When the Destiny Content Vault (DCV) was introduced, it was a way for Bungie to keep the size and scope of Destiny 2 more manageable as additional destinations and campaigns were added. It also allows the team to put away content for some time, bringing it back later both for nostalgia purposes and to support new content. The first major content to be vaulted was the Red War campaign, Destiny 2’s base storyline, as well as multiple destinations from Destiny 2’s first year, including Io, Titan, Mars, Mercury, and the Leviathan.
Given that the story and world state had moved well beyond Ghaul’s invasion of the Last City (and the fact that only a very small fraction of players even engaged with this content anymore), Bungie determined it was time to move on. And sometime in the future, they’ll be doing the same thing with Destiny 2’s first major expansion, Forsaken. “Forsaken content will be vaulted at some point,” said Justin Truman, General Manager of Destiny 2 in an interview with Eurogamer. “I think in the same way we don’t want eight raids, it’s the same thing with storylines – we don’t want when a new player enters into Destiny, there’s five different competing storylines that they could start playing and in some of them, Uldren’s a good guy, and in some of them he’s a bad guy, and it’s not clear if you’re playing them out of order.”
Truman goes on to explain that...