As I watch Future 2 proceed to lose 10,000 concurrent gamers each weekend, I don’t suppose it’s any actual thriller as to why.
The scope of Future 2 has been dramatically diminished with the launch of The Fringe of Destiny and this whole new period. Fringe of Destiny itself was decently sized for what it’s, albeit now missing issues like every form of weekly story updates. However the actual offender is The Portal, and the truth that its adjoining new tiered armor and weapon system has sundown your entire remainder of the sport. Just like the complete remainder of the sport.
This isn’t an exaggeration. In an period the place your entire recreation is now the pursuit of energy and tiered weapons and armor, this new system launched…with out highly effective drops or tiered weapons and armor wherever within the recreation in addition to Kepler and The Portal. That’s it, exterior of some holidays and issues like Trials.
This implies all previous campaigns, locations, playlists, dungeons and raids don’t play into this method in any respect. You possibly can run them for previous gear, gear which can’t be transformed or upgraded into the brand new system. The playlist distributors, for example, don’t also have a reward monitor any extra. The comparatively current well-liked Pathfinder system was deleted solely. Grandmaster strikes don’t exist in any respect anymore.
That is, with out exaggeration, at least 80% of the prevailing, playable content material in Future 2, and I don’t suppose that’s an exaggeration. And you may see what could be coming as a “repair” for this sooner or later.
A straightforward to make prediction is that for the fourth or fifth time, Bungie will in all probability begin reintroducing and reissuing these weapons underneath the brand new tier system. A number of new perks and the flexibility to land tier 1-5s with the brand new system and its new problem tiers. Future has performed this eternally with every new move on gear, however at this level it’s simply exhausting and attempting to earn the identical Hung Jury for the fifth time, however now with a tier, is exasperating.
The issue is there isn’t a answer right here apart from what I’ve simply mentioned, which isn’t actually something satisfying within the first place. Bungie doesn’t need you enjoying previous content material any extra, they very a lot need you enjoying new content material, as lord solely is aware of that playercounts have crashed post-Closing Form, they usually must herd gamers into the brand new stuff.
The Portal isn’t going away. It could actually’t. All the recreation has been restructured round it, and even when Tiers are added right here and there in different elements, The Portal will all the time be the core. That’s not good, and it’s particularly not good when Bungie doesn’t appear to identified find out how to correctly stability the sport inside The Portal itself, all these many weeks later nonetheless unable to get gamers away from working the identical two actions for loot whereas all the pieces else seems like a waste of time.
It is a unhealthy state of affairs. The Portal as a further the ecosystem of the sport may have labored, as there are some neat issues about it. The Portal as virtually the entirety of Future 2 proper now stands out as the factor that finally sinks it. I hope that’s not true.
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