Destiny 2 - Place your bets on how many $40 DLC packs we'll get this time.

[namelesstacotruck]

Jason Jones

Media wont go after him. He was seen hanging out with antifa during blm riots and is suspected to be one of their local sponsors.

He is protected.

 

[Steven Chapman]

Why would it move anything?

200k people each spending 100 bucks a year is 20 million dollars. 400 devs with a average cost of 200k a year is 80 million dollars.

This is simple math. They are continuing Marathon because they sold battle passes and other live service bullshit and it gets potentially legally troublesome if they immediately yank it away.

Make no mistake the new jeet leader is a hospice care manager there to extract what value can be had for the dying patient. But it will die.

Destiny is fully capable of making fuck tons of money, though. Renegades sold like hotcakes during the last update, it was a top seller for a week straight. I understand it’s math, and don’t get me wrong, I’m not an emotional bleeding heart fag; I know they need to cut fat from Bungie. But why not invest into the company a little more? Cut salary’s, cut the DEI hires, move the studio to somewhere like Austin or Nevada where it would be cheaper to maintain the building and work force, like do anything but kill the goddamn game man. Which, is optimistic of me to even think. Sony has been gutting studios, same as Microsoft, for a few years now. EA was the trailblazer in this. It’s been estimated that in the past 12 years, the Destiny franchise has made 2-3 billion dollars. To flush that down the drain instead of trying to figure it out makes no sense to me.

 

[namelesstacotruck]

Renegades sold like hotcakes during the last update, it was a top seller for a week straight

All the evidence was that it was not great. Its highest peak players was 70k on Steam. Lightfall was 300k. Lower than it is right now. We know 200k spending 100 isnt enough. Yes the Playstation players blah blah. We have no idea if that trend line stayed true post final shape when the console casual audience would be most likely to bail. Either way it shows the trendline was sharply down.

But the hardcore Destiny community was all moving to PC as the game was easier on that platform.

At the end of the day Bungies rulers were all based in Washington and would never leave that area. Mega libshits would never fire DEI hires, would never move to a red state, and were completely insulated. Parsons and Jones were rich and are still rich. Both get to blame Sony. They get to exit as victims to people pre disposed to like them. Parsons less so. But why should he care again?

 

[moocow]

Nothing we did moved the needle? Nothing?

No, of course it didn't. You aren't the audience. The investors were. The needle was pegged at its desired position (for this outcome) well in advance. Nobody who authored the Bungie sale to Sony expected any other outcome. They knew they were selling bullshit to Sony and this is the highly-predictable result. Golden parachutes were donned and deployed months ago.