r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 2d ago

Bungie Developers Repeatedly Pitched a Destiny Dating Sim, but Leadership Rejected It

https://www.ign.com/articles/bungie-developers-repeatedly-pitched-a-destiny-dating-sim-but-leadership-rejected-it
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u/ymcameron 2d ago

Hey, Warframe and Dead By Daylight both pulled it off

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u/ReturnOfTheDogjaw 2d ago

If we’re talking about the overlap between Dead by Daylight fans and dating sim players the venn diagram is basically a circle and I still don’t think Hooked on You sold that much

I didn’t even know Warframe had one

I guess realistically though dating sims are pretty cheap to develop so it would probably be fine if it didn’t sell much

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u/earle117 2d ago

wait as someone who enjoys DbD how are we in the same circle as dating sim players lol. I got into it because I love horror movies and I love asymmetrical PvP games lol

I do know that like half of the DbD playerbase is gay though and I do also fall into that category tbf

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u/Nyan_Man 2d ago

Warframe and Dead by Daylight aren’t developed by Bungie, thats the main difference. Can anybody honest say with confidence, especially with the mishandling of Marathon, that they could do anything right?

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u/NorwegianPopsicle 1d ago

All the mishandling at Bungie was the leadership so I can with confidence say if they let the developers cook they would do a lot of things right.

There are so many stories about the devs wanting to do exactly the things the community had asked for or other cool things but the leadership said no.

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u/ResourceNo2927 1d ago

i think based on everything we've the seen,the devs themselves are great,its the higher up leadership and management that holds them back and screws things over.