I love it how people are delusional and obsessed with steam player charts when there’s tons of people still playing the game and doing their dailies so no it’s not dying far from it this is just some propaganda baiting as usual

I can't help but feel that most of this is brought on by PvP and the never-ending balancing act that entails. I look at other games such as Elder Scrolls Online and see no such thing happening. But then I think that there must be other reasons for the need to sunset and vault. Bungie keep referring to the amount of space needed to keep adding on to the game. It sounds like their game is much larger than ESO and other games that have been around for ten years and also have a prodigious amount of objects to keep track of. Makes me wonder how things are so different between what Bungie are doing and what others are doing and the effects on the player bases. EDIT: For further context (and by no means an exhaustive list), I looked at footprints on my XB1X: ESO Tamriel Unblimited and no other DLC, 113 Gb Starfield (for shits and giggles) 103 Gb Destiny 2 with all currently available content and having downloaded all editions from inception, 138 Gb Also for reference: Halo MCC, 115 Gb Forza Horizon 5 (free DL from GamePass and no other DLC), 135 Gb And a smattering of others that have been around for a while but I don't have all the DLC for such as: PSO (F2P and no DLC), 70 Gb Fallout 76 (No DLC), 93 Gb Sea of Thieves 2023 Edition (another GamePass DL and no DLC), 91 Gb

It's more of a content junkyard. Throw whatever they want in there and when they need some cheap seasonal maps or something go pull those parts while the rest rots.

Just wait until they resell what they vaulted.

Game is not dying. I still play everyday.🤷‍♀️

Content Vaulting is probably the biggest lie Bungie ever told. "We need to remove content because its hard to maintain and no-one plays the old content and the game is too big!" Game size wouldn't be so bad if they didn't have hours of useless dialogue of their cardboard cut out characters getting their degree in yapology. Also, Bungie is at least over 1000 employees and they get millions of dollars and they can't figure out how to maintain all this content within the game? As for maintaining content they can hardly do that even now with Dreaming City skyboxes being broken and multiple seasonal quests just straight up breaking (defiance can break if you beat Wish's seasonal quest and last week the Ascendant Challenge literally didn't work to progress the step that tells you to do an ascendant challenge) or Warlord's Ruin granting Ghost of the Deep rewards from triumphs or do I need to even mention crafted weapons bug with just clicking a little too fast in a menu? "Suddenly after removing 2 years worth of content we no longer will vault content!!!" So how do they plan on solving the issue where they keep releasing expansions... unless they don't plan on releasing anymore expansions and have been hesitant to even respond to any questions about post TFS episode/next saga content. "We can return D1 content from the vault!" They half-assed the Cosmodrome and its still unfinished and in perpetual daylight and a grimoire ghost interactable is hidden just outside of a wall in Devil's Lair disproving the whole "we need to completely rebuild this old content from the ground up", there is definitely some level of porting. King's Fall's lighting and environment detail was half-assed and looks terrible, Vault of Glass was slightly less half-assed but then D1 goblin models start popping out of the spawn doors. Crota's End uses the wrong music in the final encounter and Crota's model is the nightmare model and not the D1 Crota model. The weapon models look somehow worse than their D1 versions. "No-one plays that legacy content anyway." You either... Couldn't replay it at all (they cited warmind campaign missions for some odd reason when were not replayable at all by that point.) or... It was outdated in rewards or didn't offer up to date rewards/xp (If you got chunks of XP simiar to seasonal challenges each week by engaging in legacy content it would see enough engagement) They are never going to return this content they will continue to use it to cut corners and costs on development. Not even single gun this year outside of exotics had a new model it's all been recolors.

“…but fear its dying…” Bungie: Killing this franchise has been a Marathon, not a sprint…😉🤣

Stop giving them money then. 🤷‍♂️

Ask yourself honestly. How many campaigns did you run repetitively for Beyond Light Witch Queen Light Fall? Recently? Which for most part are great story parts AND enjoyable/challenging stuff. Imho. Any nightmare hunts done? Aside from this season's story any Dreaming City Ascendant challenge or weekly Petra story bounty? I could go on and on. Reality for most of us is we play our most favourite activities whether it be strikes, dungeons, raids, crucible or patrol zones etc.. "Old" stuff such as old campaigns let alone old activities despite them being still available are done only occasionally. I don't believe much would change if Bungie added all vaulted content. The game has grown so big even w/o vaulted content at least I simply have no time to do/repeat everything. Too much and I can well occupy myself with the game.

If everything that is currently in the vault was in the game, it would be like 300gb lol. Not to mention it just adds more to the already spaghetti coding to go wrong. I’m not saying I don’t want stuff to come back, I would love to see that. I don’t know how practical that would be though.

They could possibly rotate previous campaigns/raids in the legends tab where kings fall, vog etc are. Would they do it? Maybe, maybe not. Who knows?