BELLEVUE, Wash. — As Destiny 2 has gotten bigger and it’s story more sprawling, it became harder for new players to keep up, reporters on the scene confirmed. That’s about to change as Bungie announced they’ll be releasing a $300 Destiny textbook to help new players understand what’s going on.
“We understand that the onboarding experience for new players isn’t what it should be. If you’re just jumping into the game now, you’ll have missed countless seasons of storytelling as well as all the expansions we removed. It’s like trying to understand all of Star Wars by starting in the middle of Rise of Skywalker,” said Game Director Joe Blackburn.
“This textbook includes an in depth synopsis of the entire story since the beginning of Destiny as well as additional lore.” explained Blackburn. “By reading this textbook, new players will no longer be confused.”
The Destiny community is excited they no longer have to try explaining everything to the friends they’re attempting to coerce into playing.
“It’s really tough to get my friends into it. Before you’d be able to just play the story from the beginning but you can’t do that anymore since Bungie made the brave decision to remove the base campaign and previous expansions from the game. So this should definitely help.” said a player going by the name ‘GraciousKid5777’
“I hate having to try to explain all the lore and story beats to my friends who try to play. With this textbook they’ll finally be able to understand why they should spend the rest of their lives playing nothing but Destiny” said player ‘Corn Flakis Kell of Ogs’
While the price point may seem steep, Blackburn defended it.
“We were very careful when deciding the price and based on how we price everything in game and on player spending data, we determined that our fans would absolutely pay this much. You also have to consider the amount of work we put into it, the staff we have left crunched for days to watch My Name is Byf videos to copy transcripts into the book. It’s a fair price.”
We asked Forbes Destiny writer Paul Tassi for comment but he declined citing he was busy preparing several articles about the news.
As of press time Bungie is already planning an updated textbook to be released when this one is out of date at the end of the current season.
