In the MMO dance simulation Destiny, Guardians are enjoying May to the fullest. Destiny has fresh content, and one can definitely shake their legs.
The “Wolf Hunt” event in Destiny, which started on Friday, has brought a fresh wind to the somewhat stale MMO shooter Destiny. Tomorrow it will properly kick off with “House of Wolves” , but already the good reviews are piling up, and smiles are noticeably rising.
Attention from the international gaming press remains high
The journalist Paul Tassi, who is usually quite skeptical towards Destiny, from Forbes Magazine writes that the new event is everything that is right about Destiny. On the website of Game Informer , one suddenly reads how significantly Destiny has improved, and now is the ideal time to get back into the game.
US sites like Polygon or vg247, which had already reported extensively on Destiny in September and December, are ramping up coverage again. For almost reaches the number of articles with the freshly released critic and audience favorite The Witcher III. And this is very annoying for readers who still cannot relate to the game.
Even in Germany, some gaming sites have awakened again, discovering that there is this thing and that the articles are indeed finding readers. And so one can read on x pages in various languages what exactly this House of Wolves brings, what the gameplay looks like with upgrading, what the Guardians can expect in the Trials of Osiris, or how the new Strike will be.
High spirits in Destiny
Bungie has completely reversed its information policy, and the Guardians know what to expect with the next DLC: Three streams have raised fan expectations and shattered some Twitch records along the way. The annoyance over the missing raid has long dissipated. Just like the news that the expansion would be released only in May – and not, as many thought, two months earlier. A lesson for life: No one talks about delays anymore once the date is finally reached.
At Bungie, people are in good spirits. The community manager is giving an interview with Times Magazine, explaining that they have changed their information policy. In the beginning, the community team could only react. They were busy every week explaining to players what had been done previously. Now they are ahead of them, presenting upcoming content, and are on the ball.
And even in the Destiny subreddit, the beating heart of the community, the experts are excited or at least in a noticeably better mood than usual. After the long months from early December until now without real new content – only the hard mode Crota’s End went live in between – after this fasting period, a “teaser” event with a few loot drops is enough to get the Guardians excited again. Everything is new in May, as they say. It turns out: Just a little new is enough in Destiny to bring life back into the place.
I experienced something really strange on Venus
In all the commotion about patches, leaks, info, events, locations, spots, glitches, and chests, a “fun video” hit like a nova bomb. Guardians achieved over 300,000 clicks with it in just three days. The video creator posted it punctually with patch 1.2.0 with a strange title on reddit, where players expected to see “new land” in the jungle of Venus and to behold new adventures. There he wrote: Something really strange happened to me during a patrol on Venus.
But what is shown in the video is not new content, not a mystery, but just pure good mood. Maybe that is the secret of this May: the mood – it’s simply contagious.
