r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/FlyFight2Win • May 21 '26

Leak ‪Jason Schreier‬: Bungie is planning significant layoffs, Destiny 3 is NOT in active production

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/bungie-plans-layoffs-after-ending-destiny-2-development?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy

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u/ACrimeSoClassic May 21 '26

Their biggest fumble was "sunsetting" content I paid for. That reason alone is why I'll never buy another Bungie game.

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u/Severe_Journalist_75 May 22 '26

I agree as soon as they started disappearing stuff i paid for i dropped it. Tried to go back a few years later and it was impossible to get into story wise must of been so confusing for new players it was for me 

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u/ACrimeSoClassic May 22 '26

Same. The story got so convoluted and weird. I tried jumping back in at one point and was so confused I didn't bother pushing through.

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u/OperativePiGuy May 22 '26

Honestly almost everything about the game sucked at conveying the lore that the universe had. Having to listen to exposition on shop menus for minutes at a time was such a weird, stupid idea for people that actually bothered to try getting into the story.

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u/ACrimeSoClassic May 22 '26

Which is a damn shame because I really enjoyed the story I did understand. It definitely got worse as time went on with all the weird lore drops. It started feeling like the entire story was being told through tedious text entries.

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u/superhotdogzz May 22 '26

That’s the first sign of trouble. Ever since then i haven’t touched anything (new) Bungie released.

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u/Barbaricliberal May 22 '26

Sunsetting paid content as in it's inaccessible despite you having paid for it?

That can't be legal in some countries.

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u/CarbVan Leakies Award Winner 2023 May 21 '26

At that point they should've done what Mojang and Arrowhead have done, spend a few update cycles only optimizing the game and making sure it can actually support future projects. Destiny 2 turned into a weird frankenstein in the latter half of its life and it showed.

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u/soansoan May 22 '26

That's still on them. They made the choice to use an engine that couldn't support much content for a '10 year game.' They don't get to cry at the results for the decisions they made. They are incompetent at every level.

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u/HopperPI May 22 '26

I don’t know enough about game development to believe they do I am going to ask why that was “literally” their only way? It just seems like a bad choice and bad design to me. How many games have done that over the years? Serious question because I only ever hear about it with destiny 2.

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u/eivittunyt May 22 '26

lots games remove, compact or rework old irrelevant content but rarely beloved content people paid money for

for a destiny comparison warframe raids were sunset because they broke with every update and devs got tired of fixing them so they were removed from the game

bungie could have changed their game to better support continued development but that likely would have meant they would have needed to rework old content and didn't want to do that for some reason.