So, Destiny 2 is going the way of the dodo—content updates will end in June, and a Destiny 3 likely isn't even in the cards for Bungie. As someone who has had one of my favourite MMOs shut down before my eyes (and later given an official license to operate on a private server, score) I nonetheless commiserate with you.

One thing players might be asking themselves in their grief is—could the game have been saved? Are there any alternate universes in which Destiny might continue on forever. Perhaps into… infinity? This is a really cheesy segue, but the answer is yes, reportedly.

Per Paul Tassi of Forbes, unnamed sources at Bungie claim a soft reboot of D2 was considered in the aftermath of the disastrous expansion Edge of Fate: "One idea was scrapping the two-expansion model and going back to one big expansion again and renaming the game 'Destiny Infinity.' The goal there was a kind of relaunch as opposed to doing a true Destiny 3 to kickstart momentum."

The twice-yearly expansion schedule wound up being a bit contentious, because—well, it led to the aforementioned Edge of Fate, a sour-note follow up to The Final Shape, which PCG's own Destiny 2 expert (and editor-in-chief) Phil Savage called "one of the best expansions in the series' history" in his The Final Shape review.

In other words, changing to a twice-yearly expansion cycle after releasing some of your best work probably wasn't, er, the best choice.

At the very least, Marathon's just-decent performance—we're speaking in industry terms, here, it still did make quite a bit of money—can't be blamed for Destiny 2's death. Well, not entirely. Quoting one of Tassi's sources: "if the game made a billion dollars, would Destiny 2 have a chance to continue? Sure, maybe," but the report states that "no one was sitting there on launch day deciding if its performance would kill Destiny 2 or not."

I cannot say whether a return to form for Destiny 2—or a soft relaunch rebranding the entire thing—would've landed. But call it 20-20 hindsight, I do think anything would've been better for Destiny 2's playerbase than what we got. I shall pour one out for you in MMO solidarity, my friends.

It's been a big couple of days for Witcher fans as an expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was confirmed (after it was accidentally leaked on the RED Launcher, whoopsie). But thanks to a Q&A portion at the end of the financial call we also now know a bit more about CD Projekt Red's aspirational release timeline.

After CDPR joint CEO Michał Nowakowski answered some questions about the upcoming Songs of the Past, and stressed how it is an expansion, not a DLC, he went on to discuss other potential expansions for the series (via GamesRadar). But don't get your hopes up, because with CDPR's current timeline there likely won't be any space.

Someone asked Nowakowski, "Given the very ambitious project pipeline, does the company see room for developing expansions for the new Witcher saga?" To which he answered: "As you mentioned in the question, the plans are pretty ambitious. Specifically, it's to release three Witcher games within a six-year period. It would be difficult, to be very honest, for us to add an expansion to the upcoming trilogy. This is where we are here and now with this particular issue."

Yeah that's fair. If the schedule does go to plan that would mean fans of The Witcher would be getting a new game every couple of years, which is a pretty decent timeline. There's also nothing to say that CDPR won't go back to The Witcher 4 or subsequent games after the trilogy is complete and add expansions after the fact.

But at the same time it's probably a good idea to not get our hopes too high, as I'm rather doubtful that CDPR will actually be able to keep up with this schedule. Not because of any lack of faith, I'm just a natural pessimist and have seen a great deal of game delays in my medium to short life so far.