MMO-Shooter Destiny is looking for new employees for the story – including for small releases.
Bungie has posted new jobs on their career page. In the forum “Neogaf”, they investigated this closely and found an exciting detail.
Bungie Job Offers Indicate a Direction Change for Destiny
These are jobs for “Narrative Director” – people responsible for the story of Destiny, for the “narration.”
Here are three open positions:
- Head of Narrative Development
- Narrative Director
- Live Narrative Director
The “Head” is the top boss overseeing this whole complex. The Narrative Director is supposed to take care of “Major Releases”, meaning big releases. This likely refers to “expansions” and sequels. Destiny 2 is on the horizon. It’s also quite possible that DLCs on the scale of Rise of Iron or Darkness would continue.
Looking for Narrators for “small-scale Releases”
The exciting part: The Live Narrative Director is supposed to manage “regular small-scale Releases”, likely meaning “normal, small” patches – similar to the last one in December.
And that would be a change in the plan. Because until now, there were essentially no “small-scale Releases” in Destiny related to the story. Rather, smaller releases only brought events. Aside from the “DLCs”, the story was not further developed – so there would be no need for a “Live Narrative Director.”
The idea that Destiny could evolve in patches and the story could be told progressively seems to align with statements from Activision and Bungie, where they promised “a steady stream of content throughout the year.” This is currently not the case. This would also be hard to achieve with “two DLCs per year”, as it was in Year 1.
Destiny experienced a content drought in the second year after the first year. Behind the scenes, they apparently had to restructure everything, how they wanted to develop Destiny further. Destiny 2 was likely rebooted during this process. This could now be another step in this process.
So far, the “Live Team” was rather a small group that mainly dealt with events, keeping the game alive. If they start to scale up narratively and in terms of personnel, it would be a significant directional change that would help keep Destiny interesting throughout the year.
There is a drawback: The fact that these jobs are only being sought now indicates that such changes will likely take effect only after the release of Destiny 2. Such changes take a long time to implement.
Destiny 2 is supposed to be a fantastic sequel with a steady stream of content
