Thread 725530992

Sony said that Destiny 2 is dying and Bungie is losing them money. They regret buying them.

Is buying Bungie the worst acquisition in video game history?

No because bungie made them money. firewalk and concord lost them 400M dollars(dev costs+studio purchase money) and gained nothing. 100% loss.
you still don't have figures on marathon. it could be a worse puchase but that would take losing more than 400M total until bungie is shut down.

>>725531679
they wasted 4 billion on bungie and theres no way in hell marathon is making even 10% of it back

>>725530992 (OP)
have sex, incel

>>725531868
>400 million vs 4 BILLION

Jeez anon. I know 400 is a larger number than 4 but come on. Also the fact that Bungie isn't even working exclusively for Sony is such a huge fuck up. Think of how many mediocre Sony movie game exclusives could have been developed with that 4 billion.

>>725530992 (OP)
I remember chuckling to myself years ago when Sony bought Bungie for such a ridiculous amount. Makes you wonder what they're thinking there (if at all). Also, is this Lin Tao another diversity hire or something? You should see the glazing they're doing over her being the first female CFO. Apparently, she's not even Japanese either, but Chinese.

>buying Bungie right before they release the conclusion to the MMO story they've been making for like 13 years

What the fuck did they expect?

>>725530992 (OP)
That's not my problem. I don't think this is the place to discuss internal business bs

>spend billions buying a company
>do nothing with it
????

>>725532089
seethe harder snoy

>>725531679
Bungie was the one who told Sony to buy firewalk studios because Concord was staffed with Ex-Bungie developers. So yeah buying Bungie is a huge mistake.

>>725532452
Why did Sony buy them out when they only had like what, Destiny 1 and 2 out only?

>>725532727
Destiny was a top 5 multiplayer game and bungie execs told Sony they had 10 projects in the works that would make more money than Destiny 2. They later scammed Sony by cancelling most of them.

>>725530992 (OP)
A reminder that Sony killed Japan studio for this shit. An extra reminder that every other east Asian publisher is completely pulling out of American game development because they all realised they were expensive as fuck and completely incompetent. Sony is not only left with their pants down on GAAS flops, they destroyed their most valuable development ecosystem and bet it all on the least efficient, least profitable region on earth.

This is what happens when you promote clueless bean counter boomers

>>725530992 (OP)
>buy a game studio
>ask them to make a movie
>"Hey maybe that was a stupid idea"
No fucking shit

>>725532727
They had like six games in various states of development. That, by the way, is most of the reason Destiny 2 is in such poor shape in the first place.

>>725532727
Because destiny 1 and 2 made ridicuous amounts of money. What sony didn't realize is that this was due to brand loyalty and that loyalty was disappearing faster than a black dad. Sony was retarded and only saw the numbers rather than the writing on the wall.

>>725532895
all they had to do was work on destiny 3 and they fucked that up

>>725532704
I don't think that's true. I heard that Bungie stepped in to help them with gameplay stuff because the builds they had were dogshit. Bungie was bought after Concord was already in development, I'm pretty sure.

Imagine spending all of that money on designing a few good games instead

>>725532563
For bungie to transform the entirety of playstation studios into mini bungie's who all had their own destiny.

>>725530992 (OP)
Where are the japanese shaman girls, Lintahlo?

>>725530992 (OP)
Microsoft should have just bought them after halo reach, both activision and sony were extremely dissapointed with their perfomance, destiny 1 and 2 were extremely compromised experiences, it was overall just a huge fuck up.

Halo got really bad after they left, too, they could have just done halo as a pseudo mmo in the vein of destiny and I bet people would have loved it.

I have a friend who used to work at Bungie. She says that everyone there is miserable because they're forced to work at breakneck speed on Destiny forever and all the new projects that keep getting pitched are from out-of-touch leadership. She told me about several all-hands meetings where people were begging to be allowed to work on smaller single player games, but just had the whip cracked and told to get back into the Destiny mines.

>>725533304
Microsoft already bought them, they just bought their freedom back by releasing ODST and Reach.

>>725532237
Was it really only 400mil? You can buy a studio and all of its intellectual property for less than the price of making one Concord? I thought the Bungie sale was $1b?

