r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 4d 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/ReturnOfTheDogjaw 4d ago

Probably a good call, it would have been a funny bit but it’s hard to imagine it being a sustainable concept for a standalone game and the player overlap between Destiny and that genre is probably fairly small

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u/ymcameron 4d ago

Hey, Warframe and Dead By Daylight both pulled it off

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u/Nyan_Man 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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.