Denial ANGER Bargaining Depression Acceptance - This Is Crazy.

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Hello, my marvelous sausages. The D2 news has been slowly sinking into me over the last couple of days and I just wanted to make a video about well well I've been thinking because somebody made a comment when I did the announcement video uh that I was going through the five stages of grief. You could clearly see the five stages of grief there and I thought I know the five stages of grief but I didn't really like crystallize what they were in my head. So I went and had a little look and they're absolutely right and I thought I'm going to do this video uh with those in mind to kind of illustrate what's going on. But uh so we've got denial, we got bargaining, we got anger. That's quite a big section.

[00:00:35]It's a very big section actually. So that's three. Then we've got depression, and then we've got acceptance. And my denial, of course, was when I went, I can't believe this. What? I remember reading it. I was sitting down on the seti. Uh we were about to have our Friday evening. It was a Thursday evening. I think it wasn't actually a Thursday evening. Um cuz it was like the kids were off on holidays and stuff.

[00:00:56]We're about to watch a film. I read that I went, "Oh my god." I just read the first line and I just said, "Kids, I'm sorry. I got to go and look at this."

[00:01:04]So, they were fine, Dad. They carried on playing their games. And I ran upstairs and then just started absorbing it all.

[00:01:08]Uh, and I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. And I could believe it. I mean, I genuinely thought it would carry on. I did think there would be another DLC which may turn it around. Do you know what I mean? Cuz when they said Shadow and Order was being changed because of uh the nature, they were changing the title, weren't they? It was going to be called something else, not Shadow and Order. And they were going to change the name. I thought they was basically sidelining the portal. Not getting rid of it, but just sidelining it, bringing all the weapons up to snuff, creating them with all their own tiers now. Maybe adding in some older activities again, kind of prepping the ground for it going into like a maintenance mode in downtime for maybe another 6 months or so while they worked on the next DLC. Uh, I think it was called the Shattered Cycle, wasn't it?

[00:01:51]And it seems that, you know, it wasn't far off being finished. So, I always thought secretly as well that D3 had been steadily being worked on in the background. Now, of course, that's that's that's a lot of cope there, but that's kind of where I was, you know.

[00:02:08]So, then the more I started to think about it, the more I started to get angry.

[00:02:14]That's uh cuz that's denial and I was bargaining there for that first section.

[00:02:18]Now, I was into anger. Uh and it really did start to flow and it was kind of kicked off, right? cuz I read Paul Tassy's article. I don't know if you've seen it. I'll leave a link in the description if you want to go and read it. He's written a load since uh about the fact that Destiny 3 hadn't been green lit even though Bungie had pitched Sony the ideas which which I was just amazing to me. What it would be huge and you know I just I and then that thought just got me really angry. So I was thinking to myself, well what the hell happened? How did this how can this possibly happen? because it's all the wrong decisions. So, I kind of did a a look into the negotiations, right, when uh Bungie was sort of absorbed by Sony or not absorbed, taken over, whatever you want to call it. And I typed in who were the chief negotiators and of course it was Pete Parsons was the chief negotiate negotiator with Bungie and Jim Ryan with Sony. Right now, at that point, why the hell was Destiny 3 not part of those negotiations? And one of the reasons being one of the main factors should have been that solely uh support and get and create a Destiny 3 cuz fundamentally that is the future of the Destiny franchise but even more importantly to Bungie it's the future of Bungie. Why wasn't that a thing?

[00:03:39]That's ridiculous. Why wasn't it? I've got no idea. And then I was thinking well why could it why could this have been? Could it be that Sony were forking out such a large amount of money that they didn't want to commit to anything else until they see how Bungie performed after the acquisition? Cuz when uh these bios happen, you kind of think completely incorrectly, wow, Bungie's just had an influx of $3.6 billion, don't you? You think Bungie are having that money. The games are going to have limitless funds to be made. Destiny will become everything we want to be. When in reality, what actually happened is that 3.6 6 billion was mostly used to buy up the shares of Bungie from the shareholders. That is not Bungie the studio. That's all the shareholders. So Bungie never really owned Bungie. So that money doesn't go into game production. It goes into the shareholders individual pockets. Some of which of course would have been Pete Parsons and the people at the top of the table. Now of that 3.6 billion, 1.2 of it was to retain staff as well. You think, "Oh, that's great. I don't have any idea how much that was, how that was cut up, but you kind of think that uh the higher up people in the chain would have had a larger proportion of that.

