The Menagerie is very popular among the Guardian community in Destiny 2. But what does the future hold for this activity, and how important will it still be?
Why is the Menagerie so popular among many Guardians? The Menagerie was introduced with the start of the Season of Opulence and has since become very popular among many Guardians. You fight your way through different areas of the Leviathan and must survive or complete certain phases to eventually arrive at the boss enemy after some time. The Menagerie is started in a 6-player fireteam with matchmaking.
Through the Cup of Opulence, you can choose what loot you’d like to have for completing the activity. Thus, you can directly earn certain armor pieces and weapons.
But what will happen to the Menagerie when Shadowkeep starts and other activities take the forefront? According to Bungie, Menagerie events could be a solution to this problem.
Bungie is considering weekly Menagerie events
Where does the info about the Menagerie events come from? On Twitter, the Bungie team stated that they are currently investigating a bug related to the Menagerie. The bug is related to the reward players currently receive from a successful Menagerie run.
Under the tweet, a Guardian inquired whether the additional Menagerie reward is affected by the bug. Community Manager dmg04 confirmed that the bug is related to the loot players currently receive in addition to the other items from the Menagerie chest.
This bonus loot is awarded to players for completing the Mars Community Challenge. Until Shadowkeep, there will be extra loot in the Menagerie every Friday.
What plans does Bungie have for the Menagerie? However, dmg04 also stated that the additional reward will be removed from the game after the Season of Opulence. However, Bungie is now considering the introduction of weekly Menagerie events. A Menagerie week or weekend is currently being considered.
How might these events look like? Bungie currently has no specific plans for how the Menagerie week could look like. However, in principle, according to the Community Manager, it would work similarly to how it currently works in Gambit. In different weeks, it is indeed possible to earn additional experience points for every match in Gambit when the corresponding event is active. Sometimes this also applies only for a weekend. A similar concept could be envisioned by Bungie for the Menagerie.
This is what Guardians say about the new idea: Both under the tweet and on Reddit, Guardians are now discussing Bungie’s idea. Many would be excited about Menagerie weeks and would welcome them. One player compares the Menagerie weekend to a sort of party at Calus on the Leviathan. There, they gather on some weekends and have a really good time.
The old content problem – nothing new in this genre
Can old Destiny 2 content remain relevant? Other game modes have already faced this problem in Destiny 2. For example, in the Season of the Outlaw, the Reckoning was introduced. Even back then, the activity was not popular among all players. With the start of the Season of Opulence, almost no one played Reckoning in Destiny 2 anymore.
Also, the Black Armory’s forges are currently no longer relevant for the current game events. The rewards that you receive for these modes are mostly not worth it, and therefore they are played by very few.
Why Destiny 2 is not the only game struggling with this problem: Not only Destiny 2 struggles with this problem. In general, many MMOs and service games have had to deal with the fact that old content usually becomes uninteresting once new activities are introduced. Raids or dungeons that were previously loved can quickly fade into oblivion. For newcomers, this is naturally a problem, as the old activities become simply unworthy or are played by too few players.
Bungie will therefore be retiring old activities in the future when new ones are introduced with upcoming seasons and will rotate the content over time:
Do you think Menagerie events could help keep the activity alive even after Shadowkeep?
