BUNGIE CUTS THE CORD
Activision and Bungie break up. What does it mean for DESTINY 2?
guardian whose stewards tweet
things like, “We are not disappointed
with Forsaken. We set out to build a
game that Destiny players would love,
and at Bungie, we love it too.”
The temptation is to hope all the
things players hate and chalk up to
business motives, rather than for love
of the game, will disappear with
Activision. That would be impossible
because, for as long as I’ve known it,
the Destiny community is capable of
being annoyed about and in love with
everything simultaneously.
As per Bungie’s official
announcement, “We know self-
publishing won’t be easy; there’s still
much for us to learn as we grow as anB
ungie kicked off 2019
with news that it is
ending its publishing
relationship with
Activision eight years
into the decade-long arrangement.
Bungie always held the IP rights to
the Destiny franchise, but Activision
will transfer the publishing rights,
leaving its fate entirely in the hands
of its developers. But what does
that actually mean for Destiny?
Well, right now it just means an
optimistic subreddit. After all,
Activision so easily falls into the role
of evil corporate overlord (in no small
part due to earnings call banter like,
“While Forsaken is a high-quality
expansion, with strong engagement
and new modes of play, it did not
achieve our commercial expectations,
and there is still work to do to fully
re-engage the core Destiny fanbase”).
It’s thus easy to see Bungie as the
opposite: a nurturing and protectiveACTIVISION SO EASILY
FALLS INTO THE ROLE
OF EVIL CORPORATE
OVERLORDMONITOR
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