Destiny 2 has had a major expansion every year since it was launched, but 2021 will be different. Bungie announced today that the Witch Queen, originally planned to launch in the second half of this year, will be postponed until 2022 due to its size and the continuing problems related to working at home during the covid-19 pandemic.
“When we started scaling the production of the Witch Queen last year, we made the difficult but important decision to move its release to the beginning of 2022,” wrote the studio. “[W]and we also realized that we needed to add an additional unannounced chapter after Lightfall to fully complete our first saga of Destiny. ”
In addition to causing this follow-up to the expansion previously planned for 2022, which will probably now be pushed to 2023, Joe Blackburn, assistant director of games at Bungie, reported the causes of the delays in more detail:
- The Witch Queen represents an important evolution in the continuing history of Destiny 2. Beyond Light built the foundation and allowed us to weave the construction of the world of Destiny and Destiny 2 together, but the Witch Queen will light the fire in a strongly interconnected narrative in Lightfall and beyond , unlike anything we’ve tried before, with characters, bows, heroes and villains that persist in several future releases. Even more importantly, the completion of these releases will also end “Saga Luz e Trevas”, the conflict that we first introduced with the launch of Destiny many years ago. While developing The Witch Queen, we realized that we needed this release to be the first of many crucial moments in Destiny’s story. With so much going on and depending on what happens in The Witch Queen, we wanted to make sure we gave ourselves enough time to build this journey the right way, starting with an exceptional first chapter in The Witch Queen.
- With Destiny now committed to being an ever-evolving world, we want to make sure that we are still taking the time to update the systemic base of Destiny 2 to support everything we want to do in the future. Our definitive vision for Destiny 2 still remains – a definitive action MMO, a unified global community where you can play Destiny anywhere with your friends. For 2021, this means updating our approach to keeping Destiny’s weapon and armor game up to date, refining our vision for PVP, implementing transmog and adding Crossplay. Lower.
- Finally, and most importantly, we are proud to be uncompromising in our commitment to the health of our teams. With COVID-19 keeping us away from the office and the large amount of work on our plates, we needed to change the date to ensure that this year’s updates and the Witch Queen were delivered with the quality we sought and on a schedule that made sense for everyone involved.
Basically, The Queen Witch it looks like it will kick DestinyThe story of, which has been incredibly slow since the launch of the first game, is in overdrive, and to get it right and establish the basic fix, Bungie needs more time.
Traditionally, Destiny expansions were launched in September. Last years Beyond the light was the first to slip, arriving in November instead, the first expansion the studio delivered after finishing with Activision. With the announcement of these latest delays, it looks like the original predictable release rate of the series give way to a more realistic “be out when you’re ready” approach.
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In the meantime, Bungie is focusing on reviewing a number of things in the game, including its recently added and highly criticized deactivation system, in which the new loot receives an annual expiration date.