It's Just Not Adding Up.

what doesnt add up is how you have 800 employees and cant handle two games. sounds like the work environment they have isn't very conducive to work actually happening.

"Losing more money than it's making" Marathon existing being exactly that and even more.

"We had to kill our golden goose because it wasnt laying enough gold eggs after we plucked all of it's feathers"

first second of the video jumpscare

I think it’s a mix of A and B: Bungie’s and Sony’s higher ups are equally culpable in their own ways of running Destiny into the ground, and now it’s a blame game with them and their supporters over who’s MORE at fault.

If it wasn’t profitable then why was it around for 10 yrs.

To be honest if Bungie would have remade the original marathon maybe it would have had some legs to stand on.

Cross is conflating "profit" with "revenue".

Bugz that 20k would still be more than Marathons 6 fucking thousand lmfao

Bungie flew too close to the sun throwing money at too many projects while their ONLY profitable IP got basically left in the dust. This isn't a "Sony is mad at Bungie" this is "Bungie screwed up by letting Destiny 2 content degrade while spending excessively on new and unproven projects." When you're a single IP studio, you can't just let that single IP rot and hope some new shiny project will come along and pick up the slack.

Now there is no FOMO, and no future content albeit disappointing, I think the D2 community will just keep playing, get their collections to 100%, work on their guardians, get them to max, continue to play with their friends and family, only way D2 actually ends, is if the community walk away, they’re not going to walk away to Marathon, there isn’t any incentive to do so, I’m staying put.

Other people than Tassi also have sources. He isn't a one and only

There isn't an executive involved with Bungies acquisition that wants to go in front of Sonys board and explain how bad this deal was. They sure as hell don't want to willingly be sabotaging it after that 765 million dollar impairment because that would put a nail in any career they had.

Man not gonna lie after this is all said and done I am going to miss Cross repackaging every bit of drama into a new 10 min video. I'm being serious I think I'm gonna miss it

Bungie has no one to blame but themselves for this. 3 years ago They miss target revenue marks by 45%. They needed cash , they needed something Sony gave them a lifeline. They abused it like they did with activision like they did with Microsoft. How many times do we have to hear the same song. Hell, since January of last year to this year, it's been awful for d2. Real talk nostalgia's the only thing that held this game up so high. If this was any other studio , no one would be talking about them.

If they shut down D2 servers, I will sell my PlayStation so fast. I only have it FOR Destiny 2. I wanna switch to Xbox or my PC so bad but my account linking is messed up. Sony lost so much respect from me.

There’s a difference between making a lot of money and being profitable. A product can make a lot of money but it’s not going to mean much if the budget is massive. Just look at Star Wars, avatar, and marvel movies that need to make over a billion dollars because the budget was over 500 million dollars. It’s like back in 2018 when Activision said forsaken was a financial failure. We all called them greedy but in reality, Activision had to get two other studio to clean up bungie’s mess for them. Forsaken did great but probably not enough to justify paying 3 studios to do the job of one studio. It all lines up with what that former community manager said last week about how the studio was close to shutting down before Sony stepped in. Bungie is in an expensive state, they over hired during the COVID days, they kept the bloat, they misused funds, and they pushed away most Destiny players while thinking that the COVID boom in gaming would continue. As for marathon, I think both bungie and Sony know it’s a dud that will never amount to anything, but it’s cheaper and Sony wants to recuperate some of its wasted money before pulling the plug on bungie.

7:26 I’ve nothing against Marathon, I’ve never played it. Extraction shooters just aren’t my thing but when Destiny 2 is no longer my main game and my next choice is potentially Marathon…. I’m going to play Guild Wars 2… 😂

Marathon - 11,000 Active Players right now. Destiny 2 - 96,000 active players.

5:48 the easy answer to this is that the game hasn’t had new content or a story that anyone cared about since final shape. Yeah the numbers dropped. They finished the light and dark saga and then did absolutely nothing to bring new players into the world. Instead they mechanically ruined the game from top to bottom and started a new saga that most of us didn’t really ask for or want. Make the game playable. Give us fun content to play through. People will play.