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9/30/2014 7:42:02 AM
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A Very Reasonable Request, Bungie
Dear Bungie,
Today and yesterday were pretty wacky. A whole lot of rumours got started, some of them very convincing. They claimed that Destiny had been mutilated by the evil capitalist empire of Activision, and we were being fed the ground up remains. People compiled little bits of evidence from everything you showed us, that made no sense at the time, but now shed Light onto the mystery that is Destiny's intended form. I do not mean to assume who is lying, the gossipers or you guys, but you, Bungie, are the only people who really know the truth.
Architect404 claims to have been very close to the development of Destiny. They answered many questions, and spoke of a collapse roughly 7 months prior to development. Where Destiny was pressed into a new mold after being half baked. The combination of your lead writer leaving, and the Grimoire author joining at almost exactly that moment seems very suspicious. Most of what this Architect said was rational, akin to how a developer speaks to the public, and fit into all the shady bits of knowledge we had.
However, only a few hours afterward, DeeJ was to claim that we were being "trolled." The reason for this is likely to protect the public image of Bungie, and how polished Destiny is. Though this comes as more of an upset to me. The claim that Destiny was never immersive and beautiful, that the launch format is in fact what you had envisioned from the beginning, scares me. I would rather believe that Destiny was butchered by some terrible internal conflict than that it was simply never going to be impressive.
Like I said, I don't want to take a side in such a shady argument. But I am pleading to you now, don't hide the truth from us. Whether you are or aren't, I wish to remind you. We are your community, and we want to help make your game as amazing as it can be. No matter what happened mid development, we are still playing your game and many of us still support you wholly. We just really want to know what happened to those rendered cutscenes, narrations, alleged storyline, missions, characters and locations, more importantly why those things happened. Please tell us.
Is this really what Destiny was meant to launch as?
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16 RepliesLook. First of all, discs are pressed MONTHS in advance of a release. During that time content is kept, cut, scrapped, expanded upon...Etc etc etc. None of the extra content on that disc is owed to any of you. Period. Done. End. If it were, you'd set a precedent that would actually bankrupt this entire industry because every single game in the history of the industry, INCLUDING CARTRIDGES, had extra-unused content on the medium. So, move on already. It's not your content to have for free or DLC, it's simply there. - Stop raging over stupid crap. Secondly - I've been in this industry for a decade. - Been an Alpha/Beta tester since day 1...In fact, my first assignment was to test a game... That being said, much of what 404 has said, makes sense. Especially with head creative, leaving. The bottom line is that, there is no proof and they'll never be "proof" per what you people "expect" because he's still an employee. Activision has sued the crap out of employees in the past, those employees had NDAs and NC's...Very very restrictive NDA's post lawsuits so, they never made the public rumor mill but, rest assured, Activision has no qualm about coming down on a Bungie employee like a Fist of Havoc if they feel the need to...So, that employee is not going to provide the proof necessary to sate the overbearing entitlement found on these forums. Bottom line is that we're all upset in some form @ the short story but, whether or not you believe 404 is irrelevant because this is how the game launched. The extra content on the disc is not yours to have, it simply exists and again, this is how they launched the game so, it is what it is. TLDR: Stop whining. We have real problems. The extra content on the disc is NOT yours to have for free or otherwise.
