Destiny 2 is getting hoverboards! And they're free! Yep, in a bid to try and drum up some excitement for the shooter's upcoming seasonal stuff, Bungie has revealed that hoverboards — or 'skimmers', a new form of transportation — will be made available to all players. Although if you want additional boards, you'll obviously have to buy them through the game's microtransaction shop. Who saw that one coming?
Still, this is pretty much the most positive news that Destiny 2's had in ages. The title was battered for its ridiculously priced cosmetics near the end of last year, and that was just weeks after reports had claimed that overall interest in Destiny 2 was at an all-time low. Even more damning, the game's most recent expansion, Lightfall, was rather poorly received when it released back in March. Basically, it's just been one blow after another.
Think you might be grabbing a free hoverboard when the update lands on the 5th March? Dump your sparrow in the comments section below.
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Having far too much fun with Helldivers
@Mikey856 Hoverboards in Helldivers. That's where the money is.
@ShogunRok well crossovers are all the rage these days 👌
Wow I can feel the excitement..... 🙄
Seriously though they need to be careful with The Final Shape, if it flops massively then Sony (I believe) can swoop in and fully takeover their business. Which at this point wouldn't be a bad idea as they are quite a big team that could work on multiple playstation games at once.
$3.6 billion for this.
I've deleted Destiny 2 which is honestly the best thing I could've done. Until Final Shape turns out to be good I ain't playing.
Definitely getting this. Although I want a Back to the Future Mattel Hoverboard. Surely that's coming.
@UltimateOtaku91 Sony is gonna step in. Bet.
@ShogunRok The Trailblazer Scout helmet already looks like the Hunter class from Destiny.
@ShogunRok Mechs on Hoverboards in Helldivers 2!!
@BusyOlf Now we're talking big bucks.
@WanderingBullet True, most of the Helldivers armour wouldn't look at all out of place in Destiny. It's really neatly designed.
@UltimateOtaku91 the recent comments by Totoki indicate he echoes community sentiment that management is just horrendous and the devs are doing just fine. While it may be wishful thinking, only time will tell, but it does seem that management is allowing these things to happen only because their jobs are at a greater risk of getting destroyed than their subordinates are. That’s kinda funny to be honest.
@Dusk_Actual would support this 110%. Don’t know about previous management and how many are still there, but every time bungie is ‘acquired’ it’s looked like self sabotage where they then cry foul play. I remember that classic “fois gras” story they told that made them seem afraid of activision, when in reality they were happily embracing bad decisions.
At the moment of this writing, Helldivers 2 has over ten times more concurrent players than Destiny 2. I think that about sums up how gamers feel about Destiny 2.
Wow Sony billions and this is all they can come up with to fill the massive hole from the delay of Final Shape. As for management I don't think anyone went from the upper chamber at Bungie it was all the lower hard working Devs that got the chop the upper idiots made sure to save themselves more than anything.
I still think Bungie will be swallowed up by Sony I generally think now it's been the plan of the top brass in one way or another. Think of the payout they will get because I'm sure it will be a retirement thing Buy Bungie fail swallow them up management get told we don't need you now heres a chunk of cash to walk away.
Bungie is no more and have been folded into other studios to fill the losses of the others lately. Then again Bungie for me died after Halo 3 I don't think Destiny 2 really did what Halo trilogy did for me
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