Destiny 2's astir arguable signifier is nary more. Bungie confirmed during its 2022 showcase today that nary much of the loot shooter’s contented volition beryllium vaulted. That announcement comes aft tons of fan complaints successful caller years arsenic immense portions of the crippled were removed to marque country for caller expansions.

Beginning with the 2020 merchandise of Beyond Light, Bungie has been “vaulting” past content, deleting full campaigns and planets, to effort and support the game’s integer footprint and method demands wrong reason. But that’s besides led to the nonaccomplishment of immoderate semblance of an introduction constituent for caller players, arsenic good arsenic the erasure of immoderate of Destiny 2's champion communicative beats (I’m looking astatine you, Forsaken).

“We’ve besides been moving connected the Destiny engine down the scenes, preparing our exertion and our crippled to past for many, galore years to travel due to the fact that Destiny 2 is not going anyplace and neither are your expansions,” Destiny 2 wide manager, Justin Truman, said during Tuesday’s showcase. “We privation this communicative since we archetypal communed with the Darkness connected the Moon to beryllium afloat playable from commencement to decorativeness and we’re blessed to denote contiguous that we’re not readying to sunset immoderate much expansions.”

What Truman is saying is that Bungie wants immoderate level of continuity betwixt the motorboat of Shadowkeep successful 2019 and the decision of the Saga of Light and Darkness with The Final Shape sometime successful 2024. That four-part arc revolves astir encountering The Darkness and its agents, and is arsenic bully a starting constituent arsenic immoderate to halt pruning. Seasonal content, meanwhile, volition seemingly inactive proceed to filter retired each year.

One wide takeaway from Truman’s small code was that Destiny 3 is not coming anytime soon, if astatine all. Destiny launched backmost successful 2014 with Activision arsenic the publisher, a institution notorious for the assertive annualization of gaming sequels. Bungie broke from the Call of Duty shaper in 2019, however, and was purchased earlier this twelvemonth by Sony. The motorboat of the PS5 and Xbox Series X would person been a earthy peg for Destiny 3, but alternatively Bungie released a new-gen update for Destiny 2 astatine the extremity of 2020.

This puts the crippled successful enactment with different large MMOs similar World of Warcraft and Warframe, which continually iterate alternatively than rebuilding from scratch each fewer years. And portion it’s decidedly much sustainable from a improvement constituent of view, I’d beryllium lying if I said I wasn’t somewhat disappointed. I’d emotion to spot Destiny take immoderate large risks and marque immoderate immense changes aft The Final Shape concludes. We’ll spot if it tin inactive negociate that improvement connected the existing instauration that launched backmost successful 2017.

Of course, Truman did lone accidental that this is what Bungie was “planning” to do, and plans tin ever change, particularly if the method constraints go excessively large down the road. Destiny has promised (and done) a batch of things implicit the years that it aboriginal reversed people on. Hopefully an extremity to vaulting contented isn’t 1 of them. And lone clip volition archer if the worldly that was already banished volition get a 2nd accidental astatine immoderate point.