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 by means of a marketing campaign that’s meant to wrap up almost a decade of storytelling that started with the primary recreation.
“We’ll maintain it quick and easy.” Bungie started in a weblog put up saying 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 can be remembered and treasured for years to return.”
This delay additionally now implies that the brand new season which is ready to start tomorrow, Season Of The Want, can be prolonged all the best way till The Ultimate Form releases in June, which means it’ll final almost 4 months previous its initially meant size.
Bungie will fill the time with extra content material, transferring 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 Ultimate Form.
Although it nonetheless stays to be seen if any of this can 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 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 chance of an much more unstable participant depend and dwindling engagement forward of The Ultimate Form’s launch is a danger 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]
