Destiny 2’s new season, Season of the Seraph, is the final season of content for Year 5 of the game and will lead directly into the February 2023 release of the next major expansion, Lightfall. The season sees players join Ana Bray, Mara Sov, the recently awakened Osiris, and Clovis Bray as they work together to finally restore Rasputin, the AI Warmind, which has been dormant since Season of Arrivals. Players will also need to fend back the forces of the Hive god Xivu Arath as she sends her forces to try and claim Rasputin’s dormant armory to turn it against the Last City and its allies.

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As mentioned above, players have been keen in sharing their criticism and fatigue of the current seasonal content model coming off of Season of Plunder, the most common criticism being the repetitiveness of most content and time-gated progression. The criticism isn’t falling on deaf ears, though, as Blackburn took to Twitter to directly address some of these criticisms and acknowledge player fatigue. He notes it will take some time for player feedback to catch up with the current development cycle, but it is something the studio is looking into freshening up in the coming year.

In subsequent tweets, Blackburn said the team was looking into “reducing complexity and improving the synergy between seasonal pursuits and the rest of the game” when Lightfall and Season 20 begin. He added this mindset will continue into subsequent seasons, with development of Season 21 already “at the halfway mark” and looking at how Bungie can further improve the player experience in Year 6. He reiterated it will take some time for player feedback to be reflected in-game, but said the studio is listening and will continue to listen to its community.

It is hardly the first time Bungie has found itself in this position with Destiny or Destiny 2 and player criticism over content, the lack of content, or severe repetition. The first year of Destiny 2, for example, was heavily criticized for the content drought following Curse of Osiris’ release and an overly-simplified gear grind. Bungie was quick to address these criticisms, laying the groundwork in Warmind before a full overhaul came in Forsaken, so there is reason for players to believe Blackburn’s words.

Destiny 2 is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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