Reworking Marathon and restoring "vaulted" content to Destiny are the highlights.

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[–] 9 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Woah. What's going on at Bungie that prompted this sudden change?

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    Marathon did not hit, and they laid off half the studio.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 child)

    That, and the player base stuck around. 14 years old, and put out to pasture ("maintenance mode), yet daily logjn count is still a respectable ~250k or more.

    The real answer may actually be something like the Whales are still addicted and buying lots of in-game silver. One viewer donated over $5k USD to Aztecross's stream during the announcement recap, then someone else threw in $500+. D2 has enough sleazy gacha mechanics going on that a lean dev team might be funded nicely by whales.

    [edit, popularity.report daily logins around 250k in the last 24h, 40k in the last hour, and fluctuating from 20k to 75k per hour]

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    From what I've heard, the problematic leadership that reportedly held the devs back are all gone as well. Also heard they're rehiring devs that got laid off.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    not that I don't believe you but do you have a link for this? I'd love to pass it on to some friends who I'm sure would be really happy to see this news

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Honestly, if they are hiring people back, I don't know how you sustain them with such reduced revenue. It sounds more like false hope to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    can't argue with that at all, though I'm a sucker for hoping against hope.

    these guys adored D2, I would love for them to kind of have it all back, and for their favourite online space to have a future again.

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