Up to the line, not over it (yet) (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Thursday, March 31, 2016, 15:19 (3253 days ago) @ Xenos

I'm actually all for Bungie completely focusing on Destiny 2. I just wish they'd quit trying to blow smoke up my ass about all the amazing things they're still doing with Destiny 1.

There is always the implication from fans that making content, or changing things that aren't X means that X is somehow being ignored or put on the back burner. As someone who has worked at several software companies that is rarely (if ever) the case. For one thing this update was primarily conceived and built by the live team, not the Destiny 2 team. There's not actually a scenario where if they put everyone "on" Destiny 2 that it would come out 3 months earlier, or be 20% better, that's not how software development works.

Oh I'm not trying to imply anything like that. I didn't mean to give that impression.

I'm not even trying to shit talk this update, really. I think it's actually pretty neat. I just think Bungie is currently very bad at communication and really apt to oversell what they're actually doing. That's what I meant with the blowing smoke comment. And I even realize that a lot of that is largely on the community expecting things Bungie hasn't even so much as hinted at, but they are really, really bad at managing expectations at this point. To the point where it almost feels like it's intentional, and they're relying on community hype to build excitement, and when things actually come out and don't even approach those expectations they can sit back and say, "well, we never said that; it's not our fault you expected that."

I also realize that it's a very cynical way to look at things, but it's been the trend with how they've handled just about everything since Destiny launched, so it's hard for me not to be cynical at this point.

And don't get me wrong; I love Destiny, I don't hate or even necessarily distrust Bungie. It's just difficult for me to get as excited about it anymore, and I feel like I've learned to take everything they say with a grain of salt, whereas I don't feel like I had to do that before. And that makes me a little sad.