The big difference is that Destiny had over a decade to reach that point, and for most of that time it still maintained a healthy population.
Destiny should of been the game to finance and grow Marathon, but they obviously ran it into the ground. I've said this much before, but they should of put more effort into fixing Destiny and getting back the good will of their audience before releasing another game. They probably should of killed Marathon and focused on D2. The reality is Destiny 2 is a fucking turd, it's going to stay a turd, and it's not the companies future. If anything, it's a money sink/unwanted baggage at this point.
If anything, the response to the EoL update shows that the audience is still there and would likely come back
I dont want to say this is a massive cope, but it kind of is.
Do Destiny players want a good game to call home? Yes fucking badly. Bungie had 10 years to do it and they failed. If they made a D3 im sure millions of people would play and millions would quit.
When it comes to the last patch, I don't know much about the final update, but I doubt it did anything to fix any of the complaints any one has had about that game. As an outsider looking in, it looks like arm chair activism.
"We did it guys, we really stuck it to the billion dollar company by logging into play their game! Take that Marathon, Guardians forever!!!!!!"
If not this, then are Destiny fans really that fucking pathetic they will just show up en masse for any little snippet or crumb of new content? I just don't buy that at all.
I think most D2 people either know this shit is a waste of time and so they didn't bother and the people who did show up thought this was really twisting the knife.
And honestly, nothing against you for enjoying it, or for being frustrated that the devs are fucking around with what you enjoy to try and get that wider audience they need to survive. Lord knows I've been there myself more than once over the past decade-plus.
The bones of a good game exist in Marathon, if they had a coherent and consistent release plan I'd be down to continue playing it. I have an expectation that every season of the game should build upon itself and be better for it, but there are one or two changes of this season that stick out to me. Mistakes they already made and already fixed, but obviously think they know better than the player. S2 showed that they really have no plans of making a game I want to play.
I dont want to play an extraction shooter that has no loot on the map and the only loot avialble is Goop (gear off other players). So I can take my Goop and lose it in Cryo Archives/Ranked, rinse repeat every season.
I refuse to get on this treadmill, I refuse the lack of the most basic player agency in this product (map rotations).
I can play any other hero shooter, battle royal, or extraction shooter and have a better time.
This first major update will probably be the last major update, 1.2 million came and went. Any plans of stringing people along for a decade wont be happening.
I'm not going to support and finance research and development for what ever the fuck is going on in the studio right now though. Imagine going to a bank asking for a business loan with no actual plan. That's how I feel as a consumer, I'm not investing my time.
