Destiny 2: Players are Stinksauer because they should pay extra for dungeons in the future

Destiny 2 is a multiplayer computer game developed by Bungie, Inc. and published by Activision Publishing, Inc. Bungie and Activision were independent in 2019. The ego shooter is a pure online game and was published for the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One on September 6, 2017. The version for Microsoft Windows was published on 24 October 2017. In addition, the game appeared for Google Stadia, Xbox Series X and S as well as the Playstation 5. Destiny 2 is the successor of the Destiny published in 2014. The game world is embedded in a science fiction scenario. Each player slips into the role of a so-called latter, protector of the last remaining secure city on earth. For this, this guardian uses a light called power to defend the city from various aliens races. One of these races, the so-called cabal, led by Dominus Ghaul , infiltrate the city and rob the keepers of their power. The player starts with the journey to recover this power and defeat Ghaul and his redsheet and recall the last city. As in the first part of the game, the actions of Destiny 2 are divided into player counter-player (PVP) and player-for-environment activities (PVE). In addition to the classic story missions in which the action of the game is pursued, Destiny 2 contains so-called Strikes for groups of three players and RAIDs for six players in PVE mode. In this case, arbitrarily chosen story missions are played in different difficulty grades. Furthermore, there are different events and activities with non-player characters (NPC) on the different planets. So-called competitive modes, which modeled the PVP principle, contain both target-based types and classic Deathmatch.

Destiny 2 breaks with old dungeon traditions and is criticized hard for it. How Bungie has now notified, the new dungeons are no longer included in the standard versions of the hex king or the Season Passes for year 5.

Dungeons (or Strikes) are in Destiny 2 a popular 3-player activity that has been established in past enhancements, such as Forsaken and Shadowkeep. They were always inclusive and an integral part of the expansion that they were started - so without extra cost playable. Only the prophecy dungeon was a gift to his players from Bungie.

But Bungie has apparently revised his offer concept and deleted the sale of year-5 dungeons as an inclusive offer. In the future, these endgame content is also offered separately after the publication of extensions.

This will change in the upcoming extensions:

Who buys the standard versions of the witch king plus the additional season passes for year 5 can not play the new dungeons. Only in the exclusive deluxe edition of the witch king including the additional season passes for year 5 will contain the new dungeons. Players can upgrade to the deluxe edition retroactively. The year-5 dungeons are later sold separately, similar to the dungeon in the 30 years bungie package.

This divided Chris Shannon (Cozmo), Lead Community Manager at Bungie, the Destiny 2 community as follows on Reddit with:

Hello everyone. We have seen some discussions about the new dungeon content and wanted to clarify how they sold next year. If you buy the Digital Deluxe Edition by The Witch Queen, you will receive the enlargement, all four season passes for the next year and the two dungeons. If you buy the Standard Edition, you can still upgrade to the Deluxe Edition to get the dungeons later. We will also offer you a separate way to buy the dungeons, but they will not be included in the season passes. We will publish further information as soon as this content goes live.

Chris Shannon (Cozmo), Lead Community Manager of Bungie

Did not the revenue for the dungeons have been enough?

The financing of dungeons is now apparent after Joe Blackburn is Game Director at Bungie, no longer alone about the everseversum, the real money shop of Destiny 2.

Bungie thus deviates from Luke Smith s statement from August 2019 that Dungeon-like missions are almost exclusively financed by the Eversevers.

Alt Meinmmo reported at that time about the very personal and informative TWAB by Luke Smith:

Power players straight angry: No wonder the community is upset: in combination with the continuing aversion to the players against the distance of important content, such as the trip bay including the Forseno Campaign, the players of the new monetalization strategy for Destiny 2 even more skeptical. And that is still very mildly expressed.

Cozmo, I hope you give the indignation of the community about it. It is gruesome. I know that bungie does not care about us, but damn. That s pure garbage. Do not worry guys, everversum will finance events and so ... Bungie shows that you only care about your wallet [...]. They give a shit on the community as a whole or us, the regular players. [...]

Comments Radiolotek in Reddit the announcement of Cozmo

Even if the community is, Bungie s decision seems to be apparently. This reaffirms Cozmo in Reddit again:

It happens. I just wanted to make sure there are no ambiguities and everyone has the right information.

Complemented Chris Shannon (Cozmo), Lead Community Manager of Bungie

Bungie thus gives rise to planning safety

Why does Bungie do that? Many players have initially found it very well with the idea of ​​ the witch king that Bungie wants to publish more endgame content for Destiny 2 in year 5. This fact was now provided with a price tag.

Bungie has committed to publish more and more regular endgame content drops during the great revelation of The Hexenkönigin .

This current announcement should give the player an additional incentive to buy directly the Deluxe Edition of the new enlargement The Hexenkönigin . Everything is included there and it makes future acquisitions unnecessary.

An increased sale of the Deluxe version gives bungie long-term planning security, which can mean more good content for the Destiny 2 players.

This is the endgame content for 2022: for the year 5 should, in addition to campaigns and activities, more endgame content than before come to Destiny 2:

On the one hand, in February 2022, a completely new RAID for the Witchenkönigin comes. In the course of the Seasons 5, a legacy raid from the content vault will come back. There will give a total of 2 dungeons in year 5. (Not just one anymore) In addition, Bungie wants to offer replacement for the signs and omen mission, which hiking in the content vault. What do you say about this announcement? Or have you, after the separate offer of the 30 year bungie parcels already calculated with this change?