Bungie, creator of the popular Halo and Destiny franchises, is splitting from publisher Activision and will go its own way, the company announced today. It’s almost certainly good news for gamers and the company itself, but it also won’t fix the problems that plagued Destiny and its sequel since th…
Bungie, creator of the popular Halo and Destiny franchises, is splitting from publisher Activision and will go its own way, the company announced today. It’s almost certainly good news for gamers and the company itself, but it also won’t fix the problems that plagued Destiny and its sequel since their launches.
In a blog post, the company explained that the partnership had run its course:
Bungie and Activision teamed up all those years ago essentially because the former needed a jump start to develop Destiny, and the latter was of course always looking for big titles to produce and milk for cash.
The deal was, briefly stated, $500 million for four games over ten years — which sounds reasonable on its face, but the first Destiny had a troubled development and took years to become the game people expected; the sequel infamously was rumored to have been rebooted less than a year and a half before release.
