Destiny 2 is not going wherever, nevertheless it additionally is not… properly, going wherever. The sport’s servers will nonetheless be working for the foreseeable future, however Bungie has since ceased updates to its flagship shooter to maneuver onto different initiatives, tragically shedding a lot of its employees within the aftermath of that call.
It’s a sorry state of affairs, and one which Warframe builders have lamented earlier than, regardless of being in competitors with the sport from a ruthless, capitalistic type of perspective. In actuality, there’s much more camaraderie between builders, with stay ops lead Megan Everett calling it “heartbreaking” again in June.
That sentiment has been repeated once more by artistic director Rebecca Ford in an interview with our buddies over at GamesRadar+ throughout TennoCon: “It’s horrible news, because it shows that even if you care so much, the business side of this industry always gets the last remark.”
Ford says that regardless that the Destiny 2 workforce had their very own profitable IP and labored onerous to maintain it afloat, that form of dedication simply does not shield you from something within the present trade:
“That’s not the first time it’s happened, and it’ll happen again, where the business aspect of the videogame economy makes the decision for you, and it is existentially threatening at every level, because the idea that we aren’t in charge of our own goodbye is something I wake up thinking about every single day.”
It’s one thing that is been grimly echoed all through the trade, each throughout Microsoft’s shock studio closures in 2024, which noticed Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks unceremoniously closed, and within the massacre years that’ve ensued from all corners of the videogame trade.
A better disgrace, too, as a result of in line with these of us on the PC Gamer workforce who’ve caught with Destiny 2 for years, it has been left in one in every of its greatest states—although as we have seen with different video games, you could be genuinely turning a nook and nonetheless get sucker-punched.