>>725533616
Sony Interactive Entertainment has officially completed its $3.7 billion deal to acquire Bungie

>>725530992 (OP)
THANKS FOR THE CARS FAGGOTS

>>725533742
Oh I misread the posts. Right.

>>725533616
They spent 3.6 billion Bungie, but that's not counting how much they dropped on Marathon and the delay.

Which is crazy. Microsoft buying Minecraft for 2.5 billion sounds like a fucking steal now. Cus Sony didn't buy Halo. They basically only bought Destiny, which is a 10 year old dying IP in a market filled with GaaS slop.

>>725532683
But enough about Electronic "worst company in america" Arts.

>>725530992 (OP)
What they need to do is go all in on the series and make it rival Arcane
ah fuck they scrapped it. why does sony make all the wrong decisions always

>>725533860
MS bought Bethesda for half the price of Bungie and Bethesda has made more money from all their games than Destiny 2. It's crazy how overpriced Bungie is.

>>725533860
>Cus Sony didn't buy Halo. They basically only bought Destiny,
its honestly hilarious how this lives in contrast to MS buying RARE back in 2000 expecting to get the Donkey Kong IP

>>725533912
>why does sony make all the wrong decisions always
sony was right bungie writers would have made everyone gay ugly and trans
never forget saint 14

>>725533860
>a 10 year old dying IP
All they have to do is release Destiny 3 and all the pathetic morons will come crawling back, even if there are no substantial improvements or new content whatsoever. GAAS are not games, they're thinly veiled scams, and there's a sucker born every minute.

>>725534040
>bungie writers would have made everyone gay ugly and trans
Better that than having no official means to actually experience any of the story content. The idea that you're supposed to go watch youtube lore videos as a substitute for actual story is laughable. Even From's boring ass games that lean hard on lore videos still actually contain all that lore inside the game and usually have an easily followed basic story that lets you ignore all that shit anyway. Caring about Destiny's story requires you to be invested in a decade of lore that has been removed from the game. God only knows how anyone ever thought this franchise was going to be worth getting invested in.

>>725530992 (OP)
nah that was sony buying the concord studio which just costed them money

>>725533860
Sony bought Bungie because Sony sees live service games as the future of gaming and they saw Destiny succeed where others either tread water (e.g. The Division 1 and 2) or failed completely (e.g. Anthem, Babylon's Fall). They felt Bungie had a secret sauce and wanted access to it, Destiny was merely a nice to have.

However, the secret sauce to Destiny's success (at least until now) was to not give up when sentiment is low, be willing to pivot, and have enough money to keep the development machine running. This is not very appealing to an executive that wants to reliably churn out revenue generators with as little risk as possible, but they didn't know this until the sale was complete.

>>725533783
what a fucking nigger

the ps5 gen has been such a complete wet fart it's insane
>but le revenue
yeah enjoy being a gacha whale faggot

>>725530992 (OP)
woah you’re telling me no one gives a shit about a dollar store Halo knock off with gay ass borderlands lootershooter system? damn thats crazy

>>725534575
You could argue the sole reason Destiny succeeded is because of Halo. Halo was massive, Bungie split from MS, signed a marketing deal with Sony for Destiny's PS4 release and essentially became the flagship co op game of that console. All that on the back of the goodwill they had earned from Halo. Destiny was, is, and always will be worthless shit, but it was marketed heavily and had nice visuals so it succeeded. No amount of pivots would have saved them if they didn't have the critical mass of consumers to begin with.

Go back to your dead fucking general transtiny faggots. No one cares about your shitty game.

>>725532089
>>725534854
Look at these posts. There is absolutely a concerted effort to disrupt and derail any discussion that pertains to videogames.
Why are you so threatened by vidya? What possible danger could it pose to make you kvetch so?

>>725532452
> diversity hire
Probably not. CFO is a *serious* job, anon - you talk to investors all day long.
Safer to staff your diversity hires in bullshit excel jobs, like HR, PR and management.

>>725530992 (OP)
insane how a shit game like Warframe still mogs all other competitors with 60k players even now
the game is 13 years old

>>725535064
Goldfarmers farming to make a minimum wage in a 3rd world country or legit players?

