Its approaching technical and hard drive space limitations with so much content in the game, so the content vault was born, and 40-50% of the game is heading into it to clear out room for new, more relevant stuff. So sticking with Destiny 2, Bungie simply can’t have it keep expanding forever. The game would have been “intact” but we would have essentially lost access to all its content as relevant for the current series, as we did when Destiny 1 got left behind. Realistically, what is Bungie supposed to do here? The “normal” option would have been to make Destiny 3 and leave Destiny 2 behind completely. I am not saying we should all be forming some sort of class action suit against Bungie, but this really is a unique situation, and one I think we’re going to start seeing a lot more of in this industry. Season of Opulence, for instance, was a year ago, and now that’s going to be completely wiped. I guess I can sort of see that, and yet those timetables are usually really, really long. The other comparison I’m hearing is perhaps the most close, where games eventually turn off servers making multiplayer inaccessible on older titles. But offering something for free to new players does not take anything away from the players that already own it. New Light made Destiny 2 vanilla and Osiris/Warmind content free. This does not strike me as the same situation as when say, New Light arrived. When you bought the game, you were not told that in a few years, the content of that game might become inaccessible indefinitely. That was not the case with Destiny 2 base content, two DLCs, three year 2 seasons and two expansions, and even though Forsaken and Shadowkeep are not in the content vault yet, they very well could be soon enough. But at least in that case, we were told up front this stuff was impermanent. People have not liked that, so it appears to be changing to seasonal activities lasting at least a year before they leave. Year 3’s seasons, for instance, made it clear when you bought them that most of the stuff within them would disappear when those three months were up. Things are added, things depart every month.īut Destiny has only recently began saying up front that certain things have a time limit. When you pay $120 a year for Netflix, you understand you are not literally paying to own every title in its library. The problem is Destiny has essentially positioned itself as a subscription service like Netflix, although that was not made clear up front.
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