“Destiny was never profitable”
Where we getting this information? The studio went independent because of Destiny, expanded year over year, and looked good enough on Bungie’s valuation to get picked up by Sony for 3.6 billion — while also affording to spin up multiple incubation projects. Granted only one of those made it out..but the point still stands. Destiny, was massively profitable.
This stopped looking like a business decision a while ago. Destiny is profitable. Bungie is valuable. Walking away from both isn’t the market talking — it’s Sony choosing to burn down an era rather than admit any part of it worked.
Some have told me that there’s a kind of desire for « revenge », as Sony’s leadership reportedly blames Bungie for a number of issues with their GaaS strategy. 🧵
I’ve sat thinking on this for weeks since evrything was announced. Its puzzled me, especially seeing as Destiny 2 hit number 1 seller on Steam last week, and showing up all over the gaming community. However, if Sony really just has a hard on to kill everything from the Jim Ryan era, then I’m concerned about Destiny/Marathon servers a year out from now.
🚨 NEW: Sony leadership reportedly has a "desire for revenge" against Bungie over issues with its live service strategy, with "internal resistance/strong pushback" at PlayStation over the decision to end Destiny 2 live service support - https://t.co/ThhqFlelo0
So, we've been seeing some interesting videos where Guardians are doing near infinite damage to bosses thanks in part to unintended Artifact perk stacking. Quite hilarious to watch, to be honest!
While we're planning a fix (next week likely), we think this is a bit fun. Go ahead. Get out there, beat up on Atheon. Destroy some bosses. Do your thing.
Just to note: we will be disabling Artifacts in Crucible/Gambit to protect Guardians from being on the receiving end of this.
We tried to come up with a name. The Artifactening? Sure. Why not. If you have a better suggestion... throw it our way.
All in all, it's Monument of Triumph. Do some crazy stuff. Send us your videos. Have some fun. Be Brave.
jade shadows: constellations launches tomorrow! it's a very clear 'sequel' quest to jade shadows.
is your warframe account ready to go tomorrow, or will you be avoiding spoilers?