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9/29/2014 4:01:00 PM
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Is Activision holding Destiny back from greatness?

Reading the forums I see one of the biggest complaints of Destiny is the blatant lack of content at launch. From story to strike missions it’s not what we expected from a company which brought a franchise such as Halo. Bungie has always delivered on what we the customer would expect from purchasing a AAA title, until Destiny. The Halo franchise published under Microsoft, Bungie released games with a solid single player campaign, polished/balance multiplayer and then the later introduction of Fire Fight. Those games gave us the consumer loads of content at launch with DLC only being released at a later date to enhance the players experience and extended the life of the title. What we have here with Destiny is the polar opposite of what Bungie has delivered previously. Sure Destiny is fantastic to play, looks great and the soundtrack is excellent (You know, pretty much what we would expect from a Bungie title), but its lacking content. So what did actually happen with the content, the life blood of the game itself? Did Bungie build this incredible world and totally forget to include some meat? Doubtful. Now, could have Activision the publisher want the game carved up, story/missions removed to push DLC sales? Absolutely. Sitting around in my dark room at night with my tinfoil hat on I can’t help believe that’s the case looking at both companies history. Activision is known for this kind of business practice and as gamers we shouldn’t stand for it. I mean Activision went as far as to included a flyer packaged with each game advertising the DLC, showing us what were missing out on. With the recent leak fueling speculation that content was purposely locked behind a paywall, would Bungie have been better off staying with Microsoft? I know people dislike Microsoft and have plenty of valid reasons to do so, but do you feel they would have handled Destiny better then Activision has? I for one do and feel we should stop pointing fingers at Bungie. tl;dr – -blam!- Activision, they’re the goddamn devil. Activision is ruining gaming by selling additional content that should have been included in the launch game itself and not sold as DLC.

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  • Nice. Except Bungie didn't. So much content was cut from Halo 2, it's not even funny. Story and content wise. And this was due to Microsoft as their publisher pushing them for a quick release. Halo 3 received due praise for finishing a spectacular ongoing story, from so many years back, but it wasn't without its faults as well. And these forums were a garbed mass of jumbled screams when Reach came out, don't get me started on that. All that said, I thoroughly enjoyed all of them, the LAN's, the Xbox Live experience, the elements in Reach that everyone despised, including Sprint. Destiny met my expectations, it wow'ed me with its graphics but left me wanting for more story, that's about it. Like many others I'm waiting to see where this goes, and hoping for the best, because Bungie as a developer is known to take care of its community. As for Activision, they might be the Devil for all I know, but decisions such as story and content come from developers, not board members from a company. They want their quarterly results, and the more zero's the better.

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