If there's one lesson EA taught me with The Sims 4 it's that with enough will power, a company will happily drop you to get a new audience.
I'm one of the simmers that played from TS1, to TS2, to TS3 from the launch of each entry. Multiple expansion packs and stuff packs, especially for TS2 and 3. TS4 came out and it was remarkably underwhelming, especially coming from TS3. Many of us that has been with The Sims from the start got tired and left the series. Look at where The Sims 4 is now, it did the exact opposite of die. Many OG simmers remained but they got a lot of new simmers to keep the game going and growing.
Now, I see a few Destiny 2 players being big mad at Marathon, and I get it. Some even want Marathon to fail, I get that too. Marathon already has a small but dedicated player base, which Sony has recognised. Between Bungie and Sony, they are more than happy to leave unhappy Destiny 2 players in the dust while they find a new audience. They do not care about us, Bungie is not our friend, nor is Sony, and neither is EA. It's entirely possible that Marathon will succeed and thrive as time goes on. They are being nimble enough to realise that if they want new players they have to add new game modes which they are already doing with the upcoming Season 2. I think more than a few people are seeing that Marathon has to be more than an extraction shooter if it wants to draw in more players, and I think Bungie and Sony know this as well.
Where there Bungie, Sony, Destiny 2, and Marathon situation differs from EA and The Sims franchise is that: even though The Sims 4 was a huge let down to many of the long-standing fans, EA somehow managed to not torch all of their goodwill. They eventually added some of the things that inexplicably weren't in the base game at launch and continued to try to make improvement. Even though it was a radically different game, there were attempts from Maxis (or what was left of Maxis) to have some of the original Sims magic in there. The sales figures are also a huge point of difference but I'm mainly talking about player sentiment in this piece.
With the end of Destiny 2 and the push for Marathon, Bungie/Sony has managed to completely piss off and alienate the bulk of Bungie's player base. There is a universe where Destiny 2 came to an end, without the promise of a Destiny 3, and the Destiny 2 players would still be grateful for the time spent in the universe while wishing Bungie well with Marathon even if D2 players were never going to play it. There is a universe where Bungie/Sony managed not to torch their goodwill so thoroughly.
It's not the end of the world however, and I think with proper comms they can get the angry portion of D2 players to back down and even support Marathon. But as things are right now, they shit the bed royally. It really is a masterclass is torching the goodwill of your player base. Just crazy.
Anyway, my main point is; it's likely that Marathon will succeed and thrive and that we will never see anything Destiny related from Bungie again. I understand agitating for a D3 but, personally, I am not holding my breath or expecting it to ever materialise. As far as I know, it truly is the end of Destiny from Bungie but, never say never I guess.
But truly, anytime I notice that the systems in a game seem to be going in a way that I don't like or doesn't jive with me anymore, I always remember the transition from The Sims 3 to The Sims 4. EA didn't need me for TS4 to thrive, regardless of how much I had spent on expansion packs, stuff packs, and on the The Sims Store (remember, you could use coins or something to buy items and worlds, and all that stuff then download them in The Sims 3 launcher?). They had farmed enough from me and were moving on to plant and harvest new players. That's 100% what's up with Marathon and Destiny.
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