Activision Un-Happy

Hey everyone hows it going? So recently Activision released a statement about how they are unhappy with the way destiny 2 was performing sales wise which I can understand. You invest a 10 year, 500 million dollar contract you expect a good return in profits. But it makes me wonder how much say does Activision really have with the development timeline of the games they’re gonna publish or better yet who is at fault here for the game not selling so well? Is it big brother Activision who was standing over bungie’s shoulder and watching their every move or was it bungie who from the first destiny didn’t learn and kept making the same mistakes? That is the real question. I’ve been playing destiny since the Alpha days, the first game launched for ps4, ps3, the 360 and Xbox 1 to which I think it had a great variety except the fact that it left out a huge crowd, the PC gamers. Now to many, myself included, the first destiny was decent but it really didn’t feel like there was a story to it until all the DLC started releasing and the game didn’t pick up momentum. Fast forward 3 years and Destiny 2 releases previews of a great story and more content and the best part a PC release. Awesome even though PC had to wait an extra month. Now Activision stated that they weren’t happy with sales figures but didn’t disclose just where the margins were. I mean for all we know that margin can be 3 pennies short of their expectations. Now I feel bungie either needs more staff or needs to schedule there content production a bit better. The base game is a great story in my opinion, the end content was a bit lacking until the raid was released. Then the journey of the great leviathan was born, a massive space colony (cause I can’t call it a ship) holding emperor claus as the main boss. It had great mechanics but not a fault for its sales in my opinion. Here is where I feel Activision pushed bungie to hurry the dlc out the door, destiny 2 first dlc the curse of osiris takes us back to mercury to explore a new enemy area called the infinite forest home to a race of robots called the vex. Now when I first played this I loved the story behind it and I truly loved the idea behind the forest, basically a massive super hub that channeled every time line in vex (alien robots) existence but the story was short, the content was over to fast, the boss fight was to say crap you had your hand held the whole fight he could have been a raid boss even. Then comes the raid. Instead of making the raid for the dlc it’s own thing no they turned it into a lair for the leviathan which I feel was bungie’s first mistake. They have this awesome infinite forest that can literally give the player days of content, if they would go back to it instead of it just sitting there collecting dust. I feel both Activision and the pressure from their fan base hurt this dlc majorly. The second dlc called the warmind which had players returning to a different area of Mars to save rasputin from the hive wasn’t any better. The players enemy this time was some frozen hive and a big bad worm god who again could have made an epic raid boss fight but no they made him a basic boss battle and added another lair to the leviathan with a cabal boss as the main enemy. This time a new raid that has nothing to do with the story for the dlc again either pressure from fans or big brother Activision the dlc failed and the only fun activity it gave players were the escalation protocols which task players with surviving 7 rounds or enemies for any type of rewards. Fast forward a year and boom another dlc this time forsaken promises to change everything about destiny and give players an area that evolves every week after reset and guess what? Bungie delivered an epic DLC. A big area to explore, new enemies to battle in the form of the scorn, and an amazing story of loss, betrayal, and vengeance. My only quirk with the story was the vengeance part felt a bit empty in my opinion, now the raid, the dreaming city is huge and delivers a kick ass experience for people. The race to worlds first was beyond intense. Forsaken did for destiny 2 what taken king did for the first game, gave it life only this time players only waited 1 year instead of 2. Activision is worrying about the money the game is bringing in but was it the right choice as a publishe. You have a game that is essentially an mmo with fps aspects and I feel that Activision doesn’t understand the pressure that bungie has put themselves in with their game. I feel blizzard would have been a better option since they have wow. The next content drop for destiny is supposed to be in december with the black armory, I feel if bungie had offered both forsaken and this forsaken annual pass at a better price it would have been an easier pill for people to swallow so Activision help out bungie and stop worrying about the money for 2 seconds cause I bet you anything if bungie went back to the infinite forest like they did for Halloween and started giving it more content people would be happier and you would get your money back by bringing in more people. I also hope that for the next destiny bungie goes a bit darker with the story and gives us a game that’s bigger then d2 and all its DLC cause I feel taking destiny down a dark road would honestly help it out instead of always making us be the good guys. Activision sit back and open your eyes. The lore that destiny has created has basically surpassed your 10 year content contract. There is so much left to discover, to show off, to engage. So many stories to explore, so much to do. Stop being business and start thinking about your consumers cause in the end we buy your games, we play them, and we do better than any commercial or advertisement you can put out. People will take the word of a gamer over anyone else. Don’t pull the plug on destiny. Sit back, relax, and help bungie cause destiny is here to stay even with the repeat errors d2 made. I for one can’t wait till the next game releases and I hope we get more options,new enemies, more lore so who cares about the money worry about keeping your customers happy cause without us you don’t get paid. Have a nice day.