The team did not ship a game with content removed

Sep 29, 2014 21:23 GMT  ·  By

The development team at Bungie says that it has not tried to hide any sort of game content from its recently launched Destiny from fans and that the datamined information about upcoming content does not mean that the title was shipped with core elements removed.

Deej, the community manager, states on the official forums that "We noticed that you noticed that we already have plans for upcoming content packs in Destiny. We do! They have activity names (which may or may not change) and we have a really good idea what they’re going to contain. They even have placeholder nodes in the Director, as you’ve already discovered."

The information was datamined earlier in the day and some fans have said that the company knowingly withheld some missions and raids from the community in order to be able to charge fans for it by including it in future expansions.

Some analysts are saying that such accusations show that the fans do not understand how a content pipeline for modern titles works and that Bungie is probably not guilty of anything.

The Dark Below is coming in 2014

The community manager adds, "People at Bungie are hard at work to complete content for our first post launch pack, 'The Dark Below', as I type these words. It will be finished soon. It releases in December. Soon, we’ll detail it out for you so you can see exactly what we’ve been working on."

When Destiny was launched, the developers explained that the title was designed to evolve based on the feedback coming from the community, and since launch, one major patch was delivered and another one is in the pipeline.

One of the big changes was the elimination of one of the main loot caverns and the studio says that it plans to introduce some other changes to the end game that will make the entire experience more balanced.

Bungie also claims that the universe has been created to exist for a ten-year period, but it's unclear how many DLC packs will be launched for the game as it stands now before the team moves on and begins to work on a true sequel.

Since it was launched, Destiny has managed to move 325 million dollars (278 million Euro) worth of video games to players and it seems that the title is much more popular on the PlayStation 4 from Sony than on the Xbox One from Microsoft.