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7/4/2025 2:49:50 PM
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Do not sunset the director - add Kepler as a destination

Bungie has a weird obsession with trying to make Destiny 2 as pc gaming compatible as possible, and that’s just killing everything I love about the game. As developers described the new “optional” navigation page, they flat out said it only “takes a few clicks” to navigate. Not a few button presses. This is after years of continual gradual changes that favor pc gaming over console, for a gaming company owned by a console developer. Now I’m hearing that Kepler won’t even be added to the classic directory page with all its current eye appealing destination locations, versus a dry lifeless page of rectangles and boxes that’s devoid of any game immersion. It just doesn’t feel like destiny anymore, although the new page could be useful, I don’t want it as a permanent full replacement. It’s depressing and kills the vibe. Destiny is supposed to be beautiful, not a lifeless PC gamer optimized fantasy playground. This is going from windows 7 to windows 8 all over again. Tile based UI just doesn’t work and it’s usually just ugly and depressing no matter how colorful it gets. And the fact bungie, console gaming company obsessed with PC compatibility, couldn’t even remember the massive flop of windows 8 is a bit concerning. Windows 10 works bc it combined both options and gave people the choice of using the old school desktop screen vs a tile based interface. So bungie trying to force players to fully adopt their new navigation page, the windows 8 of game UI, by refusing to update the old directory is only going to backfire and cause players to leave. Bungie needs to get off their high horse and accept that beauty and systems that work and have worked for the last 7 plus years don’t need to radically changed and replaced. Enhanced maybe, but not sunset and replaced with a dry lifeless page that doesn’t feel like destiny anymore.

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  • Edited by xbroggiex: 7/4/2025 10:34:56 PM
    Honestly, the portal could work as the new main menu for Destiny but I doubt Bungie will bother putting in the effort to genuinely make it good. There is a ton of potential ideas to make it look really cool while also incorporating the director as a sub menu but again Bungie is lazy. Its like "lets have the Call of Duty menu" but with none of the nice visual features it includes it looks awful with a static art background instead of an ingame render of your character or some scene.

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