With Destiny 2, the mood seems to be approaching a new low point 9 years after the beginning of the franchise. The reason is a blog post on the state of the game from August 3rd. Although it has over 6,000 words, the players hardly seem to like any of them. Above all, the statement that you can’t bring new PvP cards because you don’t have the workforce for that makes the mood boil over.
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What was that post? We reported extensively on MeinMMO about the “State of the Game” post:
“New dev post left gamers angry, frustrated, or both”
How does the mail arrive? The Forbes page, which has been dealing with Destiny for years, judges: The post made players and content creators either angry, depressed or angry and depressed.
The post is said to have addressed issues that the community has been complaining about for years, such as the lack of content for PvP and Gambit. However, basically said to the players: “We hear you, but we do not change anything.”
The post said Bungie’s structure doesn’t allow for the development of large, new PvP maps because you need the resources for PvE missions. Therefore, one could not fulfill the “most frequently expressed wish”: That led to frustration.
Bungie says: No resources for new PvP maps
Translated it means:
The feedback we get the most is: There isn’t enough PvP content, especially not enough new Crucible maps. To set expectations: Our studio structure is set up in such a way that we can bring overarching changes for PvP rather than exclusively focus on new maps.
Focusing our resources on creating new smelting control maps will take away from the bandwidth of many teams working on many things that players value, like new story or exotic content missions.
“Insolence beyond compare”
How do the readers of MeinMMO react? In fact, Forbes’ assessment coincides with the reactions of MeinMMO readers. Reader “Roy Buchmann” gets upset about Facebook, who is incensed about this “can’t do PvP because it’s at the expense of PvE” statement:
“That’s an insolence beyond compare. Destroy all PvP first and then give the players a new map and say don’t expect that too often because it drains resources from others. Sorry, but is it still okay?”
There are 37 comments under our article on the subject. An excerpt:
Internationally, the post is also harshly criticized:
What have I paid so much money for all these years?
This is behind it: “Lack of resources” has been Destiny’s core problem since release, and it’s only gotten worse since Activision Blizzard came out: there aren’t enough workers to continue developing the game the way fans want it to.
Apparently, Destiny has always been designed as a loot shooter that is “extremely complex to develop”: according to everything you know, you need an extreme number of hours of work for every scrap of new content.
Bungie was never able to make this effort – perhaps most likely in 2018, when the Forsaken expansion was completed with two auxiliary studios from Activision Blizzard.
This is apparently due to a certain naivety with which Bungie started the whole “Destiny” project more than 10 years ago.
Even if many are aware of these problems, the anger is still there. What annoys people: While there are fewer and fewer resources for Destiny 2, at the same time Bungie is asking outrageously high prices for the content and turning the price screw.
You just ask yourself: What have you paid so much money for all these years when the game director tells us: “We don’t have the people for what you want.”
The extremely large sums of money that many players have gradually invested in Destiny over the years is one of the most common criticisms of the game from former Guardians.
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