Just beat the game.

God damn it’s good. The only way I knew about it was because I was checking Steam new releases. Please god understand that this would have sold with better advertising.

Bungie splits from Activision.

Releases Shadowkeep.

Shadowkeep: is awful.

Releases Beyond Light.

Marginally better with graphical improvements, but sunsetting content you paid for - so still pretty bad.

Releases Witch Queen.

Witch Queen is much better than both Shadowkeep and Beyond Light. Great ground floor, seemingly a starting point after the Activision split debacle.

Lightfall

Not only did Lightfall happen, we learned that most of the good content in Lightfall was purposefully removed from Witch Queen because they didn’t want to ‘overdeliver’.

Have not played Final Shape, don’t know anything about it - mainly because I had enough of the game after the above. Bungie has been a terrible company for years. Do their devs deserve death threats for it? Absolutely not. Does the company deserve to crash and burn? Abso-fucking-lutely.

No I just don’t read what you’re saying, mainly because I’ve got better things to do with my time than to read a nobody bloviate about something they don’t understand. Your experience doesn’t matter, do you know why?

I’ve refuted your claim that it’s somehow all the publishers fault. You, for some reason, think that Bungie releasing a terrible expansion the first time they’re free from a publisher somehow doesn’t obliterate your argument.

You’re absolutely sealioning btw, you can keep the corpo speak to yourself. I’m not reading it, because it’s just a waste of my time. There are plenty of devs to defend, Bungie is not one of them.

You… please name the logical fallacy I’ve employed.

I’ll wait.

you’re obviously someone who is completely and willfully ignorant to what goes into game development

Icing on the cake? Shadowkeep is the first expansion dropped by Bungie for d2 without Activision. It is also widely acknowledged as the worst expansion. Congratulations, you’ve written an essay and proven you just shouldn’t be weighing in on this. At all.

The more words you use in your next essay won’t help, you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s almost like you got an AI to spit this out with how much cherrypicking you do. What’s the term for a sealion that weighs in on something they know nothing about?

Good, fuck Bungie

Bungie shits in your mouth, consistently, over the course of D1’s life cycle.

“No it’s not Bungie, it’s Activision!”

Bungie splits from Activision in D2

Proceeds to release Shadowkeep

“Crickets”

Fast forward to Lightfall.

“Noooo, it’s Sony! Sony is at fault!”

God damn, the excuses Destiny players make for what is a shit company will never cease to amuse me. Idk what Bungie’s collective cum tastes like but it must be fucking ambrosia considering the lengths the community goes to defend them. That corpo-speak in the TWABs is puttin’ in work!

Released in January 2024, has had 16 Steam version patches and 18 Xbox version patches.

What, exactly, is your problem?

Because the person you’re responding to is a fucking moron.

That’s the answer, it’s not that deep.

No I just expect them to make their leveling system not complete ass.

Please, explain it to me in detail - why does killing two hippos gain me more power than killing Messmer? I’ll wait.

The blessing system kind of sucks, basically the most fucked up milestone leveling you can think of.

“Yeah, I know you just killed a demigod… but you know what you should really do? Go kill some hippos. That’ll get you true power.”

I was getting non-stop Hellblade 2 ads on Twitch.

Yeah capcom is one of those weird ones. Really aggressive monetization but god damnit the games are good.

No he’s got several great points.

Sweet Baby Inc is trash, every game they’ve touched is a dumpster fire.

The things he points out makes it pretty clear that they use inclusivity and “wokeness” to mask how talentless they are, which is actually pretty common throughout the gaming industry these days. Not just the gaming industry either, the Harley Quinn show was a checklist of ‘woke’ talking points (and trash, another good example is Velma although Velma was pretty mask off in their biases).

Case in point, Hades 2. We go from male protagonist Zagreus in the first game, to female protagonist Melinoë in the second. Guess what? Not a single time am I found questioning the validity of the writing because it’s actually good and doesn’t hinge on echo chamber synchronization.

Idk, I think he probably hinges on ‘the message’ too hard but he isn’t wrong.

Dude they copystruck a small YouTuber back when Tarkov was first getting it’s feet for exposing that someone was mining bitcoin through the Tarkov client.

We’re talking like 40 videos copystruck for a single video, a video exposing something really really bad.

Then there’s the interview where Nikita openly admitted that cheaters are a part of their business model.

BSG is scumbags. Period, end of story.

That’s where I’m at with the game.

Like yeah it looks fun, I’m not willingly installing malware. Especially after the apex legends debacle.

I’ve put an obscene amount of time into Tarkov.

I say this with absolutely 0 uncertainty: if you weren’t aware that BSG were scumbags then you just weren’t paying attention. If this move surprised you, I’m sorry but you are just plainly unaware.

They’re headquartered in London.

Parody is typically protected.

BSG absolutely pays for licenses, many of the gun manufacturers in Tarkov give devs the rights to use their guns for free - it’s literally advertising.

I know for a fact they pay for the Glock licenses, Glock will absolutely burn you alive for stepping on their toes. Same goes for HK.

Your comment is nice headcanon, but no.

Edit: downvoting me doesn’t make you right, trog.

I don’t think you give someone an A+ for doing 1% of the project really really well.

Like the Nazis were actually environmentalists. They also advanced medical science by decades. Do we praise them for it?

I don’t mean to invoke Nazis, but you get my point yeah? If the vast majority of the people who need the treatment cannot get it? That isn’t ‘both’ in my opinion.

Who would have thought?