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[MattyG]

Yesterday, Bungie composer Marty O'Donnell resolved a lawsuit with his former employer, and with it came public documents detailing the case. In it, five projects are outlined for release through 2020.

In the establishing background portion of the Marty O'Donnell v. Bungie, Harold Ryan case court document, it outlines some broad details about Bungie's contract with Acitivision – details we were already aware of.

In 2010, Bungie entered into a ten-year development and marketing agreement with publisher Activision Publishing, Inc. to fund development of Bungie's new first-person shooter video game that later became Destiny. The agreement anticipated the issuance of multiple episode of the game over a period of ten years. The first game was scheduled for release in September 2013. Destiny is Bungie's most significant game franchise in development. Activision's development advances for Destiny have been a significant source of Bungie's income. Currently Bungie plans to issue additional episode of Destiny.

We've known for some time that Bungie's partnership with Activision, and specifically its work on Destiny, would last at least 10 years. We did not know, however, that would mean five games.

The document details five code-named projects: Project Tigers 1-4, and something called Comet 4. With the exception of the first Project Tiger, which has a listed release date of September 24, 2013, each subsequent release is planned for September 30 in 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2020.

Presumably, this is the initial planned release schedule for all of the Destiny games. The original Destiny was delayed significantly and released on September 9, 2014. Destiny: The Taken King is planned for release on September 15, 2015.

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I'm not sure how much of this is new and how much we already knew from the leaked documents a few years back, but it certainly is interesting. I think it confirms what most of us assumed already, that Destiny 2 will be releasing next year, Destiny 3 in 2018, and so on.

 

[lLemonDemon]

Isn't Comet just their big expansions? (Taken king for example)

 

[JehutyRunner]

Tiger was the codename of Destiny and Comet was the codename of Destiny expansions (ex: The Taken King, but not The Dark Below or House of Wolves), so this is - as made clear already - for Destiny.

 

[Deku Tree]

Seems like the same info as in the old leaked contract. May have changed since then. It's still unclear to me if they are going to do a whole new game next year, or instead another big expansion.

 

[Madness]

Probably 2 more main games, big expansions in between. Don't know what the fifth is? Maybe a Reach style game that is part of the main universe but separate from the previous trilogy or something like ODST that is part of Destiny 3 but a standalone.

 

[Kalentan]

Seems like the same info as in the old leaked contract. May have changed since then. It's still unclear to me if they are going to do a whole new game next year, or instead another big expansion.

Destiny 2 is basically going to be a even longer expansion with some more major changes. Since they already confirmed that characters from Destiny 1 transfer to Destiny 2.

 

[Velikost]

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