The gameplay and addiction for loot is crazy in Destiny. I played it for 3 months but when it came to paying up for the DLC, I quit. It was just too expensive for more of the same. The Taken King is ripping off people at a whole another level given the meager content they are offering. I just bought the expansion for FFXIV for $40 and the amount of new content is mind-boggling. A whole new open world continent to explore, a new race, three new sub-classes, tens of hours of story quests, numerous sidequests, several superbosses, multiple raids, huge amount of new gear and much more. Bungie are just ripping off people with the hefty DLC prices. I wonder how good Planetside 2 is. I think I will give it a try. Have been looking for a good FPS on PS4.

It's really not the game, it's what they did to it. Game is amazing, but they decided to withhold for the sake of money.

But how many people are throwing EPIC shade, though?
The Techland one was clever, I thought.

why do people keep saying stupid shit like this? "digging their own grave"??? You mean having one of the most successful games of all of last year? Having a continued player base in the millions? Average daily player usage at more than 2 hours? How the hell is that digging their grave? If anything they're DROWNING in money. It's remained one of the most popular games overall and it launched a year ago! What other game from a year ago is talked about at all now? 1, and it's Destiny.

"It was part of the game, everyone knows that"

Oh really? You are 100% sure they were done with it before hand? That's like saying you see a hotel with an addition with the exterior all done. Well if that's the case then the whole thing is done and why not just let people in. If the exterior is all done we all know the interior is!

@jwill552, thats right. in this update there is going to be a whole new location, "better storytelling, more halo like', a whole new campaign with new areas in already existing planets, multiple strikes, a new raid, many new pvp maps and modes, and new subclasses,

Because that would take away content they could use in next year's release of Destiny 2.

The stuff you listed is exactly what's going to be in this expansion, other than a bunch of new planets. I don't expect that until the true sequel.

Maybe it's because of these kind of comments that he isn't with daybreak anymore?

I played PS2 for an hour. the game is complete garbage, and why in the hell are friendlies Pink, yellow and green. I shot so many damn friendlies trying to figure out WHO the enemy was.
Back in the days of Mag I remember PC friends were talking this game up as the next great shooter, it is no MAG that's for sure. glitchy, empty, and bad map design.

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.

@anast
Should've thought that one out buddy, lol.

Yea, but they're still 100 times more wealthy than Sony. I would say it worked out well.

Plus turning down Marvel too. Spiderman is only exclusive to Playstation because of that

More in the 1.000 million now.

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.