Publisher Activision is pleased with the success of Destiny 1, but sees a major problem: too little content. This should run differently with Destiny 2 .
The site Gamesindustry.biz conducted an interview with Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg. He struggles with the frequency at which new game content was released for Destiny 1.
“We did a lot right with Destiny, but one thing we didn’t do right: We couldn’t satisfy the hunger for new game content,” said Hirshberg. They had great DLCs and expansions, but players clearly wanted more.
For Destiny 2, Hirshberg has a new plan: They are setting other AAA developers from the Activision system to work alongside Bungie on Destiny content: including Vicarious Visions and High Moon Studios. This will help maintain a robust pipeline of new content.
A-Team or B-Team?
Mein-MMO thinks: It’s interesting that Hirshberg phrases it as if there could be even more studios besides Bungie, High Moon, and Vicarious Visions delivering content for Destiny. So far, it is unclear what High Moon and Vicarious Visions are actually working on.
- Vicarious Visions is responsible for the PC version, that is known, but what else is coming from New York for Destiny 2 is unclear.
- The High Moon Studios, it was said, were working on a Cabal raid. But those were only dubious rumors back then.
Bungie had already run various teams in the past. Different people worked on the DLCs than those working on the expansion or now on Destiny 2. You can see this clearly in who is in charge of public relations at events and livestreams.
The “A-Team” with Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy was responsible for “The Taken King” and is now in charge of “Destiny 2” – Smith probably also had a hand in the raids “The Vault of Glass” and “Crota’s End”.
Meanwhile, a kind of “B-Team” was responsible for other content like “House of Wolves” or “Rise of Iron”.
Perhaps that’s also why there are “parallel storylines” in Destiny that don’t have much to do with each other. Sometimes it seems like they have forgotten some characters and storylines.
A third team, the “Live Team,” has handled the events in between.
The problem so far has been: It was clearly noticeable when the A-Team was on duty, when the B-Team and when the Live Team.
This “team approach” is not new for Bungie. If Activision succeeds in creating multiple teams that can deliver high-quality content for Destiny 2 without the quality dropping, it could indeed solve the content problems.
Bungie has frequently emphasized the close collaboration with Vicarious Visions and that they do not see them as contractors but as an extension of their own studio.
What do you think about the news? Are you excited for more content, or are you more skeptical?
There will be some changes in Destiny 2:
Destiny 2: Boring Loot? – The randomness in weapons disappears
