Former Bungie composer Marty O'Donnell regrets that he was unable to get Microsoft out of Bungie

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I know Marty and Microsoft have bad blood - Microsoft refuse to name him when talking about Halo - but the idea that Microsoft is responsible for what Bungie became post-Microsoft is a little silly.

Microsoft owned Bungie from 2000, to 2007. And during most of that time, they were the golden goose. Marty was forced out in 2014 - seven years after the fact. Bungie were independent for twice as long as Microsoft owned them before they sold out to Sony. Destiny 1 still had a little of the Bungie magic from Halo in it, but by the time Marty left in 2014, it was clear Bungie were a very different company with very different goals. It's hard to blame Microsoft for that in my opinion; it's clear Bungie's collective ego got the better of them after Halo became the biggest game in the world. Heck, they thought Destiny 1 at release was going to be a 9/10 and were blindsided by the 5/10 it got. And with the direction they've gone with Destiny 2, I've stepped away from Bungie altogether.
 
Danteyke223 said:
Bungie became massively monetization focuses. A lot of people assumed once they go independent and out of the grubby hands of Actvision, Destiny will reach it's full potential. Instead the game (while not dying), probably has one of the worst monetizations and storylines ever. Where you bought the main game, but the story is told in the season pass. Where 90% of the content got gutted before Destiny 1's release, and by the looks of it, all Bungie has been doing is piecing it together since that era after Joseph Staten got kicked out of the company. The shooting is top tier, but Destiny 2 pretty much proved why sometimes publishers need to kick the asses of certain developer teams and reign them in. It pretty much proved Bungie worked on the same copeium as Bioware in terms : All we need is some Bioware magic to make it work. Bungie's entire dev pipeline was horrible under Destiny 1.

D2 ? Is or was kinda better but most of the expansions are reskinned enemies, with occassional special bosses - and special enemies. They also managed to piss away all their goodwill with Witch Queen, after the latest expansion feeling like cut in the middle so Final Shape can be sold.
Yeah the raids are top tier but holy shit the IP is squandered ,and a lot of Destiny youtubers are now expecting a Titanfall to Apex Legends type of Exodus, where Marathon gets the main focus, and Destiny as a franchise gets shuttered.
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Lightfall pissed away the goodwill, not Witch Queen which was excellent and further proved The Hive have always been the best villains.
Anyway Im hoping now they're under Sony that they will start imprinting some of their high standards on them for Marathon and D3. At the end of the day Sony owns them, they answer to Sony and I really dont think Playstation will just let them operate 100% without oversight.
 
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@JimRyan/@HermenHulst and Bungie is the one you want overseeing your gaas?🤔
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Bungie should team up with guys who put out Halo Infinite. Such a successful and popular game currently. Can't recall the studio or pub name off the top of my head.
 
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Sony did not buy them, to make great games like halo, They bought them to to make them gass money. Hope it all ends in tears, hate greed and exploitation of others.
 
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I've always thought destiny 2 was perfect for game pass or playstation equivalent as ain't no way I'm spending more on dlc, I spent hundreds and took some time away and bungie changed everything when I went back to it.
 
Oddvintagechap said:
Ass wipes really got Factions 2 delayed cause it wasn't monetizable enough. 😪
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This is why Sony acquired them. To get all their online games and work out where to squeeze them extra dollars.

Former destiny 1+2 player . I don't like what that game has become at all. They can only blame themselves for that. Playing the seasons just became a chore after a while. I'll just watch the cutscenes on YouTube. Used to love the gunplay in Destiny but it's buried under all their…… " give us more money" BS.
 
I believe it, you get new employees who joined under Microsoft, as well as employees now influenced by their time under Microsoft bring the company in a different direction than it used to be. Bungie has definitely become a terrible company, and personally I can't help but hope for the worst for them. Kinda wish it was EA who bought them, they're a match made in hell, and deserve the ol' EA treatment of being brought out back and put down
 
Still salty about being fired because he couldn't have free reign. I kinda get it because bungie ain't the same anymore, but at the same time his massive ego and fixation on this is embarrassing. Every company that grows like that loses part of itself.
 
"For reasons I can't get into, let me heavily hint at something without being specific so Twitter, Reddit and all the gaming blogs can loose their shit and go on heavily speculative tangents"
 
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