Will Destiny do anything to combat The Division? (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 18:06 (3325 days ago)

The Division is set to release in a few months, and it seems to be going after a similar sort of semi-MMO-ish, online, cooperative shooter space that Destiny occupies. Obviously it's highly anticipated by a lot of folks.

This puts Destiny in a position to potentially lose a lot of players. I figure that people still playing Destiny at this point really love Destiny, so maybe it's not as much of a danger as I think it might be. I seem to recall that there is going to be another event of some sort at the beginning of this year, and Deej hinted that there may be some bigger stuff coming at some point soonish.

Does Bungie have to do anything to intentionally combat people jumping ship for The Division? Or do they just accept that it is going to happen no matter what and let it happen, then maybe roll something out a few weeks after The Division releases to try and pull people back into Destiny?

I'm personally of the opinion that The Division isn't going to be the game people want it to be (much like Destiny wasn't for a lot of folks), and it's going to leave a lot of people disappointed. I'm not basing this on anything more than hunch. I haven't played it, or even followed it all that closely, but I just have a feeling about it (and am personally just not expecting much from it). I am definitely going to take a wait and see approach to it, and see how people enjoy it after it's been out for a bit, and may pass on it altogether unless it is just supremely amazing. I already have the gaming niche filled with Destiny, it seems, and I damn sure don't need another game like that to eat all my time.

I'm also not of the mind that Destiny needs to really "do" anything. People are going to try the Division no matter what, and I don't think people not playing Destiny for a bit is necessarily a bad thing. I'm just sure that Activision and Bungie won't see it that way. Every week a player goes without playing Destiny is a higher chance that they won't return at all, at least until whatever Destiny 2 is comes out, and I don't think that's a situation they want to be in.

So I was just wondering if we might be able to speculate on Bungie's plans based around The Division's launch, or whether that even enters into their equation at all.