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

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That's the first thing your eyes tracked onto and not the fact he was an Awoken?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EHVtZsCZ1TA

A hunter main awoken is running the white house twitter account?

And we're supposed to believe this government hates the LGBT community?

 

[Breadbassket]

Really, what this final update says to me is that there's a lot of retarded shit that happens thanks to management prioritizing quarterly earnings over quality products. Imagine if Bungie would have done what Jagex is doing with RS3 now, putting development efforts towards QoL improvements and building a better foundation for the game that they'd fucked up before. The series could have gone on for many years to come, and it could have built up a stronger, more populous player base in that time. But shit like that doesn't have a tangible numerical benefit, so it completely flies over their head as they focus instead on securing their bag. Same reason why we always saw more effort get put into Eververse every season than game improvements; having a few artists whip up a bunch of skins to sell for $10 or $20 a pop is much easier to quantify the RoI than making some game system slightly better.

I'm no commie, but damned if I don't understand why a lot of people have no faith in capitalism these days.

No ideology has a monopoly on bad management. Bungie and Sony both made poor corporate strategic decisions in the past few years. The former overinflated its value and live service "expertise" to get acquired while the latter threw money down the drain with titles like Concord and Destruction AllStars. It's rather fitting that as Marathon and Destiny face uncertain futures, neither Jim Ryan (Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO during the acquisition) and Pete Parsons (Bungie CEO during the acquistion) are no longer in their positions today.

Destiny 2 had questionable and downright disgusting business practices but what ultimately destroyed the franchise was bad leadership.