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4/7/2026 9:27:31 PM
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Who let this happen…?
I’ve been gaming for over 30 years and have got to say, the current state of the game seems so unique I really can’t believe it.
How can a developer take such a successful franchise, contemplating all sorts of spin off media at one point due to the amount of interest and engagement in the game, and press the self destruct button so wilfully.
Let’s go back to basics; a couple of new crucible maps, a couple of new strikes, perhaps a gambit map, a raid/mini raid every 6 months. That’s it. That’s all you needed to do.
Instead we get the portal and a totally lacklustre soulless jumping off point for new activities.
There now is only 1 solution for this mess and everyone knows what it is - Destiny 3. It’s time.
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#destiny2
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4 good expansions out of 11 is not successful.
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...fool me three times, shame on me.
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Edited by Taejzon23: 4/8/2026 2:40:51 PMOne word, GREED. They thought so little of their players that they felt they could do the BARE minimum, for maximum payout. Gonna have to pass on D3 though. They've burned too many bridges with me personally. I'll get what I can outta this game until the lights go out.
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1 ReplyIt's greed, pure and simple. Like pretty much every big developer now, they don't try to make games that are fun, they try to make games that are addictive and spend way too much time on ways to add extra methods of monetisation. I also kinda feel a little bad for some of the Devs who've been stuck on the same game, doing the same thing for years. I can almost guarantee that some of them don't even like the game they're working on anymore and that is really showing in the state of the game now. There is ZERO passion.
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3 RepliesI got banned from the forums for a week recently for questioning the “we kept the right people” narrative by pointing out that while Bungie does come up with good ideas someone there seems to be tasked with taking those good ideas and twisting them to be implemented in the most nonsensical, non player/consumer friendly ways, and I suggested that person should be given a cardboard box and told to take a hike if Bungie really wanted to ascend back to the tippy tops of the gaming industry. That was classified as “disrespect/hate speech”. At the risk of getting banned again, perhaps someone at Bungie ought to take the paper thin skinned snowflake that banned me and move them over to the banning cheaters in game department for their disrespect towards their other customers.
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1 ReplyYou are asking great questions, who let this happen? How can a company take an asset that was making money and make so many poor decisions, just out of touch with the playerbase. I feel like whenever something is received really well by the majority, they quickly hurl it out the window, while doubling-down on the things the majority of players dislike. As far as D3 goes, I'm all for it on a newer game engine and dedicated servers... just not made by "2026 Bungie". We need the franchise to be overseen by a different studio entirely. One that makes games they want to play.
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Yes, good post. It is really not comprehendable what Bungie have done these last years - to so fully run a good franchise to the bottom, and then some. There should be people in the company that knows how to run a business in general, and there should be people in the company that understands the game business, and yet there have been so many incomprehendable descisions made by Bungie these last years that frankly makes no sense. I hope there will be a book or movie documentary someday about Bungie so we know what happened behind those walls for this to happen. About Destiny 3. With all the layoffs, Marathon not making amazing numbers and only a skeleton crew working on Destiny (barely holding it together), it makes no sense to ask and expect Bungie making Destiny 3. Destiny 3 would probably need a new and modern game engine, a complete overhaul, in order to success. It will take several years, and probably a new studio unless Sony suddenly pours money and employees into Bungie, which is unlikely. And it is also questionable if the franchise would survive that long wait. I hope it would. Just switching shirt on Destiny 2 and call it Destiny 3 is not a good solution.
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4 RepliesI agreed with you on everything, up until the last line No way man, I am not doing D3 after everything they put me through, both in terms of playtime/ money investment, and in terms of getting shafted by this company and it's management, I'm good
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I don't get it either. As soon as they try to implement something new they remove it and then change it to something gawd awful. It's almost like they're schizo or they have a really bad boss who shouldn't be in that position.
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Incompetence would be my suggestion.
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1 ReplyDestiny 3? Only after Bungie is shut down for good. Let a competent, more honest, developer take a shot at it.
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3 RepliesD3 should have been done when TFS ended. Or when they chose to change the game engine. Or when they decided content needed to be deleted to make space for new content. Unfortunately, Bungle arrogance and greed took none of those opportunities and gave us EoF instead so I don't think a D3 by Bungle is not going to save anything now.
