Marty O’Donnell talks about Activison x Bungie (Destiny)

by INSANEdrive, ಥ_ಥ | f(ಠ‿↼)z | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ| ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Monday, July 06, 2020, 14:00 (1605 days ago)

Seen first @ Reddit. Brought it here for our Discussion. I'm just going to quote the OP. No need for formatting it.
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So hiddenXperia has an interview with Marty O’Donnell and they have a seriously illuminating conversation about how and why they chose Activison

Here’s the [timestamped] video

There are time stamps in the description but I’ll summarize it

From 1:38:25 onward

• Marty thought siding with Activision was a horrible idea
  
• They contemplated getting back with Microsoft but MS demanded that they have ownership of Destiny as a whole (like Halo)
  
• It was far worse then Bungie had feared it would be. He said that Bungie went into business with Activision for the sole reason that they would allow Bungie to keep ownership of Destiny as a franchise
  
• Despite what Bungie employees say, Activision messed with a lot of what Bungie was trying to do. Marty also brought up the point that the safeguard in place to prevent Activision from messing with Bungie was 7 studio heads (himself included) who would deliberate on ideas
  
• Not all the studio heads felt that Bungie should remain completely autonomous and sided with Activision on some of their decisions. Many of those people still work at Bungie
  
• The first red flag that Bungie notices was that at a dinner before the contract was signed, Activision higher ups mocked Marty’s statement that you should “respect the goose”
  
• If you treat the goose with respect, it’ll make golden eggs.
  
• one of their financial advisers made a joke about how regardless of the type of egg, it’ll always taste good
  
• This threw Marty off and he says that he wishes they scrapped the idea then and there
  
• He dryly jokes that the massive legal battle he and Bungie had was partly due to Activision
  
• He jokes that hindsight is 20/20 and that they never should have partnered with Activision

Pretty eye opening stuff