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Bungie ends development on Destiny 2
- Thread starter Dr. Samuel Hayden
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Kronark
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I disagree with the idea that the content would take too much time or effort to restore. That comes across to me as more horseshit excuses from Bungie. There are three major things I can think of that would break levels with an engine change:
- Lighting / VFX
- Bounding boxes / physics
- Scripted events
Lighting was likely restored because none of the other content looked any different after the update. This means the elements that likely presented the challenges were bounding boxes or scripted events... And yeah that's a fair bit of work, but so what? You have the original code and map data as reference, suck it up and do it. Bounding boxes may have needed to be re-flagged for their physics properties. Scripting could have needed a new language or to be re-compartmentalized into new call / storage methods (Bungie was vocal that game compiles / builds took too long at the time).
Neither of these is an unsolvable problem. They clearly had the resources to rework the content because according to them they did update half the content in the game during the development of beyond light. All the content that didn't hit the vault was reworked. Why couldn't they continue that work in the background during year 5, year 6, etc? It probably wouldn have gotten done by year 7 if they kept working at it. They probably just tested the waters with their vaulting announcement and people gave them a pass. It was simply cheaper to just pretend this content never existed.
There's also seasonal content forever removed from the game that was developed after the engine update. They could have put some effort into making that content playable again because it should be engine compatible. Being the assholes Bungie are though they not only removed that content from the game, they deliberately told youtubers they could not even document / archive it in video form. Destin used to make video documentaries of the seasonal stories to preserve them for furture players. Bungie shut that down.
I treat Bungie with the same level of respect they've treated their game / players / IP with, that being none. Bungie does not value their own work beyond pre-order money and first week sales. Never let them live what they did down.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Reizo Ryuu
Member
...what? 99% of the bundle is old finished content, and the remaining 1% you're still getting as promised with the final update, you get literally exactly what you pay for.
Guardian Monkey
Member
2 and reach were dogshit. Destiny easily did a lot of things better than Halo. You all suffering from the Nostalgia.
Roman Empire
Member
I saw some people are getting their money back on the $100 annual expansion pack through costumer service due to Bungie changing their plans for it. It was to be 2 raids and more dungeons and stuff and there is only a single raid and a dungeon I think.
More money that Bungie is losing for being incompetent lol.
And of all things to bring back, they brought SRL (Sparrow Racing League) back right as they decide to put the game in maintenance mode. You can make this shit up.
More money that Bungie is losing for being incompetent lol.
And of all things to bring back, they brought SRL (Sparrow Racing League) back right as they decide to put the game in maintenance mode. You can make this shit up.
falconhoof
Member
Focus on the less popular and lower earning title. Lay people off, always a signal of strength that brings players flocking to your live service game, don't have D3 any where close to being a reality.
KenaiPhoenix
Member
This doesnt sound good
Sony already said they where going to keep supporting Marathon, but maybe Bungie is not in part of that equation.
Now I sadly have to said that nothing of value is getting lost. Destiny fans finally broke their abusive relationship with Bungie, and numbers said they learned their lesson and didnt jump to Marathon. Destiny 2 was only alive because of reputation of Bungie and Destiny and big part thanks to the psychological shenanigans that keep players addicted to it. As someone that REALLY tried to get into the game like 4 times the new player is just so ass that it is clear their main focus was to just milk what they had.
Sony already said they where going to keep supporting Marathon, but maybe Bungie is not in part of that equation.
Now I sadly have to said that nothing of value is getting lost. Destiny fans finally broke their abusive relationship with Bungie, and numbers said they learned their lesson and didnt jump to Marathon. Destiny 2 was only alive because of reputation of Bungie and Destiny and big part thanks to the psychological shenanigans that keep players addicted to it. As someone that REALLY tried to get into the game like 4 times the new player is just so ass that it is clear their main focus was to just milk what they had.
RickMasters
Member
nkill20
Member
Bungie fans are clinically insane, my friend is one so I would know. Just constant Stockholm syndrome.
lockdown2222
Member
As someone that tried it out briefly during COVID and made it out of tutorial to the first main coop hub, is it worth playing or picking up and going beyond? Enemies seemed basic no matter the race, same types and game play loop. Felt like three or four different types/styles and then that was it.
Plague Doctor
Member
Focus on the less popular and lower earning title. Lay people off, always a signal of strength that brings players flocking to your live service game, don't have D3 any where close to being a reality.
So how's that morale at Bungie going?
What's the new cope now?
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