Destiny 2: Are the “good infos” too little, too late? – This is what you say about it

Is the Destiny 2 community now in a state of excitement? Our readers share their thoughts on the 2018 roadmap.

In early January 2018, Game Director Christopher Barrett announced “good info” about the future of Destiny 2. He is working on a comprehensive blog post that will outline various endgame changes based on community feedback and set to be implemented in 2018. In this blog post, he promised to share a lot of good information.

This information was released at the end of last week. Barrett addressed many aspects of the game, such as Strikes, PvP, weapons, and armor pieces. He also provided rough timeframes for when to expect these changes.

How did the community react to all this information?

A rollercoaster of emotions

Indeed, in the first few hours after the blog post was released, a sense of excitement was palpable on social media:

• On YouTube, major Destiny channels announced that “huge updates” were on the way.
• Numerous posts appeared on reddit highlighting the key points of the information.
• And in the comments, individual lines from the blog post were repeatedly quoted, leading to much speculation.

There was a feeling that the old Destiny fever was returning, with a buzz of changes to look forward to. Finally, there are so many innovations to anticipate.

However, the mood changed over the weekend. Doubts arose about whether the announced changes would actually be sufficient.

A widely discussed post on reddit questioned whether these changes were too few, or whether they were coming too late. Is it really worth adjusting many things if the underlying structure is flawed? Is it really worth waiting for these makeshift fixes until fall 2018?

Currently, critical voices are again dominating the conversation. The excitement has nearly vanished. A user warns that Bungie will likely introduce some appealing changes to key systems, but surely not until fall 2018, just before the release of the next major, paid expansion. After all, the Guardians have already paid for the current content. Significant changes will only come when Bungie asks for money again.

And other Guardians write that they don’t actually find any “innovations” in the good information. Instead, things are simply returning that already existed in Destiny 1, such as 6v6 PvP, Strike Scoring, or heroic Strikes with modifiers.

Voices from our community

In the comment sections under our articles, hundreds of Guardians have already expressed their opinions on Bungie’s blog post. And the reactions are mixed:

Our reader Knechtmich addresses the previously mentioned criticism: “So … the big updates are really that D2 is like D1 after a year?!” While he doesn’t think much of this step, Frau Holle is excited: “Yes! Back to the roots”.

Also m4st3rchi3f emphasizes that although many of the announced details were already present in D1, he thinks what the developers are planning sounds quite good.

In a detailed comment, Chriz Zle states that it is positive that Bungie is bringing back the features of the predecessor. However, it is viewed negatively that Bungie is only doing this by fall 2018. Because essentially, a year has been wasted if the features that D1 already had are only coming in fall 2018. Other readers like Vanasam emphasize that everything sounds good, but unfortunately it will take too long to implement.

dh critically points out that it was actually advertised that Destiny 2 would deliver content and patches much faster. He doesn’t understand why these “innovations”, which are basically just rehashed D1 content, are taking so long.

According to Freeze, many will be pleased about the removal of the time limit in Nightfall and the return of 6v6. There are many changes that at least sound reasonable. This opinion is shared by Alexhunter, who hopes for the best but is currently more excited about the next global event in The Division.

The PlanloseWarze is also optimistic and looking forward to the 6v6.

And some readers miss a few changes they had hoped for. John Wayne Cleaver for example, wants Strike-specific loot back. 

CandyAndyD86, Torchwood2000 and many others write that the changes sound promising. However, Bungie now needs to follow through on their words with action to improve the mood.

DasOlli91 believes that it doesn’t make much sense to modify Destiny 2 with thousands of updates right now. He would prefer a Destiny 3 where Bungie returns to the roots of Destiny.

And PetraVenjIsHot concludes: “My relationship with Destiny is like a rubber band. The further you stretch it and separate the ends, the stronger the force that eventually pulls us back together.”

Note: This is just a selection of hundreds of opinions from our readers! In the future, we will continue to quote your comments. You can find more reader opinions at this link – and certainly soon in the comments section under this article.