Reworking Marathon and restoring “vaulted” content to Destiny are the highlights.
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Only time will really tell. No Man’s Sky did the hard work of turning around their awful launch, but it took years. It wasn’t until last year they had over 80% positive reviews on Steam. In all that time, all those additions, and they never charged more, never added paid DLC’s, it was all added to anyone that ever bought the game. No microtransactions, no loot boxes, no battle basses, just them making the game they originally promised.
I can’t imagine Bungie doing the same thing for that long. I see them breaking and enshitifying their games for money. I don’t think they have what it takes. But hey, I’d love for them to prove me wrong.
Without a crystal ball, I can put about 99% confidence in a future where Bungie continues to charge for microtransactions like they always have, and they won’t take a route like No Man’s Sky of being a single purchase. With a crystal ball, I could give you 100% confidence.
The repeated emphasis on storytelling and building trust through actions gives me a tiny bit of hope, especially as it’s a new management team. Hopefully everyone on the old management team was taken back behind the shed. The fact that they couldn’t see how vaulting half the game was shooting themselves in the dick then continued to shoot themselves in the dick is astounding to me.
That’s a really high confidence value to have for a future where Bungie exists. They’re already halfway purged, you don’t come back from something like Marathon by trying really hard with half the resources you wasted on Marathon.
I think the servers will be kept on for Destiny as long as it’s cashflow positive. In a world where you’re not building new content for that game, it could be a long time, and it may outlive Bungie.
Yeah I have moved on, sorry B. You never should have “vaulted” (stolen) my paid content in the first place and 5+ years later I am no longer interested in patronizing your business.
Woah. What’s going on at Bungie that prompted this sudden change?
Marathon did not hit, and they laid off half the studio.
“We’re sorry and we’re listening” has basically been Bungie’s motto for the entire post-Halo era.
Not saying they can’t pull off a comeback, but Jesus Christ… this is like the sixth or seventh time they’ve had to make an announcement like this. Somebody break the fucking cycle already…
ETA: I’ll be curious to see if they shoot themselves in the dick again by charging players to regain access to the vaulted content.
If they really got rid of the old guard mgmt…that is extremely good news. They seemed hell-bent on killing the game. Heck, they did. Was like being gaslit the whole time as a player.
