Removed content?

[Jiffypop]

Maybe I'm a bit late to the punch, as I haven't played in several years, but is it true! Is content really being removed from destiny 2? Like entirely paid for DLC is just gone? Planets are no longer able to be landed upon? What the hell??? I was thinking about getting back into this, but if that's the case, then what's the point? That just seems like robbery. What's the explanation even? Not wanting to take up too much storage space? What about in the story? I'm honestly lost.

[The One They Call Dante]

Hi there!

Year 1 campaigns, The Red War, Curse of Osiris and Warmind was placed into the Destiny Content Vault at the launch of Beyond Light. Also, the year 2 campaign, Forsaken, was also placed into the Destiny Content Vault.

For more information regarding the Destiny Content Vault, as well as a very detailed article regarding it, please review the below help article.

https://help.bungie.net/hc/en-us/articles/360049202971-Destiny-Content-Vault

Please note that, at the announcement of Lightfall, Bungie has announced that expansions will no longer be vaulted.

NO MORE EXPANSION SUNSETTING
It was always tough having to say goodbye to previous campaigns when they moved into the Destiny Content Vault. Even if you didn’t play them often yourselves, it made it more difficult to get your friends caught up on what happened with the major yearly beats in Destiny 2.

Seasonal content will continue to stay throughout the current expansion year and then move to the Destiny Content Vault when a new Expansion launches.

Source: Lightfall Recap article[www.bungie.net]

[Jiffypop]

Originally posted by The One They Call Dante:

Hi there!

Year 1 campaigns, The Red War, Curse of Osiris and Warmind was placed into the Destiny Content Vault at the launch of Beyond Light. Also, the year 2 campaign, Forsaken, was also placed into the Destiny Content Vault.

For more information regarding the Destiny Content Vault, as well as a very detailed article regarding it, please review the below help article.

https://help.bungie.net/hc/en-us/articles/360049202971-Destiny-Content-Vault

Please note that, at the announcement of Lightfall, Bungie has announced that expansions will no longer be vaulted.

NO MORE EXPANSION SUNSETTING
It was always tough having to say goodbye to previous campaigns when they moved into the Destiny Content Vault. Even if you didn’t play them often yourselves, it made it more difficult to get your friends caught up on what happened with the major yearly beats in Destiny 2.

Seasonal content will continue to stay throughout the current expansion year and then move to the Destiny Content Vault when a new Expansion launches.

Source: Lightfall Recap article[www.bungie.net]

So will everything be reinstated? Or is it going on that strange annual cycle where maybe it'll come back?

[Nakos]

You don't own 99% of your software. What you buy is an Access License. Said Access License grants you the use of the software for its service lifetime. Said service lifetime is the sole province of the provider (Bungie in this case) to determine. The provider retains all ownership rights. That's the industry standard and has been for decades.

Nothing is ever sunsetted lightly, but yes, stuff does get sunsetted all the time. Eventually everything reaches the point where maintaining it going forward has become non-viable.

If you want the full story of what Bungie did and why you can find that here:

https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/49189
https://help.bungie.net/hc/en-us/articles/360049202971-Destiny-Content-Vault

If you want the TL;DR version: Technical reasons, the in-house developer tools were functionally obsolete and the game code was too unwieldy to maintain in its current form (as of Beyond Light).

Bungie chose the lesser of two evils at that time: Producing new content, rather than putting the entire game on pause for years to update the older code (which most people were not utilizing).

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

So will everything be reinstated? Or is it going on that strange annual cycle where maybe it'll come back?

No.

Older zones are pulled out of the DCV anytime there's a good reason to use them, (as an example, large sections of Mars were used during S19 for the Heist activity) but Destiny 2 is a Game-as-a-Service. Time does not stand still, the older campaigns will (in all likelihood), never return.

[Verios44]

One of these threads pops up seemingly daily. Interesting how nobody can look up these common answers.

[Jiffypop]

Good thing I stayed out, and with that information I'm going to continue. I'm not going to pay for content to be pulled in a year or two because "It's too hard to upkeep". My brother in Christ, you wrote the difficult to manage code on my dime. It's such a cop out answer too. There's so many better solutions to this, like making Destiny 3, though apparently that's a sin.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Verios44:

One of these threads pops up seemingly daily. Interesting how nobody can look up these common answers.

Well, they're trying to stir up trouble. Trolling on the internet is a national global sport after all.

I just like to make sure that the links to the actual answers are represented.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

I'm not going to pay for content to be pulled in a year or two because "It's too hard to upkeep".

Originally posted by The One They Call Dante:

Originally posted by Bungie:

NO MORE EXPANSION SUNSETTING
It was always tough having to say goodbye to previous campaigns when they moved into the Destiny Content Vault. Even if you didn’t play them often yourselves, it made it more difficult to get your friends caught up on what happened with the major yearly beats in Destiny 2.

Seasonal content will continue to stay throughout the current expansion year and then move to the Destiny Content Vault when a new Expansion launches.

Source: Lightfall Recap article[www.bungie.net]

[germality]

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

Good thing I stayed out, and with that information I'm going to continue. I'm not going to pay for content to be pulled in a year or two because "It's too hard to upkeep". My brother in Christ, you wrote the difficult to manage code on my dime. It's such a cop out answer too. There's so many better solutions to this, like making Destiny 3, though apparently that's a sin.

So, your solution is making another game they remove content from?