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[crimsonheadGCN]

Our goal is simple: make game experiences that kick ass and blow minds. There’s over 200 combined years worth of development experience at High Moon, led by a team of award winning veterans and a crack production staff. We work hard. We play hard. We need to add world class talent as we partner with Bungie to support work on their ground breaking Destiny Franchise.

From a job offer on their website:

https://activision.jibeapply.com/hi...Mission-Designer-High-Moon-Studios?lang=en-US

 

[hawk2025]

I assume they will be doing the PS3/360 content?

Which begs the question: When does Destiny stop supporting those? With the true sequel, maybe?

 

[Garrett Hawke]

Hm. Strange. I wonder if they'll be doing next year's content while Bungie moves focus to Destiny 2? idk.

 

[Gleethor]

I wanted a third Cybertron game

Spoiler

nobody better mention Rise of The Dark Spark

 

[fastballspecial]

High Moon made AWESOME Transformers games. It's a bummer they are only doing support work. Granted, they probably don't mind doing work with Destiny and Call of Duty before it.

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

Great work on the Transformers games and Advanced Warfare. I actually trust High Moon to make a better Destiny than Bungie, but together? I'm sure Destiny 2 will actually be a proper sequel that expands on the original. Exciting.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

I assume they will be doing the PS3/360 content?

Which begs the question: When does Destiny stop supporting those? With the true sequel, maybe?

Seems like it. The or they're already working on the sequel content.

Usually smaller teams work on multiplayer content or PS3/360 content.

 

[BluenoseGames]

I wanted a third Cybertron game

Spoiler

nobody better mention Rise of The Dark Spark

Agreed and Rise of the Shit Crap was so crap.

 

[Onaco]

"There’s over 200 combined years worth of development experience at High Moon"

Stop letting your PR guy write when he's high. WTF does that even mean?

 

[pizzacat]

Hm. Strange. I wonder if they'll be doing next year's content while Bungie moves focus to Destiny 2? idk.

Who's to say they haven't started already?

I'm guessing they will do the small updates that comes throughout the next dlcs that will drop for destiny

 

[SaganIsGOAT]

"There’s over 200 combined years worth of development experience at High Moon"

Stop letting your PR guy write when he's high. WTF does that even mean?

200 people with 1 year each in the development field.

Or 100 people with 2 years

Or 1 person with 200 years

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

"There’s over 200 combined years worth of development experience at High Moon"

Stop letting your PR guy write when he's high. WTF does that even mean?

That means 50 employees who have worked for 4 years. Lol.

 

[The Elite]

"There’s over 200 combined years worth of development experience at High Moon"

Stop letting your PR guy write when he's high. WTF does that even mean?

GAF has one hundred million hours of gaming experience.

 

[DeviantBoi]

Sounds to me like they're gonna handle the big expansion and/or the following two expansion packs so that Bungie can work on Destiny 2 for next year.

 

[Inuhanyou]

HIGH MOON STUDIOS!?

I didn't even know they still existed!

The last game i heard about from them was Darkwatch, and that was years and years ago. Really fun and underrated game tho

 

[Compsiox]

Bungie outsourcing gameplay content. This sucks hard.

What has happened to you.

 

[TheSinkingKnight]

So I guess no last gen Black ops 3 then.

 

[Cheat Code]

Fuck this, fuck Destiny, fuck Bungie.

Just let High Moon do their own shit, they are good at it.

 

[_woLf]

Outsourcing game design work in my opinion is NEVER a good idea. You will run into conflicts and the result will be buggier from my experience.

 

[Anung]

They deserve so much better than this ;_; The Cybertron games last gen were totally awesome.

 

[LtOrange]

Hopefully this means a more constant stream of content for Destiny.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

They're hiring mission designers to support Bungie with Destiny?

I mean obviously more hands on deck for big online games is always good, but that's also kind of hilarious given the general complaints about Bungie's missions.

 

[Sinatar]

So they've fallen to Raven status then. Raven was a great studio that is now relegated to COD map packs.

 

[Compsiox]

I stopped enjoying Halo as much as i used to because it no longer had the Bungie charm while under 343i.

Now Bungie's own franchise that they left Microsoft for will lose its Bungie charm.

Never been so disappointed.

 

[Deception]

GAF has one hundred million hours of gaming experience.

You're selling us short, more like...

 

[PooBone]

Maybe with two studios than can achieve what they promised with one?

