Destiny 2 has been a mainstay at Bungie for 9 years. Sony has focused on live service games for most of this generation. That’s where they want to be. They spent a hefty sum on the privilege of acquiring Bungie. The situation at Sony couldn’t be more unclear in terms of the direction they actually want to go in. They’re either all in on live service or they’re not.
When you purchase a studio like they did in Bungie. They did so on the basis that they would be supporting them and their other live service offerings. There are now rumours that live service will again be on the agenda at their State of Play in some way. Destiny 3 is something that I believe would be a successful live service game for Sony based on its popularity. Especially if Sony took a more hands on approach around the practices of how they sell the game and all the additional content and the storytelling.
Now a lot of you will say that Destiny 2 wasn’t getting enough support from the fans in terms of the concurrent players on the game. I think any platform that wants to lead on live service would know that a sequel would likely bring most of the players back. If Destiny 2 was something that was finished, it wasn’t based on not having the popularity of the franchise being there, but more so, it was based on the time to move on to the next chapter in the Destiny franchise. If Sony didn’t know that. That truly is on them, and it makes it more clear just how mishandled this generation has been by them.
Destiny fans deserve better.
Written by Craig Clark
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