Destiny 2 DLC The Final Shape delay confirmed in the wake of layoffs
Despite originally being planned to launch in February, 2024, Destiny 2 players will need to wait a little longer to dive into The Final Shape DLC.
Until PlayStation’s live service efforts ramp up fully with games like Marathon, Fairgames, and Helldivers 2, right now Destiny 2 is all the platform has to attract and keep this particular audience engaged. Unfortunately, it was only a month ago where it was revealed that developer Bungie would be subject to layoffs – just over a year after it was acquired by Sony and welcomed into the first-party PS5 family. As a result, Destiny 2’s DLC’s schedule is unsurprisingly shifting.
Bungie announced via blog post on its official site that the Destiny 2 DLC The Final Shape will now be delayed. “We’re taking the time we need to deliver an even bigger and bolder vision,” the message reads, “one that we hope will be remembered and treasured for years to come”.
In order to execute on this vision, the dev team announced that The Final Shape DLC will be pushed from its original February, 2024 launch window and will instead release sometime later in June. In light of this change, the Season of the Wish content that kicked off today will now not end in February as initially planned and will instead run straight through to June, when The Final Shape is expected to arrive.
Not so final
While the Destiny 2 delay for The Final Shape DLC is not at all surprising given the recent layoffs at Bungie, it’s good to see that the team is using this time to restructure and get it right. After all, since its reveal back in August, The Final Shape has been teased as “the culmination of the first ten years of Destiny storytelling”. And with Destiny 2: Lightfall, as this year’s big expansion, being subject to much fan criticism, Bungie will want to avoid this reaction again.
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The wider issue is, of course, the mass number of layoffs the industry has been subject to this year. Because while 2023 has been full of banger releases like Baldur’s Gate 3, Diablo 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, almost every major publisher has had to make cutbacks that has seen team sizes drastically reduced. Bungie, as one of those affected teams , has made the right call in pushing back the Destiny 2 The Final Shape DLC release date as opposed to rushing it out.
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