Destiny down to 22% of its playerbase and falling. Bungie desperate and announces "we need to talk" upcoming statement
So here we go. Activisions most expensive product ever and it is crashing and burning before its second dlc even gets announced.
If you didn't keep up with it the game threw out all the fixes of the original game that took the frankensteins monter of vanilla destiny and turned it into the mediocre but fun game of rise of iron.
In place of all the mechanics they ripped out was a mobage gacha tier cash shop. Instead of getting player power at a level up you get a free lockbox that takes up space in your 10 slot loot inventory so you must repeatedly visit the cash shop to free space for ingame rewards. All former rewards from raids, strikes and pvp are now cash shop only and the cash shop is now seasonal so every two months based on rng you must spend up to $10,000 to get everything in a buy to play AAA shooter with a season pass.
Needless to say people have no need to play that shit when 2017 put out a lot of niche games for different tastes and with shit like monster hunter, dragonball fighterz and dissia coming in weeks the multiplayer market is about to get some big competition.
Compounding this has been a constant stream of weekly shitshows. Throttling XP and hiding it behind a false xp bar ui intentionally designed to lie to you. Locking players out of base game content if they did not buy the dlc. Getting caught paying streamers to shill it and then publicly blacklisting them after they play fortnite instead. Just constant bad press so even the brand defenders are quiet.
All of this means it has a reputation to normalfags that it is a poison cash shop scam and veterans of the first game just went back to play that en masse instead. Now bungie are being reported as having once again rebuilt the game late in development by the usual leak sources that always end up being right in the past. Claiming the cash shop was their idea, not activisions and they can barely make the dev builds run anymore without crashing and thats why they removed so many things to keep the engine stable. Its a mess that Bungie cannot control and next week they claim "we are listening and will try harder and speak after the holidays" but even bundrones are not falling for it and making 'we are listening' a joke.
Is this the biggest crash and burn in the industry?