Like player numbers are worse than they were during curse of osiris atm. Player engagement and care for the game are at the lowest ever.
The franchise was huge. And obviously Destiny is Bungies cash cow. How is it possible that they keep on going with their minimal effort strat. Forsaken saved them financially because they pulled their ### together and shipped a banger after realizing they can't continue that zero effort, no passion route with their small and arguably bad content drops during year 1. Guess what we get after these 3 episodes again? Yea small "expansions" just like curse of osiris and warmind were.. That worked out well right?
Now we are at the same spot and even worse when it comes to player engagement because of them catering to elitists exclusively, them not doing proper expansions anymore and them not focusing on the core game. Yea they keep promising to do so but always "in the distant future". The ship already sank. There is no proper "distant future" for the game. That's always been their major issue, they can't push changes to their strategy quickly enough because they fired all their talent due to cost efficiency.
Look at the crucible changes they plan for 2025 now in the last TWAB. Those changes were needed back in 2020 when they ruined pvp entirely during beyond light. The games pvp never recovered from that. Now noone cares about your pvp anymore. Its wasted dev time at this point, i hate to say it as a former pvp main.
Now i dont play the game anymore at all outside of some seasonal story for one hour every week during season launch.
You ignored your majority of players, the feeding hand, the casuals. For what? Satisfied 24/7 playing gremlins. Now theres no casuals left playing your game and your financial situation is looking very bad. Who would have thought. But hey, we have a contest mode for a dungeon coming, that will bring the casuals back, i'm sure...
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The fact is that the game has 10 years. It has a huge amount of content but for the players that play it for 10 years, the game is now boring and repetitive.