Many players keep calling for Destiny 3, yet most Guardians fail to see the core reasons behind Destiny 2’s declining player count and mass veteran departures. Pushing for a sequel blindly solves nothing, which explains why Bungie ignores all petitions for Destiny 3. From a programming perspective, the logical development roadmap is to first fix recurring bugs and restructure the outdated underlying code before planning Destiny 3. Rushing a third installment will only drain community goodwill and end in widespread disappointment. Meanwhile, average players hold an idealized expectation: they believe Destiny 3 could eliminate DMA and XIM hardware cheats and seamlessly continue Destiny 2’s existing PVE storyline to flesh out the game’s lore. Unfortunately, this vision is hardly achievable before all existing deep-rooted flaws get fixed. Destiny 2’s shrinking playerbase stems from years of stacked issues. First, the game suffers from bloated legacy code built piecemeal over years; Bungie prioritized seasonal release deadlines by patching new raids, exotic weapons and mechanics onto old frameworks instead of rebuilding core architecture. This spawns countless recurring legacy bugs, including frequent disconnection errors WEASEL and CENTIPEDE, broken ability functionality and glitched raid mechanics. Random item disappearance and lost crafting materials are direct byproducts of flawed coding. Crucially, Destiny 2 only resets seasonal artifact bonus power levels and limited seasonal tokens between seasons. All stored inventory, character levels and faction reputation progress stay intact. In stark contrast, Marathon adopts an extreme full-reset rule exclusive to its own gameplay: every new season wipes all character levels, faction upgrade progress and most stored items, keeping only cosmetic skins, achievements, premium currency and battle pass rewards. Constant repetitive bug fixes waste massive development manpower, burn out developers and slow down regular content updates drastically. Second, XIM adapters paired with DMA hardware cheats have ruined the PVP ecosystem. These cheats bypass BattlEye’s standard anti-cheat scans, letting snipers lock onto opponents instantly in high-stakes Trials and Crucible matches and leaving legitimate players with zero counterplay. DIM is a fully legitimate web-based loadout and inventory manager. Its core features – cross-character item transfer, unlimited loadout saving and perk filtering – ought to be natively integrated into Destiny 2’s base game. Sadly, Bungie neglects inventory system upgrades and ships a severely limited in-game loadout function, forcing the whole community to rely on third-party websites. Another controversial point: Bungie signed numerous third-party API cooperation deals amid persistent in-game bugs. Hidden risks emerge from these commercial ties: certain personnel involved in third-party development have access to core game data and undiscovered code vulnerabilities. A small fraction leaks found exploits to peripheral and cheat developers, helping them bypass anti-cheat measures and perpetuate DMA/XIM cheating. To inflate concurrent player numbers, Bungie actively pushes players toward PVP modes, yet rampant cheating only drives casual fans away. Bungie redirects most core developers and funding toward Marathon for survival purposes; stable profits from Marathon are a prerequisite for any future Destiny 3 development, which inevitably cuts down Destiny 2’s maintenance resources. Only a skeleton crew remains to patch bugs, update anti-cheat and polish existing content. Permanent vaulting of old planets and limited-time quests creates severe rifts between new and veteran players. Originally, Destiny’s community thrived through veteran players sharing raid guides, build tips and hidden content with newcomers organically. But vaulted exotics, seasonal gear and exclusive triumphs become permanently unobtainable for late joiners, breeding resentment. Bungie once attempted to resell retired exclusive content to help new players catch up, which triggered massive backlash from long-time fans who earned those items through grind, pleasing neither side. Fundamentally, developing in-game raid tutorials and beginner-friendly trial versions for six-player endgame content falls under Bungie’s responsibility. The studio’s abysmal new-player guidance forces inexperienced users to beg veterans for gameplay advice, artificially widening the gap between old and new generations of Guardians. Poor monetization further erodes player loyalty. Destiny 2 never wipes inventories or character levels across seasons; instead, it splits DLC, seasonal passes and dungeons into separate paid purchases. The studio increasingly relies on cosmetic skin sales and limited-time exclusive appearance bundles to boost revenue. Most seasonal updates recycle reskinned activities, leading to repetitive loot farming and endgame burnout once players fully gear up. Removed casual PVE matchmaking forces players to seek teammates via outside communities, while PVP’s cheating crisis keeps new recruits from sticking around. Overly restrictive armor perk pools also reduce build diversity. All these overlapping problems shrink revenue and push Bungie to prioritize cosmetic sales and PVP-focused updates to prop up online figures. As mentioned before, Marathon’s full seasonal reset is its unique design choice. Ideally, Bungie could build modern coding and next-gen anti-cheat for Marathon and port those improvements back to Destiny 2. In reality, Marathon hogs nearly all top-tier development resources. Worse still, Destiny 2’s original faulty code gets reused in Marathon’s development, carrying over disconnect and item-glitch issues into the new title and dragging down both projects simultaneously. Until Bungie resolves core issues ranging from messy base coding, unchecked hardware cheating, risky third-party cooperation and lopsided resource allocation to insufficient new-player tutorials and fractured community relations, rushing out Destiny 3 with identical outdated development and monetization policies will only repeat Destiny 2’s downward spiral. LIFEISTRANGE 🦋 [spoiler]Moderator edit: This thread has been updated with tags that are more appropriate. Feel free to private message the moderator who moved your post, link to topic, for further clarification about why this topic was moved.[/spoiler]