Everyone saw that coming. Except Sony. Eerie resemblance to Concord.
Who is running that company?

>>725532727
Because Sony was desperate after Microsoft bought Bethesda.
The final nail in the coffin was the Activision acquisition announcement which made them accept the price Bungie was asking for.

>>725530992 (OP)
Ya love to see it

>>725530992 (OP)
>Spend billions on a studio whose only noteworthy IP at the time was live service game in decline
>expect said studio to help your other studios develop successful live service games despite their only one continuously losing players
>believe studio when they say they'll release a bunch of hit games, with only their word to show for it
>the one closest to finishing development is an extraction shooter sequel to an old IP, and then gets delayed because of a stolen art scandal
>this delay comes after a private beta that got mixed reviews
>the live aervice game bleeds even more players and reaches historical lows
>mass layoffs
>all the veteran staff has either been fired or quit the very second their paycheck from the Sony deal hit their bank account
It boggles the mind how these mega corporations can be filled with genuine retards who think that a deal like that would ever be profitable or worth it.

>>725531679
>bungie made them money
they specifically said in this call Bungo lost so much money for them that had they not purchased bungie they would be a record 23% more profitable yoy.

>>725532837
Yeah the console war fagging is ultimately dead. They have cucked each other and their own development since devs are too lazy to optimize.

>>725532826
>>725532895
were one of these games Destiny 3? cause that's the only reason i would think Sony would drop 3.6 billion for the studio

It's funny how the Bungie owners got out like a bandit. Sony must be seething.

>>725537804
>taking snoy money and leave all the shits to them
holy based

I feel like the bungie purchase was a impulsive panic decision from sony because xbox just bought bethesda

>>725537714
No they never started d3 cause retards all of them

>>725530992 (OP)
Wasn't buying Bungie a knee jerk reaction to a Microsoft acquisition?

>>725538028
>they never started d3
i refuse to believe they are that retarded

>>725537985
it was. I remember thinking they only bought them because they were worried about microsofts spending spree

I played destiny 2 on stadia, then I stopped playing when stadia shut down. I have no desire to download that game.

>>725538127
My friend was fired at the first round of layoffs they had nothing for d3 at that point. It was all in on marathon and other side games.

>>725532654
wanna get raped by /biz/ again?

>>725532683
>>do nothing with it
what are they supposed to do?
they bought a stock
that stock claimed it was going to the moon
after the stock was bought it cratered
there is nothing to do.

>>725538240
>other side games.
>lets make this instead of Destiny 3

>>725530992 (OP)
I mean yeah they grotesquely overpaid for them even before the GaaS bubble burst

Now it just looks plain suicidal

>>725534418
>God only knows how anyone ever thought this franchise was going to be worth getting invested in.
destiny 1 beta pvp was fun so i bought the full game and regretted it real fast when pvp became OHKO shotgun meta

>>725535604
thats WoW not Warframe

>>725530992 (OP)
No shit. One of the worst purchases in gaming history.

>>725537714
>>725538028
>>725538127
>>725538240
>>725538285
The window for a successful D3 announcement has passed anyway, the end of Final Shape was the only time they could have announced it and had it generate hype and only with a release date no more than 1.5 or 2 years away at most. If they came out today and said D3 was in production, not only would reactions be mixed, but by the time it came out the frqnchise would be dead and buried given D2's current state.

>>725530992 (OP)
One of the most stupid buyouts I've ever seen, god I hate Jim Ryan.
Made every studio waste their time on gaas garbage, threw a whole generation away of games, and on top of that spent 3.6 fucking billion (half of Bethesda) on a studio with just a dying Destiny that was on a terrible downward spiral because he thought these frauds were masters at service games and would be a great tool to move in the right away all their upcoming service garbage.
Result? Most of the games didn't even come out, Bungie is burning money left and right, and of the games that came out, only 1 made it, and that single one was probably the game they invested the least amount of money on.
Clowns.

>>725531679
>set house on fire
>it burns down
>find a penny on the street after
>"Wow I made a profit burning down my house!"

