Comment on Bungie lays off 220 people, will set up spin-off studio
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 months agoNah, the Bungie developed Halo games were great. Literally ruled the world. Bungie lost their way when they started mistreating their own major employees (the reason the number 7 is so prevalent in Bungie stuff). Poisoned the watering hole.
Joe Staten wrote out this whole world and plan for Destiny 1 and then Jason Jones scrapped it and Frankensteined it with his friends fantasy thing. And he locked Joe Staten out of the conversations about Destiny 1 after that. Joe Staten had written the Dreadnaught (which ended up in the Taken King expansion) as the end game area of the base game. That and what they did to Marty, you don’t do that without some serious internal problems.
braindefragger@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And that all happened under Microsoft?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, that happened under Activision, once Destiny moved beyond just simple story beats and started getting into a more detailed development cycle.