Bungie goes into damage control mode as game director admits the State of the Game update 'wasn't up to our standards for what you all expect'
You know things aren't going great for a game when one of the senior developers is wheeled out to make a vlog explaining (and apologising for) recent decisions. So it goes in Destiny 2 today, where game director Joe Blackburn earlier used the platform formerly known as Twitter to share his thoughts on how things are going. Answer: could be better..
The important context for how we got here is that a couple of weeks ago Bungie put out a lengthy State of the Game post, which was also aimed at addressing various persistent community complaints. These kinds of posts are fairly standard for Bungie, but what was unusual this time was that it immediately made the situation much, much worse.
The most inflammatory part of the post was the suggestion that Bungie—a studio owned by Sony, with hundreds of employees—simply does not have the resources necessary to deliver more than one new PvP map per calendar year. This, as PC Gamer's Phil Savage predicted, did not go over well. Destiny 2's PvP community is notoriously underserved—they once went an astonishing 950 days without a new PvP map—and the original post even admitted that «the most frequent feedback we see is that there is just not enough new PvP content, specifically new maps.»
«I think it's fair to say that this approach is not producing the Crucible that our players expect from us,» Blackburn said in his video.
Destiny 2's PvP community would clear agree on that point. The pushback in response to the State of the Game was ferocious enough that Bungie has now decided that it can in fact make new PvP maps, and it's going to make a whole bunch of them and then give them away for free in 2024. «This is a shift from our strategy,» Blackburn admitted, «so it's going to take us
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