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Massive layoffs at bungie game mess mornings
Giant bomb podcast
Starts about 4-5 mins in, lasts about 25 mins, very good info, trusted gaming journalist who's spoken to people high up inside all parties.
TLDR:
Parsons not leaving but Herman hulst now has final say on every big decision, so Sony in charge.
'Payback' new destiny game/D3 cancelled indefinitely
D2 content going forward will be very light as far less people to work on it
No more expansions going forward, new name is content packs, much lighter content.
Marathon aimed at 2025 & all bungie are betting on
Gummy bears still a project, moba, but it's now a Sony game so PSN exclusive, working out of bungie studios but no longer bungie employees.
150 staff told to move to Sony studios with no clue were they're going it what they're doing.
Sony & Bungie see destiny as in a death spiral, no way back. If marathon flops bungie cease to be.
Edit: Jason Schrierer article tomorrow
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1 commentaire* D2 simply cannot reach Fortnite/Call of duty numbers but it still makes a crazy amount of money to not support it lol. Sony is not going to throw away 600+ million dollars a year away... Same gameplay less resources/money spent on expensive cutscenes. It was not worth the cost Story told with more lore/text/voice fashion. Basically how destiny used to be for long time fans. Sounds good to me
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Of course Marathon will flop. It’s a hero extraction shooter built by people who thought they could sell $30 DLCs for $100. They decided making new stuff was too much work so they re-release old gear over and over with slight changes to mods. They literally told their devs to dial it back and underdeliver. And of course D2 will die without any new DLCs or major content drops. They pulled the life support on Bungie and now it’s just liquidating the assets and writing it off on their taxes.
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Modifié par Gilgamesh : 8/2/2024 7:21:04 PMPayback was never D3 Name makes no sense As well it was a spinoff, if a spinoff was D3 the game would fail
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Modifié par Crayola of Death : 8/2/2024 1:22:26 AM"Content packs" is just not something you want to hear
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2 commentairesModifié par Yosemite Sam : 8/2/2024 5:49:55 PM[quote]Sony & Bungie see destiny as in a death spiral, no way back. If marathon flops bungie cease to be.[/quote] I hope it does flop because there are way too many greedy businesses that always want to take but don't want to give anything in return, and this world has way too much of that BS.
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2 commentairesThis game won't survive on content packs. Destiny 2 should have ended with the final shape.
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I really hope marathon falls flat and Bungie goes away. Terrible company. Terrible ceo. Mismanaged mess.
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How much lighter can content get? I can’t wait to see the first episode with even less to do in it.
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Not going to lie, I hope Marathon fails as hard as is possible. They've pissed the money I spent in prior years on Destiny screwing around with unrelated PvP nonsense and I do hope it lands on its face right out the gate.
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Everyone that said Sony would save Bungie are now the laughing stock of the internet, good job guys you just put the gun to its head and pulled the trigger… oh well it’s been an ok run
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4 commentairesLiterally zero surprises (other than the fact that they genuinely believe Marathon is ever going to get released) Kudos for their optimism, though
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2 commentairesBro bungie is cooked. Apparently even Luke smith got canned
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This company is toast!🤣🤣🤣 I will not buy Marathon or any other game this company will come up with after what they’ve done here. It’s a massacre!🤣🤣🤣 These guys don’t own their behinds anymore, Sony does. And yes, Sony will take over. This company is caput!!! 🤣🤣🤣 A complete disaster! 🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely nothing here but a shamble mess of shallowness!
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[quote]D2 content going forward will be very light as far less people to work on it[/quote] With their specialty of recycling content? It must be something if they make even less content than a season/episode
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14 commentairesPayback was never gonna be a D3 considering Frontiers is a leak that all of D1 is going into D2 and D2 was gonna receive a complete overhaul It makes NO sense to make a D3 since that would mean no more D2 and after the work id take to pull of frontiers that makes no sense. Id more then likely be a Destiny spin off game
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3 commentairesI will never play marathon because they completely changed it from the original idea. I honestly feel like quitting Destiny 2 now. definitely not grinding for anything anymore, maybe casual mindless play will be more fun anyway for the time being. sad but eventually things change.
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[quote]Sony & Bungie see destiny as in a death spiral, no way back.[/quote] It is ours now... All the no-lifes had to do was no-life until everyone else faded away.
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2 commentairesIf bungies banking on marathon to keep them from ceasing to be, then its going to be a sad farewell
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3 commentairesThem putting all the eggs into the Marathon basket just shows how lost they truly are
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3 commentaires[quote]Sony & Bungie see destiny as in a death spiral, no way back.[/quote] There's a way back but they refuse to acknowledge their part in the mistakes. They always blame the players, like with their server connection error codes. We all have no problems with other games, yet when we can't connect to destiny it's "our internet". If BNG can acknowledge their social experiment didn't work and focus on players and fun content, there's still a whole universe to explore.
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2 commentairesIf they aren't doing any expansions going forward, then this game is officially on life support. People will probably stick around for the rest of the year since they already bought in. But after that? I don't see many people sticking around much longer.
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Wow. Content packs, no d3, no more expansions. I wonder how this is all gonna go. But id say probably not good.
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Who’s that cave man talking about video games
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4 commentairesMarathon will flop of that I’m very sure
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6 commentairesThis is how I view it. [b][u]IF #1 (Destiny2)[/u][/b] If they just manage to upkeep the current non-seasonal stuff (ritual playlists..vendors..dares..etc).. make the seasonal events and Iron Banner top-level.. bring back a few old content things on a rotator and every once in a while a content drop.. and this is all able to [u]keep up a meaningful population[/u].. I see it as better even than the current state. [b][u]IF #2 (Marathon)[/u][/b] If they add "normal" PVP type game-modes it has a chance. Not interested in the extraction shooter portion.. but regular PVP with similar movement/gun-feel.. in the new game.. its got a chance.
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3 commentairesbtw, OP it says "error in playback"