‘Please continue to yell at me directly’: Destiny 2 comms manager apologizes for delay in promised roadmap

Destiny 2‘s promised roadmap has been nowhere to be seen for nearly two months now, much to the dismay of fans of the suffering shooter. Principal communications manager Dylan “dmg_04” Gafner apologized for the delay today, taking the blame for a promise that wasn’t feasible in the given timeline.

“Cannot apologize enough for the delay here,” he said about the roadmap today. “[…]I am happy to take 100% of the blame here in promising comms early that we could not execute on in the projected timeline.”

Community calls for a roadmap have permeated discussions around the future of Destiny 2 for the past months. The game has been on a steep decline after the release of the controversial The Edge of Fate expansion on July 15. The mid-cycle update—Sept. 9’s Ash & Iron—was meant to be a point of relief and change, though the lackluster launch didn’t have the intended effect on player counts or sentiment. Knowing what lies ahead could be one way to placate disappointed players.

Gafner mentioned a roadmap was coming “soon” on the day of Ash & Iron’s release, but two months later, the promised map hasn’t come to fruition yet. “Please continue to yell at me directly, and I say this without any sarcasm,” he wrote today, directing feedback to himself and saying the developers are “focused on our immediate and long term future.”

Gafner is undoubtedly in an unenviable position leading comms for the game. Unsurprisingly, however, communication managers usually deal with communicating instead of cranking out code, making balancing passes, or designing the game’s high-level principles and systems, so they can’t publish a roadmap that isn’t ready for public eyes.

That said, the fact that it’s taking so long to reveal what’s in stock for the game may be cause for concern, and Bungie already has enough of those. Player trust hasn’t recovered since Edge of Fate, and the game routinely hits its lowest recorded Steam player counts, according to data from Steamcharts.

Fans have long been calling for any display of what the future of the game looks like after the current expansion. With just four weeks to go until Renegades lands on Dec. 2, not having a roadmap by now doesn’t help inspire faith in Destiny 2 at a point when the game needs it the most, and it may foster the community’s perception that there isn’t a set vision for one.