In Destiny 2, the mood is currently low. Bungie wants to retire weapons. Many are outraged by this idea. But a Destiny legend, SC_Slayerage, explains in a video why this gives him hope for the next expansion.
This is the legend: SC_Slayerage was the first PvE player to make a name for himself in the original Destiny. With the clan “The Legend himself”, he was able to draw attention in the early days of the shooter. He was the one who managed to complete the raid “Crota’s End” solo as a Hunter in December 2014.
Slayerage has continuously gained attention with particularly cool actions and is regarded as a truly reasonable, smart head who knows what he is talking about in Destiny.
Slayerage has 155,570 followers on Twitch and 176,000 subscribers on YouTube. While he is not a huge content creator, he is someone whose voice is heard.
Trust Bungie to create cool new weapons
This is what he says about “weapon sunsetting”: In mid-May, Bungie announced that weapons in Destiny 2 will have an expiration date. After that, they can still be played but will not be able to reach the new maximum level. This angered many players with the sentiment: “Bungie is taking away the weapons we’ve worked so hard for.”
Even among us at MeinMMO, players largely view this development negatively. On reddit, the mood is even more aggressive and negative towards Destiny 2 and Bungie.
Slayerage says: “Calm down.” Players should think before they go on a rampage.
Ultimately, there are two alternatives:
- You can keep playing with the same weapons as the last 24 months
- or not
Slayerage prefers version 2. He asks: “Do you really want to play with the same weapons in Destiny for the next 4 years?”
He says that in the past, weapons have always been exchanged. People are now upset that they find out things have an expiration date, which they should have known was coming.
Those who want to play with “The Recluse” can continue to do so in many modes.
Additionally, players have been continuously complaining about some meta weapons like the sniper rifle “Revoker” or the grenade launcher “Mountaintop“. However, when Bungie finds a way to phase out the weapons, people scream in outrage. The alternative would then only be to nerf the weapons to the point that they become mere shadows of themselves.
Slayerage says: The time is ripe for something big and new
This is why it is positive: Slayerage says: Destiny 1 lasted for 3 years. Destiny 2 is also going to last for 3 years. If Activision were still involved, a Destiny 3 would likely be released in Fall 2020.
Thus, one can expect a “big expansion”. Though Slayerage is not certain that a huge expansion is coming, he believes it is likely:
There is so little trust that Bungie will eventually do something really cool. As if every piece of good content and good gear has only been an accident until now. People believe the weapon retirement is a termination of their fun insurance. That is such an unreasonable negative view of things. Do these people really think Bungie has no intention of ever exciting us again? Do people believe that recycling the Trials is the most creative feat the studio can achieve today?
Listen friends, the fact that Destiny has been in not-so-great shape for over a year is more of a reason to hope for something good than something bad. Bungie’s reputation as a studio is on the line. They know they can’t keep giving us more “Shadowkeep” years forever.
SC_Slayerage
Slayerage reads a long list of problems Destiny 2 actually has, but says: The weapon retirement is not on this list.
The weapon retirement is a “necessary evil” for an evolving game.
Honeymoons are coming back
This is how Slayerage sees the future: Slayerage believes that while the topic of “weapon retirement” is currently large, it will disappear when the hype around Season 12 and the Fall expansion grows.
Then the honeymoons would begin again, and we would all be excited to play Destiny 2. We would have “every reason in the world to believe in something like this again.”
This is behind it: Slayerage argues against the general sentiment in the Destiny community, which has been rather disappointed by the developments since early 2019.
He believes Bungie is now cleaning house with old stuff because they are convinced that new strong weapons and content are waiting for us. He expects a much larger expansion in Fall 2020 than Shadowkeep was in 2019.
We will probably know soon whether he is right with his assumption. The Fall expansion is traditionally introduced in early summer of a year, but only after the last content of the previous year has been released.
As soon as the next season, Season 11, goes live on the servers, Bungie is likely to soon reveal what we will play in Destiny 2 in Fall 2020.
We at MeinMMO have already extensively dealt with what to expect in Destiny in Fall 2020: It looks like the next expansion could actually include much of what would have come with Activision in a Destiny 3.
