Destiny: Highlights and Lowlights – 13 Moments from 3 Years of Destiny

Marketing Bubbles – “Year 2 will be fantastic”

The expansion of Destiny “The Taken King” dominated the gaming world in September and October 2015 with “time-gated content” such as The Black Spindle and some puzzles. This allowed Bungie to maintain the hype for quite some time. However, this phase eventually ended, and players were waiting for something new.

After a date in December 2015 passed without a “season pass” for year 2 being announced, players became restless.

Then Bungie’s marketing director stepped forward and assured players that year 2 would be fantastic. They had so much prepared. All ideas and plans are on a whiteboard in a room at Bungie. The board is filled with ideas and great stuff. Players would never have to wait so long for content again, as they had until now.

With this statement, the dark phase of Destiny began.

As Destiny 2 was delayed by a year, and other content was not finished on time, the game experienced a “Well, we are improvising until Destiny 2 comes out” phase for almost 2 years.

Only one expansion was released: the rather meager “Rise of Iron.” A handful of events and content updates were simply too little for Destiny players in 2016 and 2017 overall. After the strong “The Taken King”, Destiny gradually weakened.

That’s why there are so few moments from the last two years in this list. There were indeed some moments and stories, but they were significantly smaller than in the early and glorious years of Destiny, in 2014 and 2015.

Maybe we can expect the next “big moment” in the history of Destiny on May 18, 2017. The first gameplay of Destiny 2 is set to be shown.

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Tightly interwoven with Destiny are the weapons of the game – many of them have their own stories:

Destiny: The farewell is near – 10 weapons we will never forget