The next big expansion of Destiny 2, the queen of witches, was delayed until 2022

Destiny 2 it has had a big expansion every year since it was launched, but in 2021 it will be different. Bungie announced today than The Witch Queen, initially scheduled to launch in the second half of this year, will be delayed until 2022 due to its size and ongoing work-related problems from home during the covid-19 pandemic.

“When we started scaling up the production of the Witch Queen last year, we made the difficult but important decision to move its release to early 2022,” the study wrote. “[W]We also realized that we needed to add an additional chapter without warning after Lightfall to fully complete our first saga of Destiny“.

In addition to causing this follow-up to the expansion previously planned for 2022, which will presumably now be pushed to 2023, Joe Blackburn, Bungie’s game assistant, delved into the causes of the delays:

• The Witch Queen represents an important evolution in the ongoing story of Destiny 2. Beyond Light built the foundations and allowed us to weave the global construction of Destiny and Destiny 2, but The Witch Queen will ignite the fire in a strongly interconnected narrative through of Lightfall and beyond, unlike anything we’ve ever tried, with characters, bows, heroes, and villains persisting in multiple future releases. More importantly, the conclusion of these versions will also conclude the “Saga of Light and Darkness,” the conflict we first introduced with the release of Destiny many years ago. As we developed The Witch Queen, we realized that we needed this release to be the first of many crucial moments in the history of Destiny. With so much leadership and reliance on what happens in The Witch Queen, we wanted to make sure we gave ourselves enough time to develop this journey in the right way, starting with an exceptional first chapter of The Witch Queen.
• With Destiny now committed to being a constantly evolving world, we want to make sure we still take the time to upgrade the systemic base of Destiny 2 to support everything we want to do in the future. Our ultimate vision of Destiny 2 still holds true: a definitive action MMO, a unified global community where you can play Destiny anywhere with your friends. For 2021, that means improving our approach to keeping Destiny’s weapons and armor game fresh, refining our PVP vision, implementing transmog, and adding Crossplay. More below.
• Finally, and most importantly, we are proud to be uncompromising in terms of our commitment to the health of our teams. With COVID-19 keeping us away from the office and the large amount of work we had on the plates, we had to move the date to make sure both this year’s updates and the Queen of the Witches were delivered to quality for which we strive. , and on a schedule that made sense to everyone involved.

Basically, The Queen of Witches sounds like kicking Destinythe story ofwhich has been incredibly slow burn since the release of the first game—in excess, and to get it right and lay the groundwork properly, Bungie needs more time.

Traditionally, Destiny the expansions were launched in September. Last year Beyond light he was the first to slip, arriving in November instead—the first expansion the studio made after breaking with Activision. With the announcement of these latest delays, it looks like the original predictable release rate of the series will give way to the more realistic approach of, “Joit is not when it is finished “.

Meanwhile, Bungie is focusing on reviewing several things in the game, including its recently added and much criticized tramuntana system whereby the new booty received an annual expiration date.