What’s ironic is that for the last few years they’ve even been removing so much of the older content that by the time they do release the final expansion new players will only be able to experience the last quarter of Destiny’s story.
That was a big issue for me when I was trying to get my friend to play destiny 2 with me. So much of the story is locked behind dlc and/or relies on you having played the game consistently for the past 6 years to experience everything as it releases so you can be up to date on the confusing story or new currency/leveling system
I tried to play 4 years ago cause some friends had been playing for a while. There was a token intro quest then it just… drops you in the hub world. I tried following what I guessed was a quest chain, but when I got down to the planet there was just a constant stream of events and invasions and just so much noise. I had no context for anything and didn’t know what was necessary to do or not. I played for 90 minutes and never booted the game up again.
A friend of mine explained that the devs cleared content because console players can’t be expected to have all the data installed on their systems. Which like, that makes sense, but there’s gotta be a better solution.
They said it was a necessity so that development on the game could continue at all since they claim that without the support staff provided to them by Activision it would be too costly for them to maintain older content.
All that means to me though is that maintaining old content was expensive and Bungie thought it would be more profitable to abandon that content, not understanding the long term negative consequences that action would have for the game’s playerbase and reputation.
What’s ironic is that for the last few years they’ve even been removing so much of the older content that by the time they do release the final expansion new players will only be able to experience the last quarter of Destiny’s story.
That was a big issue for me when I was trying to get my friend to play destiny 2 with me. So much of the story is locked behind dlc and/or relies on you having played the game consistently for the past 6 years to experience everything as it releases so you can be up to date on the confusing story or new currency/leveling system
I tapped out after the second armor rework that they didnt grandfather older sets in to, not grinding for my outfit again, cant do it Bungee.
I tried to play 4 years ago cause some friends had been playing for a while. There was a token intro quest then it just… drops you in the hub world. I tried following what I guessed was a quest chain, but when I got down to the planet there was just a constant stream of events and invasions and just so much noise. I had no context for anything and didn’t know what was necessary to do or not. I played for 90 minutes and never booted the game up again.
A friend of mine explained that the devs cleared content because console players can’t be expected to have all the data installed on their systems. Which like, that makes sense, but there’s gotta be a better solution.
Wasn’t the vaulting of older content a necessity so previous gen users could still play the game?
They said it was a necessity so that development on the game could continue at all since they claim that without the support staff provided to them by Activision it would be too costly for them to maintain older content.
All that means to me though is that maintaining old content was expensive and Bungie thought it would be more profitable to abandon that content, not understanding the long term negative consequences that action would have for the game’s playerbase and reputation.