Was expecting a raft of opinions and tweets on this from Mr Schreier, who must have known of this in advance with his infinite number of insider contacts, lamenting a cynical takeover ploy by a massive platform holder of an independent subsidiary by the use of punitive revenue targets. Right up his alley.
Instead one tweet lamenting the sad and shocking details. I guess he’s too sad and shocked to have an opinion.
It might be a ploy to directly take over the studio. At the same time, it does appear that the leadership has failed both the employees and the Destiny 2 community. Something needs to change at the studio.
https://x.com/hazzadorgamin/status/1732737719456194850?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
At least it’s a nice parting way.
Imagine if one bad expansion was enough to nearly kill an xbox studio. not a bad game, an expansion!!! The think pieces would never end!!
Technically, that could have happened with Redfall, but instead, they gave them opportunity to repair and expand their studio. If it was still Zenimax, then I can expect on what I just said.
Dude that’s exactly the point
They are almost certainly profitable, the problem is they cost 200m+ and take an enormous amount of devs, other studios and 5+ years to make
But Jaffe is obviously just joking around because of the Bungie/Factions fiasco
Its more a jibe that Bungie gave ND advice on how to run a multiplayer game.
We do know Tlou PT 2 definitelt didnt do as well as Sony would have liked.
Oh? I think I missed this. Was it during an earnings report or something?
My point was more that that is how it would have been spun if it was another platform holder doing the same thing. But I guess you don’t put a clause like that in a contract unless you intend to use it.
As for something needing to change well yes I guess it does but Sony bought Bungie for their GaaS expertise, so is the right change really to replace the board that has that expertise with one that has not?
This sort of makes them seem like a protectionist. As others have said, surely he must have known well in advanced about all of this due to his connections, yet not a single peep about it or anything seemingly negative.
Nothing said out loud. It took 2 years to sell 10 million. It basically sold as well as Ghosts of Tsushima which was a new IP and didnt score anywhere near as high. I don’t know if it was a case of go woke go broke, but it was slower then Uncharted 4…with way more consoles on the market.
TLOU2 probably made back it’s dev cost and marketing with a decent profit, but when you consider it’s budget, it underperforming UC4 is a big black eye
Im seeing alot if Sony fans try and absolve Sony for anything bad going on at Bungie.
Funny how that works, Redfall was %100 MS’s fault even though the game was very much underway and majorly in progress when MS bought them but all these issues at Bungie have nothing to do with Sony and Sony is a poor victim for being misled.
Sony is always seemingly absolved from blame.
Factions is dead.
Wow…
I honestly don’t know what to say aside from not the best note for PS to go out this year.
https://x.com/fontanezedo/status/1735452478823399684?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
I just want to answer this. I get that the acquisition did give them GaaS successful games. HOWEVER, SoT happened, Forza Horizon happened, Halo is now happening, Grounded happened, and more and that’s not even counting on already success like CoD or OW. So can’t say I agree with you.
PS really going to need at least 2 more successful GaaS titles because you can only make so little of Spider-Man or GoW in short span of time. I honestly don’t know what’s happening over at Sony and while they won’t be in danger, they seriously need to stop this domino effect.
https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/1735449937645859326?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
Remembering his last showcase with it is completely awkward.
Factions officially dead, years of dev time wasted
Called it months ago and was told by some specific “totally not trolls” that I didn’t know what I was talking about and ND’s track record is spotless (it isn’t and it certainly never has been for their multiplayer components).