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Destiny 2 Beyond Light: Is drip feed content good or bad for Destiny 2 in the long run and is Beyond Light handling drip feed games as a service content differently from previous Destiny seasons? So far I’m loving Beyond Light and think that Destiny 2 is in a great spot, however, there is always a bit of a balancing act when it comes to drip feed content. Overdue it and players fatigue from the fomo and ultimately step away.
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Destiny 2 Beyond Light is drip feed content good or bad for Destiny 2 in the long run and is Beyond Light handling drip feed games as a service content differently from previous Destiny seasons? So far I'm loving Beyond Light and think that Destiny 2 is in a great spot, however, there is always a bit of a balancing act when it comes to drip feed content. Overdue it and players fatigue from the fomo and ultimately step away.
I still haven't played through Beyond Light content
I dont mind it. Gives me a reason to play every day. If it dropped all once, I'd absolutely blitzes through the content and have everything done within a month.
I REALLY think the seasonal model is affecting the quality of the expansions. Bungie is already split since they have a team working on Matter. The seasonal model spreads them way too thin. Maybe if they went the route of having 2 front-loaded expansions a year like having beefier $40 Expansion in the fall and a $20 Expansion in the spring, we wouldn't see such a quality drop in terms of seasonal activities. Just my thoughts
If beyond light shipped with enough content to actually drip feed I wouldn’t mind it. But as it stands now beyond Light does not have enough content at all and has almost no replayable content.
What's up BBK. I think I'm in the middle about drip feed content. It can be good for extending the life of the game, but it can also kill the player base because of the waiting.
Makes me think…idk how prevalent path of exile is on twitch (it could be bigger than D2) but I know destiny is pretty popular on the twitch standings…so I wonder if you give everything at the start and the streamers playing 18hrs a day beat it by week 3, and not have anything to do for 80+ days..will they continue to stream? Giving bungie free advertising..? Let me know path is as big or bigger on twitch and I'm talking out of my ass here lol
More and more people are going to start to fall off, they need to scrap the Destiny engine, start over and make something new. Their engine troubles can only be an excuse for so long, half of this content was cut from D1 anyways. I would rather them take a hiatus, make a new engine and a new shooter looter with a better engine they can actually work on. Its been what almost 7 years now? Previews started in 2013? Time to scrap the engine and start over. Yes it sucks waiting for like 3-4 years, but id rather wait and get more content updates, than this heres 2 hrs of content, reskins, same weapons, same enemies, same everything.
It probably doesn't help that it's at a time, where more people have more time than ever to play.
I'm in that middle group, but as a solo player, I have no friends to play the raid with, so that content is irrelevant to me. Personally, I can't justify the price of this expansion. There is not enough core content to replace what was lost. My favorite thing to do is just sit back and grind strikes. A single new strike really hurts. And when they remove a vast majority of the previous strikes as well, I find myself playing the same 2-3 missions over and over. With there being no strike specific loot, that incentive drops even more. To be fair Europa is cool. I like the new subclasses. There is a grind to upgrade your mods and play style. But when the loot is as sparse as it is, and the core playlists are hurting as much as they are (for as long as they have), it's a tough sell.
I don't mind it getting spread out over time. Before I would be consumed by the game for probably a month straight. Now I can log in once or twice a week, do whatever is new and have time to enjoy everything else other games have to offer. For me personally, I enjoy not feeling like I have to push to the max at the beginning to be competitive. I don't love that most the grind is just endlessly looping very tedious quests, but that's not anything new. Story is very good, I think they've finally nailed telling it in game. Sunsetting was rough but they made changes quickly to help fix it. They've been able to fix things or improve some things very quickly as compared to the past so that's nice to only go days for fixes instead of months.
When it comes to me with the whole drip feed content is I work so much these days that when I do get on I'm basically playing catch up,
So for me as an extremely invested player there is always something to do (I play like a few hours a week)
Definitely D2 is a weekend warriors game
How are you almost done with the season pass? 😮
Great video. I'm smack in the middle aswell. I enjoy the vaulting because I wasn't enjoying the old content at all anymore. I'm ready for new things and new places to explore. But I was hoping for Destiny to evolve more. This was it, beyond light, this was the big one and its good but I was expecting something epic
Imagine this without stasis. Its very generic and I've still learnt nothing about the darkness that excites me.
There is something missing from that visual and it’s the pvp players who don’t touch the pve but play pvp all season 🙂
feels like the drip feed is to keep content creators going and to keep the game on the twitch directory each week
I would have bought this expansion along with forsaken and Shadow keep (I was D1 player and later got into D2 with new light) but I'm saving for Cyberpunk 2077.
I think what they're doing with the Stasis sub-Class grind is good. You can chase new Aspects, grenades and Fragments at your leisure and as you get them it can change how you play in the sandbox.
