With all the news coming out lately about Bungie, their layoffs and whatnot, the information about Payback has been some of the most disappointing. Not that it was cancelled, far from that. The fact that they were going in such an absurd direction away from the core of what makes Destiny, Destiny.
I mean, I know there's plenty of people who like MMOs mainly, or grinder loot games like Warframe, but I know I'm not alone in finishing Destiny so special simply because of it being a great feeling, FPS first, with additional MMO, loot grind elements added on to it. You can see it in some of the streamers asking their communities where they plan on going next, a lot of comments support the other game types, but there's as many people saying they are giving up because right now there's no direct competition, there's no other FPS that even begins to follow similar elements like Destiny.
It's disheartening to see that they were focusing so much on everything BUT what Destiny is, whether that be Marathon (lol) or Payback, or whatever that gummybear nonsense is supposed to be. Bungie has been making FPS games for so long, it's almost like that's what their fans prefer! Sure finding new markets, or creative burnout are a thing but, come on... I'm really sad to see the direction we're headed towards, but don't want to jump the gun before we actually hear more from Bungie themselves, if we ever really do hear more... But at least the third person, hero shooter, is dead.
Anyone else feel the same?
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Payback could have been interesting, and maybe a pve exclusive game. But I'd be a bit dubious about jumping on board another live service game. In any case there's little point discussing what that could have been. However, no one is really mentioning this, but the line in the post said bungie are shelving the idea in favour of Destiny (and marathon).... but note that doesn't say Destiny 2!! It's also been said that payback is not Destiny 3, but the next Destiny. In my mind that says it would have been a brand new game, in much the same way that Destiny may have been described as the next halo. Focusing on Destiny but stopping larger content drops does sound contradictory... you can't argue that the game will be left to rot, so what are the options? I actually hope efforts can be taken to bug fix, and to unvault previous content. If there is a means to bring in d1 (as a lot is already here), then that would be a bonus.