At this point I genuinely think Bungie is the scum of the Earth and do not want to ever give them my time or money again. I truly hope Marathon is the next Concord.

This is the first time I'm writing a review like this, and it is incredibly painful for me to do so - but it needs to be said.

I have a long history with Destiny; I followed the bits of development we got before the original game released, and fell in love with the promises. Promises that were not delivered, of course. Destiny 1 is infamous for its failures, but lived and breathed in spite of that.

Bungie is a sh*tshow of a company. It is rife with corruption and incompetence on the higher levels, and the employees suffer for it. But that's not why I'm writing this.

Destiny 2 has had its ups and downs, with slow drip-feeds of improvements over the years. There have been times when the game was genuinely great, like the Witch Queen expansion. Unfortunately, between the inane onboarding (making it impossible to recommend the game to new players) and the extreme drops in story quality, along with the microtransaction-hell the game has become, I no longer generally feel that Destiny 2 is worth playing. But that's not even why I'm writing this review.

I'm writing this review because of the allegations of art theft. See, Destiny 2 is in its bad spot because the funding that it generated, which should have gone to making it better, instead went to dead-end projects (that Bungie eventually canned), and Marathon. Marathon, a PvP Extraction-Shooter that noone wanted, has now been exposed as having its art-direction be based on the uncredited, unpaid work of the artist ANTIREAL (who literally didn't even know this was happening until recently). Not only does Marathon feature her work 1:1, but its entire art direction is visibly based on her work, and even likely has lore elements based on her work. Bungie claims to not have been aware, but many from Bungie have now been caught following ANTIREAL online for years. They are lying.

Do not give Bungie ANY money. Destiny 2 lost its soul long ago, and Bungie is using its corpse to buy the CEO cars instead of paying hardworking artists for their work.
Bungie deserves to burn. Let it.

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