MWEB GameZone writes: "We've always maintained that review scores are something that we don't need anymore in gaming criticism. In their current form, they're of little value to the consumer, belittle the work of the reviewer and, as the news with Destiny shows, can be unnecessarily harmful to developers. If you're unaware of Destiny's review score situation, it appears the game's lower than expected review scores could potentially be precluding it's developer, Bungie, from earning a "Quality Bonus" worth $2.5 million."
Bungie - "Join our development team to see the new updates arriving with Destiny 2: The Final Shape. Releasing on June 4, 2024."
Amid ongoing anxiety within Bungie following layoffs last year, the studio is now preparing for another shakeup, this time on Marathon.
Talk about mismanaged Bungie is a studio of tremendous potential and have made some of the greatest shooters to date. Sony pushed them to just make another Destiny style game and consult on other studios live service games and are now getting thrown under a bus as the pivot away from predominantly gaas games is unfolding.
I'd love to see a world where Bungie can focus on telling great sci fi stories again away from a live service dungeon but we all know that's a pipe dream
This studio has had three owners and its never worked well with any of them....Management has issues
Destiny 2’s game director Joe Blackburn is stepping down ahead of The Final Shape, leaving Tyson Green to take the reins of the PS5 and Xbox FPS.
As someone who bought every story DLC for DESTINY 2 but not every season. the first thing I would do as game director is , if anybody pre-orders The ?Final Shape , they will be able to play all older DLC and seasons with purchase of FINAL SHAPE. . I think that would bring back a lot of DESTINY 2 plsyers who have not experienced the seasons a chance to play season activities before Final Shape comes out.
More like company PR needs to control itself. Stop setting overly high goals and describe what it is they're actually selling.
Review scores in general need to go, in all forms of media. Not just because of this either. Putting irrelevant numbers on reviews doesn't help them one bit, it only blinds people into believing anything below a 7 or 8 is complete trash and a waste of time. Most people judge a game on the sole basis of that and not the pros and cons, mechanics and such of the actual title itself.
I for one would be really happy if sites never use numbered review scores
It's like reviewing the icing on the cake without eating the whole thing. Destiny is only just beginning to evolve. More story missions,Maps,Raids,Loot,Armor ,Planets etc will be added in the future. People are too quick to judge.
I think numbered review scores are still needed and i use them regurarly. The reason being that it is still a great measure to sum up the game's quality.
However, I do agree and believe that game reviewers should come together and decide on one, fair system, in order to number rate the games.