Why is Bungie leaning so heavily on 3rd parties? (Destiny)

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, 19:19 (3686 days ago) @ Kahzgul

Forming a group or raid for high end content
Accessing World event trackers and timers
Quickly swapping gear between your characters
Examining possible perks for gear, as well as comparing items when you don't actually own or have immediate access to one or both of the items that you want to compare.
PvP performance over time and world rankings
Actual weapon stats, TTK comparisons, etc..
Loot drop locations, chances, etc..
World lore and backstory. Actually, all "story," back or otherwise.
Predictions of vendor items which will show up later that week.
Vendor locations
Vendor inventories
Actual locations of bounty targets
Maps
etc etc etc

All of this, with exception of maybe Maps are very common in RPGs. *shrugs* It's just part of the way developers usually choose to do it. Also PvP performance is also more commonly on a website hosted by the company (like it is now).