Destiny was successful because it was the first one like it. It only had good gunplay going for it. However, it's bleeding players, and they are not able to reverse it. With Arc Raiders launching with some level of success, it will make Marathon face an uphill battle, and I doubt they can steal many players from Arc Raiders.

>>725530992 (OP)
It's so funny how Sony was panic buying garbage as to not look weak against all the money Xbox makes now.

>>725533943
>tendie still repeating this nonsense

>>725532452
>years ago
god, it feels like they bought them last year. where the fuck does time go

>>725533783
>show off your expensive cars to your employees
>they compliment because you're their boss so of course they do
>fire them all later
textbook sociopath

>>725539282
you lost snoytroon

>buy bungle
>get bungled
I mean what else could have happened?

The entire story is just hideous incompetence all around.
>Buy bungie with the intent of turning other studios into more bungies with their own destiny 2 tier whale funded game
>spend the entire encouraging and assisting bungies higher ups in the already ongoing purge of all the talent and old guard the second they got too uppity that actually have the know how and talent to make the sought after whalebaits
>finally left with a zombie of a studio that no longer knows how it made what it did
>get said zombie studio to try and teach other studios stuff the stuff they no longer know.
>spent too much on bungie in the first place and now there's no way to course correct the blunderfuck you helped create.

sucks to suck.

>>725539282
you wonned sonybvll

>>725539765
Its doubly funny because Destiny2 started to drop off hard before the acquisition even took place
>keep teasing the darkness coming
>it doesn't happen
>they promise its next season
>next season
>next season this time for reals
>this much beloved character? They're gay now lmao
>#BLM
>player base dies off
>sony buys them

>>725533860
Alright, we need a list starting from 2019 of ALL the projects released from Aquiered studios to get a nice long lay of the land.

>>725539765
Sony got what they paid for. Bungie was essentially dropped by two major publishers prior to their buyout. No corporation is ever willing to let go of its golden goose unless there is something horribly wrong with it on a corporate level that we weren't seeing yet. All of it is still so sad to see since I'm old enough to remember Marathon, Oni and Myth era Bungie.

>>725539772
you lost snoytroon

so you say if i add [ to the filter list i wont see these garbage threads ever again?

>>725532727
Bungie had a good track record prior to Destiny and even during the time of acquisition, Destiny was in an ok space. It's always been up and down, but as far as live service games go, it was doing far better than most of them.
Sony was also busy believing that live service games were the future and were pivoting everything into being live service titles, which is why the ps5 is so barren, since basically all of them have been cancelled.
Them buying Bungie at the time made a bit of sense on the knowledge that they were going all in on live service games, which even back then anyone could have told you was fucking retarded.
$4bn is an insane number though, they got scammed massively.
But it's basically what I'd feared, Sony is the one who will be responsible for killing Bungie. Sony has been the 2nd most damaging company to video games outside of microsoft.

>>725539919
Bungie finally getting rid of the art guys that had been there since Myth was the final nail in the coffin.
Probably explains why the new guys were retarded enough to leave stuff like reference material in textures.

>>725533912
Fuck, that's a real shame. If they got some good writers, we could get some truly kino stuff set in the Destiny universe.
The lore is really good, but the in-game story is generally fucking atrocious.

>>725530992 (OP)
History always repeats itself:
>retarded CEO with delusions of grandeur accesses a safe full of money from a gaming corporation
>begins to imagine that he's a business genius and will multiply that money and become the cover of business magazines
>has no idea what he's doing
>looks for a large company based on the only game franchise he's heard of
>buys it without any guarantees, relying solely on his 'supernatural' business instinct
>causes the company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars
>ends up being replaced
>his replacement with delusions of grandeur starts the process all over again

>>725532452
>Makes you wonder what they're thinking there (if at all)
It's not really that difficult or hard to understand. Microsoft bought Activision right before. This was Sony's response to that their idea of mutually assured destruction if Microsoft pulled COD away from Sony

>>725540142
>Sony was also busy believing that live service games were the future
This one is wrong.
Sony looked at their own financials, their software and how much money it makes(spoiler: it does not), compared it to other publishers and what gives them the big money. They wanted to become selfsustainable instead of relying on taxing 3rd party gaas and they wanted the easy fast way of doing that by creating their own gaas.
The initital intend was good and right but they went the complete retard wa yof getting to their goal by pushing hundreds of millions into gaas title development instead of seeding a bunch of small games and see where it goes, to then pump any success full of money.

