Nothing good will come from this considering what they are doing with Destiny 2, literally removing paid content all the time. They are trying to be a paid game and F2P at the same time > welcome to the GaaS model. The whole thing should die but alas it won't seeing Sony paid that much just to rip off people even more.
Two things, that are obvious to gamers but really confused me:<p>Sony owns PlayStation.<p>This is the Bungie that made Halo. Yes, Microsoft owned them at one point, but sold them 15 years ago.
Historically when mega-corps buy Bungie they do it because they want exclusives. I'm not sure how much I trust Sony to act against their own interest with this new leverage.<p>>In 1999, Bungie announced its next product, Halo: Combat Evolved, originally intended to be a third-person shooter game for Windows and Macintosh.<p>>On June 19, 2000, on the ninth anniversary of Bungie's founding, Microsoft announced that it had acquired Bungie and that Bungie would become a part of the Microsoft Game Division. Halo would be developed as an exclusive first-person shooter title for the Xbox.<p>>On October 1, 2007, Microsoft and Bungie announced that Bungie was splitting off from its parent and becoming a privately held limited liability company named Bungie, LLC.<p>>In April 2010, Bungie announced that it was entering into a 10-year publishing agreement with publisher Activision Blizzard.<p>>Bungie terminated its publishing deal with Activision in 2019, after eight years; as per their agreement, Bungie retained all rights to Destiny and will self-publish future installments and expansions.<p>>Bungie announced a major expansion of its firm in February 2021. In addition to more than doubling its headquarters space in Bellevue, Washington, Bungie announced plans to open a new studio in Amsterdam by 2022.<p>>On January 31, 2022, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced its intent to acquire Bungie for $3.6 billion. ... Both companies stated that the deal would not affect platform availability or exclusivity for Destiny 2 but instead was geared towards media beyond video games that Bungie had been interested in pursuing for some time.
I thought they didn't want to be owned. Maybe it was just not wanting to be owned by activision. Maybe this is what they need to get 3rd party studios to help with content again. They are also working on a new game 'Material', maybe this helps with that.