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The past couple of seasons, character development and updates on dangling plot threads have been happening in the Eververse, of all places. Like, I actually log in on Tuesday to check the store for story developments. (Ha!)
During The Dawning, a ship gave us an update on what Uldren's new life as a Guardian is like. Last week, we learned that Hawthorne confronted Zavala about competing in the Guardian Games from a ship. This week an overgrown sparrow another ship tells us at she's joined team Titan and clearing Lost Sectors... with a sniper rifle? Maybe she just wanted to spend time with her crush.
Anyway, these stories exist in the store for a three-week event, or maybe even a season, and then disappear. One can't even view them in Collections. Unless one purchases them, that is. It's so ephemeral and cynical to tie them to microtransactions.
I know cutscenes, voice actors, and translations are expensive, but story and characters are why some of us got into this universe in the first place. And Bungie does seem to be slowly working more cutscenes into the seasons, with Dawn being a standout, and I guess those will start to stick around next year. It's just strange checking the storefront, of all places, for an exposition dump each week.
Towerthought — Zavala's helping the Titans and presumably Ikora is helping the Warlocks. No wonder the Hunters are in last place.
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