Random thought on Bungie and getting their heads on

[Sennex 1,903]

So, I keep looking at all the videos and random announcements lately, and one thought keeps popping into my head. (Also one piece of info popped up that I am trying to verify)

 

TL;DR - The Beta is definitely over now. 

 

It "feels" to me like Bungie finally got their heads out of their Ass and are making the game we wanted all along.

 

The game clearly grew way to fast for them to handle. Their are loads of reports out there that indicate this, there is also a former Dev interview that had a bit of an emotional breakdown from working on Destiny. The Dev's comments don't slam Bungie at all, but they do point to a number of things that have lead to Destiny's lackluster game.

 

• Drama around Martin O'Donnell quitting
• Destiny Lead writer quit/ walked away. Project handed to new writer who dumped all the original writers stuff (Until now)
• Activision had a much larger hand in Destiny's original development and the dev of VoG and CE. They are gone now, and are only over the actual release of the game (This means getting the discs and downloads out there)
• Poor Management higher ups. The Former Dev had a lot to say about this, he pointed out that people with zero experience or education were put in Management positions because Bungie needed bodies. Then these "managers" were given impossible deadlines, and fired for not meeting them. Then the process started over again (This is what EA and Ubisoft do, so I was shocked to hear that Bungie did this as well)
• The money grab mentality was real for Activision/ Bungie (I put activision first, as they were the drive behind this)

There is a lot of good information out there right now; but like my TLDR states, I think we are all finally getting to the end of the BETA and will be playing the game we saw a few years ago soon.

 

......hopefully

 

[Stretch616 697]

I hope you're right. Destiny 1.5 sounds like a good step in the right direction. The proof will be in the pudding but i think a slow and steady release of (rumoured) free content would be a massive selling point for this game.

Plus the lore that was missing from the game was massive, hopefully they can start to make ammends now