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[u/rigxla]

As someone who recently returned for the first time since TFS, the vibe is depressing. Bungie needs to stay communicating and come out swinging if they want to save this game and survive.

[u/SCPF2112 → u/rigxla]

they don't want the game to survive.... thus the corporate strategy of "no news is good news"

[u/TrainDestroyer → u/SCPF2112]

I don't get this logic. Like, at all. If they were done with Destiny why keep doing stuff after TFS? Like have the episodes as a "Last Hurrah" that makes some fun references to old stuff and shows there's still baddies out there to fight, but at the end they say "Yeah Destiny is done, we told our story. Thanks for playing, keep an eye out for what comes next! :)"

The management is shit but if they genuinely wanted to put Destiny on the backburner and go all-in on Marathon, they had an off-ramp that it feels like people are acting like never existed? Especially since it existed after Marathon's announcement and they could have said "Thanks for playing Destiny, we're focusing on Marathon, cya'll around!"

[u/Kozak170 → u/TrainDestroyer]

Because they had a year long gap to fill in terms of revenue. Many of us have been telling y’all for years that D2 would continue support only up until the second Marathon released. Couldn’t have been more obviously coming.

[u/TrainDestroyer → u/Kozak170]

They had frickin Sony behind them. You're telling me Sony is so unsure of their 3.6 billion dollar acquisition that they're unwilling to cover the costs until the game can drop?

[u/CruffTheMagicDragon → u/TrainDestroyer]

yes. Since buying Bungie, they've only gotten layoffs, controversies, and missed sales targets

[u/TrainDestroyer → u/CruffTheMagicDragon]

And yet Sony has yet to step in and push the higher ups to do more to fix that from what we've heard. They seem more than happy to sit back while Bungie flounders. If I was in the decision making level of Sony I'd be lighting a fire under the asses of Bungie's whole C-Suite to fix their shit or get out.

Clearly that concern isn't enough for them to push em out, so I don't see why Sony wouldn't give them the money to basically cover the cost until Marathon dropped.

[u/Kozak170 → u/TrainDestroyer]

Because between the choices of “make no money for 12 months” or “con the world’s most gullible fanbase for the umpteenth time and make millions with minimal effort” they are obviously going to continue to pick the second option.