Talha Amjad writes: "At the end of the day, Destiny 2 might be a game that has been fraught with issues, but that is due to Activision, not Bungie. For all of the flak it has received, the developer has listened to the community and responded accordingly ever since the game initially released."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
TNS - NCSoft CEO admitted that AI is rapidly becoming a core part of game development, but he added that it cannot replace what makes games fun.
To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
I think this time is not Activision fault , Bungie went on a laziness/greed rampage with Destiny 2, the game just feels a bad re-hash from Destiny 1, same enemy's , same classes, re-re-releasing old weapons, a simple matchmaking can't still be done for raids or nightfalls, the random loots drops are bad as always, the dozens of hours in farming for a particular weapon or armor, some specials weapons can't be obtained unless you are in a team of 9? lol wtf?, when obtained feels like a complete waste of time, the multiplayer characters classes are so damn unbalanced, the weapons and armor designs from normal to exotic most of them are useless and badly designed, the story is so uninspiring and so boring, the sparrow or ships nothing new there, I was hoping for some guns in the vehicles or ships and some space fighting segments or landing or just some control for those but nothing new there. Bungie earned so much money with Destiny 1 and the sequel we received was just a damn expansion with lots back steps.
Bungie was stupid enough to kill the only one character that was like the soul of the Destiny franchise , and this was because Bungie wanted to create a cheap fuzz so to make every player get upset and went to a cheap revenge inspired theme with the latest DLC.
Bungie’s reputation has taken a major hit
Exactly they have to blame themselves and Bungie. These people brought in 4 billion in microtransactions last year. This proves no amount of money is enough for these greedy POS.
Honestly, I think the real problem lies with Destiny 1. That was the first game in the series and first impressions are very important. When alot of people got their hands on it, there was tons of disappointment for the game in regards to story, lore, grinding and other things. So most likely they decided to not risk it again, despite what people say. It sucks, but it already digged itself a hole and it will be very difficult to get out of that hole especially in this day and age.