Microsoft famously referred to Bungie's high burn rate and ultimately no company can survive operating long term that way without consistent massive revenue. Development cycles are long and companies in this industry are especially vulnerable. The waste and mismanagement will be a case study for others. Bungie built a tower to sell, often forgetting that destiny's success was due player investment in the concept. For much of the games lifespan, particularly the dry parts, many players stayed invested because of what they believed destiny could become. The art style, gun play and friendships all contributed to what has been a great game in periods. But no game can survive the leadership this game has laboured under. And ultimately as sentiment for bungie as a whole has tanked, Bungie have had to learn that survival at all as a company is now the goal. The recent comments attributed to former employees indicating that players should support marathon to keep bungie alive will fall on deaf ears I imagine. If there is ever is to be another destiny related title in the future, it's probably better handled by another studio inside Sony anyway.

I am so sick to death of this being misquoted. Go back and watch it and you will understand the actual point he was making. Its like dealing with -blam!- children.

This isn't any sort of proof whatsoever. You are ignoring or forgetting the fact that this content was originally suppose to be spread out. It also seems that A LOT of people are still completely lacking context with the ''over delivery'' statement. For some odd reason people looked at that statement and think ''This means Bungie doesn't want to deliver'' but that has never been the case. The point is that you don't want to stuff too much content in a single update because this can result in future updates feeling weak or hollow. If that happens people will complain, get bored and leave. Allow me to clarify further. Imagine you have a year of content planned. Logically speaking you'd spread this out in a 25/25/25/25 spread to gain 100% of planned content dropped in that year. But most Destiny fans cared little for this because they considered this being ''drip fed'' and instead wanted more content per update. But doing so requires more resources in the form of developers, time and money. This often increases budgetary spending which is unacceptable by upper-management unless they can monetize whatever new content is being released. But this in turn will anger players again because they don't want to spend more but less. I always find it funny to see the ''cash cow'' argument when people ignore the fact that development on this game reaches into the several hundreds of millions. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if it already surpassed a billion dollars. The key to success is having a playerbase that is grateful for the hard work the developers do and the passion they stick into the game. The best way to repay that is to keep playing and keeping the numbers up. Very little has changed since this update. We got updated loot, qualify of life changes, ability updates, SRL, Pantheon 2.0 and a planetary modifier. The gameplay loop is still the same. You don't do things differently now compared to how you played before. You still play the same activities, grind similar loot, create builds and have fun. I can GUARENTEE you that if Bungie didn't pull the plug people would be complaining that this is a lackluster update. The only reason the numbers are up now is because the game is officially done. Now I'm not absolving Bungie of any mistakes. They've messed up plenty of times that contributed heavily to the death of Destiny 2 but we can't sit here and wash our hands clean of any mistakes. A large portion of the community contributed heavily to the downfall of Destiny. This is not over-delivering but simply delivering all that was suppose to come had the game continued.

I wouldn't say that neither Forsaken and this update is over delivery. One extra Planet and 2 more Strikes than usual, sure it is more, but nothing crazy. Same goes with this update. A pointless and forgettable planetary modifier and Sparrow racing league. Just a big nothing burger.