Honestly the drip feed is what drove me away from this franchise. With the former expansions, you got to ply at your pace and figure stuff out and do stuff in your time for the most part. Now they’ve switched to 90% FOMO and, tbh, Destiny isn’t THAT interesting to begin with story-wise in game. So I’d rather play other stuff.
Also, BL was MAJORLY overpriced.
Great vid, i totally agree 👍
i think he messed up the percentages when he was taking about three hardcore and casual destiny 2 players. i would guess that 60-80% of all D2 players are in the hardcore camp, as in they do all the exotics quests and they raid/pvp every day and are subbed to all the D2 youtubers and are always going for god rolls
I’m in the middle, and right now with both beyond light and the season of the hunt, I feel like there is a lot to do. I’m going through it as much as I can, but every week I feel like there’s something need to do. Maybe it’s because I spent the first week grinding out to do the raid, but right now I feel like there is still a lot to do
I just started playing Destiny 2 and I’m 1203 but there’s nothing to do
I just want to do missions but I can’t find any and the quest are boring
All I want to do is play story mode like missions
Honestly the grand master isn't worth the effort unless they've changed it up this season or unless you're going for the seal which is 6 gm nfs
Dripping content is a horrible way to do with dlc you buy a dlc to get everything first day and not wait a month for the actual content to release I understand with the battle pass because your getting weekly new content ie new challenges extra missions etc
Before you say ttk did it first why aren’t you bugged by it I wasn’t because it made sense since they wanted everyone to get there light up plus it was just the raid everything else was practically unlocked to do whenever
Destiny is a game with unlimited potential that never reaches it. If the game was free that would be fine. But spending 20-50 dollars every few months to be disappointed is not for me. I hope destiny becomes whatever bungie wants it to be, but I’m not gonna waste my time while they figure it out.
I'd say I'm in the middle but something that I'm dealing with is kinda burn out. I got back into destiny 2 about 4-5 months in before beyond light came out and grinded the hell out of all the game. I got most of the stuff that I missed from not playing since like season 3? I got a decent amount of exotics and weapons but now I'm burnt out because all the legendary weapons I grinded for are sunset. I have other games I want to play as well but I feel like I'm lagging behind. I don't like that I have to grind for the statas abilities because the feels weak (least the titan one) and it makes me not want to do it and fomo isn't helping either.
Great work as always man. I agree with you. Even as a player who is very invested, I would rather have all the content at once than drip style. I've accepted that destiny will never have enough content to satisfy my all year round. I would rather just play it all at once and take short breaks than feel like l need to log in once a week to cross off a list of chores for months on end.
lets be honest, beyond light is one of the best destiny expansions ever and if you dont have a lot of things to do you should remind yourself that this dlc was out for less than a month
I'm definitely on the far left, I thought I was grinding but you're already 1260. What's your method to gain light levels?
The raid is amazing. I have done about 6 sherpas so far and the reactions are great when *redacted* happens. I’m not too keen on drip feed either, but i’d take this over the taking king expansion *model where we got everything within a week or two with no new content for a year.
7:07 Bungie had to remove to update to current modified engine for development. It wasn’t just a vaulting decision.
I love the quality of life changes but i can rarely find time to play now since i am doing my dissertation right now, so fomo is at its peak for me.
The reason for Prophecy getting taken out is because of some serious bugs and conflicts that they need to fix. I believe it will return next season or late this season.
I just dont understand why they cant find a middle ground. Bungie always goes to the extreme.
Its the reason I quit the game so imo I think its bad.
Far left, far right? for petes sake I just want to grill some burgers
Couldn’t agree more, probably explains why my play cycle with this game goes 6 months on, 6 months off
The slow drip-feed of content is the reason why I stopped playing shortly after Shadowkeep. It felt like there wasn't enough content to sink my teeth into when an expansion dropped, since it's all heavily time-gated. As someone who doesn't blitz through content, I prefer to have the choice of going at my own pace and not have to constantly deal with fomo.
Forsaken is my favourite expansion because the content felt substantial enough to justify the purchase from the get-go. From what I've seen with Beyond Light, it doesn't seem like there's enough there to warrant a purchase as a PVP main, who hasn't done any D2 raids (because my raid team died after D1 and LFG experiences have been god-awful).
The problem isn’t the drip feed. The problem is the content itself. It’s almost always boring and seems rushed. They ask you to kill stuff in old areas instead of providing NEW content. This is the main reason I left. I also felt like I would ALWAYS be behind if I didn’t play everyday which was a really annoying feeling. I have bad anxiety and I either have to fully commit or not commit at all. Some days it felt like I would grind all day and get almost nothing done.
I think the game would be good NOW, if they didn't implement sunsetting… The only people who really benefit are the hard core players.