>>725530992 (OP)
I don't understand who thought bungie had any value?
since the moment destiny has released it has been an absolute laughing stock, the only people who played it were the most retarded of retards who had to be playing a console shooter at all time but were too trash to play pvp shooters and would cope by saying they didn't have the time.
it was nearly a decade after that when sony bought bungie, they had been dogshit for nearly a decade, destiny 2 released 5 years before they got bought, how could you not see the writing on the wall and bungie clinging to what it could do and shitting the bed on everything with nothing but failing franchises.
bungie hasn't put out a popular title in 20 fucking years, sony had well over a decade, almost 2 decades, to see they were dogshit and had nothing happening, but still bought them. crazy.

>>725532927
Hasn’t 2 development been a long term disaster that burns all the money it makes?

>>725534575
>However, the secret sauce to Destiny's success
also it was be one of the first decent GaaS games. If Div 1 came out before and was more polished it would have been king.

>>725540896
>I don't understand who thought bungie had any value?

>>725540872
>Sony looked at their own financials, their software and how much money it makes(spoiler: it does not)
it's funny how a lot of sony fans seem totally unaware that the ps4 era blockbuster model isn't sustainable

you better start to learn how to like concord and marathon because this is what sony's first party output is going to look like for the foreseeable future

>>725530992 (OP)
Bungie is a masterful scammer that cons moneybags into giving them money and then weaseling out a few years later. The only publisher that ever managed to somewhat tard wrangle them was Microsoft.

>>725540946
Depends on how you look at it really.
It's either burning all the money it makes or it's reinvesting for the next expansion.
Bungie were clearly making enough to stay afloat since they were independent for 3 years and even expanded during that time so it can't have been that bad.

>>725540994
yeah ur right we DO know who thought that.
putting people who don't play video games in charge of video game companies is retarded, if you don't even understand the product you are trying to make how can you even know what advice to listen to?

>>725537478
>It boggles the mind how these mega corporations can be filled with genuine retards who think that a deal like that would ever be profitable or worth it.
Many corporations are just coasting on the fact that they are old and established and have little viable competition. The entire would would benefit and we would progress as a species if we destroyed every corporation that is 50 years and older

>>725535043
>PR
>safe
Depends anon, do you remember Bud Light?

>>725541159
I'm glad he got fired, but the damage is done

>>725540872
I feel like we're saying the same thing. It's been all but confirmed that they were pushing all their studios towards live service across all their titles. They'd put naughty dog onto that TLOU factions multiplayer game which they cancelled, there was a god of war multiplayer game that got the axe, we all know how concord released for 2 days, twisted metal was announced, got a tv show, then cancelled, spiderman 2 multi got canned, and then there's all the games we never even heard about.
You can kinda see the remnants of it on ps5, stuff like the lgbt car combat game, foamstars is abandoned, Helldivers 2 is still doing quite well, but that seems to be despite sony, but it's a pretty weak effort after all those billions.

>>725532978
Concord was in development for years before Sony bought the studio. That is correct.

>>725541159
They're insane people hoping to have a MCU/Avengers Endgame moment but with vidya.
Remember that Endgame made more money at the box office than the entire logging industry that year. That kind of money gets these dragons frothing and blinded.

>>725538127
>i refuse to believe they are that retarded
Before they made D2 they hired a woman who did nothing but led a fail esports division to help make the game more esports friendly. When D2 came out that scene was mostly dead and everyone hated what they did with PVP which began like a 6 -12 month long effort to change it back to more like D1. Did he get fired? No they promoted her. She got to make bigger decisions about the game. Oh yea side note she is on record saying that because she was bullied for being a woman when she used to play Counter Strike she vowed to limit communication options if she worked for a game and she did just that with Destiny which despite being a"MMO" (Bungie's words not mine) it has some of the most restrictive communication options because of muh toxicity. All because some Asian cunt got offended 15 years ago

>>725539430
>textbook sociopath
The reality is all CEOs and CTO's and CFO's are sociopaths. You don't get into that position being nice

>>725541664
is this cunt still with them? what a way to fail upwards

>>725534782
Destiny 2 is the best coop pve fps ever made.

