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Edited by Mad_Midnighter: 2/8/2016 9:47:09 PM
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THE CRACKPOT THEORY: WHY ACTIVISION AND BUNGIE ARE SO FOCUSED ON PVP.

So take this with a grain of salt because it is a crackpot theory but i think it holds some weight: Activision holds the sole publishing rights to everything destiny related. Activision also recently aquired MLG one of the biggest esports organizers and the oldest. They have aceess to all MLG events and streams. My theory is that activision is pushing bungie to get destiny pvp realdy for the esports scene. which is why there are so many channges coming to destiny's pvp. The matchmaking is being made tougher because they want better players to start rising to the top. The changes to game modes and special ammo are tweaks to try and make matches more competitive because they would be more entertaining to watch as an esports event. This is my theory as to why bungie decided to hide and lie about the matchmaking changes until it couldnt be covere up anymore. This is my theory as to why bungie is continuing to focus of problems in pvp that most people were not really being vocal about and ignoring the ones in pve that people are being vocal about. Activision is trying to get its investments aligned here. Again this is just a crackpot theory and i definitely have my tinfoil hat on but i think there may be some nuggets of truth to this. Anyway let me know what you guys think.
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  • Edited by FRAKTICA: 2/8/2016 10:34:50 PM
    New PVE content simply takes longer (more man-hours) to create. Destiny's only sources of revenue for year two so far have been PVP-based "special events" that raise real money through silver sales and that could be quickly thrown together with little relative effort to keep their cash flowing. As long as people continue to spend real money on these things, there will be no actual real content added to Destiny. For all of the Bungie worshipers that blame Activision for the current state of affairs, it was Bungie that failed to honor its contractual obligations with respect to new Destiny content; they bit off more than they could chew and could not produce content in the manner that their contract required; yes, Bungie could not do what it signed-up to do for whatever reasons. [i]Bungie[/i] suggested to Activision that Special Events and Silver sales would provide similar profits with a lot less work and Activision allowed Bungie to try this scheme. The question now is, have they become too complacent and/or lazy to even try to continue the Destiny vision that the original contract laid-out for us all? Or in other words, if profits meet forecasts based on micro-transactions with a lot less work than would be required for a true game expansion, will they ever do a true game expansion?

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