What the Hell is Going On With Forsaken?

Destiny 2 has a very weird DLC system. After X amount of time, a DLC will be ‘vaulted’ and removed from the game. It’s honestly a really shitty system, since DLCs are something we pay for. Normally, the stuff being taken away is “content no one likes and is no longer relevant”. But for the upcoming Witch Queen DLC?

Well…

It’s pretty fucking stupid.

The Forsaken DLC is being vaulted.

Admittedly, the Forsaken DLC is pretty damn old. Like, three years old. But the majority of Forsaken is still in a lot of use. While no one likes the Fanatic strike, a lot of people enjoy Prison of Elders, and there’s plenty of great content in Forsaken. We will also be losing some of the best music which came along Forsaken. From this great purge, only the Dreaming City and Prison of Elders will remain because.. uh, I don’t know.

The biggest thing we are losing though is the Forsaken quest line. A whole story about revenge and killing, surrounded by the death of one of the best characters in Destiny 2.

Removing Forsaken makes no sense

Now, I’m gonna be honest, I haven’t finished the Forsaken campaign. I wanted to focus on my season pass before I did anything else. But I didn’t expect that a whole planet-like area would disappear completely, again. This is the second time that Bungie are deleting content to make more room for new stuff. I’m against deleting old content in general, and Bungie is the only developer I’ve heard doing that. It is sad to have old content deleted.

But with Forsaken? We’re losing the campaign that actually explains who all these characters are, years later. On top of that, Forsaken is considered to be one of the best parts of Destiny 2!

“Who the fuck is Crow?”

I’ve only recently dropped back into Destiny 2, I did so a while back to play with friends. I vaguely understood the plot at the time, and even somehow managed to finish the Leviathan raid. But I then stopped for ages, and started playing properly in Season of the Lost. And it seems that this is probably not a great chance to jump in, because ALL of Season of the Lost’s story is tied to things that happened in Forsaken.

Both the Crow AND Mara Sov are the main characters here, alongside Savathun, an old baddie who has been lurking in the shadows and the disappearance of Osiris which is directly connected to that. Forsaken fleshes out who Crow is and why we are talking to him, and build on both the Tangled Shore and the Dreaming City. Without the Forsaken quest though, none of these characters make any sense at all. After all, without Forsaken, who the fuck is Crow and why do we care?

The Forsaken quest is a very large chunk of Destiny 2’s ongoing storyline. Yet it is going to be removed when Witch Queen comes out. Sure, you can always go watch youtube videos to fill the back story, but Forsaken is what catalyzed where we are now with Mara Sov and Savathun, and will no longer even EXIST when Witch Queen comes out.

Everyone else just seems to accept it!

This is what I really don’t understand. I discovered the vaulting stuff via a link to Reddit. A huge chunk of the comments were “well, could be worse” or “so glad that the Fanatic will be gone”. While I’m here, fretting about lore that’s soon to be nuked, a lot of people just… don’t care. We paid money for the Forsaken DLC and most of it is due to be vaulted away forever. Local Destiny sherpa Spectre wrote a really good article about things being vaulted, and now it’s happening again.

I don’t get it. Not even the technical issues make that much sense. They want to make sure the game doesn’t get too big. But in the mean time, plenty of other games get larger over time and none of them are deleting content. Wasn’t the whole point of having a Destiny 2 because of this problem?

It’s… sad, really. And its DLC system is still really expensive. But players seem oddly fine with it for some reason. In the mean time, I’m going to try and finish as much of Forsaken as I can, while also remembering how much I liked Escalation Protocol on the missing planet Mars…