>>725542138
No she got super promoted into running a (soon to be closed) new Sony studio that is basically like Sweet Baby Jesus but for multiplayer games as in you contract her team to make your multiplayer experience less "toxic" from my understanding
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/corporate/playstation-studios/teamlfg/

>>725538127
What was originally going to be D3 got repurposed into Beyond Light.

>>725542524
Maybe I've just got rose tinted goggles but I do kinda agree with these faggots that in online interactions in vidya nowadays incredible hostility is the default now.
I don't think their gay little hugbox restrictions actually do anything and shouldn't exist but damn everyone just needs to calm down a bit so we can get angry together instead of starting off that way. Way more fun that way.

>>725542524
holy fuck the absolute chutzpah of calling it "'team lfg" when your goal is to silence people you don't like

>>725542692
>that in online interactions in vidya nowadays incredible hostility is the default now.
I dunno what games you are playing. The ones I play people are either silent because of strict TOS or quiet because they are in a party chat. It is no where as bad now as it was during the Modern Warfare 2 era. Also again her response to this is to gimp all communications so no one can talk

>>725541772
>reworks lighting system for the 80th time in your path

>>725542809
That's how it is these days. Call things you don't like "hate speech" and label others as racists and you the victim

>>725542692
shouting "nazi" or "racist" or whatever at calmly asserted opinions created a shitty world where everyone is permanently on the attack.

Where da f is des 3?

>>725542825
People always bring up the worst/best of the OG MW2 but they always leave out it was a fun place to just shoot the shit with randoms when people weren't coming up with new slurs.

>>725530992 (OP)
Hahahahahahahaha on one side I unironically feel sad for sony but on the other I hope all Bungie employees get raped and die.

>>725542930
No doubt it was but that era was the wild west of voice chat and it has been seriously subdued since then.

>>725542930
VR shooters like contractors feel like mid-00's voice chat. everyone's headset has a mic turned on by default. great fun. especislly playing VR versions of those mid-00's shooters

>>725530992 (OP)
Bungie killing Sony sloooowly
Thanks Bungie!

>>725532683
Their mistake was giving Bungie freedom of management, their CEOs were just looking for a golden parachute and the company itself was extremely inefficient and burning money fast.

There's not even any good talent left in Bungie, all they seem to be able to do is rehash old shit, Marathon is like 60% recycled Destiny 2 content with a new coat of paint.

>>725543903
>sony paid an extra billion for bungie to keep the talent
>CEOs pocket the money and still fire the employees anyways

scam masters

>>725544029
Basically every Bungie manager that was there during the Halo days is waiting for that day when they can cash out their stock and leave which is like within a year from now

>>725530992 (OP)
NO REFUNDS

>>725533161
This is the real answer. Sony became obsessed with turning every IP they produced into live service slop, they thought everything they had could become a Destiny. If they coukd get 5 or 6 Destinys made, 4 billion would have been nothing compared to the money they'd be pulling in if Concord and The Last of Us multiplayer got off the ground, both of which Bungie was brought in to try and help the developers design and both of which died.

>>725530992 (OP)
Finally, some good fucking news
Fuck sony btw

>>725530992 (OP)
wokes lose again
KWAB

>>725544287
What bungie managers from the Halo days? Nigga they're all gone dude. Every single one with the exception if Jason Jones has left or been fired over the past decade. And Jason seems to just be spending his time doing alchemy or whatever the fuck he does until retirement.

>>725545691
there are many left that aren't as prestigious or known

>>725538252
I don't know about the stock itself but wasn't the company and the games already a flaming dumpster for years at the time of acquisition?

>>725538285
This might actually succeed because its a smash clone, the market is prepped for a good platform fighter that isnt for 4 year olds

>>725534575
It was also an unofficial Halo spin off at a time when Halo was still insanely well loved.
It was 4-5 years after Reach, and then Bungie drops a new even more alien Halo styled game?
Of course it was gonna do well.

