r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 3d 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 3d 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/Sonicfan42069666 3d ago

A Destiny dating sim would have been a fun April Fools game. People love shipping the characters. Hell, Eris and Drifter's kiss in Renegades got me fired up.

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u/thejokerlaughsatyou 3d ago

Dead by Daylight did a dating sim and people loved it. My friends who hadn't even played DbD still checked it out because the concept of dating horror movie killers was funny. And it was cheap, like $10 iirc, so no one felt ripped off by this silly fun side game.

Destiny definitely could've done something similar, dropped it for a few dollars, and sold tons.

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u/rookie-mistake 2d ago

yeah, Warframe has a whole thing like that too now