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1/8/2018 11:35:02 PM
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The Downfall of Bungie | How Activision destroyed their Destiny

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1T__yrloCY[/url]

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  • So not to be "that guy" I am going to admit I am not going to watch the video and mainly that is off the title of the thread. What I will say is, you (collective you, including the Youtuber) should read Blood Sweat and Pixels or at least the chapter on the making of Destiny. If one can fault Activision for anything its for being way more hands off than Microsoft was and the "rebel kids" as Bungie called themselves ran free. Further, recent information (though I could swear this was information that Bungie admitted to in quotes around the TTK/April Update) is that Eververse was not added at the behest of Activision. Instead, Bungie was the ones to make the decision. Bungie had contractual obligations to Activision on content releases and felt they couldnt meet those demands (essentially the release cadence was to be Destiny 1, small dlc, small DLC, Comet (TTK), small DLC, small DLC, Destiny 2). Tooling, effort, whatever the reasoning, Bungie basically said it would be too difficult to create new expansion level content (so new TDB or HoWs level) and instead pushed to have microtransactions and mini events instead. Activision said ok as really all Activision cared was that they would make the expected revenue off of the game regardless of Eververse or a DLC release. So the TL;DR - 1) Read Blood Sweat and Pixels, specifically Chapter 8 on Destiny as it gives the background of the "declaration of independence" from Microsoft and where things went off the rails from there and especially with Destiny 2) Read the recent information that came from Jason Schrier (author of Blood Sweat and Pixels) which recounts essentially the same thing happening with D2 (reboot a year out, game was delayed to Fall 2017, etc) and also touches on how it was Bungie, not Activision, who devised and implemented Evervese.

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