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>Delaying Marathon isn't going the save the game. Nothing short of a full reboot of the entire project from the ground-up could get anywhere near saving that turd. From Sony's perspective, Bungie's financial failure must've been confirmed since at least the start of the year.
Correct, which is why Sony already announced they're committed to releasing it before the end of the fiscal year. If they wanted to salvage it, they would've delayed it indefinitely.
>don't think they'd do that unless they plan to totally sunset Destiny 2 and close Bungie's studio.
I don't think they'll shut down Destiny 2, but I do think they'll put it into pseudo-maintenance mode with a skeleton crew releasing minor content updates and balance patches. At this point, why not? It went from averaging 80k on Steam during its bad periods when the whole community was pissed off to struggling to hit 25k average when the community is more or less okay with the state of things.
Destiny veterans are largely done with Bungie's bullshit and aren't going to come back without sweeping changes, and it's actively impossible to get new players into the game because of the deleted story content + the amount of baffling systems with no in-game explanation. The new expansion comes out in less than a month and I've seen zero marketing for it and zero people excited for it. Unless Sony's willing to commit to a Destiny 3, which is a huge gamble, what real future does the IP have? Might as well milk the whales for whatever they've got left.
>Even then, there's only one or two Sony studios in Seattle, right? Insomniac and some other one I forget. Closest one after that is Bend Studio down in Oregon.
Good point, yeah, I'm not sure what their WFH policy is like but that'd be an obstacle. Regardless, they dropped $3.6 billion for Bungie's "live service expertise" and now they're pivoting away from live service games entirely; they've gotta get *something* out of that deal.
