In Sony’s conference call, the Chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Hiroki Totoki, spoke about the developers of Destiny 2, Bungie, which Sony had purchased in 2022.
This is the situation:
- Bungie separated from Activision Blizzard in 2019 and continued to develop Destiny 2 on its own.
- But in 2022, independence was over: Sony bought the studio for about 3.7 billion US dollars.
- However, in December 2023, there were bad news about Bungie: Destiny 2 had lost many players, the development of the DLC was postponed by several months, employees were laid off.
Regarded by many as the low point of Destiny 2: The expansion Lightfall:
Sony boss praises the good employees
This is what the boss says about Bungie: According to PCGamer, the Sony boss said:
“I visited Bungie’s studios and had meetings with the management, and I saw the studio’s employees working with high motivation and showing great creativity and impressive knowledge of live service.”
But he criticizes the management
Now comes the negative part:
“Anyway, I felt that there is room for improvements from a business perspective regarding areas such as the use of business expenses and taking responsibility in development schedules. I hope to continue the dialogue and see good solutions.”
Bungie has never adhered to the schedule for Destiny
What does this mean? It doesn’t take much imagination to read two things: Bungie is too expensive and too slow. They spend money too generously and handle deadlines and schedules too carelessly.
These are two accusations that Bungie has been hearing from players for years: for how expensive the game is and how many people work on it, relatively little happens, and it happens slowly.
Even Activision Blizzard seemed dissatisfied with the output of Destiny: Originally, Activision Blizzard’s plan was for Bungie to release two expansions each year and even a new game every second year.
However, Bungie was never able to meet this tight schedule; they simply could not sustain such a high development pace and fell behind early on.
When Bungie then consciously decided against a Destiny 3, which was actually due in 2018 and was supposed to be released by 2019 at the latest, it was probably time for Activision Blizzard to terminate the business relationship. Now Sony is in charge and apparently not particularly happy either.
Let’s see if the boss’s announcement has any effect.
In November 2023, Bungie announced that many things were meant to be improved. The catch: the major hope has since left the studio.
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