My takeaway: (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Thursday, June 01, 2017, 16:57 (2822 days ago) @ EffortlessFury

These massive projects with budgets in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars are never happy clean affairs where everything goes swimmingly. They are mad houses of creativity and disagreements and painful feature cuts and late rewrites and those rare moments where everything clicks and their work goes on to touch millions of lives for the better.

If you judged Pixar under your standard, with all the times their movies had massive rewrites and all the times they fired directors and all the times they canned entire movies, you'd think them a terrible failure. But if you judge them on the products they make, the impact they've had, the money they've made, or the fact that they're still around to try again, then they are a huge success.

I think the same applies to Bungie and probably most every other major game studio.