A month after Bungie acknowledged player “uncertainty surrounding the future of Destiny” following mass layoffs at the studio, the developer has announced “major changes for the future” of its live-service shooter, which will now receive multiple paid expansions a year.
More specifically, Destiny 2‘s overhauled release model, announced to coincide with the series’ tenth anniversary, will see two “medium-sized” paid expansions release annually, alongside four “major” free content updates. All this will form a “new multi-year saga” (the first since Destiny 2’s Light and Darkness saga concluded earlier this year) promising new characters, factions, twists, and more.
Things kick off next summer with Destiny 2’s first new expansion, Codename: Apollo, described as a “non-linear character-driven adventure”. Elaborating on Bungie’s new “non-linear” direction in a blog post accompanying today’s news, game director Tyson Green explained the studio believes Destiny 2 has become “too rigid”, and that its annual expansions “have started to feel too formulaic and are over too quickly with little replay value”.
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