On June 17 2020 00:10 JimmyJRaynor wrote: i'm following what I call the "Grubby Rule of Gaming". When it gets boring I will stop playing and play some other game. For now, Destiny 2 is fun. Its been fun for the overwhelming majority of the 2+ years I've been playing. When it gets boring I'll play something else.
I'm getting the $70 USD "Beyond Light" package that provides the base game and all the seasons for the next 12 months starting in September '20. Nice work by Bungie so far. I hope they keep it up.
Because Bungie/ATVI licensed two Led Zeppelin songs in promoting Destiny I always hoped they'd use the following Led Zeppelin song in the game at some point...
The Battle of Evermore chronicles the eternal struggle between dark and light.
Now that Bungie doesn't have ATVI's bottomless wallet to fund marketing I don't think we'll ever hear a Led Zeppelin song associated with Destiny again. What a cryin' shame that is.
Your game hopping and obsession with Led Zeppelin must drive your gaming partner NUTZ !!
I'm getting the Beyond Light package as well! And I agree with you, there are so many good games out there with tons of content, it is easy to go from one game to another. I didn't know it was called the "Grubby Rule of Gaming" I thought it was normal! Did that with Nintendo games all the time! Going back and playing BLTPS now and it has been so long it's like a new game!! Maybe my spirit animal is a Gold fish and the plastic castle is a surprise every time, but I'm happy !
On June 17 2020 00:10 JimmyJRaynor wrote: i'm following what I call the "Grubby Rule of Gaming". When it gets boring I will stop playing and play some other game. For now, Destiny 2 is fun. Its been fun for the overwhelming majority of the 2+ years I've been playing. When it gets boring I'll play something else.
I'm getting the $70 USD "Beyond Light" package that provides the base game and all the seasons for the next 12 months starting in September '20. Nice work by Bungie so far. I hope they keep it up.
Because Bungie/ATVI licensed two Led Zeppelin songs in promoting Destiny I always hoped they'd use the following Led Zeppelin song in the game at some point...
The Battle of Evermore chronicles the eternal struggle between dark and light.
Now that Bungie doesn't have ATVI's bottomless wallet to fund marketing I don't think we'll ever hear a Led Zeppelin song associated with Destiny again. What a cryin' shame that is.
Your game hopping and obsession with Led Zeppelin must drive your gaming partner NUTZ !!
Has the primary antagonist revealed themselves yet?
"dance to the dark of night... sing to the morning light... side by side we wait the might of the darkest of them all..."
On June 17 2020 00:20 KelianQatar wrote: I didn't know it was called the "Grubby Rule of Gaming" I thought it was normal! Did that with Nintendo games all the time!
i think people play far fewer games than they did in the NES days. So people expect 1 game should be the "be all and end all". Also, games are marketed in ways that suggest your whole gaming hobby life can revolve around just 1 game. Back in the NES days I do not think games were marketed in that fashion.
While i see a lot of moaning and whining about the costs of playing video games it is interesting to note that Atari 2600 SPace INvaders sold for $225 USD in today's money.
I am a hardcore player and I barely do any of that content nowadays. What has always mattered is the amount of new content Bungie releases. Beyond Light is going to have the first new raid in a year, and some other new story content I imagine, alongside some seasonal stuff. Will probably be a lot like Shadowkeep, if not better. I cannot say that I am that concerned with the future of Destiny 2. That said, if you hate the direction that the game has gone in during the last year, maybe don't buy Beyond Light? You probably won't like more of the same.
It’s been well known that Microsoft has been on a studio acquisition spree for Xbox the past few years, and while the fruits of that may still be a few years away, there’s news that they have been pursuing a whale that they haven’t been able to land:
Bungie.
This news comes from Jeff Grubb and his podcast where he and another panelist (at around the 1:17:00 mark below) say that they’ve heard that Microsoft has tried to make a deal to buy Bungie multiple times, but it’s always fallen through because the price is too high.
Microsoft has snapped up talented developers like Obsidian and Ninja Theory, but none as large as Bungie which, of course, left Microsoft many years ago after producing the original Halo games before 343 took over. Bungie then went on to partner with Activision for Destiny and part of Destiny 2 before dramatically declaring their independence. And then….apparently going back into talks with Microsoft if the price was high enough.
Bungie would be a monster acquisition for Microsoft, and of course that would raise questions about what exact would happen to Destiny as a franchise if that deal was made.
On the one hand, it’s almost unthinkable to imagine Destiny 2 support suddenly pulled off of PS4 and PS5, especially with 3+ more years of content planned for it, at the very least, and being Xbox and PC exclusive only. PlayStation is the largest share of the entire playerbase, after all. In that situation, you could imagine Microsoft just acting as publisher and raking in profit from PlayStation sales, and not taking it off the platform.
And yet you don’t pay hundreds of millions of dollars for a huge studio and their biggest game and not want it to be an Xbox exclusive, right? And maybe this is part of why this deal has fallen through multiple times.
Fans have long suspected that Microsoft and Bungie have been getting pretty chummy lately, like two exes hanging out again after some time apart. Destiny 2’s Beyond Light expansion is launching as a Game Pass offering like a Microsoft first party title would, and on Xbox Series X/S launch day to boot, and there are conspiracy theories that Bungie even delayed the expansion to make that happen. I’m wondering if these acquisition talks degraded into instead a lesser deal involving a closer relationship, which is how this Beyond Light/Game Pass deal happened.
The headline is no: Microsoft is not buying Bungie because it cost too much, and yet if they tried in the past, who’s to say they won’t try again? And it also says that Bungie is willing to be un-independent once more if the price is right from a megacorp they want to work with.
I don’t really know how to feel about all this. The “independent” era of Bungie only recently just started and has yet to prove itself. We’ve seen changes like Destiny going free-to-play in part, something that was apparently impossible under the Activision deal, but I don’t know that we’ve found a “yes, Destiny has gotten twice as good now that Bungie is calling their own shots” moment yet. I don’t know what a Microsoft partnership would provide on the players’ end. Would they get more money and more staff to create a large and more ambitious game? Then yes, go for it. Would they be forced to strip support or features or the entire game away from PlayStation? Then no, very bad.
Still, fascinating to consider. We’ll see if this ends up going anywhere in the future.
EPT
