Fate 2
Bungie
It looks like recent events at Bungie will color Destiny 2 for the indefinite future. In a normally somewhat standard event, Bungie debuted new Eververse armor for next week’s Season of Desire, this time A crossover with CDPR’s The Witcher.
I’m not entirely sure why the Witcher crossover is even happening, given that there aren’t any shows or games that I can see. Cyberpunk 2077 would probably make more sense with Phantom Liberty, but whatever. The armor looks cool. The Titan school of Wolf chainmail kit is the best. Warlock has Ursine armor. Hunter got it… I’m not entirely sure. There is also a ghost and a ship.
However, the Destiny 2 community didn’t take very well to the debut here. While some have commented that it looks really good, the vast majority of quote Tweets, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook comments are variations of the same few sentiments:
- “Nice kit, how are we going to win this in the game?” (just kidding, you can’t)
- “I’ve got to make up for this 45% revenue loss” (referring to the recent announcement that Destiny’s revenue was way off target after Lightfall)
- “Maybe you should try to cooperate with your laid off employees” (Bungie suddenly laid off over a hundred employees)
- “Read your room, how deaf can you be?” (Given everything that’s going on, it’s probably not the time to show off a new microtransaction).
One of the issues here is that when Bungie does collaborative armors with other properties, it’s almost always A) higher priced, $20 per armor instead of $15 for non-collaborators, and B) can’t win with Bright Dust. like regular Eververse sets over time. Sure, it’s probably so collaborators can actually get paid, but given how cooperative it is, it’s not as much fun for a player base that sees this change over time.
This collaboration with CDPR was planned long before all the recent drama, as we know it takes at least 9-12 months to complete an armor set from concept to completion, as evidenced by the fan-voted Festival of Lost Sets. And considering last season did He believed that if he took the armor set from Eververse and made a profit, there would now be another expensive set in the store. Out of everything Eververse sells, I think its armor sets are really one of its biggest revenue streams. One set per character would be more than double the cost of a given season.
What’s going on with the fan base now is complicated. Some don’t want to buy anything because Eververse has been so bad before. Others aren’t willing to spend because of how bad things are with Bungie and the state of the game. But we also know very well why Bungie really needs to keep releasing stuff like this does Trying to grow their revenue to break out of what appears to be a spiral between post-Lightfall revenue and declining player numbers and soft Final Shape pre-orders.
I wrote about this before when I was Mr. Destiny Eververse Armored Whale, where I owned more or less every set. This year it was stopped. I don’t think I did everything In the Eververse since the light. It’s just… something came out and I didn’t care for the full collection. Maybe I’ll get this? I don’t know, probably not at this pace. But I have a feeling I’m probably not alone. The vibes are bad. Real bad.
A rough situation continues. The new season should bring some excitement back, but even with some cool armor sets, I’m not shocked to see this player reaction to recent events and how they all cost $60 with no way to earn them in-game.
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