Fuck Destiny. Fuck Activision.

 

[NormalFish]

I stopped enjoying Halo as much as i used to because it no longer had the Bungie charm while under 343i.

Now Bungie's own franchise that they left Microsoft for will lose its Bungie charm.

Never been so disappointed.

You lost me.

 

[Compsiox]

Maybe with two studios than can achieve what they promised with one?

Bungie charm will still become diluted

 

[PooBone]

I stopped enjoying Halo as much as i used to because it no longer had the Bungie charm while under 343i.

Now Bungie's own franchise that they left Microsoft for will lose its Bungie charm.

Never been so disappointed.

I don't think Destiny ever had that charm.

EDIT: Unless you count the website where you go to read the story? I didn't bother.

 

[Compsiox]

You lost me.

What Bungie isn't making in the Destiny Universe will not have the charm.

 

[SaganIsGOAT]

Bungie charm will still become diluted

And what exactly is "Bungie Charm?"

 

[Scientist Supreme!]

Fuck this, fuck Destiny, fuck Bungie.

Just let High Moon do their own shit, they are good at it.

.

 

[Compsiox]

I don't think Destiny ever had that charm.

I guess

 

[Compsiox]

And what exactly is "Bungie Charm?"

Humor and creativity. I know the missions/bullet sponge bosses suck and story sucks but I think they got the rest down.

 

[gdt]

Don't think I like this very much at all.

But if it leads to more content that's still curated by Bungie then I guess it could be good.

 

[heybrian]

Sounds like it could be good, I'll wait to see what happens.

 

[MegaSackman]

HIGH MOON STUDIOS!?

I didn't even know they still existed!

The last game i heard about from them was Darkwatch, and that was years and years ago. Really fun and underrated game tho

I think that was their first game...

Bourne Legacy, Transformers, and some other stuff came after that. And yes, I loved Darkwatch.

 

[SURGEdude]

Sad to hear High Moon will get stuck in the creative wasteland that is Destiny. They deserve better.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I imagine this is happening because Bungie is taking too long and Activision requires that they have a follow up to Destiny out by September or so of next year.

Destiny took an extremely long time to develop and was released with a dismal amount of content. I think the word is that they had some huge troubles over the course of development and had to scrape the project together at the end, so that might explain the dearth of content at release, but it's not like their over-price DLC has brought an impressive amount of new content along for the time it's taken them to develop it.

 

[CryptiK]

So we aren't getting a third Transformers game? Yes I know there was a third lets not talk of it ever.

 

[Carn82]

hmm, interesting. Maybe some extra hands for expansion 3 and 4? I can imagine Bungie moving some core staff to "Destiny 2" after Comet is out.

 

[PooBone]

I imagine this is happening because Bungie is taking too long and Activision requires that they have a follow up to Destiny out by September or so of next year.

Destiny took an extremely long time to develop and was released with a dismal amount of content. I think the word is that they had some huge troubles over the course of development and had to scrape the project together at the end, so that might explain the dearth of content at release, but it's not like their over-price DLC has brought an impressive amount of new content along for the time it's taken them to develop it.

I think you got Destiny's development story confused with Halo 2's. ;-)

 

[The Lamonster]

I'm guessing this is not going to translate into more content for Destiny. They are probably just helping with the last-gen ports of the sequel.

 

[PooBone]

hmm, interesting. Maybe some extra hands for expansion 3 and 4? I can imagine Bungie moving some core staff to "Destiny 2" after Comet is out.

If they're supposed to release a new game next year they better have some more than "core staff" on Destiny 2 right now, and for months past already.

 

[Ridley327]

I guess that's better than being a CoD workhorse?

 

[The Lamonster]

Bungie outsourcing gameplay content. This sucks hard.

What has happened to you.

lol read the 1st reply, dude

all signs point to HMS working on the ports.

 

[PooBone]

I guess that's better than being a CoD workhorse?

Is it? I see little difference.

 

[Rodney McKay]

They're hiring mission designers to support Bungie with Destiny?

I mean obviously more hands on deck for big online games is always good, but that's also kind of hilarious given the general complaints about Bungie's missions.

I think Bungie has gone so far down the Horde Mode mission structure rabbit hole that they've forgotten how to make much else, haha.

At least bringing on people to help with that means they are aware of the issue and are willing to seek help.

 

[Live Free or Die]

Wow, didn't take long to by for the Destiny haters to show up here. Stay classy.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Shark guns incoming?