D2 managed to not suck ass for a long time, keeping the ball rolling.

>>725538684
the worst part is he got out before being publicly disgraced and thrown out for fucking up so hard. I have no idea why hermen hulst is still there.

>>725530992 (OP)
Isn't it amazing how everyone knew this was a stupid idea from the beginning, except the people that are paid billions to make that decision?

>>725546128
Smash is successful because its roster is full of nostalgic characters.
Not because it is a mechanically good fighting game.
Autists that lug around 100lb CRTs need not apply.

>>725546414
it is mechanically a brilliant fighting game, I'm tired of having this same argument, i like smash inspite of the autistic mascot characters, not because of it.

it wont sell as well as smash without the license whoring but it is filling a gap in the market that has never been attempted by a competent dev.

>>725546698
Whether the mechanics are good or not is irrelevant, because they aren't why the series is popular.

>>725546885
That makes the potential opportunity for a hit very high. All the success in the game industry is now about leveraging unacknowledged brilliant game design and repackaging it for retards. The first dev to take smash mechanics away from the baby party game and put it in a real one will be granted infinite money.

>>725539765
Part of the acquisition included money to keep employees.. I wonder where that money went

>>725545882
yes but not from a profit viewpoint
bungie was worth alot but sony overpaid by like 2 billion
jim ryan was also a retard and thought sony could have 10 successful live service games at the same time for 10+ years
he "resigned" shortly after the purchase...

>>725531679
Probably a 105% loss. Handling refunds is annoying.

>>725538842
Retard.

>>725541772
>>725539430
>earn money
>buy something for yourself
Incredible that humans are capable of something this evil.

>>725530992 (OP)
Blame the westerners driving Sony, a Japanese company, to the ground.
Herman Hulst has done more damage than 2 nukes in the short span of time he's been in charge.

>>725548509
Hey, that's mean. Jim Ryan helped too!

>>725533426
why not quit?

>>725530992 (OP)
No because Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard is the same non-exclusive deal but 10-20X more expensive. Microsoft will never make their money back while Xbox is still alive.

>>725533426
When was this? Destiny barely ever got any content since Blackburn took over.

Many people stopped playing D2 after final shape, it was a nice end to the 10 year journey(assuming you had been there since D1), whatever followed up the witness death needed to be something special, instead we get constant relationship woes between Saint and Osiris(fuck that one asshole for making them gay), and ANOTHER female villain who is also pining for their dead day lover.
We don't even see the conclusion of this, it was so poorly received that it got scrapped, instead we got smaller and smaller updates and a more unstable game.
Then in TRUE BUNGIE BRILLIANCE, they decide to retool THE ENTIRE FUCKING GAME, and condense it into a a soulless menu, 10 years worth of content? Sorry but no, just a handful of old and new things.
They're also perpetually ass pained that High Moon Studios made one of the most beloved content drops in D1 history, so they went out of their way to eliminate it entirely from D2.

tldr: FUCK BUNGIE.

>>725530992 (OP)
Whoever orchestrated the purchase of Bungie was a genius. They somehow dolled up the company enough to make them pay THAT much money for it. All they had was a dying multiplayer game from a genre that nobody else wanted to touch and a promise of a game.

Thank you, Pete. I don't think I was ever going to stop playing this shit game. Forcing me to stop by killing the company works, I guess.

>What do you mean he's dead, his pulse was the highest it's ever been a second ago!
How does Sony continue to fuck up multiple times by trend chasing and being late because their development takes a decade?

>>725533943
It was like one employee being quoted on thinking MS purchased Donkey Kong with Rare, it's not at all the reason. MS's purchase was to prepare their Xbox launch while denying competition (the latter becoming their sole apparent purpose in buying half the western industry today).

>>725537804
didn't they take a ton of cash to keep personnel after getting bought just to lay them off anyway

>>725538057
not sure but it looked like they panicked bought it in a fear of losing call of duty but based on how things unraveled in the end snoys burned 7 times more money on this shitty studio than on concord, it's the biggest waste of money in vidya history LMAO