Destiny 2’s latest play conscionable went unrecorded earlier this week, and players are already feeling super bummed retired astir it. In galore ways it feels similar conscionable different reskin of the aforesaid hamster instrumentality we’ve been moving connected for years, and the burnout is much existent than ever. The bully quality is that Bungie says it hears the feedback. The atrocious quality is that it volition instrumentality adjacent to a twelvemonth for the abstraction MMO lipid tanker that is Destiny 2 to crook successful a caller direction.

“I conscionable wanted to measurement successful and say: Heard large and wide connected the feedback with our existent seasonal backbones,” the crippled director, Joe Blackburn, tweeted yesterday. “The squad is excited to enactment immoderate much originative hazard successful seasonal progressions, but determination volition beryllium immoderate clip earlier the feedback catches up with the dev cycle.”

He went connected to preview what types of upcoming changes players tin expect to assistance freshen up the five-year aged loot shooter. Some, similar Guardian Ranks and cyberpunk metropolis Neomuna, volition get successful February’s large caller expansion, Lightfall. Others, similar caller systems for seasonal progression and “more caller enactment setup[s],” volition get successful Season 21 and beyond adjacent June. “On the seasonal pursuit broadside our large absorption is reducing complexity and improving the synergy betwixt your seasonal pursuits and the remainder of the game,” Blackburn wrote.

While vague and jargony, the comments are addressed to precise existent feelings of vexation and exhaustion successful the Destiny community. Since Bungie moved distant from discrete DLC updates to a constant seasonal churn funded by conflict passes and microtransactions, the crippled has benefited from a dependable watercourse of caller content, but besides struggled to interruption caller ground.

Each caller play begins with a communicative mission. Then players get a seasonal artifact, upgrade it by grinding the caller seasonal activity, and dilatory unlock caller seasonal mods, powerfulness boosts, and conflict walk ranks. Story contented and upgrade advancement is gated week-to-week. By astir week eight, the communicative wraps up until the last communicative bushed drops astatine immoderate constituent adjacent the extremity of the season. Then Groundhog Day begins each implicit again.

It was good for the archetypal mates of expansions, but arsenic each caller play has arrived with flashy caller quality reveals but minimal changes to the underlying structure, the full thing’s begun to deterioration precise thin. The communicative and guns are great. Everything connecting them is a drag. I deed my bounds over the summer. A increasing chorus of different players person started to get fed up much recently. Destiny 2 deed its lowest subordinate counts ever past month, and contempt caller contented to dive into with Season of Seraph, subordinate morale is inactive precise low.

Lightfall, arsenic Blackburn alludes to, volition nary uncertainty alteration people’s moods. 2022’s Witch Queen was exceptional successful galore ways, and adjacent year’s enlargement looks precise promising truthful acold arsenic well, implicit with overhauled societal features and a caller magic grappling hook. But the seasonal exemplary was aimed astatine making the crippled consciousness caller each twelvemonth long, not conscionable for the fewer weeks aft a caller DLC. While the repetitive and cookie-cutter attack Bungie has taken frankincense acold is understandable from a accumulation standpoint, it’s wide the upcoming seasons request to instrumentality much risks if they’re going to survive.

Though it sounds similar it mightiness beryllium a portion until that happens. “There’s inactive novelty, thematic variety, and caller ways to advancement your quality coming to Destiny implicit the adjacent respective months,” Blackburn tweeted. “But portion we enactment to usage this feedback successful our aboriginal releases, I wanted to marque definite everyone knows that your words are not falling connected deaf ears.”