Bungie Heard Every Word

We hear you, indeed... Destiny 2 players spent years giving Bungie feedback. And not because players hated the game. Rather, they loved it enough to keep showing up. This is what it looks like when a studio trains its audience out of caring, and what a balance sheet looks like when the community starts getting quiet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00:00 BUMP & INTRO 00:01:05 WE HEARD YOU 00:02:52 THE POST 00:08:40 THE SAME CONVERSATION 00:12:03 THE SILENCE 00:15:09 THE DOOR 00:18:57 THE JOB YOU DIDN'T APPLY FOR 00:23:12 WHAT INDEPENDENCE REVEALED 00:24:38 THE BILL 00:27:43 THE DEFENSE 00:30:26 THE BONES 00:32:48 WHAT REMAINS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCES Reddit post primary source: AgisCXVII, r/DestinyTheGame, April 2020. URL:   / g6hb9f   Eriana's Vow season pass placement, Season of the Undying, rank 1 premium track: Destinypedia. URL: https://www.destinypedia.com/Eriana%2... Infinite primary ammo Season 15: PC Gamer, August 19 2021. (I had a section where I talked about the champion system introduced in Shadowkeep, but ended up cutting it. I have a problem with the artificial loop it ended up creating. Which eventually led to infinite ammo primaries, but now with the sandbox being what it is, honest to God, who cares?) URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2s-pr... Justin Truman GDC overdelivery and apathy quotes: PC Games N. URL: https://www.pcgamesn.com/destiny-2/ga... Third-party tools as essential infrastructure: Blueberries.gg beginner's guide, 2024. URL: https://www.blueberries.gg/leveling/d... Activision split announcement: PC Gamer, January 10 2019. URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/bungie-splits... Luke Smith Twitter response, November 2018: GameSpot citing tweet. (Reminder: Luke Smith deleted his Twitter, or X... Or whatever you would like to call it. Luckily, Gamespot and a Reddit post have the Sparknotes of that whole ordeal. At least...) URL: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bun... Sony acquisition announcement, January 31 2022: Sony SEC filing. URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da... Sony's acquisition - Bloomberg, January 31 2022. URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... Sony FY2025 Consolidated Financial Results, May 8 2026. G&NS segment: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/l... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MUSIC & CREDITS INTRO - ‪@illadvisedrecords‬ DOOM II OST - ‪@NML666‬ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Find me here: https://bio.site/agis ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━