Destiny series in peril as Bungie shelves spinoff & third game \u2013 Reports BungieBungie lost roughly 40% of its workforce in one day on July 31, 2024, with hundreds of employees either being let go or sent to work on other projects. As a result, Destiny spinoff Payback has been shelved, and Destiny 3 isn\u2019t even being made according to reports. Bungie had a massive series of layoffs in October 2023, with many Destiny 2 players being skeptical of how The Final Shape would turn out following staff reductions at the time. However, the expansion was a critical and commercial success. It successfully revived Destiny 2. But, it also resulted in even more layoffs despite the team delivering an experience players loved. There have even been calls for CEO Pete Parsons to step down as a result of these large-scale layoffs, and, according to reports, this could mark a massive downturn for the series. Grubb initially covered it on his Game Mess Mornings podcast, claiming that these layoffs resulted in a Destiny spinoff codenamed \u2018Payback\u2019 being \u201cshelved indefinitely\u201d \u2013 one that wasn\u2019t internally being considered Destiny 3. Grubb also claimed on his podcast that Destiny 2 will continue to get new content, but that it\u2019d be \u201clighter, smaller, and take less time than The Final Shape did.\u201d Marathon is the studio\u2019s primary focus, at the cost of both Destiny 3 and Payback. He continued, \u201cExpansions? They\u2019re not even using that term internally anymore, they\u2019re calling them content packs. That should put it in perspective what you should expect from Destiny 2 going forward. They want Destiny 2 to keep being a thing, but the investment level is going to pare back in a significant way.\u201d According to him, these \u201ccontent packs\u201d are the only new Destiny content being worked on at Bungie. \u201cPayback is going on the shelf indefinitely according to the people I\u2019ve talked to,\u201d he explained. \u201cLet\u2019s be clear; a Destiny 3 or Next Destiny is not the thing [Bungie] is gonna come out of this looking toward, let alone working on in any real way.\u201d Bloomberg\u2019s Jason Schrier followed up, as he clarified these layoffs weren\u2019t what got Payback shelved. Rather, the project had been removed from active development a while back according to his sources. However, Schreier corroborated both the name of the spinoff and that Destiny 3 isn\u2019t even being made. This doesn\u2019t mean that Destiny 3 won\u2019t ever come out, but that the game isn\u2019t currently in development. This, combined with Grubb\u2019s claim that Destiny 2 is stepping away from large-scale expansions, means that Destiny fans will have to wait a while until anything big happens for the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny series in peril as Bungie shelves spinoff & third game \u2013 Reports BungieBungie lost roughly 40% of its workforce in one day on July 31, 2024, with hundreds of employees either being let go or sent to work on other projects. As a result, Destiny spinoff Payback has been shelved, and Destiny 3 isn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}