Shortly after asserting a further 220 layoffs, Bungie acknowledged that its plans for future Future content material have been unimpacted by the brutal spherical of job cuts, although a brand new report revealed by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier suggests in any other case.
Citing a number of nameless present and former Bungie staff, Schreier has claimed that Bungie is altering its content material plans for Future 2 going ahead, with annual expansions set to get replaced by smaller updates. The identical was acknowledged earlier by journalist Jeff Grubb.
With gross sales of expansions declining year-over-year – with The Closing Form allegedly having bought much less at launch than final yr’s Lightfall – and improvement prices for creating them being as exorbitant as they’re, the studio has reportedly determined to cease releasing annual expansions, and below new director Tyson Inexperienced, will now launch smaller updates for the title.
The objective will reportedly be to each retain present gamers and appeal to new ones, with smaller content material updates just like Into the Gentle, which was launched earlier within the yr, being seen as the perfect manner ahead. Moderately than promoting these new content material updates, Bungie intends to launch them without cost to enchantment to veteran gamers, whereas future story content material might additionally rope in characters and places not beforehand seen within the Future universe.
As for what the longer term holds for Future past that, that a lot may be very a lot up within the air. Future 3 reportedly isn’t in improvement (and by no means was), whereas it’s claimed that Bungie additionally cancelled a third-person Future spinoff codenamed Payback to as an alternative give attention to the event of Marathon.
