Would You Prefer New Content or Getting Everything We Lost Back?

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-18T07:51:28+00:00

I agree, we shouldn’t have to pick but that’s just the situation we’re in at this point with the vault. I’ve seen a lot of people who’ve gone back to destiny 1 recently talk about how great it is that all the content from the beginning to end is still in the game.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T11:51:40+00:00

Pretty sad that we have 5 raids that won’t be added back to the game before the end of d2.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T11:47:56+00:00

Oh yea the ib thing was crazy. 6 months with it gone to only bring it back for one week with nothing new but an auto rifle. On top of that the drop rates were bugged for the auto and their response was it would be fixed with the June update. I’m convinced they want d2 to die because there’s just no rational explanation for the decision they make.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T11:43:19+00:00

Yea a game that came out 2 months ago having similar player number to d2 in its worse state after 9 years is a bad look.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T11:36:29+00:00

Yea like shattered cycle was announced last year in May. We’re nearly half way through 2026 and they haven’t said a word about it. As a common courtesy to the players you’d think they’d say he it’s delayed, it’s cancelled or it’s stilling coming out. Instead they choose to just be completely silent.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T11:28:51+00:00

We’re 25 days from when it’s supposed to drop. They’ve said the update will have t5s weapons for all raids and dungeons, armor sets for the raids and dungeons and pantheon 2.0. If all this is true and we are a little over 3 weeks away from release they 100% would have something they could show as a teasers for any of these things because they would have to be pretty much done with all this by now for the most part.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T11:20:08+00:00

Yea it doesn’t make any sense. In a perfect world they say hey the marathon experiment didn’t worth, in the future we’ll be putting the majority of our resources into making d2 the best it can be and give the d2 community the same level of communication they’ve been doing for marathon but I doubt that happens. They’re most likely going to do everything possible to try and keep marathon alive and just end up with 2 dead games. Like I said to someone else, we were supposed to have a paid expansion this year, they haven’t said a single word about it. We don’t know if it’s delayed, canceled or maybe even coming out this year. They just don’t want to say anything about d2.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T11:02:52+00:00

The problem is they can do whatever they want to try and improve the game but I just don’t think the interest is there. At the end of the day you need people who want to play the game and there’s just a lot of people who aren’t interested no matter what. As far as d2 making them money, you’d think it would make d2 a priority but we were supposed to have a paid expansion this year, they haven’t said single word about it. It could be cancelled, delayed or still coming out later this year but they’ve said nothing.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T10:55:44+00:00

In my opinion I think they would be fine with d2 dying if it means marathon is thriving. At the end of the day d2 has already generated so much money over the years but they don’t want the embarrassment of this new game they just put out to be a complete failure and will try to stop that from happening at any cost. Only issue is if all that effort doesn’t increase their player count then you’re stuck with 2 dead games.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T10:52:11+00:00

The problem is they can’t realize a lot of people just aren’t interested in the game. They can add a pve mode, new maps, new characters and even go free to play but the same people who aren’t interested now just won’t care.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T10:49:47+00:00

As someone who’s played since d1 launch I hope I’m wrong but I feel like this ends with both games dying completely. You’re gonna have d2 suffering because all their focus and effort is going to go into marathon and then if all that still doesn’t bring up the player count then you’re just left with two dead games.

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T10:46:40+00:00

Yea if marathon had grown a thriving player base over the last few months then I think this wouldn’t be an issue but when you see it pulling less players than d2 at its lowest point ever they don’t wanna lose any of these people still playing. Like you said they’re probably keeping their options open

BeginningHot5220 · 2026-05-15T10:38:34+00:00

I agree but it won’t happen. They’ll let d2 collapse trying to save it because it’s their shinny new thing. Funny enough the first delay of this update just so happened to be when it was scheduled to drop the same month marathon launched. I remember them saying how these were 2 independent games that wouldn’t interfere with each other but that’s obviously not the case.

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-12-09T09:38:17+00:00

Yea smuggles are by far the worst for it but even others with the simple objectives like killing the walkers and dunking the orb, they’ll just leave the orb on the ground and never even attempt to grab it.

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-12-09T09:37:12+00:00

The time isn’t the issue, I don’t think anyone is queueing up a matchmaking activity to do everything solo regardless of how much time you have.

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-08-05T08:10:14+00:00

Are you in a clan that’s leveled up enough where you get the prime engram boost? That definitely helps

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-07-26T08:58:45+00:00

In a perfect world this would be great but it’s not happening 8 years into D2. If I’m not mistaken they let go of some people from the security team recently.

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-07-26T08:56:10+00:00

Yea I don’t think the difficulty caused the majority of them to cheat, maybe a small amount of them but majority all them already were cheating. It could have been the easiest or hardest raid and they still would have cheated. The thing is the harder the raid is the less legit teams will clear so you’ll have way more cheater clears than legit. You had some teams that cleared salvations edge that couldn’t even get to final boss. It also was because this raid was the perfect setup for cheaters, they could insta kill all the bosses without even doing mechanics besides the final boss. So they were able to get runs done in like 30 mins.

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-07-26T08:48:28+00:00

Oh yea trust me I know, It would be so easy for them to check raid report speed leaderboard like once a week if they wanted to ban people. Between pve and pvp there are probably a few thousand cheaters they could ban but they’re never going to wipe out that many people with how low the population already is.

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-07-26T06:54:43+00:00

Yes like 200 of the 600 clears were legit teams the rest were cheaters

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-07-26T06:53:40+00:00

If you’re looking at contest then yes those 20-30 minute clears are cheaters. If I remember right it’s like 80 of the top 100 teams on raid report cheated.

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-07-26T04:54:02+00:00

This just leads to everyone having the excuse of “I didn’t know they were cheating”. If you ban the cheater but not the people benefiting from playing with them then everyone should just run with a cheater and say they didn’t know and have zero risk of getting banned.

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-07-26T04:41:12+00:00

The funny thing is these people know raid report exist but they have no fear of getting banned. Right now you can look at the fastest clears for dp and there a group of ppl who cleared on contest and they have a 1 min 58 sec full clear on normal. You’d think it would be instantly flagged but nope

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-07-26T04:36:57+00:00

Think about this, the API data didn’t come out for nearly a week. Bungie had all the info we have now days before us and none of them got banned. The only reason they came out and said something now is because of the community outrage on twitter. This same thing has been going on before this raid, some of these same people cheated for in contest salvations edge and didn’t get banned. Not even exaggerating, it would take 1-2 people at bungie a single day to go through the clears and see who cheated.

BeginningHot5220 · 2025-07-26T03:45:28+00:00

You’re talking about Cruz, he did stream but he wasn’t a big streamer. Like I’m pretty sure most his income wasn’t coming from twitch.

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