Future 2’s main upcoming enlargement The Remaining Form, has formally been delayed, Bungie revealed, after experiences 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 Remaining 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 hold it quick and easy.” Bungie started in a weblog submit asserting the delay. “The Remaining Form wants extra time to grow to be precisely what we would like it to be, so we’re shifting its launch date to June 4, 2024.”
Bungie continued, “The Remaining Form is the end result of the primary ten years of Future storytelling and, for Guardians in every single place, numerous hours spent collectively.
We wish to honor that journey, so we’re taking the time we have to ship a fair greater and bolder imaginative and prescient, one which we hope shall be remembered and treasured for years to come back.”
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 best way till The Remaining Form releases in June, that means it’ll final practically 4 months previous its initially meant size.
Bungie will fill the time with extra content material, shifting the Guardian Video games up within the schedule and a content material replace known as Into The Gentle which is supposed to assist put together gamers for The Remaining 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 Remaining Form’s launch will appear like for the Future 2 panorama, particularly after it has already hit a franchise document low by way of participant depend.
At this level nevertheless, the danger of an much more unstable participant depend and dwindling engagement forward of The Remaining 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 danger will repay.
Supply – [Bungie]