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by cheapLEY , Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 00:08 (3325 days ago) @ electricpirate
edited by cheapLEY, Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 00:23

It sounds like this is kind of happening naturally. The division hits early march, and Destinies content drop will probably be sometime in march-may given the 2 month cycle between events.

That's sort of where I was going with my post, too, but again, maybe not in a very direct way. I tend to not really think out a post first, and write them as they occur to me; it leads to me leaving things out pretty often.

I'm not sure there is a two month cycle. We've only seen two events so far. Sure, they happened to be two months apart. Two events doesn't make a pattern that we can really definitely predict anything from. I was sort of positing that we can predict the next event by assuming that Bungie might place it near the launch of the Division to bring players back from it.

Placing just before or at the time of The Division probably doesn't help. An event like what we've seen likely wouldn't be enough to prevent people from leaving for The Division. Positioning an event a few weeks after The Division would more than likely be enough to get folks to jump back in, if only once to check out the event, but that would spark at least some returning more permanently to the game.

I know that article made a point to talk about the Diablo folks talking to Bungie and telling them to let people leave. I'm not entirely convinced that message really took hold. I'm not saying Bungie is trying to be nefarious, but it's natural that they would want people to continue to be interesting and playing Destiny.

TL;DR: It's at least plausible that the next event will occur shortly after The Division launches as an attempt to draw players back to Destiny.