The title is “Destiny Rising” and is currently in development by a leak from an insider called “Kurakasis”. A surprising update even after the disaster that was Bungie management that fired 40% of their staffers just a month after they had released their final DLC aptly named “The Final Shape”.
Multiple people spoke out against the notice of layoff calling the CEO all sorts of colorful names to make clear that he is a man after money and expanding his car collection, he’ll stop at nothing to do so. After Sony had acquired Bungie for 3.6 billion dollars, he had promised there won’t be any more layoffs and look at where Bungie is now.
The First Few Rumors
It was first speculated around 2022 that Bungie may be working on a mobile Destiny game when several job listings alluded to employment for mobile game developers. Nothing else was found out of that until this month when insider Kurakasis posted a tweet stating that even though there were massive job cuts around July from Bungie, this game’s development had remained unaffected.
It was stated that this game is being developed by Bungie and NetEase, a chinese studio that primarily focused on making mobile games such as the Dead by Daylight mobile version, Marvel Duels, The Lord of the Rings: Rise To War etc etc. It is shameful to see that Bungie still kept hiring even after these mass layoffs supposedly to fill in the roles that were vacated to work their new IP “Marathon”.
This is no doubt an insult to the hundreds of developers and artists who had poured their blood,sweat and tears on providing the player base with “The Final Shape” which was widely labeled as one of the best expansions ever to be released for Destiny 2 only to be met with notices stating that they are out of a job in the month after.
Seasoned developers are out of a job and yet development is ongoing for a mobile version of a game that has almost all of its player base on PC and console? It speaks to the absolute clownery that the CEO Pete Parsons is performing. First it was leaked that while he was so “painfully” preparing the letter to address the soon to be ex staffers of Bungie, he was spotted earlier increasing his multimillion dollar car collection at luxury car auctions, laughing along while at the sametime ripping livelihoods apart.
They Are Following The Trend
It seems Bungie is following the footsteps Epic and Activision took with their games, Call of Duty Mobile and Fortnite mobile have been a huge success for these companies and maybe this is why Bungie seems they can capitalize in the mobile gaming industry too. Which is a strange thought to have considering that the majority of players play Destiny 2 is for the grinding, long and difficult missions, only a minority of players hop on for multiplayer.
Call of Duty and Fortnite have always been about live matches against other players, it wasn’t a drastic change in the formula for them, they just brought their formula to the mobile platform. While Bungie seems to think doing the same thing with their title would be profitable, it is essentially invoking the same feeling of when Diablo was announced for mobile and after an excessive amount of “boos” they asked the audience “Do you all not have phones?”.
Either It’s “The Final Nail” In The Coffin Or..
Things could take the other direction where they release Destiny and introduce modes or features that make it different from the Destiny we know on PC and console, maybe it’ll somehow feature shorter missions or in a general sense simpler missions structures to invite potential players in.
The question remains to be asked if Bungie will retain the same number of players they had on PC and console with players on Mobile, because as it stands PC and console players aren’t happy about the layoffs and since Destiny 2 won’t receive anymore content updates in the future it remains to be seen if players are dedicated enough to support this mobile venture or not.
