Destiny has been out for over a month now and we’ve had plenty of time to think about Bungie and Activision’s grand investment. We’re still another month away from the first major content expansion, so the play-once-and-trade-in crowd have moved on, and Bungie and its players are settling into an MMO-like cycle of daily and weekly activities punctuated by special events.
Destiny 2 x Star Wars collaboration is here! Get exclusive gear, cosmetics, and accessories when Heresy launches on February 4th. Don’t miss it!
The long-rumoured Destiny Mobile game from NetEase may finally be ready for reveal according to multiple leakers.
Phil Spencer talks candidly about missing out on both Destiny and Guitar Hero
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Microsoft bought all of Zenimax Media for 7 billion, while Sony paid 4 billion for Bungie. I think Microsoft got the better deal due to acquiring Fallout, ElderScrolls and Doom.
Yeah, I thought it out. I'm not sure you did. But since we are buddy's now, you're welcome.
"Clearly your parents didn't teach you"
You know you lost, when you have to resort to this tactic.
So you're saying that Microsoft has missed out on so many huge gaming franchise in the last 25 years from GTA exclusivity to guitar hero and destiny it's just laughable they had so many misses
Yea, but they're still 100 times more wealthy than Sony. I would say it worked out well.
That isn't because of Xbox though. This is a gaming page, not an I get supplemented by father Windows page
Microsoft's money has nothing to do with Xbox.
Xbox is a money pit to them they would love to ditch but are after some ROI first.
Let's face it, Xbox is like a red headed stepchild that steals from you to buy drugs.
MIicrosoft is NOT XBOX. The current situation illustrates this. And Microsoft wants its ROI.
@Bathyj and daddy Satya has just force admitted Phil to rehab.
you know why MS has so much money, and it aint cause of the gaming xbox branch.
so lets not kid ourselves.
@PhillyDownJawn not more profitable. More revenue with ABK acquisition but them going multiplat shows they are not making much profit
That's great for Xbox gamers ain't it that Microsoft are more wealthy than Sony. Is that really a argument use are using now lol?
Imagine me in my job. Arguing with a fellow security guard at another company. Hahah well the company I work for is worth £800m the one you work for is only work £600m!
Microsoft may have more money but Sony has the talented studios and the games to back up those studios.
Plus turning down Marvel too. Spiderman is only exclusive to Playstation because of that
Best deal deal in gaming must be when Sony bought Insomniac for 229 million dollars. They made over 800 millions on Spiderman for the ps4 alone. Thats just crazy!
another Interview?
how is he the only one who loves the spotlight as much as he does lol
Let's not forget he also famously passed on Spider-man, Genshin Impact and GTA3.
However it's almost kind of cute how he can keep that sh1t-eating grin and say he's a 'no regrets' kind of guy, especially when you think how much just these 5 titles could have swung the world in Xbox's favour instead of Sonys.
How he's kept his job I don't know, he must sure be keeping Papa Nadella's shaft warm somehow.
"But, but Gamepass, he introduced that!!!"
Yes he did, and now look at Xbox, all it's exclusives are coming to Playstation now rendering the platform obsolete.
Honestly, with that kind of track record, you can't convince me Spencer hasn't eaten it from the back in the name of self preservation. Probably unwashed...and at least twice.
That aside, my interpretation of everything here is Xbox has been mismanaged a bit too much and Nadella came down from his throne. The way it is now, I don't believe for a minute the multiplatform move was Spencer's idea. I don't even think the acquisitions was Spencer's work. At this point, I reckon he's got as much power in his role as Hunter Biden at a Ukrainian energy company.
You can never tell how things will turn out if he had said yes to those games. Xbox already has access to some great IPs, however, they hardly do anything with them or fail to deliver. It's also possible their presentation wasn't good at the time, and they made sure the next presentation was better.
I believe that part of being successful is releasing things in the right place at the right time.
Many major corporations have a story similar to passing on successful business ideas. Let us look at Sony Pictures for example. Back when Marvel went bankrupt, they had the opportunity to buy the entire Marvel for only $25 Million but turned them down. An unnamed big shot at Sony reportedly claimed that “nobody gives a shit about any of the other Marvel characters,”. They ended up taking Spiderman for $10 Million instead.
https://www.avclub.com/sony...
Fast forward to today, we can see what the Marvel brand has done for Disney. Is it possible the same success would have been possible had Sony acquired those IPs. We can't say that for sure and it is possible most of those IPs that are successful today may not have been used.
I think that after u beat the raid, matchmaking should be unlocked for it.
Forums are great help for this Matchmaking that is being demanded
The problem is Destiny is not clan friendly with most of the game content limiting to 3 players. Also It's luck whether / when you get good enough armour / weapons to do the raid at the same time as fellow team players.
Also no game should virtually block content just because they might game on their own!
Not everybody is of the younger generations that have lots of game friends like FB collecting friends.
This is the reason I've stopped playing. I think its a alright game, but when I'm stuck at 26 for like two weeks... because I cant do a raid...because my friends have different schedules...because I send out messages to people on my friends list that I don't play with ever and they still don't do the raid...because I go to the earth social or citadel or whatever the heck its called and dance and point and sit down with people messaging them trying to get them to do a raid...man WTF? IT NEEDS MATCHMAKING! EVERY GAME I PLAY HAS NUBBS THAT HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEIR DOING! BUT NOOOOO Destiny IS DIFFERENT? 500 MILLION OVER THREE GAMES AND...nope this is TBS(TOTAL BULL****)
I like to play destiny solo and at times I have two friends and we play as a fire team. I do not however have six friends who all have destiny and play the same times as I do with my schedule. I have played in the Raid with some friends of my friend etc. I have absolutely no desire to pursue raids. If it had match making maybe. I am level 29 and am perfectly content there as long as I don't have to mess with all of the headaches of getting six people together who have similar schedules as mine and want to play Raids when I want to. I am primarily a solo player and I like it that way. If the only way to get the best gear in this game is through Raids then that's ok. I really can do without it. I have more fun doing what I like instead of what developers like. Bungie is trying to push me into playing Raids that I don't enjoy playing and restricting my access cool gear unless I play what they want me to play and with no match making. I just want to have fun....to me, Raids and Crucible are a no go...Period.