Bungie's at a crossroads: Should Destiny 3 be a live service, just a campaign, or something else entirely?

Now that Destiny 2's massive final update is here, it's more or less set in stone forever. Destiny is calcified—no more FOMO, no need to re-grind gear, and the end of a seasonal treadmill.

That should make me sad, and it does, more so because it's over rather than that it's easing off the gas. I've always loved playing it, so seasonal updates were a good excuse to keep looting and shooting. But there's no avoiding that, at times, playing Destiny was a chore of Bungie's own design.

With the threat of a Power cap increase or power-creep removed, you're now free to do whatever you want, whenever you want. You don't need to race through quests to be 'raid ready', or complete seasonal tasks and grind specific god rolls before they vanish into oblivion. ...