re: Anyone still playing Destiny on the Xbone?

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Bungie has stated previously that they have a 10-year plan for Destiny, and according to Bungie Director of Production, Jonty Barnes:

“We’re going to continuously update the game from now until the end of time. That’s always going to be part of the philosophy of Destiny. We always wanted to build a new universe but keep building upon it, rather than to do a complete and utter restart periodically.”

While the “end of time” may be a bit of an exaggeration, Bungie has indeed kept that promise of continuous updates thanks to their DLCs, but also with regular patches to fix noted issues the game will experience.

And this leads us to what’s coming next for Destiny, namely it’s newest and biggest expansion. The news come via a leaked marketing sheet acquired by Kotaku and it details what players can expect from the game’s next DLC, expected to release on September 15th. Titled The Taken King, the expansion is being priced at $40 USD, which puts is squarely between Destiny‘s original pricetag of $60 and its year one expansion pass (which included two sets of DLC) of $35. And since The Taken King will cost more at launch than both The Dark Below and House of Wolves, players should expect more bang for their buck.

The Taken King will include new story missions expanding upon Destiny‘s mythos, as well as new Strikes, PvP maps, and a new Raid that will pit players against Oryx (father of Crota, the raid boss from The Dark Below). In addition to added playable content, the three guardian classes will also be receiving an additional subclass and super ability: an electrical storm for Warlocks (arc); a gravity bow for Hunters (void); and a flaming hammer for Titans (solar).

Those new super abilities in particular will be welcomed news for players seeing as they add the type of damage (arc, void, solar) that those respective classes were missing. Also, it isn’t too surprising to learn The Taken King will include a new raid since that’s an addition that was noticeably absent from House of Wolves.

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