Joe Blackburn spoke on to Future 2 gamers in a 16-minute video.
At the moment, Joe Blackburn, recreation director for Future 2, took to X (previously Twitter) and posted a 16-minute video the place he spoke on to the group and promised a free PvP map pack arriving subsequent 12 months. The transfer comes after Bungie launched a State of the Recreation on August 3, 2023, leaving a horrible style within the mouths of content material creators, media members, and followers alike.
Making an attempt one thing completely different, yall have quarter-hour to talk? pic.twitter.com/wzB6xqJPGU
— Joe Blackburn (@joegoroth) August 15, 2023
Within the video, Blackburn spoke on to gamers in a method that Bungie has averted in resent years. The supply of the video was each direct and uncooked, and coated subjects like PvP, armor, and Bungie’s communication technique. After watching it myself, it’s a grand slam for the studio and precisely what was wanted.
The large matter was PvP and, extra particularly, maps. In recent times, Bungie has both delivered one new map to Future 2’s Crucible, or none. This pattern was set to proceed after the discharge of the State of the Recreation, with Bungie stating the next relating to new PvP maps:
As somebody who performs Future 2, there’s no good solution to take that. A studio for a stay service recreation not structured to ship a couple of new PvP map per 12 months is lacking the mark. Fortunately, Bungie appears to agree. Beginning subsequent 12 months, Future 2 might be receiving a map pack every year that incorporates a bunch of latest maps. As well as, Bungie is forming a PvP strike crew throughout the studio to deal with the Crucible particularly.
One other ache level from the State of the Recreation was the reveal that Bungie wouldn’t be releasing new armor for its ritual playlists yearly. Ritual playlists encompass PvP, Strikes, and Gambit. In different phrases, the free-to-play portion of Future 2. As one would anticipate, gamers took Bungie not investing in new PvP maps or armor without spending a dime modes as not investing within the components of the sport that didn’t straight usher in income. Blackburn addressed this within the video, stating that Bungie had determined to deal with armor that gamers gravitate in direction of as an alternative of armor that they largely ignored. He defined that this was one thing that the studio ought to have communicated to the participant a very long time in the past. To make up for it, Blackburn introduced that an armor set destined for Eververse in Season 22 would as an alternative be free to earn as a gesture of excellent religion.
It is onerous to not see this as a superb day for Bungie and its Future 2 participant base. The studio is thought for its over-tuned PR that may lack persona. It’s comprehensible, although, because the abuse of Bungie builders has been effectively documented as of late. It’s onerous to fault a studio for reigning in its communications when the implications are that harmful. That stated, I assumed this was an excellent transfer by Blackburn and one thing that, whereas not the reply to each drawback, was the correct transfer on the proper time. As a Future 2 participant and somebody who makes a superb chunk of his residing off overlaying the sport, I might really feel the stress launch immediately once I watched that video. It is going to be fascinating to see how the group reacts, and the way that adjustments the temper for the large Future 2 Showcase scheduled for August 22, 2023, the place The Closing Form enlargement might be detailed.
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