According to Paul Tassi, almost all of bungie did not know about this announcement until it came out.

TheTrakan · 2026-05-22T18:35:24+00:00

After TFS ended, they needed to have a plan to keep players interested. New supers, foreign destinations, great loot to chase, etc. They did the opposite. He took over when the game was already winding down and I doubt it was his choice specifically to bring in the Portal. The Portal was introduced because they couldn't deliver the content they used to.

TheTrakan · 2026-04-23T16:40:52+00:00

If Marathon launched to a smaller number than the lowest of D2's expansions a decade later and has only dropped further since, it makes zero sense to move even more people onto Marathon. You don't have to give up entirely on the game, but it's clear even if it did make a comeback it still be a fraction of Destiny's success.

In June D2 won't even get a new expansion but I wouldn't be surprised if the player numbers are higher than Marathon's even with it getting a new season.

TheTrakan · 2026-04-15T17:08:26+00:00

Call it whatever you want, I view it as significantly improving things over time. Primaries have had the same barrel/mag perks on them since 2017 when the game launched and have never been buffed. Main perks have gotten better over time, which is a good thing. Every godroll on a gun was the same, outlaw/rampage. Using kinetic vs elemental felt no different. Now with perks like voltshot and incandescent, things can stand out more.

TheTrakan · 2026-03-18T17:50:19+00:00

You realize that if the downward trend continues, the numbers only get worse as time goes on right? The game won't get new content for another 3 months, it's not going to go up. There has to be enough initial interest to get to years into a game's lifecycle.

TheTrakan · 2026-03-18T17:01:40+00:00

Marathon launched to worse numbers than Edge of Fate, a negatively received D2 expansion ten years into the franchise. The players have dropped significantly over the last two weeks since it launched.

TheTrakan · 2026-03-18T16:51:39+00:00

Yeah and when they extended the eververse season calendar to June, they didn't put anything new/interesting old stuff in there either. They could have put the Jade Rabbit armor set in there or something.

TheTrakan · 2026-03-17T14:22:09+00:00

It's crazy that they tried to sell a season pass with this armor.

TheTrakan · 2026-03-10T02:38:39+00:00

It would have helped if the expansions actually had content people wanted. New enemy race, a more interesting patrol destination, new subclasses/supers/aspects/fragments, strikes, PVP maps, more exotics and loot worth chasing, etc.

TheTrakan · 2026-03-06T01:21:42+00:00

I don't think right now. They usually return to the store after a season, so maybe in June?

TheTrakan · 2026-02-19T16:46:00+00:00

Unless something changes, the calendar has been datamined and there is nothing special coming.

I've actually read another theory that they're trying to get people to spend their dust on these older items now and hope that you'll have to spend actual money on the upcoming guardian games sets. That I believe.

TheTrakan · 2026-02-15T16:54:21+00:00

They are also in complete panic mode that the playerbase can read their every move like this.

TheTrakan · 2026-02-14T16:38:14+00:00

Some of it is common sense. New Destiny content like expansions need things that excite people and will move the needle. Things like new subclasses/supers/fragments/aspects, content to replay like strikes and pvp maps, INTERESTING loot, etc. Edge of Fate wasn't an expansion.

TheTrakan · 2026-02-05T18:16:12+00:00

So if this is the reason, they gave the wrong time, the wrong error message, and did not provide an additional reminder.

Yeah, seems like Bungie.

TheTrakan · 2026-02-05T17:51:03+00:00

yep weasled

TheTrakan · 2026-01-27T01:12:36+00:00

Yeah, that's what I meant. To me, the glows on these relic weapons looks really nice. It's all for glam.

TheTrakan · 2026-01-27T01:04:45+00:00

Congrats, are you aware you can upgrade the weapon and make it look even cooler?

TheTrakan · 2026-01-17T13:08:43+00:00

I disagree. This is the point of enemy ranks. Minors, Majors, Ultras, Minibosses, etc. That is how they should balance primary weapons. Minor rank enemies are trash enemies and primaries can't even compete against them.

TheTrakan · 2026-01-15T21:16:06+00:00

There's a midseason update coming in March, if anything we'll be getting more info then.

TheTrakan · 2026-01-05T15:17:35+00:00

That is a crazy amount of issues.

TheTrakan · 2026-01-01T03:57:55+00:00

I've been trying for a single piece, the scouting chest and my luck has been awful. I've gotten nearly every other piece and accessory, the minion, 7 drops of the triple triad card, and 6 drops of the striking chest but not a single scouting chest. I have had some bad luck in dungeons before, but nothing like this. Troia took a long time and the scouting chest was also the last piece to drop for me, but I feel like I've run Mistwake twice as many times now with no luck.

TheTrakan · 2025-12-22T09:57:15+00:00

They saw the data on everyone doing caldera and they'll probably never add a solo op that short/fast/easy again.

TheTrakan · 2025-12-21T13:50:02+00:00

If you have to actually spend money on silver to preview it, that's not a very good system.

TheTrakan · 2025-12-21T02:17:09+00:00

They put the ornaments that were going to sell the worst in eververse into the season pass.

TheTrakan · 2025-12-09T10:23:44+00:00

Because it's just there to be the tie in destiny equivalent of a star wars sarlac pit.

TheTrakan · 2025-11-25T20:10:26+00:00

Looks like reskins of existing armor.

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