How is Destiny now? I just saw a story a few days ago that Bungie is on another apology tour, but I didn't look into it to see what was actually going on. I think The Final Shape is available now through the Playstation Plus subscription service, and I did think about downloading it for about thirty seconds before ultimately deciding it probably wasn't worth it at this point.

Is Destiny 3 ever going to happen? It feels like the thing that must happen for Destiny to really be a going concern moving forward, but I don't know if they're even in a position to make that happen at this point.

Arc Raiders has shown that an extraction shooter can come out and be huge, although who knows how long that tail will be (I'm slowing down in playing it already, though I will continue to check back in on it, I'm sure). What little has filtered out of the most recent Marathon test seems to have been positive, so I guess we'll see.

With Edge of Fate, we presented a different vision for the future of Destiny 2’s core game. One intended to refocus our releases and player call-to-action on a familiar but deeper pursuit of Power and ascending to higher Tiers of gear across a wider range of activities supporting customizable challenge and commensurate rewards.

Very quickly, the feedback made it clear that this was the wrong path for Destiny.

Even if our execution had been perfect, and we see plainly that it was not, it is clear that grinding Power will never be a substitute for earning a trophy. Climbing though throwaway tiers en-route to the gear you want to build around isn’t aspirational. And the Portal itself surrenders too much of Destiny’s feeling of place and exploration. These lessons, and many others besides them, have been taken to heart by our team over the last three months.

Emphasis mine. It is... just... ...so completely WILD to me, that... decade in, they find a way to re-learn what they already knew. Like, at this point I just... have to chuckle.

Vault capacity and upgrades to ease collection pressure.

• We have increased Vault capacity by an additional 300 slots to 1000, and we’re working on more.
  
• In addition, the Vault now has a revamped filtering system to help find what you’re looking for faster.

So yea, more slots is boss, but... the real gem here is the "revamped filtering system". And yet... this was one of my deepest rants. This is a loot game, and ONLY NOW have the even touched this since... I think LAUNCH for Destiny 2?! Or close to it? And, hey... gift horse in the mouth, right? But, man alive... decade in that in-game system should be putting DIM to shame! Or at least comparable.

...ugh...

...shit man. I just want to say something nice. I'm not like this. Ah, but that's why I stopped, I suppose. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cyberpunk 2077 is an adult masterpiece by the way. Maybe I'll come on by and leave you all a tome of words on why. Well...provided Wu can fix the youtube links. ;D