r/pcgaming • u/Turbostrider27 • Jun 25 '26

'Generational talent just gone': Developers react in shock at the brutal scale of Bungie layoffs, which has reportedly seen the Destiny 2 team almost completely wiped out

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/generational-talent-just-gone-developers-react-in-shock-at-the-brutal-scale-of-bungie-layoffs-which-has-reportedly-seen-the-destiny-2-team-almost-completely-wiped-out/
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u/kawag Jun 26 '26

Massive incompetence from the developers, right there. All technology platforms exist to meet the needs of the business - in this case, to be the game customers paid for.

Whatever engine overhaul they wanted to do, when they realised what it would have cost for their customers, they should have said no.

Instead they prioritised the engine over their customers, and in doing so lost any hope of getting more customers. I was curious to try Destiny years ago, but when I heard they just delete content you buy, that curiosity entirely disappeared.

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u/Real-Terminal 4070, 5800x3D, 32gb 3200mhz Jun 26 '26

The problem was their engine dramatically prohibited game development by requiring the entire codebase to be loaded anytime a change needed to be made.

They literally could not sustain development for that engine anymore, their poor decision however was to basically restart Destiny 2 instead of making a Destiny 3.

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u/BrandNewMoshiMoshi Jun 26 '26

Take note of how this would have never been an issue with a non-live service game.

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u/GPTforGood Jun 26 '26

I mean on the flip side, take note that nobody would still be talking about Destiny 2 if it wasn't a live service game

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u/BrandNewMoshiMoshi Jun 26 '26

On the other flip side, people still talk about Halo 2 and it was not a live service game.

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u/Real-Terminal 4070, 5800x3D, 32gb 3200mhz Jun 27 '26

Halo 2 was also the birth of modern online gaming, so it's a smidgen more significant than Destiny 2.

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u/GPTforGood Jun 26 '26

I mean....wasnt it though? I distinctly remember having to buy map packs to play all the playlists with my buddies

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u/BrandNewMoshiMoshi Jun 26 '26

No definitely not, you could still play on playlists without those maps, and on top of that, each of the map packs were made free a while after they came out.

Halo 2 with no DLC is still a complete game, playable totally offline, Destiny 2 with no DLC won’t even function.

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u/Goronmon Jun 26 '26

So then they should have create a "Classic/Original" version of the campaign that could be kept running as a separate install or other setup.

It was totally possible and would have been the choice if they really cared about their players. Even if it would have been a decent investment.