Bungie Apologises for Its Widespread Destiny 2 DLC Launch Issues

Seems kinda funny, how Bungie could not predict amount of players returning for the new expansion... If only this wasn't their very first add-on for their very first game! Oh, wait a minute...

Some redditors called Bungie "Sony's Mojang", and that's the funniest joke of the past century.

The Final Apology

They better hope that after all the technical issues they are having that The Final Shape lives up to the expectations and quality that Destiny players are desperate for, or it’s bye bye independence. I personally wouldn’t be too upset with that happening, because Bungie have been a train wreck of a company over the last few years and they need some kind of input to get them going in a better direction, because the current management and staff just aren’t up to the task anymore..

I wonder how many times a day Sony brass kick themselves for spending so much money on what was supposed to have been a shining feather in their cap, but which turned out to be a pretty damn tame member of their studio portfolio.

The fact I commonly forget Bungie, of all companies, is owned by Sony because of how little they accomplish and how often they ***** up is wholly surprising. You put a gun to my head and say, "Name Sony-owned studios," and I'm pretty sure I'd name almost every other studio before I remembered.

I legitimately hope they screw up this DLC and Sony takes them over. I see it as their only path back to prominence.

remember these are the experts on live service games well worth $3.6 billion

thanks again for your insight on last of us factions bungie (sarcasm) shame you couldnt have done the same for Concord

I dunno, I feel like folks are being a little harsh. Most live service games have significant issues when they launch. Bungie have been going through tough times both financially and reputationally, so honestly it must be a nightmare for whoever's job it is to keep the lights on (server wise, I mean) when the company's resources are probably being stretched as thinly as they can possibly get away with.

It's one day into the launch, folks just need to chill a bit and let the thing settle rather than branding everyone at the developer a moron. It's so infantile.

Anyways, not trying to 100% absolve them of blame or anything and not even sure why I care exactly - haven't played Destiny in a long, long time. Just a bit sick of all the negativity in games.

Honestly this was at least for me one of the smoothest day one plays. Normally day one dlcs are practically unplayable the whole day. But this time I was actually able to enjoy it within the first day of a new expansion.

Btw my timezone is Japan.

Just why can’t these multi million businesses get their act together and get things right.

It’s not like it’s new or a surprise release etc.
Gaming is just not looking that good right now overall.

Nowhere the PS4 generational era and that goes for all companies, not picking on Sony or Bungie only.

When you have just shy of quarter of a million people trying to access something all at once it is bound to cause issues and it isn't as simple as putting more servers up.

My heart goes out to Bungie and any team that's trying to make infrastructure that works for passing users through log-in servers when you don't have an unlimited budget.

@Mikey856 Well you say that but they just hit 315k concurrent on steam which is just shy of their peak all time concurrent and when you factor in console players then this expansion has obviously been successful.

I still think Destiny 2 looks like a game I could love. However, I've tried "onboarding" a few times and I honestly have found starting to jump in at this point / these past two years, to be tremendously confusing.

Omg every online has server issues when their new expansion not surprising watch ff14 have server issues

This is like that parody in South Park, where the guy just keeps saying sorry over and over again. Im glad I didn't buy it because that was exactly what I was expecting. Especially when it has happened with every single expansion.

Saving it for this weekend to play with the kiddos, hopefully issues are ironed out by then!

I quit playing it a few years ago but my son still plays it. He has finals this week and couldn’t wait to get home to load up the game. What ***** show, he was so frustrated, some things never change. This has been going on for 10 years with them and there really is no excuse at this point, no one should ever defend them for their incompetence.

You'd think after all the problems Bungie have been having what with players leaving, the staff cuts crisis and fans not happy with that. The actually DLC delayed by months and with Sony basically saying if this The Final Shape doesn't do it your literally a closed studio with your IPs belong to us fully.

That they would have made sure it's servers were at least upto scratch

This happens with every live service game. No company ever properly prepares for every unknown. They can't accurately predict player numbers (D2 Final Shape got almost 300K per-orders at the last minute) and they definitely can't predict what will go wrong when they open the floodgates to hundreds of thousands of people hitting them all at once.

I just set my expectations. I knew yesterday was going to be a glorious disaster and it was. I'm not mad at all. Just ended up playing something else and then got back to D2 today.

Live service slop and everyone knows it.

Had some login issue when starting at around 9:15 pm UK time on launch day. But, persevered and it was totally worth it. Bungie have put something truly fantastic together with this expansion.
There's so much content in D2 that I imagine it will be confusing for new players but there is a whole starter quest line to introduce the mechanics and base lore.