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Reworking Marathon and restoring "vaulted" content to Destiny are the highlights.

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Marathon did not hit, and they laid off half the studio.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

That, and the player base stuck around. 14 years old, and put out to pasture ("maintenance mode), yet daily logjn count is still a respectable ~250k or more.

The real answer may actually be something like the Whales are still addicted and buying lots of in-game silver. One viewer donated over $5k USD to Aztecross's stream during the announcement recap, then someone else threw in $500+. D2 has enough sleazy gacha mechanics going on that a lean dev team might be funded nicely by whales.

[edit, popularity.report daily logins around 250k in the last 24h, 40k in the last hour, and fluctuating from 20k to 75k per hour]

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

The problem with Destiny 2 is that its dev team was anything but lean.

[–] spamfajitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From what I've heard, the problematic leadership that reportedly held the devs back are all gone as well. Also heard they're rehiring devs that got laid off.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

not that I don't believe you but do you have a link for this? I'd love to pass it on to some friends who I'm sure would be really happy to see this news

[–] spamfajitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing easy or authoritative for me to link to, just saw people pointing to LinkedIn updates and Twitter posts during a Twitch stream with Aztecross when he went over the news. I wish it were more official.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

that's fine. appreciate the news nonetheless

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, if they are hiring people back, I don't know how you sustain them with such reduced revenue. It sounds more like false hope to me.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

can't argue with that at all, though I'm a sucker for hoping against hope.

these guys adored D2, I would love for them to kind of have it all back, and for their favourite online space to have a future again.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

I'm shocked, flabbergasted even.