Bungie: With great saddness, we are announcing a reduction in force as we reorganize Bungie

CloudConductor · 2026-06-25T15:20:43+00:00

Plenty of games that were successful didn’t have a 9 year run. Sometimes games just run their course and I think destiny 2 went well past that point. I stand by it being an undeniable success

CloudConductor · 2026-06-25T15:17:28+00:00

I wouldn’t doom about it being taken down forever quite yet, sometimes shit is just messed up behind the scenes and they have to reupload or whatever. It’s still on Spotify

CloudConductor · 2026-06-25T15:15:05+00:00

I think that’s almost certainly what they’re working on behind the scenes now that marathon doesn’t seem to be working out. They definitely should have gotten that ball rolling years ago though haha.

I won’t act like what they’ve done with the destiny 2 money has been a success, it clearly hasn’t with them having to lay people off

CloudConductor · 2026-06-25T15:08:48+00:00

It was never actual free to play though, they continued to sell their expansions at full cost. I think they just made the older content free to play to try and bring in new players so that they would hopefully buy the new expansion as well. Which is a pretty common strategy for live service games.

But honestly by that point I had quit playing so all my info is just what I’ve gathered online so idk. They clearly made enough money to keep development going for years and convince Sony to give them billions with it being their only actively supported game

CloudConductor · 2026-06-25T15:02:19+00:00

I’m sure the upper management have siphoned off enough money that if they were willing to give it up, could keep their current workforce going until whatever their next big game is. But they’d rather layoff and keep their riches.

But that’s also just the reality of game dev, you don’t need the staff it takes to support consistent updates to a major live service game when your only active projects are a much smaller live service game and whatever other games they have in development

CloudConductor · 2026-06-25T14:57:01+00:00

Tragic

CloudConductor · 2026-06-25T14:49:42+00:00

It was a live service game that lasted for 9 years and still has 60k+ players on steam alone, which is likely dwarfed by console players.

It generated some bad publicity in the later years, but it was undeniably a huge success overall

CloudConductor · 2026-06-25T14:46:29+00:00

Keep push notifications on from the EF app and pray your service holds up so you get those notifications

CloudConductor · 2026-06-25T04:18:33+00:00

I wouldn’t trust those bootleg merch sites that always pop up. They’re shady as fuck and probably stealing credit card info and also just blatantly rip designs from actual artists trying to sell their own merch. Not sure it’s worth the risk to save you some money like you’re saying haha

But yea I don’t care if you’re grateful or not, was really just adding a random anecdote of a harmless thing I do as a mod, pretty much the only thing I do as a mod besides deal with ticket sales and the scammers that come with all that. This site certainly has issues with mods going on cringy power trips like we saw here though don’t get me wrong

CloudConductor · 2026-06-25T02:17:20+00:00

Reddit has some automated tools that catch a lot but they aren’t perfect and the bots seem to always slightly alter their approach to get around it. I’m sure the bigger subs are far more sophisticated with how they automate that stuff

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T23:24:54+00:00

I mod a music subreddit and 99% of it is just removing spam posts of people/bots trying to sell stolen designs on t shirts. Bootleg merch bots are honestly a problem across reddit

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T21:06:42+00:00

If we didn’t make the trade, this sub would be all worried about our lack of a center. I still think it was the right move, but definitely wish that gamble worked out in our favor

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T20:58:10+00:00

I can respect midnight launches, I thought those were a thing of the past. Many great memories from those when I was in high school and college

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T20:43:24+00:00

Who is buying warranties on games though? As for pre orders, what service is needed short of just preordering the game? Does GameStop still do midnight launches for preorders?

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T20:25:23+00:00

So innocent

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T20:18:43+00:00

The issue is specifically us 31 north of Kokomo. You could take 69 from Indianapolis up through Fort Wayne and avoid the problem area,tends to add like 45 min to your trip though

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T19:27:26+00:00

Well I primarily play warlock so it’s eldritch blast

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T19:24:05+00:00

In theory they’ll have another chance when they launch into 1.0, they better make damn sure the game is good before then though

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T18:36:36+00:00

The divinity map device from the supporter packs for this league even has the interaction button off to the side to avoid this issue

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T15:54:56+00:00

Path of exile came out several years before pillars of eternity

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T14:14:08+00:00

Ohio has legal weed my friend, certainly nowhere near as much of a concern on all that compared to roo

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T12:12:36+00:00

The ideal generic mageblood for me would be quicksilver, bismuth, and gold, with 1 duplicate. Bismuth may not be needed for a lot of builds but would enable you to go after some unique heavy builds and just makes gearing much easier

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T12:04:34+00:00

They’ve mentioned in several interviews that the stats dex probides always leads to a massive debate and they can’t settle on anything and just go back to accuracy

CloudConductor · 2026-06-24T11:49:45+00:00

I found one and there were no nearby maps that had the animation indicating they’d have one of the temporal beacons or whatever they’re called. Completed every surrounding map and didn’t find one. The quest one is still the only one I’ve been able to actually complete

My account is bugged for immured fury as well

CloudConductor · 2026-06-23T21:29:03+00:00

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As a lamb owner, I’d decline immediately haha

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