And it's not like PvP is as neglected as Gambit. I guess that's better than players hanging onto threadbare wishes for years. Maybe it is good for people to finally know, without a shadow of a doubt, that Bungie does hear the requests for more PvP maps but isn't going to make more because that would require resources it apparently can't spare. If you go into it expecting anything else, you will get burned. It's an unabashedly unbalanced and vestigial mess that most people can only enjoy if they like getting messy. You know people sell whole jars of pickles, right? I was once a top-50 Clash player in Destiny 1 (according to Destiny Tracker anyway), but at this point I think of PvP in Destiny 2 the way I think of PvP in Diablo 4. Playing Destiny 2 for PvP is like buying a whole burger just to eat the pickles off it. I don't know how Destiny 2 still has the PvP player base that it does, because gunplay aside, any half-decent competitive shooter will serve you better. There's a logical argument for this decision, but I get enough harm reduction from US elections and don't find it any more encouraging here. I would like to like it again! But lacking loot, heavy weapons, obnoxious Invader design, and a dire lack of updates has left it in such disrepair that Bungie would rather condemn it like an abandoned house and tell everyone they don't need to worry about it anymore. I can honestly say I did like Gambit once upon a time. People have looked at Gambit mourners and asked where this sudden love for the mode came from when the data shows almost nobody was playing it.

You've got PvE in Strikes, PvP in Crucible, and PvPvE in Gambit. Gambit was once touted as a premier addition for Forsaken – one of the game's biggest and most-loved expansions – and the middle ground for the core playlists. Anyone who ever makes any kind of PvPvE game ought to study the bruised, battered, and burned corpse of Destiny 2's Gambit mode, which Bungie has now thrown into a woodchipper for good measure.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to have fun in Destiny 2 once you leave the bubble of the newest content, and that content rot is apparently only going to get worse. But I'd argue that 'it's as bad as you thought and it's not getting better' is not the message the game needed. I've seen some players point out that, after this State of the Game, at least we can put some age-old hopes to bed.

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