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After watching the whole thing, not only did he say everything I posted upthread without even seeing it before (making my effortpost seem a little silly in retrospect), but he also inadvertently predicted what was going to happen to Destiny, even when I don't think he could have possibly foreseen that they would make this absolutely retarded decision. But going into the history of Bungie and especially Jason Jones, it becomes pretty obvious: he hates sequels, he hates working on the same thing for too long, he'll literally go out of his way to work on anything but what he's supposed to be doing, even if contractually obligated. Jason himself probably made the final call to kill Destiny and focus solely on Marathon, and he was going to do that whether Marathon was a success or not. And since it's not, it looks like an even more insane decision.
Good video though, thanks for the link.
I did forget to mention that in my reaction bit to the overall blogpost, that years and years after they should have, they're finally bundling all of the paid content together into one singular purchase. Every expansion, every dungeon key, all the additional content packs, all wrapped up in a neat little bow.
I forget where I saw this, but I seem to recall that someone asked a higher-up at Bungie why they didn't roll the older expansions into the base game or reduce their price over time. The response? "People still buy them at full price, so why would we bother?" It's like, the idea that making the game cheaper and easier to get into would result in a larger playerbase and probably more money over time simply didn't occur to them. All they saw was how to get as much money as possible out of each individual, regardless of how few were actually getting into the game. Retards all the way down.
The fact that a lot of the firings happened to occur conveniently before stock options vested really says a lot about Bungie's priorities. Sony really should just clean house, and I honestly don't even care if they get replaced with worse people at this point. I just want to see the retards responsible for killing Destiny tossed out on the curb.
If true, then jeez, talk about a rugpull. Bungie mismanagement strikes again, with half the studio looking down the barrel of a shitcanning while the other half tries to salvage their latest flop.
This was brought up numerous times in Darkside Royalty's video, but Bungie really could have and should have done more to actually maintain their talent and make them feel more secure in their position, and thus making them want to do better work (bringing up Iwata taking a huge pay cut in the wake of the Wii U's disastrous launch). But management thought they were gods and everyone else was their slaves who should feel lucky to even bask in the presence of their glory. Jason Jones is a genius that you just have to support in everything he does! Don't mind us buying another dozen cars while you can't afford groceries, get back to work!
Bungie truly has only succeeded in spite of its management, not because of it. If they or Sony have any levers to pull to get Jason out of there, they need to be pulling them now.
