Destiny 2’s most controversial character is… Archie the dog?

pcgamesn.com:

Destiny 2’s Archie the dog has become the FPS game‘s most controversial character after a satirical post analyzing Bungie’s development process regarding the Destiny 2 robo-pup garnered over 6,000 upvotes.

It’s a twist of irony that the fan-favourite pooch is now the centre of a major discussion regarding the game’s overall development process, considering it was nothing but a good boi since its brief appearance in Destiny 2 season 19.

The post titled “The development of Archie the dog is a satirical microcosm of Bungie’s content release process” is marked satire, though it clearly resonated with players frustrated with the game’s recent bugs, server issues, and overall content development process.

The post from Redditor WiseScratch suggests that whereas in most other games, developers who wanted to include a dog within the game would have just introduced a dog, Bungie’s developers instead introduced its exo-dog with a time-gated mission, a lengthy grind, and managed to put it into the game world with buggy mechanics.

“We’ve written a lengthy article describing how we coded the dog, why we coded the dog, and how enormously clever we are for being able to code a dog in the first place,” the author adds, speaking from a satirical position as a Bungie development team member. The kicker, however, is the post’s sign-off:

“As it doesn’t have anything to do with Gambit, the dog will be mentioned in every TWAB,” the author writes, a response to Bungie’s overall silence regarding any updates to the Gambit game mode and its future as a core activity in the multiplayer game. While Bungie has recently overhauled Vanguard Strikes and Nightfalls and tried to balance activities like Crucible and Trials of Osiris, the team has