[00:04:53]They probably would have given it to to retain some staff as well. Uh but I don't know, but you know what I mean. I think I think that would have gone to some of the higher echelon people as well." So they so these higher echelon people, they would have had uh their shares sold. They made they would have made an absolute butt ton of money from that. And then this 1.2 2 billion on top. They would have had a share for that and still no money for the actual studio itself. Maybe a bit, you know, from that 1.2 billion. So the interests of the studio and Destiny didn't seem to play much of a role. And then finally Sony looked at the bottom line. The final shape came out. Everyone who was playing kind of left because it was the final shape. And then uh the only people left were diehard fans and content creators. Hello. playing Edge of Fate and Renegades. So, this didn't make enough money, so they canned it and that's it. It's the most ridiculous situation. I'm still on the anger bit, by the way, if you're wondering. Now, we all know that Bungie had Marathon on the go, which is a new game for them. It's It's an old game, I know, but it's a new It's a new game, is it? Yeah, we know the IP is really old, but it's a brand new game. But Bungie have now thrown all their resources behind that and stopped working on Destiny. Is that a wrong decision? Well, for me, yes. Now, uh, I think Marathon is a very good game and I I can't tolerate people slagging games off because the other game, you know, I just that's nonsense. Forget about that.

[00:06:20]Marathon is a good game, right? But the very fact of the matter is it's an extraction shooter. It's a niche game.

[00:06:25]It's a smaller market. And quite frankly, think about this for a minute.

[00:06:30]It's an extraction shooter which specializes in losing your stuff. You die and you lose everything. This does not go over well with a looter shooter crowd who are hoarders. And if you gave them 100,000 vault spaces, it still wouldn't be enough. So, the very nature of the game is a turnoff for most of the Destiny 2 crowd, regardless of the uh sour grapes and bitterness and all that kind of stuff that you can throw into the mix as well, which Marathon now will be forever tainted with, rightly or wrongly, that it kind of led to the downfall of Destiny 2. But it didn't really it was the decision-making process for the people who were in charge that really have led down led what seems to be at the moment not just the downfall of Destiny 2, but the downfall of Destiny as an entire franchise. So for me, all this was boiling round in my noggin. And then slap on top of that that my channel is somewhat dependent on Destiny 2. You might be surprised to find that out. And now it's nowhere near as dependent as it was over a year ago. You may have noticed I don't make as much Destiny 2 content as I did because I kind of felt and I think this is more subconscious than a conscious decision. Uh that that after the final shape it was going to end. So even though I knew it was going on, I kind of knew well this is we all kind of felt that this was the end and I didn't have as much impetus to play. So I started playing other games more. I did play other games quite a lot regularly on the channel but I never made many videos on it cuz the algorithm is very uh when you change games it doesn't very like it. I'm trying to go full variety now, which is the hardest thing I could possibly have picked to do, but still, uh, you know, that was another layer on top of it. Right. Then when the portal came in, and I got to admit, I liked it for a while, and I did. I made a couple of videos kind of supporting it cuz I didn't want the game to die. And I thought I liked the portal in certain degrees, but then I played it a bit more, and then I played it a bit more. Uh, and then it was clear to me right after I played it that it was now a completely different game. I kind of felt like it was more like an arcade game. So, it was good in short bursts, but kind of a not a long-term investment. Uh, the new story didn't really click with me. It didn't seem to be going anywhere. And but the strangest thing about it always amazes me was that the game was now like uh in two parts cuz they drag a quarter of the game into this new model and they left the rest of it high and dry in a defunct director.

[00:08:58]And I even remember when these changes happened and I went to look at the director and the screen was like washed out in color like it was desaturated like it was being stood down and I thought no whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa what's going on here that was a huge alarm bell to me and then they backtracked on it and brought the color back up again but that doesn't change uh you know the direction that they were going in. That was just to stop us freaking out. Do you know what I mean?

[00:09:23]Anyway, it was a clear sign that Bungie Management wanted the future of the game to be the portal. It was a clear metaphor of a sign that the game what the game was to become. So, I lost my passion for it. I totally lost my passion for it. Maybe, you know, I mean, I'm a massive Star Wars fan, although I've had that ground out of me for a little while with Renegades as well, but I and I I I I think it was more disbelief with Renegades than excitement when I look back at it. It's the Star Wars stuff is great, but it was just like a cynical cash grab at the end or it was cynical. I don't know what it was. I mean, they did a good stuff for the game and things. Oh, but anyway, it was crazy. I had a huge passion for this game, right? And you'll not be surprised to hear that. Here comes the depression of our Five Strangers of Grief. For me, it was Forsaken that made the game click at a at a deeper level. Uh I I I it blew me away because for the first time I was playing with my mates regularly. We didn't raid, but we did have a huge amount of fun, right? It was good fun.

[00:10:23]And and then when the Dreaming City opened up, it was like a wardrobe in to Narnia. I thought, what? This magical kingdom called the Dreaming City.

[00:10:33]Amazing to explore puzzles, lost sectors, nooks and crannies, puzzles, secrets, crazy enemies. Oh, I loved it.

[00:10:42]It was great. In fact, I loved it so much, right? That that's when I started making videos. 2018, I only made about six or seven videos in 2018, but it was, you know, that was great fun to do. You know what I mean? It really did kind of push me to start making the videos. Now, of course, all these videos totally bombed because, you know, that's life, isn't it? But I did enjoy making them.

[00:11:03]And I loved what I really love about Destiny, and you've probably noticed this about my channel, I don't take it too seriously. I'm not like uh uh what they call sweats these days. I don't really care about any of that. I want the experience and I want to laugh and I want a break from life when I play it.

