The recent talk about how Destiny's story was completely scrapped a year before launch and the subsequent mess of a game that was released a year later punctuates a very important point; not everyone is a writer. Being a writer is not something that just everyone can do.
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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.
Writers are the unsung heroes of the entertainment industry and the least appreciated of all roles. You're the first to come up with and draft a story, after about 5 or more rewrites you submit to the producers and your work gets sh*t on and you're forced to change almost everything. Resubmit with your fresh revisions only to have it torn to pieces again. They don't like your second final draft and they'll treat you like an ex girlfriend that you couldn't break up with. You'll just stop getting calls and when you do get in touch with them you'll be told "you're no longer needed." Some other joker comes in, using your story as a base, and mutates the whole thing. Then, worst of all, if your story comes to fruition, you're paid, but only partially because you no longer have full writing credits.
Source: myself and a fellow writer friend. My script is currently being rewritten after receiving feedback from rejection letters and my friend's script has been "optioned" for a jokingly low price since it's his first script sold. At the academy awards, there's 2 categories for arguably the most important role, the writer, and dozens for everyone else.
TLDR: Studios will always screw the writer to appease their stakeholders. Most likely that's what happened to destiny as the story was a nonsense afterthought in the vanilla release.
Yup!
I wouldn't even say the voice acting was bad, I liked dinklebot, it was just the story that was atrocious!
A good actor can make a good script come to life, but if a good actor is given a sub-par script there is only so much they can do with it.
I bought the game on the promise of a great story, instead this is the 1st game I have EVER regretted buying... part of me wants to finish the story again with a 2nd class but I just can't bring myself to do it as I remember just how bored I was by it the 1st time lol
We still don't know what the original story was or what was in the 2 hour video. It could have been bad. Maybe they made it worse though or just didn't have enough time to finish it.
Maybe had the stuck with the original plan, it would have been even worse.
Maybe if they delayed it another year, it would have been better from the start.
Instead they had to half-ass it due to their agreement with Activision.
We don't really know. All we know from the recent info is that they didn't like how the original story was laid out. They haven't completely disregarded it because they used some of it in TK and some of it apparently will be in "Destiny 2" or whatever they call it.
Do we really need a half dozen new Destiny articles everyday after the game has been out for over a year mmm?