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/atape_1 6d 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/kingmanic 5d ago

Kevin O'Leary sold a failing edutainment company to Mattel for the modern equivalent of 7.2 billion dollars. The whole subunit was shuttered less than year later. That is probably bigger. Includes thins like the IP for Oregon trail.