14 DAY TRIAL // The team at Bungie in charge of the tools and the official site platform associated with Destiny is announcing that it plans to deliver a new update for both this week to add some new privacy settings as well as more ways to share information with third-party applications.
It seems that the company wants to make sure that gamers have the option to stay as anonymous as they want while also offering them the tools to interact with their friends and to quickly find groups with which to interact.
The official forum states, "Once we deploy this build, users will be able to go to their Settings -> Privacy page and toggle whether they want their non-equipped Inventory (private by default), historical stats (public by default), and advisor data (public by default) to be visible by other users or anonymously."
These three data points are the first to be affected by privacy options, but more changes can be made in the future.
Bungie clearly wants to make sure that gamers can keep the items and the stats associated with one's Guardians private while also offering ways for them to make them visible to those apps and groups of players that they trust.
The coming update for Destiny will also introduce an advisor associated with Calcified Fragments on a per character basis, which might be used for other data points in the future.
Destiny is getting a new Crimson Days event on February 9
The development team has announced that it plans to deliver the first Valentine's Day-themed set of new content for the social shooter, with a new Crimson Double 2 versus 2 game mode that's designed to celebrate the occasion.
The size of Crimson Days is said to be equivalent to that of the Festival of the Lost that arrived in time for Halloween in 2015, and that suggests a range of emotes and other character-focused enhancements might also be featured.
Gameplay changes and balance tweaks are also coming, but so far, the development team has not offered any hints about them, although it has made it clear that it wants to continue to improve matchmaking to eliminate latency.
A bigger content update for Destiny, which will be equivalent in size to The Taken King and might include more strikes and a whole new raid, is expected to arrive before the end of spring, for free.
Bungie is saying that it wants to offer more options for players to convince them to stay engaged with the social shooter during its second year of life.
A recent set of rumors, linked to people familiar with the development process for Destiny, suggest that a sequel was planned to arrive in September of this year on the PC, the Xbox One, and the PlayStation 4, but Bungie and Activision have decided to delay it.
That means that more content for the first installment in the series will arrive all through the year and that an official announcement for the follow-up might only be delivered in the final months of 2016.