In an interview with Youtuber HiddenXperia, composer and former Bungie executive Marty O’Donnell spoke candidly about the failed partnership between Destiny developer Bungie and publisher Activision.
“We knew it was a risk right from the get-go, and then it turned out to be exactly as we thought it was going to be,” O’Donnell says. “Everybody who no longer works for Bungie is gonna say, ‘Yeah, it was bad from the start.'”
O’Donnell goes on to imply that those who still work for Bungie are often being “political” when they speak about the Bungie/Activision partnership and even says that “There are so many scripted answers out there that I hear.”
O’Donnell certainly doesn’t seem to be working off a script as he passionately talks about how the Activision/Bungie partnership fell apart across the course of Destiny and Destiny 2‘s development. He says that...
“We knew it was a risk right from the get-go, and then it turned out to be exactly as we thought it was going to be,” O’Donnell says. “Everybody who no longer works for Bungie is gonna say, ‘Yeah, it was bad from the start.'”
O’Donnell goes on to imply that those who still work for Bungie are often being “political” when they speak about the Bungie/Activision partnership and even says that “There are so many scripted answers out there that I hear.”
O’Donnell certainly doesn’t seem to be working off a script as he passionately talks about how the Activision/Bungie partnership fell apart across the course of Destiny and Destiny 2‘s development. He says that...
- 7/8/2020
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
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