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'Guardians make their own fate.' Destiny 2 players and creators celebrate following Bungie's shock U-turn, as the studio admits: 'Your voices mattered'
Are we actually so back, or is the elation premature?
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"I think a lot of people don't understand the gravity of the situation as much as they should. This does not happen. This NEVER happens. Games and studios do not just simply come back from the dead and from end of service for their flagship game and they certainly do not do it in this tiny amount of time.
This was never going to happen...until the community willed it into existence.
Quite literally, guardians made their own fate for Destiny.
The reaction above from Destiny 2 content creator SneakyBeaver is typical of the wave of joy that met Bungie's announcement yesterday that Destiny 2 is being taken out of end-of-life maintenance mode.
For those that missed it, slightly over three months ago the game was sent to live out its days on a farm upstate, where it would no longer receive any sort of content updates. Yesterday, that decision was dramatically reversed, with Bungie saying that Destiny is once again "foundational" to the studio's future. To that end, as an initial gesture of good faith, work has begun on restoring all the cut content to the game (a lot of it paid) that had been removed as part of the Destiny Content Vault scheme.
Much of the reaction from the community has centred on the campaign waged by content creators and players to let Sony know they weren't going to simply accept the end of Destiny without pushback. The form that took was pinging Sony's social accounts, wherever they might be found, but especially in the chat during live showcases, and spamming We Want Destiny 3.
A change.org petition passed 400k signatories, player concurrency for Destiny 2 remained approximately six times that of Marathon, Bungie's other game, and even Warframe fans showed up to lend moral support.
So, no surprise that Sony and Bungie's surprise change of strategy has been greeted with a victory lap from those who campaigned against the cancellation. (I like to imagine guardians gathering in the tower to fire their Khvostovs joyously in the air.)