Destiny 2 ended with "us" killing the Witness. The story was over and most casuals had no reason for playing anymore.

No, because this is only a few of the many things that need fixing.

Morpheus voice: What if I told you…they didn’t want the game to be saved.

Such an amazing update!.. its like destiny 2.5 honestly.. Wow

Agreed. Destiny has always lacked replayability on the PVE side, and this update helps alleviate that by making more actitivies relevant. It also balances much of the PVE and PVP sandboxes, so now players are not as incentivised to be "most optimal" and can focus on other things. Also, it gives access to new loadputs in both PVE and PVP, further improving the variety and replayability. It helps new and returning players "catch up" to old ones by allowing focus-farmable gear.

If I’m being honest a break and a D3 a few years from now will kill it. Everyone will be lining up. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. This might be the best thing for a D3 plus they might be able to turn marathon around. I hope for bungie and the employees they can.

Bungie please, rework the exotic class armor, add more exotics combinations, its the end, give us new exotic combinations.

I have to disagree too. Not sure if the game can be saved. Rebooting with a new game(D3) is the money grab. This game is a looter shooter though I wish it was an mmo. They never should have said one destiny forever. It should always be a new game every 2 to 3 years. It should always have quality of life updates, new engine, dedicated servers(at least for pushing out competition pvp). Even refresh on new ghost/characters. Move to the future. What happens now… 100 years from now. Not to mention they missed on so many things such as the armor system. I spend more time deleting armor than playing sometimes.

While Im happy with the update that's about to happen regarding loot refreshes. I havent seen anything as to weather or not there will be anything new like missions or stories to do. Regardless it will be fun for at least the next few weeks. Lets hope that Destiny's numbers are 5 times higher than Maracraps are. That will be a good FU to Sony and Bungie.

[quote]Updated patrol destinations and loot, revitalizing Gambit (somewhat), the sandbox changes ( including the Nightstalker melee and ability reworks, and the remaining 4th aspects for the Light subclasses), integrating the Portal into the Director, and so on. All of these things, we kept asking for, for months and years, and only now are they doing it, for one big last hurrah. This game could have been saved if they had listened to us, and implemented all of this sooner.[/quote] Just goes to show they knew how to fix it and chose ego over making the game better

I think you are making great points, better variety of loot and better loot RNJ Style everywhere would have helped to stop neglecting 90% of the acitivities but what really killed the game was the change from turning Exotics into a Marketing feature other than a lucky loot drop. The motivation to keep playing was simply gone. I was one of those unlucky -blam!- who had to run VOG 17 times to get the Gajallahorn and when I finally got it - it was the most rewarding moment in any video game ever. Imagine D2 had only 10 Exotic Weapons with a hysterical low drop rate of 2% chance but those weapons are so freakishly good that they are giving you the edge in particular activities or are even required at least once to clean an activity because a boss could only be finished by that weapon. The participation to acquire that weapon would be insane. You would keep playing the same Dungeon, or Strike or whatnot 50 times until you finally have it in your fireteam at least once. The content would live so much longer... at the same time give those casual players a rewarding experience with decent loot drops that benefits their play style so they progress further in the activity pool and maybe understand the incentive to keep playing for the top loot. Remember how people played Competitive for the Recluse? I sure remember and not being good at PVP, getting negative points for losing kept me going for 2 weeks until I had it and DAMN was it rewarding. I think this is what killed the game. NEW DLC drops, you get all new weapons within the first hour + 30 minutes for your first exotic mission.

All these changes, while really good, still might not have saved the game in my opinion. Years of gradual player attrition, lack of an invested new player experience, Bungie’s bipolar treatment of the community, and the end of the light vs darkness saga really made it hard to retain enough players to be massively successful anymore. I think all of these changes would have just provided enough goodwill to keep the lights on for a little bit longer, but I don’t see it as anything that would have saved the franchise and changed anyone’s mind on green lighting a D3.

Yeah they chose the don’t exceed expectations year after year and all of a sudden we have SRL at the very end with never a mention? I call bs. No way they are wasting resources on a dead fantasy world without at least a plan to begin the next saga probably way in the future with different characters and different story lines, different worlds and aliens to fight. I seriously doubt it’s over but they have to let d2 die to build hype for it in 5 years

I think it could be a case of management finally stepping out of the devs way and letting them make changes they’ve wanted to make.