so from the way Bungie has done their contracts previously my guess is it’s going to be something like this: Bungie has complete creative control and full control to manage the business. Sony has ownership and gets all the revenue from Bungie after business costs are paid (employee wages, etc.). While Sony has no…

I’m surprised the Ager’s Scepter Exotic questline didn’t make the above list. It’s pretty easy (if a little time-consuming) to do solo, especially now that players don’t have to wait week after week to get the next in a progressing series of Dreaming City Atlas Skew tracking quests.

He looks like a deepfake for the whole thing.

To be fair to Damon, maybe he had no idea it was crypto since the ad didn’t mention crypto until on screen graphics at the end :’D.

There’s only one thing worse than not having Ana de Armas in your movie, and that’s bringing her back for a sequel when it makes absolutely no sense for her character to return.

I don’t like this whole thing.

ESO still has a subscription separate from game pass. I don't see them giving up that revenue stream.

Microsoft would sell Game Pass on PlayStation and Switch if they could.  All they want is as many people signed up as possible.

That Mos Espa Vespa street chase felt VERY Spy Kids to me, and not in a good way. The whole chase sequence felt pretty sloppily shot and edited. And then Danny Trejo showed up with a Rancor and I realized “Oh yeah, Robert Rodriguez definitely made this.”

Bungie staff have since denied it was ever this concrete, but it was originally supposed to be four standalone games in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019, with a major “Comet” expansion for each in the off years.* Aside from missing those 2-year targets, it was the decision to introduce Vaulting to Destiny 2 rather than move…

Yeah, I quite enjoy Destiny 2, and don’t mind paying for it at all! (Which doesn’t mean I’m unsympathetic to how overwhelmingly obtuse it must seem to new players/players who took time off; I’ve been playing Destiny since the beta for the first game, but if I hadn’t been, I’m not sure at all I’d want to start it now.)

Been going for 7 years now, 2nd largest concurrent player base behind WoW.  They’re doing something right.

I seem to recall reading that Bungie actually stated they were removing old content because they were updating the engine for new content and didn’t have the resources to update the old stuff. I don’t remember who said that, though.

Why? They enjoy playing them. Why not support them? 

They don’t want you to be able to drop in, have a bit of fun, leave for a while, and repeat. They want either all of your time, or none of it.

It’s actually not true at all that they don’t want casual players; they’ve made a ton of QoL changes in the last year or two that were aimed at giving them more to do. 

It’s not really a grind...basically playing the latest expansion story will get you up to the soft cap. They drop items that up your current weapons/armor that up your power by 10-15 at a time.

Why do I get the feeling that you have “This woman’s tweets show she is both unhinged and a narcissist. I don’t buy her story.” as a shortcut-macro?

And you’re definitely not an Apple employee or contractor trying to smear her. She requested the leave as a last resort.