In a surprise announcement yesterday, Bungie and Activision released a joint statement announcing plans to sever ties. Activision is going to transition full publishing rights for the Destiny franchise to Bungie, the franchise’s developer. This process would leave Bungie as sole owner of the Destiny intellectual property, as well as making them the franchise’s publisher….
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With the release of Black Armory this week, we officially exit Forsaken “vanilla” territory. Now we can enter the realm of extended content through annual pass…or so we think. Before we dive into that, let’s talk about Forsaken as a whole. In my Review in Progress I talked about everything that Forsaken brought to the…
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Eververse Eververse, Destiny 2‘s in-game micro-transaction system, is part of a polarizing topic of discussion. There don’t seem to be any right answers for micro-transaction systems, rather more of what works best for each game that features it. In my article last week I claimed that if Bungie didn’t charge for the annual pass, they…
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Bungie’s Complex Problem Bungie has accomplished many things with Destiny. They took the core of a first person shooter and built an MMORPG around it. It was always clear that Destiny was an FPS first, which is why the gun-play is polished above all else. They were also the first game to implement raids into…
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