Let's explain what the figure could be... "Stole" wouldn't be correct either. If you buy points and vestments back at value, that makes your points worth more. How much more? Hard to extrapolate unless I knew exactly how much he bought back, and the total value gained. Let's say 1/3rd of what was earmarked. So... 300 million, and he got it for 33.3% of its value. That means +600 million. Meaning he brought back 900 for 300. I wouldn't be surprised if he bought everyones' vestments back... save a few. And the reason I think that, is because he fired Marty rather than paying him. For context I consider O'Donnel as one of the founders... the logo came from him, he owned the trademark... his media company, before Bungie ever existed. I don't think that's unreasonable. He wouldn't just get that share, but his points would be worth more... 10 million at least. If he has 50 million in points, a 20% increase isn't unreasonable. "Stole" still isn't accurate. And here we're also faced with the reality, that this does benefit Sony. And it also might answer, why they let that happen... but these types of tactics have consequences. We're seeing the risk of ruin in real-time. Sony needs to step in before they lose big. My thoughts. 😇👍💠 Spoilers: They are. Edit: It might seem easy to blame Sony, but we must understand Bungie executives wanted to be independent. Sony has no ethical responsibility to step in prior... especially if it benefits them. Life isn't fair... and business is ruthless. Here's an analogy. I'm a hot dog vendor and entrepreneur that owns a farmers' market. Another food vendor renting a stall... is mismanaging their business... might get shut down. I own the stall, but they're independent. What's my course of action? It depends. I first need to ask.... how insulated is their failure? Is it affecting the farmers' market negatively as a whole? No? Or is that impact nominal? Furthermore, I have a waiting list for new vendors wanting to rent that stall... and the first ten aren't food vendors. Or I can take over that stall. If it benefits me, I let them fail. That's what I think Sony did with PP & Bungie. 2nd edit: What I hope Sony realizes is that the creative devs... that vision and talent, made this company. Made Bungie go from under 400 million to 3.4 bln in 7-8 years after leaving MS. Andy Wilson got rid of everyone at Bioware. And look at the game they just launched... playing to social trends and the short game financials. The inauthenticity of signaling virtue for a bottom line. It failed. I'm not saying Andy didn't make money... But I think the profit potential of Bioware was not realized in acquisition... People used to see Bioware like CDPR and Larian. Look how much money that can be worth? For Bungie... for Sony... That's my plea to Sony. Destiny is the WoW of FPS... invest. This ip and the creators who made it have unbelievable profit potential still unrealized.

afaik Edge of Fate has roughly 250k pre-orders based on emblems. iirc this is less than TFS and Lightfall, though depends on how many of those 250k pre-orders refunded so it might be less players that still have the expansion pre-ordered. Still a lot of people pre-ordering but still on a downward trend. Considering how much money it takes to run Bungie I expect layoffs at least for the Marathon team, especially with Marathon seeming to be a complete flop.

I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt & assume you're trolling lol

[quote]It's a free download that has dropped 19 places on the list. That's harsh reality. With Marathon basically cancelled at this point, Bungie has very little left on the horizon to generate net income. Buy plenty of silver Mr Wrench.[/quote] Basically canceled but not canceled in any way. Just because you want it to be canceled doesn't make it true. Also, bungie seems to be generating more income than what you or anyone else on these forums are making. Let's not forget how many people on these forums buy dlcs for the game to then come here and complain and either quit or never touch the very content they paid for. Bungie seems to be doing great with their free money generators. Their out here making content either so good or bad or even just middle of the ground that people will actively pay just to never even play it.

Edited the post for ya 😘

I'm starting to get offended on behalf of R.E.P.O. lol

Crazy lol

I'll take that as a no lol

Exactly for a game that covered over 500 million in losses after the failures of Concord & Lego: Horizon. Surely you are not so naive to think shareholders would let such a valuable asset to be discarded?