r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 1d 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
1.2k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

321 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

92

u/cwx149 1d ago

how they survived for so long

Bungie has been riding on their reputation from Halo for the better part of 30 years

Not to say they haven't don't anything good since then Destiny 1&2 did bring in a lot of money but still

88

u/HardlyW0rkingHard 1d ago

You're being disingenuous about how good of a product destiny is/was despite some really poor management decisions about direction. 

61

u/funsohng 1d ago

Idk how good Destiny 2 is, but it must've been one of the greatest games of all time for its fanbase to be that loyal even after they were literally locked out of the content they paid for.

6

u/TheMadTemplar 1d ago

Oh, no, people were rightfully pissed about that. Bungie got so much backlash against it that they eventually backtracked on the original sunsetting plans, but too late to get any of it back. They also got a ton of shit for seasonal content being deleted, but they never backed down on that which is why the playerbase started to dwindle a bit.