MEGA::Addendum (Fan Creations)

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edited by INSANEdrive, Monday, September 07, 2015, 12:08

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All the stuff I had gathered but couldn’t find a proper word or set of words to embed into. Click at your own peril.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2pzsmw/through_their_eyes_what_colorblind_people/cn2ch9s
https://youtu.be/0JYsQ8p3wM8
http://saynotorage.com/2015/03/05/bungie-accidentally-admitted-their-pvp-is-dead/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXBxijQREo
http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1196886
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlACgYHtWCI
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2c9gs4/destinys_make_or_break_features_raid_matchmaking/
http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=23575
http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=70695
http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=73287
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2lhks2/for_a_company_that_is_normally_pretty_fluent_with/
http://destiny.bungie.org/n/992
http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=24800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R53C40ELXr8
http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=58650
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2bf01o/deej_just_responded_to_our_request_for_more/
http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=75060
http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=29350
http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=37767
http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=36805

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Addendum 2 :: A question asked. A question answered.

Alright, so you just endured the longest post I have ever written ever. Congratulations! You did it. Yet just like any good videogame fight-to-finish, there is an extra bit at the end. A part where I ask you to wake me if you need me. Actually it's just a transcript excerpt of my question being answered. This is referenced in Chapter 6 and this addendum is for your convenience.

• Wu: -Name- had, probably the most generic or the most open ended question in the list.
  
  What did year one [of Destiny] teach you?
  
  
• Mn: That’s a good question.
  
  -long pause-
  
  Wow there is so ways to answer it, ya know, like I’m thinking is it like what did teach me as a game developer or whats a summery about what’s up at Bungie?
  
  I think I would go back to what I have said earlier which is… we have updated the game so much right, and we are continuing… we have a well-documented ten year plain for destiny.
  We have this character who’s yours and you own and you’re going to develop him over a period of time, and you’re going to take him off the shelf when a major expansion like The Taken King comes out and moving him around the world and become more powerful again. And so we’ve really committed to supporting the game and constantly updating it and I think one of the things that we’ve… was it that surprised me? … what surprised us? What did we learn?….
  
  
• Wu: What did it teach you?
  
  
• MN: It taught us, how much the game is going to change in response of the players. Bungie has always updated its games; we’ve always had a strong community and good relationship with the communities
  
  Both communities
  
  
• Wu: *Laugh*
  
  
• Mn: When you think about some of the things that we’ve done and introduced, we’ve, I don’t think we could have imagined doing these things not because they are heretical or whatever, you couldn’t see it.It’s only through the communication with the community and playing the game and being… ya know…When we go home at night we are community members too.
  We play the game on our couches, controller in our hand and we are playing with all of you and you see things differently when you play at home. You play something in the lab and think its fine then you go and sit on the couch and go oh my god I can’t believe we thought this was a good idea.
  
  
• Wu: Laugh
  
  
• Mn: The game is going to constantly and continually evolve in response to the community and maybe that should be more obvious then it was, I think that people say that … that’s true in any online game or whatever but it’s been certainly really true for Destiny.
  
  
• Wu: I’ve been really impressed with the way updates have been sort of targeted to things that bother large chunks of the community. So Bungies always made the games that they want to make, but they also always listen to fans, sometimes thoughts conflict and… it feels like… there is more of a willingness to say we think this is the way it should be done but clearly the fans want, *that*, lets try to find a compromise as opposed to “this is how it should be done”.
  
  
• Mn: Yea. I think that what it might be coming down to is, absolutely we are listening.
  I’ve never worked on a game like Destiny before where after the game is done the teams are still around and want to play.
  
  
• Wu: Laughs
  
  
• Mn: Normally it’s been once it’s done I would put it behind me I’m glad people like it I hope it sells well, you go on to the next thing and It goes into the rear view mirror.
  But with Destiny because we have this long term commitment, because we know we are building this franchise over time, It’s… And because it’s just so fucking fun to play, it feels great in your hands to shoot monsters with your friends, that is what destiny is really about, we all still play it.
  
  We’ve done things to make it really easy to continue to play it weather you are playing it nightly for hours, or just an hour a week to play and because of that … as I’ve said we’ve become members of the community too. We are there. We are playing it at home. We playing a lot I think. A lot of games you get this disconnect between the community and what the team wanted to make and the disconnect never gets resolved.
  
  
• Wu: Because other teams at that point are gone.
  
  
• Mn: Yea. But with us that isn’t the case. Like with Skolas with Arc Burn… Dude! that was terrible.
  
  
• Wu: Laughs
  
  
• Mn: how did this happen? We played it internally, thought it was good. You get on your couch and go hey this is way too hard. This is not as intended. The community is going to write us up because of this. I think that is responsible for that.
  
  
• Wu: Very Cool. …