There is also the point that D1 suffered greatly because 3/4 through its development it was scrapped and started over in the eleventh hour. [i]Some-blam!-inghow[/i] they managed to not learn from that and did it again with D2. Maybe Luke Smith didn't outright gut the game but the game is dumbed down because it was barely finished in time to launch, then again maybe he did....

[quote]I don't work at bungie but I am a software developer and I know the engineers and artists that worked on D2 absolutely care very much about the players and how their game is received. I think D2 is a classic case of how bean counters in upper management can destroy a game and a companies reputation. The developers don't care about eververse or micro transactions they simply want to make a great game that people love. The decision was made to dumb down destiny to appeal to as much of a mass market as possible and then direct them to slot machine cosmetics behind a pay wall. This decision was made at executive management level, no engineer proposed this nonsense, these were mandates. The results have been a disaster and now bungie is going to scramble to come up with a middle ground but the damage done to their reputation is staggering.[/quote] [spoiler][/spoiler]