[00:11:20]That's what I really really want. And I express my love for things because I'm Welsh by taking the piss out of it. And uh that happens with all the things that I really enjoy as well. Uh, so you know that it was just my way and I I started to like the tone and the mood of the videos that I made and I enjoyed the humor of it and and and Destiny seemed to be really it just I don't know, it just seemed to be a really good fit for me. Plus, I loved the really cool things that happened. I loved it when the whisper mission dropped without any fanfare and this portal would just appear and you have people waiting for it to appear and then jump through into this really cool mission to get a really cool exotic. I mean, exotics were meaningful. They were really meaningful back then. And then just after that, so we had like a September the 4th was when Forsaken released and then December the 4th was when Season of the Forge kicked in and I couldn't believe it. We're having more stuff. It was coming up to Christmas. We had them dawning. I thought, "Oh my god, there was so much content dropping. It was absolutely crazy. I was totally blown away. here, right, was a constantly evolving world with evolving stories, these seasons, a constant chase. I was hooked. I was absolutely hooked. In fact, I think that entire subject deserves a bigger dives and I'm going to be doing videos about looking at some of my really early videos and some of the earlier stuff and and the best stuff of Destiny 2. I really am. Otherwise, this is going to go on forever. That's 8 years of this game. It was always there, always dependable. And then my channel picked up like crazy. I made videos for a secret emblem and I made a video for getting Kane Sparrow. I think it was before the Tangled Shaw dropped out of uh circulation and then it became my job and it still is just and now it's officially over.

[00:13:08]And I think I've known for a year or so that it was coming. But I tell you what, it didn't half unleash a lot of emotions.

[00:13:14]And I did I didn't think I'd have them either. That's so weird. I'm 52. But it's not just a game anymore. It was people you met, the channel springing up, the community springing up, meeting people, and everyone being kind of all tied in to Destiny really. And I never raided all the way through it. I don't know why.

[00:13:36]It's just not my cup of tea really. But, you know, it's it was it was a big part a big part of my life and the channel.

[00:13:44]And now here we are at acceptance.

[00:13:47]I think I'm okay with it going to be honest. It did have to close at some point. It had a really really good run.

[00:13:55]Do you know what I mean as a game? It really did. But I think though if we knew a Destiny 3 was coming, we wouldn't be as emotional as we are now. There would be more to come. You know, new stories, new adventures.

[00:14:08]But it really seems crazy that that's not to be at the moment. I say at the moment because you never know, do you?

[00:14:16]But that's what it is at the moment.

[00:14:18]God, wouldn't it be great if Sony just came forward and said, "No, don't worry fans. The franchise isn't dying. We're going to be doing something with it." I don't want a TV show. I I want a game. I want I want a game. I want Destiny 3.

[00:14:30]That's what I want. The game can be the TV show. And Do you know what I mean? I want the game. I'm selfish. That's what I want. Now, on a on a quite a a nicer note, right? Uh if you want to have a bit of hope or feel like you're contributing to something, there's a petition where you can go and sign to let Sony know that we wanted Destiny 2.

[00:14:48]The last time I checked, there was over 135,000 uh signatures on it, which is great.

[00:14:53]Which is great. Whether or not that'll even move the needle, I don't even think that's the point. I think it's nice that there's something that you can feel that you can go and do to register your bing.

[00:15:03]Yeah, me. I'm there as well. I want a Destiny 3. I really want a Destiny 3. A lot some people don't want a Destiny 3.

[00:15:09]Some people are so bitter about the way Destiny 2 treated uh people or Bungie, not Destiny 2 because that's the game that they'll they'll never go back and I can understand that in its entirety as well. But there's that. I'll leave a link for you there for that to go and sign that one. And I'll ask you now, right, when this final update drops on June the 9th and you still love the game and you want a Destiny 3, go and play it, enjoy it, have a laugh with it.

[00:15:35]It looks like there's loads of fun stuff coming. This is just the final update, but it'll make you ball your eyes out when you realize that it isn't Destiny 2 that's going away.

[00:15:48]It's us. Let me know in the comments.

[00:15:51]I'll be reading all of them. I may not reply to all of them, but I will always read all of them. And sometimes a comment will spark something in my head and I'll go and make another video. Do you know what I mean? You've been a fantastic community. This channel isn't going anywhere. It ain't going anywhere.

[00:16:06]I love making videos too much and I love trying to make you laugh too much and I just love the whole thing. So, don't worry about that. I'm not going anywhere. Just keep on popping your head in and see what I'm covering. I've been doing Subnautica 2. I've been doing Arc Raiders. I'm going to do James Bond.

[00:16:21]We're going to have a look at the new Atomic Heart one called The Cube, I think it is, when that comes out. And we'll always be playing Destiny 2 on and off cuz it's not going anywhere in regard to the actual game. This is this no more updates.

[00:16:33]Right, that's it folks. I finished jabbering on. Go and have a lovely day.

[00:16:36]I will speak to you all again very soon.

[00:16:39]Sausage hurt.