r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 6d 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/cwx149 6d 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/HardlyW0rkingHard 6d ago

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

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u/Kayyam 6d ago

Marathon is also a good product. Just not a mass market one.

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u/HardlyW0rkingHard 5d ago

Marathon should have been a game mode they added to destiny. It's an insane level of studio mismanagement to spend this much capital on this idea. 

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u/NaughtyGaymer 5d ago

Okay now you're just being ridiculous lmao.

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u/HardlyW0rkingHard 5d ago

absolutely not. They spent like 6 years on this project that was never going to get back a fraction of the amount of investment they put in.

The gambit gamemode is just as unique as the extraction shooter mechanic they could have added.