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10/1/2014 3:00:47 PM
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Bioware.
As much as I love the game can you imagine how good it would have been with a thoroughly fleshed out story...oh wait yes we all can hence why we bought it :/
Seriously though Activision was the worst company Bungie could have partnered with for this game imo
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Bioware isn't a publisher. They Belong to EA. You want Bungie to be published by EA. Activision is the most succesful video game publisher in the world.
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Well they didn't do too badly when looking at Mass Effect did they?!
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Yes? But, if you look who has the biggest franchises in the industry you end up with Activision. Bungie wanted Destiny to be at the scale of the biggest, so they went with the biggest machine. The logic is kinda sound.
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Still doesn't prove they are a good company... EA is successful as well...
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Edited by Adamant: 10/1/2014 3:37:53 PMI meant, they are the most succesful one. It makes sense to partner with them. I know they seem to make heart-wrenching decision sometimes but they keep very high numbers. Something somewhere is going right. They have amazing reach and marketting. Look at what they're doing for CoD and Skylanders. It makes sense for a game company to want that kind of overpowered marketting departement on their side, especially for a project as "epic" as what bungie initially described.
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Edited by H0RSE: 10/1/2014 4:21:11 PMEverything you just said could be applied to EA as well. And just so you know, Activision's stocks dropped after the release of Destiny. http://www.gamechup.com/destiny-generates-325-million-atvi-market-cap-drops-by-1-5-billion/
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Good, because they failed when they insisted Bungie cut down their story. There ARE smart people who know where the blame is out there! *suddenly sees a brighter future for gamers everywhere*
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Quite right. The game was not well received. This has influence on stocks. It's the same with all games and all publishers. It also irrelevant to Bungie's decision to partner with Activision. The relevant part with the EA/Activsion comparision is that Activision is bigger and has more (succesful) experience in the game genres that Destiny is technically close to (shooters and massive online games). Still makes sense to go with them IMHO.
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I'd say it is more accurate to say that Activision has more [b]recent[/b] successes. If you are talking about all time, EA pretty much has that one in the bag.
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I'm not sure I follow, are you suggesting Bungie should have based their decision on performance of unrelated games published more than 10 years ago? Or some other time span other than now? Shouldn't the continued success of CoD marketting be incentive enough to demonstrate activsion has the financial backbone and the marketting tentacles to get the Bungie's Destiny message to a maximum of players?
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Edited by Darth Quaint: 10/1/2014 5:16:49 PMI mostly agree with you in this discussion, Horse. While I can see the logic for Activision, I also know that Activision is the biggest because they apply the 'monkeys with typewriters writing Shakespeare' approach. They absorb every little IP going under cause they see the potential to squeeze a bit more money out of it. And I really don't know why people keep playing COD anymore, because its done to death.
