After an entire season of preparing to destroy The Almighty, it finally happened𓃲 at reset today. Well, about 90 minutes after reset, actually.
Destiny 2's first-ever live-event was announced yesterday morning with a simple tweet: Tomorrow at 10AM PT we take aim at the Almighty. Destiny 2 players met at the tower promptly at 10 AM (or even earlier to avoid the dreaded Beaver disconnect error) and looked up to the sky where the Cabal mothership waited to be annihilated by Rasputin's weapons. After 10 minutes, it started to seem like something had gone wrong. After 30 minutes, many started to wonder if anything was going to happen. Forbe's Destiny expert an♔d sometimes Bungie-insider assured players on Twitter that the delay was an intentional grace period to make sure every♈one had time to get it.
Finally, after 35 minutes𓂃 the event began. 37 streaks of red started moving across the sky towards the ship very, very slowly. Almost imperceptibly slow.
20 minutes or so passed and another barrage of missiles, this time 23, star🧸ted moving towards The Almighty from the op๊posite direction.
10 minutes after that, tin𒐪y sparkles started appearing all around the ship; the first indication of expl🐎osions.
Finally, the core of the ship was destroyed.
A few more minutes, and after a brilliant flash of white light, the destroyed husk of the Almigꦓhty came crashing down to Earth.
It truly was something incredible to see, but a quick survey of Twitter and Reddit indicates that many players are feeling fairly dissatisfied after so much build-up. The 30 seconds during which the ship's flaming carcass came careening towards us was absolutely the kind of "you had to be there" moment Destiny wanted, it just isn't clear why they thought waiting the length of a༒n entire movie for it to happen was necess💎ary.
It's a matter of setting appropriate expectations, partly. If Bungie wants to continue doing these types of in-game live events, which I sincerely hope t🎶hey do, they can avoid a lot of player disappointment by telling players how long events will last.
If you tuned in the last 10 minutes of today's event, you didn't miss anything. Bungie hasn't been respecting player's time lately, and this event is no exception. After an entire season of grinding Seraph Towers, maybe anꦦ event where nothing happens for 90 minutes is the most appropriate ending.