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A chore posting for an Incubation Sandbox Designer may have revealed that Bungie has plans to once once again have a shot at the competitive shooter market and meet if the company tin can leverage some space in the esports scene. In a section of the task posting called "Nice to have skills," the company states they are hoping to hire someone with "familiarity with the competitive gaming landscape/esports". The news was first reported by the DestinyNews+ Twitter account.

The posting likewise states that applicants should have experience working on "character-focused activeness games," hinting at a potential hero shooter along the lines of Blizzard's Overwatch or Hullo-Rez's Paladins. Since parting ways with publisher Activision, Bungie has been on a pretty ambitious path of expansion, potentially fueled by aggressive micro-transactions and pricing of new content for their spuriously claimed "gratuitous-to-play" tent-pole title Destiny 2.

Destiny 2 players volition almost certainly be shocked to learn that the visitor has plans to develop a competitive multiplayer shooter as that game's summit-tier PvP activity, and indeed PvP in the Destiny universe in general, has been allowed to languish about to the indicate of obsolescence at this point.

The head-to-head multiplayer portion of the game, which had already been built on a rickety foundation of peer-to-peer connections, has suffered from extreme balance problems since it launched as Bungie has struggled to marry the PvP and PvE sandboxes together in a coherent fashion. Hither is hoping that the causeless smaller scope of a hero shooter solves quite a few of those bug for them, as they would not need attempt and balance hundreds of unlike weapons, which is certainly a challenging job.