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My Guardians, my Acolytes, my friends. How can I express all that may be said after everything we have achieved together? I will try. I must.

The Hellmouth did not end for me when I reached Luna's surface. It did not end at the death of Crota or the Taken King. It was relentless. I could not see beyond it. My nightmares persisted and I suffered their torments.

I thought that usefulness would save me, to endure despite all, to make meaning from my fear and isolation. But that did not save me.

That did not quiet my anguish.

It was you, guardians, you who have been by my side through my grief, my pain, my vengeance, and my joy, from the hatred of the Hive to the wonders of my throne.

For that, I am grateful, eternally.

So think now of love, the love between you and your ghost, the love between you and your fireteam, and the love I have for all of you.

Hold fast and it will never diminish.

Remember our time together and be glad.

Dev Insights - Return of the Director

- Destiny 2 Team

Welcome to our first Dev Insights article, prepping for the release of Monument of Triumph on June 9. We have quite a bit to get through over the next few weeks. Today's article focuses on the return of the Director and Destiny 2 activities. Here's a quick list of what we'll be covering:

The Director: Layout, additions, and updated Destination loot

Distortions: Adding some spice to select Patrol modes

The Portal: Breaking down barriers and overhauling the experience

Gambit Ops: Bringing our old friend into the fold

Heavy Metal: Vehicular mayhem

Sparrow Racing League: Returning tracks, new loot, and some twists along the track

Tomorrow we're planning to have our second Dev Insights article focused on the weapons sandbox alongside a Friday TWID, so stay tuned!

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The fact that they never made any Destiny novels continues to be one of the weirdest things in the world to me. So many games and movies and whatever have novels, and yet Destiny, arguably the most novellable property in the world, never got any. Insane.

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I wasn’t here for long, not as much as everyone else at least, and I held off really making a serious post cause of that.

I remember when D1 came out and my brother got it. He begged me to draw a ghost for his birthday, and I did. We owned so much destiny merch even though we only played for a few hours and that was really it for me.

Until Final Shape, that was. My friend asked me to play and after some convincing I did. After one day I was enamoured. I bought all the expansions after that, started making ocs and cracking jokes that our guardians were together (I’m the reason her guardian has a name after so many nameless years), and spent many sleepless nights playing. It even lead us to dating.

I met new people, a lot actually, in a time where finding and talking to people with common interests felt impossible. I played games with people for the first time in years.

It was new, fun, and scratched an itch in my brain I hadn’t experienced in a long time. The anger and disappointment from Ark: Survival Evolve having their official servers shut down along with all the drama surrounding their devs felt fresh. It was a game I sunk days of my life into.

Destiny 2 replaced that.

It replaced a void that I had, something that made days where I didn’t want to get up worth living.

I may have only played for 2 years, I may have missed all its origins. I may have missed its golden age.

Yet, even still, it was there for me.

Those nights I couldn’t sleep, the days where the world was crashing down on me, loosing some of the people closest to me, fighting to stay afloat, all the drowning school work, and even more. If I kept listing it I’d be rambling forever.

Destiny 2 may have not been a game I’ve played for long, but its impact will forever be something I carry with me. I couldn’t have asked for a better game to cross my path.

So whether this is truly the end or a path paved for a new beginning, I thank this game for all it’s done.

Lux praevalet, semper et in aeternum

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I was very invested in it and I know a lot of people stopped caring and kneejerked about Renegades, but the whole thing with the Nine they started was incredibly cool and I wish we could see it through the end. But it is what it is, game was going to end one day and I said that multiple times. Would've been nice to have more time to wrap it up properly, but capitalism comes for us all. My heart is mostly with the devs. Y'all did a great job, despite whatever people were saying, and thanks for all the hard work. I know shit will happen because gaming industry, and if it does, I hope y'all find new jobs quickly.

Other than that, I'm not planning on leaving or stopping to enjoy the setting and the game, there's still much to play and much to enjoy and I'll be around still helping people with content and with lore. Fandoms don't die when the media stops airing, and we've kept Destiny 1 alive since 2017 despite it not having any updates so I don't see anything changing on that front.