Bungie's recent Destiny press event serves as a harsh reminder that if major game reveals aren't managed perfectly, they'll fail to completely satisfy the core gamer. The world awaits a new PlayStation, and Sony can't hold back the important details...
Bungie - "Join our development team to see the new updates arriving with Destiny 2: The Final Shape. Releasing on June 4, 2024."
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Wow, even something not related to Sony manages to get skewed to relate to Sony.
Interestingly enough, the whole "Destiny" thing seems to be getting little to no attention on major gaming sites. Joystiq, for example, posted something like 5 different articles in a short span, yet all of them received less comments than the "Future of PlayStation" video on the same site.
Kotaku seems similarly disinterested; page views on the majority of their Destiny articles are rather low.
"No screenshots were released, no real gameplay was shown, and at least one journalist was said to have been overheard questioning how on Earth he was going to 'describe the game to my readers'."
Ummm... screenshots were released along with Artwork, in game play was shown during the vid doc briefly... but beyond that, when did Bungie ever promise anything more than releasing details? Details were released...not a ton, but there were some.
If you think CVG that you are going to get some avalanche of info out of the Sony Presser you are in for another rude shock. News flash...Sony is going to hold back much of the details and save that for future events to help ramp the hype up.