An replace for the primary Destiny recreation surprisingly appeared on January 5, leaving gamers baffled. The recreation’s headquarters, known as the Tower, grew to become coated in vacation decorations.
This occasion within the Destiny universe is known as The Dawning, which is the sport’s model of Christmas. Gamers have been puzzled as to why The Dawning returned to the primary Destiny recreation, contemplating that developer Bungie stopped supporting it after Destiny 2 was launched in 2017. The replace is fully beauty, with no new quests, gadgets, or occasions.
One seemingly rationalization is that that is merely an oversight. YouTuber Breshi dug into the sport’s ornament information and concluded that this replace was reduce content material from The Taken King’s Dawning occasion again in 2016. Breshi theorized that this occasion was meant to go stay on January 5, 2016, however when it was scrapped, Bungie scheduled it to go stay on January 5, 2025 as a brief repair and meant to return later and take away it.
Regardless of seven years passing by since Bungie ceased official help, on-line servers for the primary Destiny recreation are nonetheless practical and gamers are nonetheless logging in. It is seemingly that Bungie simply forgot about this scrapped occasion, leaving it to out of the blue replace virtually a decade later. Bungie hasn’t responded and it is unclear whether or not they’ll take any motion corresponding to reverting The Tower again to its authentic state.
Bungie remains to be onerous at work on Destiny 2, in addition to the upcoming Marathon, though it is unclear when the latter can be launched. Bungie reportedly cancelled a spin-off recreation, codenamed Payback, and it looks as if a Destiny 3 isn’t within the playing cards. A cell recreation, known as Destiny Rising, is at present within the works over at NetEase.