember when the 1st game came out it wasn't all that well received...it still only holds a 76 Metacritic score...people are acting like Destiny 2 is Half Life 2...or did the game improve drastically?
* I never played D1 but loved the PC beta so I plan on picking it up when it drops in October
At its release, it was the largest-ever launch for a new IP this gen. After that, it kept charting well. If you listened to naysayers on GAF or a few journalists, youd have believed everybody quit the game in disappointment. What actually happened?
A year later TTK released - a US$40 DLC not included in the original season pass - and saw a higher day 1 population than even vanilla launch. The population never cratered - it grew.
Even after all the content was over, with an announcement of zero pending updates to the game, after we had literally played every single activity too many times to count and a ton of great games had released to get people off Destiny - hundreds of thousands of accounts played Trials (endgame PvP requiring a 3-person team with no matchmaking).
Destiny was, and never ceased to be, an extremely flawed game. Flawed in many regards. But the gameplay hooked a *big* number of players regardless.
