
Ever since Sony stumped up $3.6 billion for Bungie back in January 2022, PlayStation fans have been wondering why. Almost as soon as the deal had been done, it was confirmed that Destiny would remain a multiplatform property, and the developer itself would not be bound to PlayStation platforms. In fact, it was largely understood that Bungie would continue doing its own thing.
Of course, the reality of the situation soon set in: the studio would actually be helping Sony establish a foothold in the live service space. This new direction for the Japanese giant has divided opinion, but the fact of the matter is that we're yet to see any results — it's very much a long term plan.
Indeed, Bungie has reiterated that it's still working on "a number of unannounced projects" with the support of Sony. The quote comes directly from creative lead Tom Farnsworth, who has been bigging up the studio's accomplishments on social media.
So, what are these projects? Well, we know that Bungie has had a new IP in the works for a while now — something that's separate from Destiny. Beyond that, the developer is supposedly teaming up with other Sony-owned studios to help out with projects that are geared towards the live service model. It's worth remembering that Bungie is a sizeable studio these days, with around 900 employees under its banner.
We'll probably hear a bit more about these projects in 2023, although again, this does seem like a long term vision. What would you like to see from Bungie outside of Destiny? Try not to moan about live service games in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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This excites me for PS. They don’t have any shooters i buy. I am super excited to know more about Factions. But i knew i liked this Bungie purchase and i hope they nail something great. I have a lot of faith in Bungie, so my eyes and ears will be on whatever they announce.
Make a new Halo like title. Single Player with the Multiplayer elements non live service. Xbox has really destroyed Halo since Bungie left
Sony helping Bungie get better like all they’re studios they purchased.
Rmg0731 wrote:
Easier said than done. The landscape has changed and making a paid multiplayer FPS is a tough sell nowadays. Almost every other successful FPS is now F2P/live service. Destiny and a few others are the exception. Even heavyweights like COD and Halo have gone F2P. But if anyone can crack that nut it's Bungie.
P.S. I agree on 343 and Halo sadly.
I'd like to see Bungie try their hand at something like a Mass Effect RPG. Bungie knows how to do combat well and while it did nothing for myself personally I know Destiny players like the lore for that game. (I did like Halo's lore back when Bungie was making them though.)
I know they are mostly just focused on live service stuff these days but with their talent and Playstation's production values, I think it could turn out really cool if they tried.
@Rmg0731 so you want a mp game with out support or content updates? because thats what live service is.
a revisit to the resistance franchise with the help of bungie would be much needed. make this happen.
If Bungie is the main lead on live service stuff for Sony then the live service games are doomed as Bungie are easily the worst in the business at it.
@twitchtvpat no i meant to say no live service in the singleplayer.
I'd be interested to see what they could do with a third person co-op shooter. Their shooting mechanics are great in Destiny and their story telling has gotten much better.
We'll see what happens but I expect Destiny clones via gameplay. Setting and characters will change but it will be a Destiny clone.
@bindiana I dont like Destiny, but its pretty popular no?
That is good news.
For now - I finally played all the story content I was missing during Season of Plunder. I am ready for Lightfall.
@LordAinsley It was a lot more popular before there live service plan took paid content away from everybody I have spent over £150 on destiny 2 I can today only play about 2% of what I purchased.
I’d be happy with another FPS that wasn’t a live service, but that’s unlikely (although now that they’re part of Sony, Bungie don’t need the steady income of a live service game).
If it’s live service in a multiplayer sense, or a “we’ll keep adding time limited stuff” sense, then I have zero interest honestly. Hopefully they have some proper single player worlds to explore rather than relying on being a social space where your friends do the heavy lifting of keeping you interested.
@twitchtvpat Live service pretty much means microtransaction simulator featuring battle pass grind. The old post-launch support approach when microtransactions didn't exist and we got stuff like DLC map packs was a lot better. Fortunately some games still use the old approach like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
@Grumblevolcano Mario kart 8 I was shocked when they announced that dlc for it then I realized it still very popular game lol.
Looking forward to see what fruits this acquisition may bring.
Exciting i only started destiny 2 this week and it looks mind-blowing on ps5 and handles so well they truly out did them selves so i look forward to what will come out in the future.
Hopefully at least one of these projects are a conventional shooter (action/adventure) with a multiplayer mode. They don't need all their projects to be Live action.
I'm sure one of their projects is likely Destiny 3, seeing as the recent release was the last dlc.
@themightyant Well, many are still paid generally speaking, there are just MTs too. Destiny is paid with it’s DLC, it’s just so much came the original game got so devalued it wasn’t worth anything on its own anymore (it was 3$ or less to buy the Destiny 2 disc before it went FTP). Warzone if free, but the COD entries each year aren’t and that goes for Ubisoft MP games, Battlefield, etc.
there’s a premium live service model that can be a little strange, but I would agree foregoing the live service entirely is hard and rare now a days.
Just give bungie the keys to killzone already!!! I know they’d do it justice
@Grumblevolcano this is the issue. people actually think that. no thats not what live service games are. live service games can be single player , and assassins creed is a big example of that.
@Mikey856 i'd say resistance instead , but killzone also works for me.
Oh no Bungie is making games for Sony players. This isn't fair to Xbox owners and Switch owners. Better call the FTC.
Resistance or Killzone live service. Established lore and easily recognized IPs
@twitchtvpat wow that would actually be really cool. I loved Resistance, even tho i hated the controller. I still played it a lot. I would love to see Bungie work with those monster and guns, or just reboot it. But i would suspect Bungie wouldn’t want to work with others content and create their own. But i like where your mind was with that one😊
@twitchtvpat I hear ya man. The time I spent on resistance 2 online co op… utter magic!
Who cares? Probably just more live service bs.
Zero interest in whatever they make, unless they surprise us with an offline single player game with no live-service/GAAS content.
@Jaz007 Most of Ubisoft’s multiplayer games have been failures recently as was the last Battlefield that’s why I said “Almost every other successful FPS is now F2P/live service” in my opening post. I agree Destiny is an exception, basically the only one that charges for larger expansions and annual COD is still paid but most MP FPS are now free. I think it would be difficult to get a foothold in the market for a new IP at £60-£70.
@twitchtvpat I thought it was done before without liveservice with something that is called expansions. Shocking with things like free unlockables because you already payed.
No garbage like MT, boosters, gamepasses, seasonpasses, tons of different currency and no whales needed.
Liveservice can be done right but we don't need to act like it's the second coming of Jesus there are other ways to do updates but that won't make that kind of cash.
@Flaming_Kaiser im not saying that either , im just saying people should do more research about live service games because it feels like a lot of stuff about live service games isn't even true. a game basically with regular content updates is an example of live service. gt7 is another example. all im saying is people should wait to see what these games actually are. if they are horrible , then i'll be right there with you saying how bad it is.
@twitchtvpat I'm oldskool I rather have the expansions and that kind of stuff because I know we atleast got the developers to try to release the best version of their game.
Now it's a game before its released we already know that there will be a expansion is in the works and somehow it pisses me off.
The only games that had some chance of a complete experience are the Firstparty games man I just finished Rachet and Clank Rift Apart such a blast no waiting a full experience from beginning to end.
No MT nonsense just a full experience with no waiting this shows me how much fun it is. I dont mind liveservice if done in the right way and not in every bloody thing and being as the only way to make games.
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