Notes on Leaving ‘Destiny 2’: How Did We Fall So Far From the Traveler’s Light?

The last two Guardians still standing by for resurrection protocol are watching yet another Destiny 2 controversy happen before their eyes. Now, as the community is fleeing in record numbers, a Hunter and a Titan compare notes overlooking a very empty EDZ. William: In a plush nerd palace, a Black Nerd Quiver if you will, the walls are decorated with a timeline of nerd past and present. In one corner, a bookshelf full of comic book trades. In another, collectible figures from video games, anime and sci-fi movies fill the top of a display case. Physically, they tower above a robust pop collection of only POC characters, where the bottom shelf belongs to the special edition Pandora’s Box from God of War III. You don’t want anything else to share that space. And on the wall, framed, 18 by 24 inches, is a portrait of a Hunter. A Destiny 2 Hunter. Arcstrider, to be exact. The snake winds around the ascending triangle symbol in the background of our hero. And below that picture… a writer sits, wondering how the hell it came to this, where he’s ready to give up on Destiny 2. Mikkel, how did we get here. Mikkel: Well, Will. We got here due to a series of decisions to break the skeleton of the original Destiny in an attempt to make a better one. We got here because the original Destiny had the most tepid release in recent memory where players would sit somewhere in the Cosmodrome shooting at things in a cave rather than… you know. Actually playing the game. Whether or not we needed t…