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1 ReplyI won't say video games have ever qualified as high art, but they were art. Now they're product. Just consume product then get ready to consume next product.
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2 RepliesEdited by Obscure Meme: 4/9/2026 8:05:20 PMSony should have taken the top brass to the chopping block after the aquisition. The mismanagement cost them $200 million alone for destiny 2 later into its life and likely a decent amount from Marathon (since unsurprisingly its development was also troubled) both in terms of cost and the PR scandal last year. If this were a post made after the infamously mediocre launch of Destiny 1 I would have said there were probably three cases for how the studio was managed: pure incompetence - they couldnt do what was planned and released it in the state it was due to deadlines. A mix of incompetence and greed - they had trouble implementing some things originally intended and decided to release them later and charge you for it. Or pure greed - they could do everything originally intended but knew they could milk the game and pin it as being difficult to implement in a timely manner. I think most people are well aware it is the third case at this point, even if the second option appeared as plausible originally. After years of revealing the cut content scandals and Frankensteined version we got, the cycle repeated itself with Destiny 2 and in some cases was even worse, or highlighted that things stated that could not be done were inevitably done after months of negative reception (sunsetting and vaulted content readding)
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2 RepliesWho would fund destiny 3? Sony paid 3.6 billion for bungies live service expertise, destiny and marathon . From the outside looking in they are failing massively on all 3 of these things . I can’t imagine the thought process that goes into producing a niche extraction shooteranf expected big sales. They have badly managed 1 live service game for years now , why they thought they could juggle another I have no idea. I really can’t comprehend any future in destiny or bungie as a whole anymore . Granted they have come back a few times ( taken king / forsaken) but that’s part of the pattern, decline , rebuild , decline . Each time the player base has dropped over and over. I know it’s not an easy thing to manage but after 11 years it’s worse than it’s ever been . I think the mismanagement has dug the hole so deep now they aren’t getting back out . The only possible fix I can see is the IP is sold off, If they happened we might get something amazing we might not. Bungie have no passion for the game anymore and that’s been obvious since final shape
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1 ReplyDestiny 3 from the same company that made Destiny 1 and 2? Absolutely not lol.
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Yes no passion for sure. The decline started when they released that travesty of an expansion that was all about wokeness and difficulty. It shall not be named, but Neomuna was the city. That was the expansion when layoffs first started. Truth be told, it was not just the management, the idea that a company has a sewing/knitting club that meets internally is absurd unless that is what your company does for a living. Management, Devs and everyone involved in such madness is too blame. You can do your job or you can not do your job and have feel good kumbaya meetings to group decide the best way to be unoffensive to as many groups as possible ALL while ignoring the largest group of paying customers you have. EVERY single employee of bungie that kept their mouth closed and said nothing is just as complicit in the downfall as management and the employees who pushed that crap down everyone's throats.
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2 RepliesAnother armchair developer 😁
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2 RepliesEdited by Hal Jordan: 4/8/2026 2:10:22 PMWonder what D3 will even be about? We beat the Witness, probably his drunk uncle is next?
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1 ReplyI don’t know who will pay for a D3 though. It’s not like Marathon and D2 seem to be printing cash right now, and a D3 is easily 100-150mil minimum and years out
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2 RepliesIt needs to be studied
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1 ReplyI would want a D3 if, and only if, bungo is not involved in it. Developers can go into the project but managers (especially tyson greed, truman, and dmg) need to stay the hell away from it.
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bungie devotes 10 years to a game and then moves on , the success of destiny hurt their plans more than helped them halo successful game that people wanted more of, bungie walked away 2001-2010 destiny from day 1 was a 10 yr journey that concluded with final shape and where bungie originally planned to move on from it and have just been half azzing it since -welcome to the portal just cuz we like the game and want more dosent mean they want to keep making it .. how can they kill their cash cow ? easy create a new one ... everyone forgets before marathon and the sony merger bungie was working on a yet to be named ip that got shelved at this point in destiny's life its not bringing in new money just the same money and less we will get whats owed to us ,the delayed content release but major expansions i think are done if destiny is going to get anything new or ground breaking it will be when sony either takes it over inhouse or farms out to another studio
