Could this be the decision that saw Sr Crucible Leads leave? (Destiny)

by Pyromancy , discovering fire every week, Tuesday, October 01, 2019, 15:04 (1668 days ago) @ bluerunner
edited by Pyromancy, Tuesday, October 01, 2019, 15:27

It's a doozy.
https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/48188

In Season of the Undying, pinnacle weapons will become ritual weapons. They will no longer have special perks and will instead be curated rolls. A previous article incorrectly showed two new pinnacle weapons. The good news is you will be getting three ritual weapons for each of the ritual activities: Crucible, Vanguard, and Gambit. Here’s the Destiny Dev Team on why we made this difficult decision and some information on upcoming perk changes.

Destiny Dev Team: The decision to stop creating extremely powerful pinnacle weapons was made for a variety of reasons. The first was that the band in which “pinnacle” perk can exist is actually quite small, and most of them far exceeded the efficacy they should have been at. Another issue is that they cause problems in the player ecosystem, particularly in the case of the Crucible pinnacle weapons. Due to the nature of PvP and PvE, anything that works well in PvP is likely going be extremely effective in PvE as well. This forces players into the Crucible if they want the “best” loadouts. Even the title of “pinnacle” set a variety of unrealistic expectations. Rather than being the absolute height of Legendary power, they were supposed to be interesting novelties to chase.

These problems became more pronounced the more of them we produced. In the end, we decided to move away from pinnacle weapons.

Could this be the decision that saw multiple long-time Crucible Lead(s) leave the company?

It makes me so sad each and every time a long-time employee leaves the company. On the one hand I'm happy for them personally to move on and expand their horizons, try something new. On the other hand it is devastating to lose their talent/creativity/voice, as part of the ever changing thing that makes up what Bungie was/is/will become.