Warframe dev says ‘no one is celebrating’ Destiny 2 winding down: ‘A game is healthy when you have competitors’

Destiny 2 is slowly closing its doors—its servers aren’t shutting down, but Bungie has emphasised that it won’t be getting any more content, bar a massive quality of life patch that has left it in a relatively good, but inert and unchanging state.

One might, if they were being cynical and cutthroat, think this is cause for celebration—particularly if they were in charge of the competition, as Warframe is. Not so, says community director and live ops lead Megan Everett in a conversation with Eurogamer.

“Truthfully, it’s heartbreaking. It’s earth-shattering. I never thought I’d ever see the day where I’d read an article from Bungie about Destiny 2 essentially shutting down.

“I’m speaking personally, but I know people would echo it as well. No one is celebrating the fact that this has happened to Destiny, and its players and that story. I know that people have obviously compared us in terms of being ‘direct competitors’ and stuff like that. But I think a game is healthy when you have competitors.”

As someone in the MMO space, it’s honestly true—World of Warcraft got its act together (at least, when compared to the catastrophe of Shadowlands) when a mass exodus of fans drifted to Final Fantasy 14. Conversely, with FF14’s stagnation, it’s starting to adopt a lot of the measures WoW and other MMOs did with Evercold, shaking things up.

My point being, healthy competition tends to drive games to be better than one another—and stop me if this is going off the reservation—but I think we can all broadly agree that we like it when videogames are good.

Everett also says it’s a shame that Destiny 2’s been shown support much too late: “I think what’s unfortunate and sad is they announced this was happening, and suddenly people are showing all this support for them. They’ve been getting a lot of negativity for all this time, and it’s like, where was all this love!

“Overall, I hate to see that happen to them. I have close friends who play Destiny over Warframe, and ain’t mad about it. We have friends over there, to see this happen to them is devastating to the industry. No one saw Destiny going away”

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