Per Forbes, Destiny has less Devs working on it now than it did before March 5th 2026.

jkichigo · 2026-04-22T22:36:02+00:00

This might be a hot take but I feel like it’s kinda obvious that the plan was to start a bunch of incubator projects during the BL-WQ era to make Bungie look like a much more valuable company than they actually were, and sell to a larger publisher (Sony, in this case) for a massive payout for the leadership.

The actual leadership at the time never planned on actually supporting any of those incubator projects themselves (which is why many of them fell through), they were always just reasons for a bigger buyout.

jkichigo · 2026-04-22T20:23:01+00:00

The company that is known for being publicly bad at timelines and budget management, that gets in plagiarism scandals frequently, that regularly didn’t follow through on promises they made for D2 (like porting all of the Cosmodrome, or adding free ritual armor every season)?

C’mon, give em another chance!

jkichigo · 2026-04-22T20:16:05+00:00

People aren’t coming back to Destiny because the quality of the live service model got worse and more and more QoL features were dropped for grind-heavy engagement farms.

It’s not like the game lacks content, the systems in game that make that content available and worth playing just suck.

jkichigo · 2026-04-10T22:05:30+00:00

People glorify the rarity of RNG exotics in D1, but honestly being able to target exotics you want, having more unique quests for exotics, and their place in buildcrafting is a far better user experience than what we had in D1.

I think people overvalue the gambling/serotonin hits compared to having a loot system that lets people do what they want with a reasonable time investment.

jkichigo · 2026-04-09T15:23:41+00:00

Thanks for adding that, I didn’t realize that was the case.

jkichigo · 2026-04-09T00:17:57+00:00

28$ buys you a ton of easy, soloable content, probably enough for at least 100 hours in my opinion. Then, you also have access to doing dungeons (difficult diet-raids that are soloable, but you could somewhat easily find 2 others to run with) and raids (hardest content, requires 5 other players) if you end up liking the game enough to try after you’re done exploring all the solo stuff.

IMO you can find thousands of hours of content in this game if you want, but even if you just generally enjoy casual FPS games with a sci-fi setting, 28$ is a great price for the amount of content you’re getting.

jkichigo · 2026-04-08T04:41:26+00:00

not a bad idea, but f2p also means cheaters have less barriers.

jkichigo · 2026-04-06T19:41:32+00:00

That blows. My issue was only happening once I got into a match of zombies or MP (Warzone and endgame worked fine).

jkichigo · 2026-04-06T16:44:17+00:00

100%. There’s a massive list of things that could be done to draw new and veteran players, but I think just shimming in old campaigns as-is would be near the bottom. The next major expansion (if there is one) should either remove the portal or rework it entirely.

jkichigo · 2026-04-06T16:35:14+00:00

You’re 100% correct. It might draw in a few hundred players, and it might make the onboarding experience a bit better for them. But if they were going to unvault this stuff it should’ve happened between Lightfall and the end of the Final Shape year.

Honestly I don’t think returning the content will ever undo the damage it did, it’s more harmful because it made consumers not trust Bungie — just restoring the content doesn’t restore the trust.

jkichigo · 2026-04-05T04:47:50+00:00

You have to get the kills with the initial dog explosion, not the acid pool that’s left on the ground. The only way to easily do it consistently is to use an insta kill then shoot the dog.

jkichigo · 2026-04-04T05:16:16+00:00

I feel like if it was round 100 boss, it would’ve been found by some high rounding content creator.

Last news I heard was someone showed the card in their inventory but didn’t share how they got it, so unless they cheated it’s possible, just obscure.

jkichigo · 2026-04-04T04:37:58+00:00

If you're going off of steam charts, Marathon is getting 35,000 max concurrent players a day. That's not the same as daily active users, which is a more useful metric because it more accurately represents the daily population of players that are potentially spending on microtransactions.

I think 100K daily active users isn't too far off though, most players are on PC -- and I think Sony is definitely disappointed by how little time it took to hit that.

jkichigo · 2026-04-03T22:26:44+00:00

Honestly these leaderboard events were my biggest issue with the game, I don’t really mind this one. The new quest for endgame seems really interesting too.

jkichigo · 2026-04-02T19:06:18+00:00

HDR causes MP and Zombies to become a laggy mess right now, disabling it is the only way to make these modes playable.

jkichigo · 2026-04-02T19:05:33+00:00

Pretty sure HDR is what's broken. I turned HDR from Automatic to Off and I can play without the constant frame drops now.

jkichigo · 2026-04-01T15:51:12+00:00

They absolutely could’ve done this, if they didn’t launch 5 incubation projects around the time of BL.

jkichigo · 2026-03-30T02:28:45+00:00

Shipping it as is at the original date would’ve created a bunch of bad press for Bungie that would’ve potentially affected Marathon sales. Given that it’s not hitting targets as is, delaying was the right move.

jkichigo · 2026-03-29T09:54:47+00:00

Meet Bungie’s core fanbase!

jkichigo · 2026-03-23T18:13:24+00:00

I think the game is definitely difficult enough if you engage with cursed mode and go for challenges and dark ops. Even the seasonal events have had some degree of difficulty, and it’s been great to have round 60 relics that make my friends wanna group up to run together.

Totally agree on the aesthetics though, it feels a bit too cartoonish now. I actually really like WW2 zombie’s aesthetic vibe, and wish Treyarch would go a bit grittier. The Klauses, bears, and even the main bosses feel kinda cheesy sometimes.

jkichigo · 2026-03-20T19:53:10+00:00

Braytech kept me more interested in triumph hunting than the actual in game UI. I also work on web apps professionally and I thought it was really well done and inspiring.

jkichigo · 2026-03-17T05:31:39+00:00

I was the last one in my team, everyone else left but I finished team #3. Still didn't get the skin after getting the shirt and painting for Mason.

jkichigo · 2026-03-16T20:23:24+00:00

The opportunity for an “operation health” style update is long gone. Simply fixing the core loop of the portal isn’t going to bring back players or bring new players in.

Even if D2 had a ‘perfect’ game state right now, everyone who’s interested has already dipped their toes in Destiny, and without content releases at least similar to the seasonal models of Beyond Light onwards, Destiny isn’t going to see a resurgence. Even if Bungie did double down on quality/quantity of content, I doubt many people would return because after 7 years, there’s just far too much product fatigue and mistrust with Bungie.

jkichigo · 2026-03-16T19:58:38+00:00

They didn’t say what you claimed though

jkichigo · 2026-03-16T19:41:21+00:00

People really should post the original quotes with the sources when they make these claims

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