Proof that Pre-orders for Betas are crap! (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, July 24, 2017, 12:10 (2681 days ago) @ cheapLEY
edited by Cody Miller, Monday, July 24, 2017, 12:25

and I've yet to be convinced that pre-orders have contributed negatively to the quality of Bungie's games.

I've yet to be convinced of that for any games. It's not like developers see the preorder numbers roll in and think, "oh that's alright, our work is done. Let's launch a shit game now."

Bungie might not care, but Activision does. According to VG chartz, which may or may not be accurate, Des2ny has about 1/4 the preorders of Destiny the same amount of time from launch. It's at least comparing like to like. Of course gamestop has said their pre-orders for Des2ny were 'great', so who knows. It's in no way scientific, but I think one can safely say that Des2ny will have a harder time than Destiny in terms of sales. Maybe if everything is excellent, they pull a Halo 2 and outsell the original.

According to the contract, Activision had the right to terminate it if Destiny failed to sell 5 million units, or after 'Comet 2' in 2016. It's not impossible that Activision would walk away if Des2ny is disappointing, especially since they were not entirely pleased with Destiny over the first three years (but they weren't exactly displeased either).

In fact, and please do not take this as fact in any way as it is uncorroborated, but I spoke with someone at Bungie who basically said there's a chance that there might not be anything coming after Des2ny and its expansions.

I hope that is not the case. I'm not going to pre-order, but I'll sure buy the game on launch.