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Bungie ends development on Destiny 2

So what I take from this
  • Destiny 2 needed to end for even thinking of 3
  • Marathon is current focus
  • A few years later we get D3

    Its just the when now, and that wait is the hardest part
 
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SCB3 said:
I take what Paul Tassi says with a grain of salt here tbh, he doesn't know all thats happening
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I just watched the video he put up on this news. D3 aint happening because they don't have the staff. Reading between the lines layoffs are in the post.

I don't like the most miserable man on the planet much but hes usually spot on with Bungie stuff.
 
Kacho said:
Whatever happened to that Gummy Bears game they were working on?
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Who knows. But it was shifted to new SIE internal studio Team LFG.

Sony didnt even want Bungie working on their own internal projects for the next go around. So they took it away preventing it from having the Bungie label.
 
StreetsofBeige said:
Who knows. But it was shifted to new SIE internal studio Team LFG.

Sony didnt even want Bungie working on their own internal projects for the next go around. So they took it away preventing it from having the Bungie label.
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Maybe Gummy Bears is codename for D3, Team LFG are really working on a proper in game LFG for it and this is all a dream.

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This was in March. It doesn't take an insider to recognize the stench of a corpse.

A CCU lower than 100K for an AAA project is a borderline disaster. If it doesn't get much higher, Bungie will be left in a very rough position, with no other main project in the pipeline and Sony not willing to keep investing big in them.

My prediction is that they will be downsized gradually, chopped up into pieces and later on disbanded.


The only reason why Bungie is not shut down is because Hermen's ass is on the line. There will never be a Destiny 3 by Bungie, that's Bloodborne 2 level of cope.
 
LordCBH said:
Eat my fucking shit, Bungie.

I played your dogshit post-TFS expansions because I love the gameplay. I waited fucking MONTHS through your radio silence while yall said "some cool stuff is cooking! We're jamming away!" And the cool stuff you were cooking was a fucking end of life article.

Just. Fuck. Off.

I hope PlayStation closes your shitty company, and I hope marathon, the thing you strangled and suffocated your actual successful game for, dies and is forgotten. Fuck yall.

Peace.
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Sad. Died with the Star Wars expansion. The game is still missing more than half it's content over the years. None of the raids or missing PvE zones are coming back, but don't worry we took a balance pass on the portal mode you all despised. Pathetic really, should have nicknamed the vault the graveyard.

I hope every one of these fuckers loses their job as Marathon burns to the ground.
 
They are still releasing the planned content update that was supposed to come out two months ago then got pushed back to june, right?

That is what this is, the end of the games support but with the large content update being the last piece of content or did they shit can that as well?
 
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HYDE said:
Why stop there? Cancel Fairgames, Heave Hulst the fuck out, then un-DEI-ify Insomniac, Naughty Dog, and Santa Monica. Finally give all control to Sony Japan and get Nixxes on Bloodborne & Ico Remasters. Buy Capcom, Konami, Tecmo, and From. Refuse Microsoft ports so they can rot all the way to hell. Lol 😂
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You'll notice that its Americans and their greed for a live service hit, who have basically ruined this once-great Japanese company and its first party outputs.
 
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It'd be cool if they did a P2P multiplayer raid patch and let people make their own fun, but we know they can't/won't.
 
Just shows how they're such lying pieces of shit, had people hyped for some updates and content and then pull this but it's no surprise honestly, destiny 2 been dead a long time.

They're just fucking trash, every last blue haired piece of fuck in that company. They way they handle their business is beyond terrible.
 
Miyazaki's Slave said:
They are still releasing the planned content update that was supposed to come out two months ago then got pushed back to june, right?

That is what this is, the end of the games support but with the large content update being the last piece of content or did they shit can that as well?
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This is like...everything they had planned in the future all in a final last gasp update. I have a feeling a LOT of it is going to feel (or actually be) unfinished as they're just shoehorning it into an update it was never supposed to be in.
 
This company has only 3 avenues left:
- Destiny 3 development begins
- All-in on Marathon (unlikely, the player numbers don't support it)
- Layoffs / potential closure within 3 years...

I think the latter is very, very likely.
 
PatientGamer said:
This company has only 3 avenues left:
- Destiny 3 development begins
- All-in on Marathon (unlikely, the player numbers don't support it)
- Layoffs / potential closure within 3 years...

I think the latter is very, very likely.
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Only way Bungie survives on it's own feet is if Sony execs keep funding them to survive because there's no way Marathon is covering the bills. And D2 revenue cant be that high anymore and they are even stopping further DLC packs.

At some point I see Sony just absorbing some of the employees into new or existing studios. And then lay off the rest. They already did that with their Bungie Gummy Bear game. Shifted them to a new LFG internal studio.

It's just that Gummy Bears was so early in dev it's easy to just move over. D2 is still alive, and everyone has known for a couple years Bungie was working on Marathon. So you cant really mess with those projects as it'd look odd if work shifted to a non-Bungie branded studio. Sony execs just waiting for the right time.
 
PatientGamer said:
This company has only 3 avenues left:
- Destiny 3 development begins
- All-in on Marathon (unlikely, the player numbers don't support it)
- Layoffs / potential closure within 3 years...

I think the latter is very, very likely.
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Yeah that is more or less my feeling. Marathon just doesn't have the live service selling power. I mean even if it maintains a loyal core playerbase how many flavours of printer test pattern can you sell as skins? I like the art style but it is visually crayon vomit color tones and changing what arrangement of jackson pollock nightmare pastels are on my 3d printed homonculus just doesn't have much intrinsic appeal. When everything is so visually loud it ceases to matter.
 
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Good god it's actually got more players than Marathon, that right here tells you all you need to know about the health of Marathon. If a game that's getting similar numbers to your new game gets shut down it's because it ain't making enough to keep it alive. Marathon will be shuttered by the end of the year.
 
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