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At this point, the Live Team is the only part of Bungie that seems to have their heads even remotely still attached. Granted, they could fuck this up just as much as the main team this time around, but they did do a pretty good job with RoI and AoT. If the Live Team lets us down, then there really is no hope left.
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True, but I meant for that warning to be geared more towards people who are somehow still finding a way to defend Bungie currently.
So basically i can still play it for the lulz because gearing in the game is the equivalent of "sucking less" instead of "being more powerful". At leats i can run heroic strikes since they with automatic matchmaking? I don't see myself going into nightfall or raid anytime soon given how there's very few things to do.
Really, i tried to make me like the game. Gunplay is still fun and i like the graphics/art style. But it's an hollow shell.
EDIT: i suppose i'll stay on PoE.I'll get on this again when the next DLC comes out since i even bought the pass (yeah yeah i've been an idiot) but sure as hell i won't take anything Bungie ever again.
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Yes in the first link of the quote you replyed to.
The same likely apply's everywhere else. Destiny 2 did worse then Destiny 1 period.Sales numbers leaked to NeoGAF - which Eurogamer understands to be accurate - list Destiny 2 as having sold 175k physical copies during its UK launch week, compared to Destiny 1's total of 417k.
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Yeah, that's physical sales. Physical sales continue to decline as digital sales grow.
We really can't say what its sales numbers are like, other than it sold less at retail than D1 (which I don't know if they're counting PS3/Xbox 360 into that as well, as digital adoption has increased with this generation compared to last, which would definitely skew things). PSN chart puts it below CoD:WWII for total sales for the year, even with its 2 month head start, but that still doesn't mean it sold anywhere near half.
I think it's pretty safe to say it still sold pretty damn well. It may not have hit the overwhelming success they'd wanted/hoped (their sales PR was about PSN digital sales and "engagement", which isn't terribly strong), but if it was selling half of what D1 sold then we'd definitely be hearing rumblings about that.
If they don't change things, you're right in the longer term. But they turned around Destiny 1, and while these problems hit Destiny 2 sooner it's still possible to turn things around in Destiny 2. Their window of time is running out though, and thus far the little progress they've made in addressing issues has largely been erased by the additional problems they've caused.
It's way to late now. They might be able to pull back the ultra passionate fans with some good changes and maybe even just a simple chatlog version for PC might help but with the big titles coming out this year like monster hunter around the corner there are bigger and better things to spend your time on
Oh, I'm not saying that Destiny doesn't have challenges with other games coming out this year. But they still have time to salvage the game and get it back on track. Games like Far Cry and Metro likely won't be longterm time sinks in the way a game like Destiny is. Yeah, they'll eat up weeks/maybe a month or two, but after that folks will be left with time to spare. Again, Destiny 1 managed to do this and it too faced competitive launches competing for players time/money/attention.
Bungie is going to need to haul ass though. You're right, they're facing an uphill battle with some of the upcoming launches, and with the community as upset as they have been in recent months (which was much faster than the anger bubbled up in D1) I doubt they're going to be terribly forgiving if Bungie doesn't start communicating meaningful and popular information ASAP, keep that communication up, and start implementing changes quickly.
The sheer volume of outrage you see everywhere basically says they haven't come close to running out of time on fixing things right now. When the game has radio silence because people don't even care enough to be outraged like this about it then that's when they've completely lost their opportunity.
You don't see that level of people being upset if they aren't interested in the first place.
..and so he left, with terrible power in shaking hands.
Oh, they'll pull their typical Bungie shenanigans and say that they've been listening and that they've got things in the works, but won't be able to give us a definite timeline of when most of those changes will happen. It'll be that message over and over for weeks/months while they slowly trickle out small fixes (if that) while leaving all the big stuff and QoL changes behind DLC/Expansion paywalls like they always have. All the while, I'm sure they'll keep shoving Eververse down our throats and begging us to buy stuff from it to "fund additional content" even though we know that excuse is a complete load of horse shit at this point.