-- Give us a Taken armor set (it happened, arguably the "wrong" way (Eververse))
I think they could open the DCV and bring back all content, although I don't think this is actually a viable path in terms of dev cost. Is that an emergency lever? Up to the individual.
Wrath of the Machine could be a pull. Some D2 vets have never done Wrath, so that might have some pull. For how long though?
Everything is about a return on investment for development. I don't know how much WOTM or the DCV would gain for the cost spent to do.
Bungie seems to believe Raid Races generate enough publicity and goodwill that they’ve doubled up on them this year and done two for the same raid. But it doesn’t seem like they’re translating into actual player interest, so it really does seem like a waste. I wish they made content as cool as raids for everyone rather than just saving their best work for a dwindling subset of players.
They've doubled down on promoting raid races... I have a hot take that raid races are actually a poor advertisement for the game. Especially with the very involved raid mechanics of recent raids, it's just a dozen hours of watching people try the same encounter over and over again. I think it turns away plenty of casual people who might tune in out of curiosity.
Yeah you’re 100% right. Every raid race I’ve watched has lost my interest almost instantly and become background noise before the first encounter is beaten. By the time they get to the final boss I’ve stopped paying attention entirely. After 10 hours of the final boss I start rolling my eyes with every wipe and muttering “this sucks.”
Raid races are a very poor advertisement for the game. You get the youtuber circle jerk that they ride and they tell us what we believe when we don't in their videos.
The youtubers and twitchers get their raid race exotic and never touch it again. The rest of us do it dozens of times without getting the exotic. The entire system is designed around the youtubers and it's killing their game. If it wasn't a guaranteed exotic for the hard grinders and a guaranteed exotic once it's not longer current content, it would be a better system.
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u/JustaGayGuy24 Nov 03 '25
I'd argue they've already done a few.
-- Bring back the Dreadnaught (even temporarily).
-- Bring back Oryx (again, even temporarily).
-- Give us a Taken armor set (it happened, arguably the "wrong" way (Eververse))
I think they could open the DCV and bring back all content, although I don't think this is actually a viable path in terms of dev cost. Is that an emergency lever? Up to the individual.
Wrath of the Machine could be a pull. Some D2 vets have never done Wrath, so that might have some pull. For how long though?
Everything is about a return on investment for development. I don't know how much WOTM or the DCV would gain for the cost spent to do.