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1/29/2013 10:49:15 PM
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Do you think 10 years from now Bungie will be a self publisher?
With all the revenue that Bungie's new IP will garner, do you think that once Bungie's contract with Activision is up that they will publish all future titles under the Bungie/Aerospace banner?
It's tough to see what the gaming landscape will be like in a decade, but I hope that Bungie has the fore thought to break the publisher developer cycle. After all what is a publisher but a source of funding and advertising. Somthing I believe that if Bungie plays their cards right could accomplish.
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I think you said it yourself really. We don't know what the gaming landscape will look like in 10 years time, we might find that digital distribution becomes the way games are consumed by the majority and that physical copies become more of a memento or collectors items. In that case it might be cheaper to publish games and therefore be easier for Bungie to achieve. Plus their aim is to take over the world so that does seem like a good place to start! However I do think that Bungie's main focus seems to be on making the best games possible so I'm not sure they'd invest in publishing if it was at the detriment to the time/ money they could invest in their games. So I think maybe not the next 10, but perhaps the next 15/20 years.
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Bungie likes to be independent... so maybe.
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I dunno, it takes a crap ton of money to publish your own stuff, and I'm not sure that Bungie is exactly interested in doing that. It seems like the sort of thing they would do if they couldn't get the freedom they wanted from other publishers, and doing so would require hiring a ton of new people...
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1 ReplyHonestly, yeah. That Polygon article sealed that idea in my mind even more, given the high-class facilities that Bungie has now. Seems overkill for a dev (but what do I know). Plus they seem to be (or seemed to have been) trying to get their publisher feet wet with the Aerospace project. Exciting times for us as fans, and even more so there in Bellevue I'm sure.
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1 ReplyMaybe that's step 7?
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1 ReplyI'm not 100% that their new IP is going to generate that much revenue. This "going dark" nonsense was a poor business move.
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1 ReplyUnless they undergo a Bethesda/ZeniMax style growth of business operations or the gaming landscape changes so drastically they move to PC only or consoles move to digital distribution only, it will be very difficult. Someone has to print the discs, make the commercials, set up all of the shipments in the current climate. There's no question they develop at the same tier of other self-publishing independent developers like Valve (and technically BGS).
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I really hope so, so they won't have to be chained to publishers like Microsoft and Activision.
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If Destiny is as good as or better than Halo, then yes.
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Edited by Malckeor: 1/29/2013 10:57:51 PMI sure hope so. Indie devs for the past few years have shown us how much MORE you can accomplish when you don't have a greedy publisher breathing down your neck. Games like Amnesia, Bastion, Hawken, Forge...the line between AAA titles and Indie titles is now completely blurred. Hell, I'd go so far to say that Indies are even better than AAA games at this point. I've always had a feeling that Indies were the future of gaming. That future has arrived, in my eyes. AAA devs can't even get the horror genre right, and now they're starting to contradict their own stories (I'm looking at you, Bungie and Bioware), thanks to publishers' greed evaporating any passion within the devs.
