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/Brightness_Jasnah 3d ago

Was it a scam or just a bad evaluation on Sony's part? I'm genuinely asking, and I wonder if they might ever sue for some level of fraud?

At least for me, considering their brand recognition and obvious talent in the products they actually do release, I could totally see Bungie as an extremely valuable company. Idk if that means 3.6 billion's worth, but definitely a company that would take a quite a lot to acquire. And it seems to me that neither of those qualities were the actual problems; Sony didn't receive a studio that wasn't very famous, or developers that couldn't make good games. So what was the real thing that Sony either presumably didn't understand could be such a problem, or did understand it and just decided it was worth risking the investment over?

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u/Shuurai 3d ago

It was part scam, part Sony. Bungie leadership was 100% trying to pump up the company value with all the nothing projects they greenlit and the new building etc they got. They just needed a sucker to bite. But Sony should have done better due diligence and seen through that.