Pre-production on this expansion, which was code-named Comet, had
started in late 2013. So it’ll just be online one piece, Comet, Destiny, Comet
every year.  They also hoped to add a totally new feature called
multiple fireteam activities, which a source described like this:
“Imagine like you and I are in a fireteam, and we’re fighting down this
one path that converges with two other paths and you get three fireteams
all fighting together against a boss, or against some sort of mobs.




Before anyone could be redeemed, Bungie had to ship The Taken King, which had been going through its own set of development issues. It’s basically just switching the game to an annual model. Two sources say the original plan was to release this major expansion at $60 and include a brand new planet, Europa, as well as a new area on Earth called the European Dead Zone (which itself had been pushed back from vanilla Destiny). None of that happened. They get [into the office] in the morning. “A lot of the problems that came up in Destiny 1, and that happened in development of The Taken King, are results of having an unwavering schedule and unwieldy tools,” said a source.
But because the tools are shit, and because no one can reach consensus on how to fix one piece op2 in the time that’s allotted, you get a lot of sort of paralysis. It takes eight hours to input their map overnight. Even that process may be rough for Bungie. The team ultimately decided to focus it around a single major map—the Hive ship that had been cut from vanilla Destiny—as well as a new public space on Mars, complete with strikes and a new raid.