When Bungie announced a new leveling system being implemented in Destiny to allow people to reach 40 through nothing but XP grinding, the news was celebrated by fans and detractors alike. Promises of players now being able to “max out” at 40 just by playing and earning XP seemed like a positive step forward at the time. Yet during interviews leading up to release of The Taken King reveal videos, Bungie community manager David “Deej” Dague has made interesting comments, stressing that light level would still be “very important”.
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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.
Yeah, I thought it out. I'm not sure you did. But since we are buddy's now, you're welcome.
"Clearly your parents didn't teach you"
You know you lost, when you have to resort to this tactic.
So you're saying that Microsoft has missed out on so many huge gaming franchise in the last 25 years from GTA exclusivity to guitar hero and destiny it's just laughable they had so many misses
Yea, but they're still 100 times more wealthy than Sony. I would say it worked out well.
That isn't because of Xbox though. This is a gaming page, not an I get supplemented by father Windows page
Microsoft's money has nothing to do with Xbox.
Xbox is a money pit to them they would love to ditch but are after some ROI first.
Let's face it, Xbox is like a red headed stepchild that steals from you to buy drugs.
MIicrosoft is NOT XBOX. The current situation illustrates this. And Microsoft wants its ROI.
@Bathyj and daddy Satya has just force admitted Phil to rehab.
you know why MS has so much money, and it aint cause of the gaming xbox branch.
so lets not kid ourselves.
@PhillyDownJawn not more profitable. More revenue with ABK acquisition but them going multiplat shows they are not making much profit
That's great for Xbox gamers ain't it that Microsoft are more wealthy than Sony. Is that really a argument use are using now lol?
Imagine me in my job. Arguing with a fellow security guard at another company. Hahah well the company I work for is worth £800m the one you work for is only work £600m!
Microsoft may have more money but Sony has the talented studios and the games to back up those studios.
Plus turning down Marvel too. Spiderman is only exclusive to Playstation because of that
Best deal deal in gaming must be when Sony bought Insomniac for 229 million dollars. They made over 800 millions on Spiderman for the ps4 alone. Thats just crazy!
another Interview?
how is he the only one who loves the spotlight as much as he does lol
Let's not forget he also famously passed on Spider-man, Genshin Impact and GTA3.
However it's almost kind of cute how he can keep that sh1t-eating grin and say he's a 'no regrets' kind of guy, especially when you think how much just these 5 titles could have swung the world in Xbox's favour instead of Sonys.
How he's kept his job I don't know, he must sure be keeping Papa Nadella's shaft warm somehow.
"But, but Gamepass, he introduced that!!!"
Yes he did, and now look at Xbox, all it's exclusives are coming to Playstation now rendering the platform obsolete.
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.
Its kind of hard to be hyped for this. But at least theyre moving in the right direction.
in my experience with everything ive had and read and heard about destiny... just about everything is smoke and mirrors honestly :/
The gameplay is fun, standard halo fare. The RPG mmo elements are garbage and needed to be totally redone. This game could suffer and flop on a sequel based heavily on missteps made for the original.
Well yeah. If you don't get good gear then you're screwed no matter what level you are. Levelling to 40 means nothing if you use older gear. But I think you need to think about it differently. Because as it stands now (pre ttk and 2.0 update) you can only do certain things if you have a high enough light level. This means that to get into the cooler, harder parts of the game where all the great gear is, you're at the mercy of the rng to randomly get gear with enough light points to go up a light level, which is universally known to be garbage in this game (though I did get a nice legendary fusion rifle in crucible last night :D). The difference in ttk is that now the level and light points are separated you can get into the better events or whatever just by levelling up with experience. Also take into account the improved rng and that if you get a legendary engram, it will at least be a legendary item.
What I find funny is everyone talking about missteps and flops , yet it's one of the most played games on psn and Xbox. It sold over 10 mil copies and dlc sells really well. I guess people just think because they don't play it a lot of other people don't enjoy it. All I ever hear is how this game is a flop yet friends list and forums are full of people playing this. I get some people don't like it but stop calling it a flop it was the third best selling game in 2014. If anything they would learn from the bad to make the sequel better. They already said this expansion is going to focus more on story which is the big problem with the game. Also think a lot of people play this with a group of friends because you can't do a lot of content solo. Raids and other high level stuff. If you have a group it's easy to get higher light level just upgrade your armor and play POE. So I can understand playing this solo would suck.