Destiny 2: Are Episodes Working? Sentiment And Playercount Indicate Maybe Not

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Published 2024-07-18

Destiny 2 has now launched Act 2 of Episode 1, and while it’s content-heavy, lots of timegates remains and complaints about how this really is not that different than seasons have emerged. Is this working? The playercount dropoff after Final Shape may indicate it’s not, really.

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All Comments (21)

@paul_tassi yesterday

Notf
@shanebaxter5038 yesterday

They have moved the furniture around. But it’s the same furniture in the same room.
@Twrecktv yesterday

Leave the typo it's driving engagement 😂
@joshuam6975 yesterday

Episodes were their chance to make three single substantial mini campaigns that could have a clear beginning middle and end. They instead decided to just retrofit the seasonal story structure into a longer drawn out season and it feels off in almost every aspect.
@GeremyG yesterday

For me there's always a pretty sudden and severe comedown going from an expansion campaign back to seasonal content and core playlists. Seasonal content doesn't get me excited and probably never will.
@ALittleGreeky yesterday

They needed to change the over world. The patrol zone needed to be impacted by this stuff.
@patsonical yesterday

Maybe Notf indeed
@patryckchipman8889 yesterday

Maybe Notf
@v0id19 yesterday

I don't mind timegating story beats, but episodes feel like we've timegated timegating. Weapons are timegated and focusing is further timegated, season pass levels are timegated and progress suddenly stops for weeks, timegated missions are timegated
@Miiscrxant yesterday

Maybe notf
@Lazerfaced yesterday

The entire concept of episodes was a false narrative to justify only doing three seasons per year while charging the same amount. Classic Bungie nickle and diming.
@brandonsmisek6334 yesterday

Saint and Osiris’ personalities seem to have mostly just become, “we are a couple.” Would be nice if there was a little more depth besides it.
@kddatrapmane yesterday

Because the reality is DLCs in destiny 2 doesn’t really change the game overall but adding a small aspect of the game. So after finishing the story you are back to the same bullshit you were doing before right after
@willdill7253 yesterday

We're also suffering from the fact that yet again the core playlists have been left in the dust. Gone are the days where in a annual expansion we got entire vendor refreshes and 3-5 pvp maps and strikes let alone gambit arenas
@Forcer69 yesterday

I feel like the problem with episodes is that they focused on making seasons bigger instead of making them better. They keep saying how the Act 3 exotic mission is the biggest one they’ve made, but what do we do if the quality is on par with Vox Obscura.
@Gris-da-grison yesterday

As a writer, the conductor needed to be released week 2, latest week 3. Fact they aren't the focus when they are already all over the art is insane!!!
@ThePotatoeGuru yesterday

What killed it for me was coming back after a short break... running two battlegrounds for the story and then getting the NES004 quest-- which involved running 5 MORE battlegrounds, focusing engrams AND THEN RUNNING THOSE SAME BATTLEGROUNDS AGAIN.
@williamdmabra4174 yesterday

I do not understand why dlc’s can’t be a thing anymore instead of seasons.
@Nitroband yesterday

I also love how they "brought back the Season of Dawn Weapons" and just completely forgot several of them, Steelfeather Repeater? Whats that? Trophy Hunter? What?
@elijahevans1158 yesterday

Honestly I don’t think there was much bungie could do to stop this. Destiny has been great, the 10 year story has been finished, it’s like avengers endgame and a lot of people not gonna be invested like they used to be. Honestly we just need a destiny 3 at this point.