• JohnDarlen@lemmy.todayEnglish
    47 minutes

    This is the game I put more time on my entire life. I ditched it back in 2022-2023. Greed ruins everyone’s lives, that’s all I can say.

  • SoupBrick@pawb.socialEnglish
    1 hour

    Thank goodness they didn’t over deliver.

    I am so spiteful that the upper/middle management destroyed a game with so much potential just to chase MTX and bonuses.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26 minutes

      I suspect chicken and egg is reversed in a lot of comments like this. Did popularity fall because they increased monetization? Or did they increase monetization because popularity fell and live services are expensive beasts? Gotta say, I expect it’s the latter, especially since we know Bungie wasn’t doing so hot when Sony bought them.

      • SoupBrick@pawb.socialEnglish
        19 minutes

        All you have to do is look at Warframe. Bungie had metric tons more money to work with than DE did during their early life. Warframe is better than D2 in almost every way.

        I think whoever was driving the core development decisions at Bungie was actively hindering the success of the game, whether intentionally or not.

        At the end of the day, the less money that is spent on the IP, the more money goes to bonuses/exec payouts.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16 minutes

      As opposed to what?

      I don’t think a game like this should last, and be developed, forever. It will inevitably lead to enshittification.

  • haywire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35 minutes

    I have played a lot of Destiny 2, I really enjoyed Final Shape and just after but the portal was the beginning of the end. It killed the flow and the scale of the game in one go.

    I’ll probably jump in for some of the changes and to slaughter a few teams in Gambit one more time but I doubt I’ll play much at all after that.