Destiny 2's 5-Year Plan Means You Shouldn't Expect Destiny 3 Anytime Soon

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I have a few problems with Destiny. I was a day 1 preorder the best version for Destiny. It started out ok then shit fell to shit. I remember beating the game and getting the stranger’s rifle and thinking this is Bullshit. I blue weapon for beating the story on hard. Then the raids became the focus. Out of every raid, including D2, I’ve did about 8 raids. 5 of them are VoG and 3 are Crota. Got to the end of TTK raid and team bailed. Tried to get another team but since I never beat it was always the same shit. Need experience or a certain or both. I skipped D2 release and got when psn released it for free. Got the expansions and Forsaken. Again tried to get into the raids. Couldn’t. I have done 2-3 nightfalls total and that was because of that glitch you could die after chest appears to fight the boss again. That is as much as I got into the multiplayer aspect that didn’t have matchmaking. The whole reason to not have matchmaking is awful. Basically saying that if you have a squad that you can beat the raid because you know that squad’s strengths and weaknesses. But sites like lfg and others do matchmaking of random players. Granted most of them are very specific in what they are looking. But adding matchmaking to give all players a chance to get the raid loot hurts who? No one. You can’t get mad if the raid fails because you know the risks of randoms. At least with matchmaking for things like raids and nightfalls gives all Destiny players a chance. Instead because of this the raids in Destiny one were like completed by like 11% of the player base and D2 had like a little over 5%. The real hardcore doing the raids, everything at reset, owning everything for each class, are not the ones that keep the game going. It’s the ones that do most things they can by themselves. That is why Destiny always see a huge drop off after dlc is release. If they added matchmaking the game would be so much better.

I will say Luke Smith, ever since he made that comment about the year one D1 collectors edition I can’t stand him. He is the biggest ass and surprised they still let him speak. I will say the money they got from the invest won’t last forever and there is only so much you can add to a game like D2. At what point as a fan do you stop buy the yearly season pass for $40? Add on another $40 for the yearly dlc and you are paying more the price of a $60. If this year is like last by December you will have spent $250+ dollars on a game that can’t keep its fans interested longer then a month.

I'll admit that I've been out of the loop for a while as I quit right during the Gambit Prime season (Season of the Drifter?), but if they want to make PVP more robust, I felt (while I played PVP at least) that they should try and balance the weapons so that Handcannons weren't the primary that you'd choose over pretty much everything else, with secondaries basically being whatever can 1 or 2 shot people at close to mid range.

I say this even as someone who could use certain hand cannons decently well. A well rolled Duke until I was able to get Ace of Spaces, and then Ace of Spades after that. Sure I was able to win around half the time (I'm not THAT good at PVP) or slightly more, but it was boring as hell to always be hand cannoning the head all the time, and then reloading to get that damage boost and doing it all over again.

I got sick of that repetition. Winning by doing things the same way every time without variation because it's the only way to win wasn't fun for me, it was work.

All i wanted Destiny is the "orignal" game that never came out. The story they had for the game, before they fired that "story guy" and everything went to shit.

looking fwd to the new dlc, kinda a s re start since i stopped playing before forsaken. sounding like they are reverting back to D1 end game styles on things. all i care about is good grind on equipment. and no HANDOUTS

Its just change of pixels and numbers. Still the same shitty infrastructure and limited functions.

Bungie have not learn and build on past experience. From D1 till now, still acting like 1 day old baby.

I used to love D1, now D2 really f**** up the weapon system. Stop playng D2 during vanila, after i had 3x everything worth having. Last time i played (i was kinda on the fence about buyng the expasion) everyone was using weapons in the "wrong" slot and i didnt bother to figure it out. Uninstalled and never looked back.

Sounds like they just don't have the funding to create a proper sequel now that their deal with Activision is over. But it's the only thing they could have done now to save the series. Trying to change the game through dlc doesn't work too well if the game is a pile of shit at its core. They'll be spending a lot of time trying to rebuild the game in that way.

I hate this release model, it's as bad as episodic games.
You only can play so far into it before you have to wait for the next 'part' to get released.

I'd be somewhat keen to see what is Activision-free Bungie doing with the game.

That said, I don't think I'll be seriously playing it again... if devs don't upsize the team to 4 players in co-op.

Seriously. I have 3 colleagues and we play together a lot - Division 1 and 2, Wildlands, L4D 1 and 2, others... incoming Breakpoint already queued in the pipeline. While we did play Destiny 2 for a while, it really irked us that we usually had to drop one of us (first come, first served, last come, no service) from most sessions.

Not major, maybe, but it made us choose other games over D2, whenever we were planning to play together.

I can't imagine anyone playing the same game for five years...

*goes back to playing Final Fantasy XIV*

If it's successful, I think this is a model that even "true" MMOs should copy. give us continuing story "seasons" instead of expansions that break everything you've worked on previously. I mean, I know THIS will break previous D2 systems, but I mean the progression should feel more continuous moving forward.

Just like how they were talking up the first Destiny's 10 year plan... 5 years ago.

I'm just glad Bungie walk out of Activision's dungeon and can now make Destiny 3 the game it was meant in their own vision without the BS from Activision. This is great news to hear :)

What is Destiny? Did I miss anything ?

I think this is great news personally.