In Destiny 2 some content will be time-limited in Year 3. What does this mean for you?
Why will content be time-limited? Game Director Luke Smith has a vision that Destiny will one day become a truly dynamic world where something is constantly changing, and the narrative also moves somewhere.
Destiny is meant to become a game where “things happen” – not just in terms of new items and activities, but also in terms of the story. In recent years, it has seemed that Destiny has stagnated regarding the story and isn’t really progressing.
And in the third year of Destiny 2, Bungie wants to address this issue.
Seasonal content is coming
What changes with Shadowkeep: With the launch of the Shadowkeep expansion, Season 8 will begin in October. It will reveal new dangers on the moon.
Throughout the season, Smith says, parts of the game will change until the situation on the moon culminates in an event that ultimately resolves this situation. And then the content will be consumed.
This resolution of the situation in Season 8 prepares for the events in Season 9, which will also add something new to the game and resolve it throughout the season before Season 10 begins.
This is supposed to be the advantage: The previous annual pass of Year 2 differed from this new model. This pass added permanent new activities, but according to Smith, the game cannot “grow forever.”
- From a technical perspective, Destiny 2 cannot grow indefinitely; it is already a very large game, which requires a lot of storage space.
- In addition to technical limitations, an eternally growing game is also not the path envisioned for Destiny. As previously stated, they want a dynamic, ever-evolving world. A world that always offers something new, but does not burst at the seams.
What does this mean for me? Year 3 of Destiny 2 will feature events that last three months – so for a season – and provide new rewards during this time.
After the 3 months, however, some activities will disappear again. The same goes for the rewards. Bungie knows that a part of Destiny involves collecting all that stuff, which is why the weapons and armor pieces associated with the seasonal activities will be available in future seasons through other loot sources.
So if you want to play all the activities – and also timely grab all the loot – from Year 3 of Destiny 2, you need to stay on track. If you take multi-month breaks, you will miss the seasonal content.
Luke Smith concludes this content model: “You were there with your friends, got the gear and the weapons, created memories, and changed Destiny in the process.” At the end of August, they will provide more details about the annual pass.
What else will change? Luke Smith writes that he wishes they had better maintained the game in previous seasons. Currently, there are far too many sources for powerful gear, as they have continuously added new sources.
In the future, they want to do better here. Many old sources already feel like a chore, according to Smith, so they will likely close some, introduce new ones, and keep rotating them.
What do you think of this Destiny that is supposed to develop faster?
