{"id":379247,"date":"2025-08-28T02:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379247\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:59:13","slug":"bungie-says-its-working-through-player-feedback-and-will-revert-destiny-2s-tone-deaf-portal-reward-changes-following-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379247\/","title":{"rendered":"Bungie Says It\u2019s “Working Through Player Feedback” And Will Revert Destiny 2’s “Tone Deaf” Portal Reward Changes Following Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a wave of backlash, Bungie says it\u2019s \u201cworking through player feedback\u201d and will revert the most-criticized Destiny 2<\/a> Portal reward changes planned for the Ash & Iron Major update.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, Bungie shared a preview<\/a> of a big Portal<\/a> tuning pass arriving with Update 9.1.0 alongside Ash & Iron<\/a> on September 9.<\/strong> The plan included lowering the Power earned per grade in Solo Ops by 1<\/strong> compared to other categories and reducing rewards in several exotic missions: Encore<\/a><\/strong> (end-activity engrams down to two; mid-activity chests down to two), Starcrossed<\/strong> (end to one; mid to one), and The Whisper<\/strong>. (mid-activity chest removed)<\/p>\n

Fans didn\u2019t take that lightly. Across Reddit and X, players argued the Portal already felt too stingy and that nerfing the few satisfying grinds would push people away. \u201cSo, I have no reason to run Encore, Starcrossed, or Whisper anymore,\u201d one user said<\/a>, expressing frustration. \u201cGotcha. Thanks for essentially removing another 3 activities from the game, in an already very small playlist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheImage: Bungie<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m starting to convince myself that Bungie doesn\u2019t actually play this game,\u201d another user replied<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s actually impressive how (outside being able to access past Season Passes) tone-deaf this is,\u201d one said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Between the official TWID thread<\/a> on r\/DestinyTheGame subreddit and a feedback post<\/a> on X (Twitter) from Bungie\u2019s principal communications manager, Dylan Gafner, the discussion drew nearly 4,000 comments, most pushing back on last week\u2019s announcements. <\/p>\n

After that wave of criticism, Bungie has responded, and there\u2019s good news: key Portal reward changes are being reverted.<\/p>\n

\"EverythingImage: Bungie<\/p>\n

Destiny 2 Portal Rewards Reverted: What Bungie Said and What\u2019s Next<\/p>\n

Bungie<\/a> has now walked back<\/strong> those two changes. In a post<\/a> from the Destiny 2 Team account shared on X (Twitter) today, the studio said it has been \u201cworking through player feedback\u201d and is reverting the Solo Ops Power-per-grade reduction and the Engram reductions for Encore, Starcrossed, and Whisper that were planned for Update 9.1.0. <\/strong>More details about how Bungie plans to improve the Portal rewards will be revealed in this week\u2019s TWID. (tomorrow)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been working through player feedback from the previous TWID and reassessing our announced rewards updates for the Portal,\u201d the post reads. \u201cWe will be reverting the following changes which were planned for Destiny 2 Update 9.1.0.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlanned reductions to Power earned for a given grade within Solo Ops have been reverted. Planned reductions of Engrams earned in Encore, Starcrossed, and Whisper have been reverted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"EverythingImage: Bungie<\/p>\n

As for the Ash & Iron<\/strong> free major update, it will arrive on Tuesday, September 9, 2025<\/strong>, bringing back the Plaguelands<\/strong> location from Rise of Iron, plus a new three-player activity, Reclaim<\/strong>, introduced via a \u201cNew Territory\u201d highlighter quest. Here\u2019s everything coming with this update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What do you think about this? Are you happy with the rollback? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a wave of backlash, Bungie says it\u2019s \u201cworking through player feedback\u201d and will revert the most-criticized Destiny…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-379247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115104157846129569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}