I’ll add the link to the article as well if you don’t mind. Massive lay offs happened, as well as The Final Shape being delayed to June next year.

Absolutely awful all around for everyone involved. From what we know now, this is Sony’s doing. The article reports as well that they’ve been doing lay offs across the board all year. This is also a wider gaming industry problem.

Also yeah, the commentary on this from the gamers is as “incredible” as always. What a shitty situation for everyone (except for some capitalist pigs execs I guess).

I’d also advise people to prepare for some content being cut or further delayed or not turning out as initially envisioned. Basically, lower your expectations. This is first and foremost about the employees who, despite getting some extra time to work on the expansion, will still probably have to compensate for laid off workers. So things will probably have to be cut. Or they’ll be forced into crunch and I sincerely hope they won’t.

This is also something that has to be said. On the surface I’m really excited for what Joe talked about and for everything he promised and for more communication. But I really also feel like this was exactly like talking to a bunch of entitled kids who don’t really have a grasp on how this work is done.

I genuinely don’t think that this should be necessary. We don’t need this level of personal involvement from a developer. I’m afraid that at the first moment he says something that someone mildly dislikes, they will use him as their personal punching bag. Which they’ve already been doing since the State of the Game article.

So many people on twitter are praising this as “this is the type of communication that we need, bravo Bungie!” and dear lord there is not a single other gaming company that does this much coddling of its community. Maybe that’s why people still stick with Destiny after all these years, maybe that’s why they’re quick to forgive Bungie and still preorder the next expansion even if they hate the game, who knows.

I hope that they committed to this out of genuine desire and ability to do so, rather than feeling backed into a corner and essentially forced. I want to stay as reasonable as possible; no huge company will change its tune in a few weeks over some online backlash, but it would be insane to say that it doesn’t have an effect. I am just hoping that this will not result in overworking and underpaying developers to meet the deadlines and promises. They’ve been there and done that. Nobody wants it again. They already have a really tight timeline with seasons and expansions. I don’t want something more important to be cut so we can have more damn pvp maps.

Again, I want to stay positive because this is nice and I genuinely don’t want to think that they would make this decision lightly and at the detriment of their devs. But it’s something to keep in mind. I’m also firmly against this gamer entitlement, especially coming from a community that has repeatedly shown that they have NO clue how development works, that harass developers, continuously shit on them and call them lazy and so on. It’s absolutely unreasonable that people want to act like they’re besties with devs. You don’t know these people. This is their job, they don’t owe their time to every random person online. I hope Bungie can handle going into this without harming devs.

Also mostly hoping that this will finally satisfy the weird gremlins who do nothing except play Destiny and that Joe’s streams will be enough to answer all of their burning questions and that they won’t revert into harassment the first time Joe says something they don’t like. Please let this be enough for them so we can move on in peace and so we can stop being inundated with a billion negativity videos and posts. Also if I hear one more person say anything remotely like “Bungie never listens,” istg.

Oh my god, I saw that and went looking for information because I never heard of this streamer for Destiny. Found the stuff about griefing, but this is the first time I see the stuff with slurs. Yeah, I’m not buying it about him being “a better person.” Especially not with, as you said, all the griefing. The man is clearly addicted to bullying people.

They always harass Liana which is additionally shitty and also extra additionally, swarming her post of her asking for disability suggestions. Her post!

A lot of people, including content creators, were also saying that they don’t mind people being banned but that Bungie should tell us, every time, the reason for someone being banned. Which is just not how this works. A dev even had to chime in to say that they can’t issue details about bans because that will allow ban evades.

If someone is banned, especially for multiple infractions, that’s all you need to know. This wasn’t a misclick, it wasn’t an accident. Bungie checked and replied and said the user was flagged multiple times. That’s all you need to know.

Bungie is committed to ensuring that every one of our employees and their families have safe and affordable access to essential healthcare needs. As we continue to expand our digital-first workplace to more states, we will now be implementing a travel reimbursement program for any employee to use when they or a dependent cannot get access to the healthcare they need where they live. 

Important bit because I’ve seen way too many people saying that Bungie is just doing the standard big company posturing, but they’re not. They’re actively working on helping those they can and protecting their employees.

I step away and let them kiss.

Finally my time has come!!

The Vex in general have always been inspired by Greek mythology and names. Minotaurs, Hydras, Harpies… The names of individual Vex as well, mostly Greek with some mix of Latin.

Beyond Light has been very Vex-focused, especially Europa as a location, and there’s plenty of names that follow the same theme, starting from locations on Europa (Asterion Abyss) and other stuff.

I won’t go into too many details, tho I might once I get a better chance, but I do want to focus on Override names of bosses.

The champion that shows up in Override? This guy?

It’s hard to see but its name is “Scytale.” A scytale was an ancient Greek method of encripting messages.

The names of Override bosses are Tacitas, Thesmotae and Portunos.

Tacitas is a feminine form of “tacitus” in Latin. It’s a plural and means something that is secretive, unmentioned, concealed.

I’m not an expert in Greek so I couldn’t find much on Thesmotae, besides the greek word “thesmotete” which means lawgiver, someone who makes legislation.

Portunos is very close to Portunus, who is a Roman god of keys, doors and gateways.

There’s a certain theme here: encription, keys, secrets and laws. It’s definitely not a coincidence but my brain is also currently not in the intergalactic ascendant state to completely understand the full scope of the meaning.

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Oh yeah, absolutely. Same as it did for the Psions. Psions and Lakshmi seems to be tapping into the same pool of knowledge tbh. And while some of it may end up being true, it’s more likely that they will drive themselves insane thinking about how to prevent some of it or make some of it happen.