Destiny's Destiny No Longer Includes Big Expansions
If the words of Bungie today are any indication, The Taken King may be Destiny’s only major expansion. Derek Carroll, senior designer with the company, spoke to Eurogamer in a new interview and mentioned the new direction for the game: “With Taken King we are moving to a more event-based model – things like Festival of the Lost and Sparrow racing, which is our winter event, and then smaller events such as Iron Banner and Trials of Osiris every weekend. Rather than doing these giant, monolithic DLC packs, this way everybody who’s an owner of Taken King can enjoy these things.”
That’s all well and good, but why no more expansions? Carroll was asked this, and replied “There’s lots of different reasons as to why – I don’t know how deep I can get into that. But basically the live team is charged with maintaining the game and keeping players happy, feeding them new content and surprising them with things they didn’t expect.”
No one’s complaining about events like the Festival and the Sparrow Racing League — I mean, they’re free. But would future events be free also? Carroll suggests this may be Bungie’s new strategy for Destiny. “If you wanted to extrapolate from there, you could,” he cryptically said.