Bungie has announced that its Destiny games will no longer be published by Activision. Instead, the development team has gained all the IP rights for this franchise and will self-publish all future Destiny games.
As Bungie claimed:
“We have enjoyed a successful eight-year run and would like to thank Activision for their partnership on Destiny. Looking ahead, we’re excited to announce plans for Activision to transfer publishing rights for Destiny to Bungie. With our remarkable Destiny community, we are ready to publish on our own, while Activision will increase their focus on owned IP projects.”
Bungie will keep working on Destiny 2 and will continue to deliver on the existing Destiny roadmap.
“With Forsaken, we’ve learned, and listened, and leaned in to what we believe our players want from a great Destiny experience. Rest assured there is more of that on the way. We’ll continue to deliver on the existing Destiny roadmap, and we’re looking forward to releasing more seasonal experiences in the coming months, as well as surprising our community with some exciting announcements about what lies beyond.”
It will be interesting to see now whether the next Destiny game – or even Destiny 2 – will rely less on micro-transactions. Destiny 2 was criticized by a lot for its micro-transactions and now that Activision is out of the picture, we’re really looking forward to see what Bungie will do with them.
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I don’t think it will make much differences. Look at the Hitman franchise. They went from one greedy publisher to much greedy publisher. mark my word
They are self publishing now.
That was 3rd party (Square Enix) to 3rd party (Warner Bros). Having seen the sh*t storm Blizzard got themselves into in December, and the way Activision are treating their staff, I don’t blame them.
man activision has been getting alot of flack recently. Good
Would have loved if the same happened between Activision and Blizzard, but that’s never gonna happen, and it’s not the same kind of deal. Blizz is going down the drain, much like Bioware with EA.
Ho is bungie i thought that studio died long time ego
RIP Bungie 90s-2010 or so.
People are still bashing Destiny 2 because of microtransactions? It was always for cosmetics, to get relevant gear you must play the game.
Are we talking about the same game?
This.
Wrong
https://www.pcgamesn.com/destiny-2/destiny-2-eververse-microtransactions-bright-engrams
Do not lie. you literally buy power/booster/armour and those gambling things from the store with real money also level cap, you can’t progress beyond lvl20 unless you pay for expansions which means you can’t kill some of the random bosses and they will one shot you.
Bright Engram that you buy with real money can get you Mods, mods will give you clear gameplay advantages, that is p2w, sure you can earn them like all the p2w titles out there.
Full of expansions ? lol you mean used assets or removed content that they sell a month or two after release ? for what ? adding content or forcing players to pay more or be 30 level behind those who bought it then design the game in a way that you feel you have left out because there is nothing to do after what ? 10 12 hours ?
>You cannot get mods in Bright Engrams. lol, you’re wrong,Stop arguing, false point.
d2 . destinygamewiki . com/wiki/Bright_Engram#Weapon_and_Armor_Mods
>And Yes. Full on expansions.
No. barely an halfassed overpriced DLC. that’s what it called.
>And having a lower level than other players? So what? That does nothing.
Until a level 50 boss spawns infront of you in a normal map and kills you without you even seeing it or a level 50 player kills it infront of you like it was nothing yet your bullet do 0 damage to it.
>Yes. That’s how a game works. You buy stuff. Want more? Buy more stuff.
No ? it’s more like, hey we have a bunch of sheeps as fans, lets charge them more, lets remove this content while it was available at launch then charge them again for it, they will find a way to pay more and defend it online. it’s p2w, want more stuff ? buy more, want more stuff but you don’t want to pay ? then sorry, we design it that way, you have to pay or do the exact same boring grind in the same boring maps to be able to open another one.
>They will just move on to another game, for those that aren’t harmed, they keep playing.
That can be said about anything, all the things you said and excuses for p2w stuff can be said about anything.
>People will always be left behind if they’re standing on the spot expecting entertainment to be delivered to their mouth-breathing faces.
You mean people will always find a way to defend less content/quality and they should eat s**t and suck publisher’s d**k. that’s just what being sheep means. how about having some standards, you know, the thing that you are lacking.
>so deal with it and move.
Are you one of the developers who made this t*rd ? you sure sound like one.
Too funny! Serves Activision right for having given PC gamers the shaft with Destiny.
As for Bungie, it’s now two major publishers to have let them go. Yet they still act as though they’re a big deal by seemingly forever dining out on the long since past glories of 2001-07.
They still are a big deal. They are more relevant to me now than they were in 2007. Never was a Halo fan.
But you would say that given that you’re a self-confessed Destiny series fanboy zealot of the highest order, lol!
Yes, I am. I’m not alone though. Destiny was never a huge franchise like Overwatch, PUBG or Fortnite. But if you doubt the fact that it has a reasonably large and loyal fanbase, just go to twitch(dot)tv on any given day and you can see that after years, it’s still consistently in the top 15 games on twitch. Can’t say the same about other games like Warframe, Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc.
Indeed.
Note that Activision agreed to terminating their 10-year publishing contract with Bungie nearly 2 years ahead of term. Said development comes a mere 6 months following Bungie having “announced that Chinese video game conglomerate NetEase had invested $100 million into Bungie, in exchange for a minority stake in the company and a seat on the company’s board of directors.” (Wikipedia)
Get back to Singleplayer already.
Way to secure a dumb franchise instead of halo
Definitely a make or break moment for Bungie now. Not only have they lost their shackles, they’ve lost their scapegoat.
Personally I’d love to see them stop dancing around the line of being an “MMO” that wipes progression every 3 years all so they can use an outdated business model & instead follow Blizzard’s (former?) ideology of providing a lifelong service.
It’s just another marketing stunt so they can sell Destiny 3. look guys, this time there are no evil publishers behind our game, buy our content less pay 2 win garbage for the last time.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/950b/ppfj.jpg
The real question is, is Bungie….
1) breaking away to become the budding clone-spore of activision to deign that they could do microtransaction addiction simulators better than activision?
OR
2) to amplify that youthful steve jobs-like intention to put quality, innovation, and production as the true driver of business success; not marketing and shareholders.
WE SHALL SEEE O_O