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Pathways into Darkness | Sacred Symbols+, Episode 524

The studio that brought us Halo and Destiny has never been in a more precarious position than it is today. After many rounds of layoffs, multiple impairment losses, and the official end of Destiny 2’s live service; is the writing on the wall for Bungie? Lord Cognito and Chris Ray Gun unite to dissect the situation, from how it all began to when it all fell apart. Is it finally time to Seal the Hushed Casket?

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Poopy Butt Stinky Pants

My friends and I played Destiny 1 and the early years of Destiny 2 before taking a long break, likely to play other games. Part of the reason was the high skill ceiling required for raids. It often felt like unless you were fully committed to Destiny and had a dedicated group of friends to play with, it was very difficult to jump back in after being away. Despite that, my friends and I eventually saw a sale on several DLC expansions bundled together. I believe The Witch Queen was one of the expansions we were excited to play. We purchased the content and planned to work through it together, but we didn't start immediately. We sat on it for a few months. When we finally decided the time was right to jump back in, we discovered that some of the content we had paid for was no longer available to play. That was incredibly discouraging. From that point on, none of us ever returned to Destiny. I think Bungie did itself a real disservice by removing paid content from the game. There had to have been a better solution—perhaps a legacy mode or some form of backward compatibility that would have allowed players to continue accessing older DLCs they had purchased. Instead, it felt like we paid for content only to have it taken away before we got the chance to experience it. As a result, Bungie lost a group of players who genuinely wanted to come back and engage with the game.

Berry Mykochiner

We basically have PlayStation and Bungie who’ve been making games for so long and so hard, that they don’t know why the fuck they’re doing. - Donald Trump 2025

Berry Mykochiner

The most disappointing thing about about D2 & Marathon is that we should’ve got D3: Marathon. The extraction game mode should have replaced Trials as the sweaty PvP mode. In some ways when you hear people at Bungie wanted to make a dating sim, it’s no wonder they are in the mess they find themselves.