Future 2’s main upcoming growth The Ultimate Form, has formally been delayed, Bungie revealed, after studies that it had been delayed following mass layoffs on the studio.
As a substitute of the beforehand introduced February launch date, Future gamers should wait till June 4, 2024 to play The Ultimate Form, and play via a marketing campaign that’s meant to wrap up practically a decade of storytelling that started with the primary recreation.
“We’ll preserve it brief and easy.” Bungie started in a weblog submit asserting the delay. “The Ultimate Form wants extra time to turn into precisely what we wish it to be, so we’re transferring its launch date to June 4, 2024.”
Bungie continued, “The Ultimate Form is the fruits of the primary ten years of Future storytelling and, for Guardians in all places, numerous hours spent collectively.
We wish to honor that journey, so we’re taking the time we have to ship an excellent larger and bolder imaginative and prescient, one which we hope shall be remembered and treasured for years to return.”
This delay additionally now implies that the brand new season which is about to start tomorrow, Season Of The Want, shall be prolonged all the way in which till The Ultimate Form releases in June, which means it’ll final practically 4 months previous its initially supposed size.
Bungie will fill the time with extra content material, transferring the Guardian Video games up within the schedule and a content material replace referred to as Into The Mild which is supposed to assist put together gamers for The Ultimate Form.
Although it nonetheless stays to be seen if any of this shall be sufficient to satiate gamers till June.
It additionally brings into query what the time in between now and The Ultimate Form’s launch will appear to be for the Future 2 panorama, particularly after it has already hit a franchise report low by way of participant rely.
At this level nonetheless, the chance of an much more unstable participant rely and dwindling engagement forward of The Ultimate Form’s launch is a threat Bungie is now compelled to take, after the studio already admitted that it must regain participant belief.
Hopefully for Bungie and PlayStation’s sake, the chance will repay.
Supply – [Bungie]