they are victim of an awful long-term partnership with activision focused on shitting out destiny episodes. well, they made an idiotic choice to agree to it in the first place, but once so much capital has been invested all they can do is keep going and hope for the best. i think most of the issues regarding destiny 2 are about the monetization of the endgame/bonus content, though i dont follow the game. it's probably easy to see the PR disasters are the fault of the publisher.
No, it's almost entirely Bungie's fault actually. They arranged a change in the DLC plan for major releases only, just to go back to quarterly releases WITH DLC. Mind you the way it was is as it is now but with no Microtransactions. NONE.
For the Story about that:
Sometime after TTK, they arranged a change in the contract itself so they could release larger content releases with DLC to make up for the quarterly DLC technically going away (hence RoI being a sort of 2nd Comet despite no DLC between TTK and it). They HAD to do this because their map editing software is a complete and absolute nightmare, and to quote; they had to leave the computers on overnight to ensure they had loaded in time for work the next morning (edit 2: presuming there wasn't an error or the computer crashed or some other nightmare).
But then they pulled a fast one on us with D2. They brought the DLC back in, on top of the microtransactions. And based on what we can tell and have heard from leaks, it's the same map editor bs.
There's no way that 'pandering to casuals' would make D2 release with functions missing that even BASE D1 HAD. And no way Activision would tell them to remove those either. There's no way Activision told Bungie to change the story, there's no way Activision was involved in the Music of the Spheres drama as they had no control over the musical IP.
It's all been bungie from the start. The only thing Activision's done far as we can tell is give them a request to have 3 games for 10 years with comet releases in between each game and smaller DLCs (which were taken out of the equation thanks to the above noted contract rework).
This is pure Bungie greed. They do less than the minimum expected of them, and they for the most part are an echo chamber of bad ideas. There was an idea that echo'd in bungue released during the Community Summit that was HORRIBLY lauded by the players who were called to the summit. I mean it was unanimous hatred. And there's plenty of horror stories of former Bungie Reps who have been repeating this Echo chamber exists.
And let's not get started on the lore. To quote Sagira from the OFFICIAL LORE COMIC which contradicts even in-game events:
Sagira said:
PS: I wish that quote was a joke. See:
http://puu.sh/AxV5W/499368b293.jpg Found on Page 8 of
https://comics.bungie.net/en/2/fall-of-osiris/.
Edit 3: This includes the Music of the Spheres incident, which occurred recently, in which they C&D'd someone who had spent years trying to find and discipher the original Music of the Spheres Marty O'Donnell had created, suceeded, and then months later Bungie C&D'd them and have done nothing since.
This hatred of Bungie basically comes from them wanting to rip the guts out of everything from D1 they ever did, and change it to a far worse product.
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