Destiny Year 2 (Forsaken is probably an apt title)

[sXeth]

I do wonder if they actually have a PR department, and what wonderful drugs they must keep them on.

Notably the "Annual Pass" you might expect would be the entire year, but its ancillary to that expansion (which I believe is 50$, not sure on the "Annual Pass" price).

Then there's the whole tripling down on their subpar usually terribly received smaller DLC packs. For those who are unfamiliar, "Raid Lairs" are whats cropped in Destiny 2 as a kind of mediocre additional content blip, where the original game used to at least have complete Raids as its endgame (or in one case, the horde mode).

Capping off the blunder is putting weapons and armour, obvious game affecting items, listed as part of your premium pass. Not that unique weapons and armour (of debatable power levels and balance concern) weren't always in the DLCs, but calling attention to it is kind of a bad idea in the aftermath of Battlefront 2. "Returning Exotics" is also another controversial topic to be listing as a feature, oft cited as lazy reuse.

Ironically, the "Forsaken"expansion itself doesn't seem like a terrible thing, they just put the giant glowing albatross of "We learned nothing" around its neck in the announcement.

 

[Lufia Erim]

The Forsaken is going to be great. Why? Because it has to. People were so burned By vanilla destiny 2 and it's ( lackluster) DLC, that unless they come out swinging, Destiny 3 has no hope of making money.

Destiny 2 has made it's money already and then some, all of this now is damage control for the future of the IP.

The annual pass is BS to trap people who are still clueless though.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

As a Halo fanboy I weep for Bungie.

 

[sXeth]

The Forsaken is going to be great. Why? Because it has to. People were so burned By vanilla destiny 2 and it's ( lackluster) DLC, that unless they come out swinging, Destiny 3 has no hope of making money.

Destiny 2 has made it's money already and then some, all of this now is damage control for the future of the IP.

The annual pass is BS to trap people who are still clueless though.

The funny thing about Forsaken is that they aren't Taken Kinging it. Just quietly dropping it on their own community as a digital only expansion pack.

Taken King they were all out tryng to rebrand themselves away from the dismal perception they'd created. Effectively re-releasing the game, complete with new physical copies that contained everything. Effectively the same strategy that Final Fantasy 14 took.

They could backpedal on that and try and fire up their hype machine or whatever, but they seem a bit in resignation with the current announcement.

AS to it cycling up for Destiny 3, all that annual pass stuff is between Forsaken and D3 (assuming D3 comes out in 2019 and not D2:Y3). Destiny 1 spent its last year doing updates to make all of its old content relevant again. Not exactly high effort game changers (literally tweaking numbers primarily, and adding level options that should've always been available, given how their level system works), but a smart play to give the game a sense of having a broad swath of available content and playing to their well received points with nostalgia. D2's possibly last year is going to be a bunch of premium pass locked updates, which are in of themselves the substandard DLC offerings that have been horribly received as an overall trend in the series (I mean, they could make them decent, but precedent says they can't or won't)