Key Takeaways
- Destiny 2’s annual events have grown stale, needing significant improvement for player engagement.
- Destiny: Rising, a new mobile game, can address Destiny 2’s shortcomings by offering fresh events and rewards.
- Destiny: Rising has the opportunity to inspire Destiny 2 to revamp its event formula for a better player experience.
Regardless of how long Destiny 2 has managed to stay afloat due to its unparalleled gunplay and captivating world, even its most cherished traditions haven’t been able to stand the test of time, such as its annual events. Over the years, these events have shown extreme signs of fatigue, causing players to voice their frustrations and demand more variety from the game. However, NetEase’s upcoming mobile Destiny game, Destiny: Rising, has an opportunity to improve on this area where Destiny 2 has fallen short, thanks to its status as a brand-new Destiny experience.
Destiny: Rising is only set in the Destiny universe, and therefore follows an entirely different story that ultimately disconnects it from Destiny 2. As such, the upcoming mobile game is perfectly positioned to address the shortcomings of its older sibling and improve the franchise’s now-stale annual events for something fresh, exciting, and worth playing for.
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Destiny: Rising Has a Chance to Improve Destiny 2’s Annual Events
Destiny 2’s Annual Events Have Grown Increasingly Stale Over the Years
While Destiny 2‘s annual events might have once been an effective way to pull players back into the game for a time, they have become increasingly stale over the years, demanding change if they hope to stick around. Many of these events — like Festival of the Lost and The Dawning — have reused activities, mechanics, and rewards from previous years with minimal updates. For example, The Dawning has retained its cookie-baking mechanics year after year, and Festival of the Lost often features Haunted Sectors with only minor tweaks. As such, players who have been part of these events multiple times likely feel there’s little incentive to go through the grind again if it all feels too repetitive.
Many of these events often feature new Eververse ornaments for each class to wear, but they are generally either underwhelming or players simply don’t want to pay for them. The real reward during these events comes in the form of loot with unique perks, but Destiny 2‘s annual events sometimes even fail to deliver in this area. There have been moments where Destiny 2 has attempted to experiment with the formula for these events, like when it incorporated Legend Haunted Sectors into one of its Festival of the Lost events, but even these didn’t manage to retain the attention of players long enough to justify the change.
Destiny: Rising’s Fresh Start Gives It an Opportunity to Improve on Destiny 2’s Event Formula
Fortunately, Destiny: Rising‘s fresh start gives it an opportunity to improve on Destiny 2‘s event formula, perhaps even to the point of inspiring Destiny 2 to do the same. It’s unclear whether Destiny: Rising will feature annual events like Destiny 2, but if it does, it is in a prime position to capitalize on the success of Destiny 2‘s past and create something even better for players to enjoy.
While
Destiny 2
‘s annual events might have once been an effective way to pull players back into the game for a time, they have become increasingly stale over the years, demanding change if they hope to stick around.
Firstly, Destiny: Rising could feature even more events than Destiny 2 does, perhaps events tied to the seasons rather than only holidays. Even if it didn’t feature more events, however, Destiny: Rising could improve on what Destiny 2 has already set in motion by introducing new, engaging activities exclusive to each event, offering meaningful rewards with unique perks or gameplay relevance, reducing the grind or making it more engaging with dynamic objectives, or ensuring that more cosmetics and rewards are obtainable in-game rather than locked behind a paywall.
Destiny: Rising including annual events in its gameplay loop would be a great way to keep players involved, especially if it happened to do things differently than Destiny 2 has done. Assuming Destiny: Rising catches on to that and features annual events that celebrate holidays and seasons, it’s in the perfect spot to improve on what Destiny 2 has struggled with, hopefully even starting a chain reaction in the process.
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- Franchise
- Destiny
- Developer(s)
- NetEase Games
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- NetEase Games
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