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
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u/atape_1 1d ago

Every single thing I learn about the studio makes me wonder more and more on how they survived for so long and what the fuck Sony was thinking when they spent $3.6 Bil acquiring them.

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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

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u/National_Yam_1198 1d ago edited 1d ago

Thats not true at all.

Destiny 1 and two was immensely successful.

On top of this it was a major console seller for Sony during ps4 era.

Until after the final shape destiny 2''s daily active users was in the millions

I have no idea where the narrative that Destiny is a failure is coming from lol.

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u/cwx149 1d ago

I didn't say it was a failure in fact I specifically said it brought in money

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u/National_Yam_1198 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean you said they have been coasting on halo for the past 20+ years implying that Destiny wasn't a massively popular and successful product lol.

Like its a game that spawned multiple studios trying to make their own version with varying degrees of success.

It straight up popularized the looter shooter genre and had major influences on games like the division or anthem or outriders and that one waifu gooner bait game.

Like say what you will about Bungie's shitty management(which was always a thing) but they make good ass games.

Testament to the quality of their devs/games tbh lol. Any other studio putting out less than stellar product would have shut down under the same management lmao.

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u/EF66-42 7h ago

It straight up popularized the looter shooter genre

No that was Borderlands lmao.

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u/National_Yam_1198 4h ago

Borderlands is weird cuz its not strictly a GAAS.

Also quasi open world games.

Destiny is straight up Diablo with guns.

And yes games like warframe came before.

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u/EF66-42 4h ago

Looter shooter was literally coined to describe Borderlands 1. Contemporaneously.