Essential reading (Destiny)

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 14:23 (3418 days ago) @ Fuertisimo

Senior management overruling Staten: "The decision was made against Staten’s wishes, sources say. Destiny project lead Jason Jones and the rest of senior leadership were unhappy with the writing team’s supercut, and their reaction was to scrap it all."

On Staten leaving: "Joe Staten left the company during the mid-summer reboot, although Bungie didn’t announce his departure until September, 2013. Two sources say the parting was not amicable"

What I want to know is how is it that senior management wasn't aware of the development of the story as it was happening. How did they let it get to the point where they felt like they had to kill it, delay the game, and put the lives of their employees through chrunch hell? The plot/story should have been known to upper management as it was being developed. If they didn't like what Joe had come up with this late in the game then it's their fault, not Joe's, unless he was pulling some sort of ivory tower "you can't see what I'm working on", which is ridiculous because there was already missions developed around this story!

Management Fail IMHO.

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Essential reading - Fuertisimo, 2015-10-20, 14:15
- Essential reading - dogcow, 2015-10-20, 14:23
  - Essential reading - Fuertisimo, 2015-10-20, 14:25
    - Essential reading - MacAddictXIV, 2015-10-20, 14:27
      - Essential reading - Fuertisimo, 2015-10-20, 14:29
        
        Essential reading - MacAddictXIV, 2015-10-20, 14:34
        
        Essential reading - Kahzgul, 2015-10-20, 14:39
        
        Essential reading - Fuertisimo, 2015-10-20, 14:41
        
        Essential reading - Schedonnardus, 2015-10-20, 14:43
  - Sounds like they didn't learn from Halo 2 - Schedonnardus, 2015-10-20, 14:41
    - Sounds like they didn't learn from Halo 2 - dogcow, 2015-10-20, 14:46
      - Halo 2 was different - Durandal, 2015-10-20, 15:41
        
        Halo 2 was different - Kahzgul, 2015-10-20, 16:18
        
        Halo 2 was different - Schedonnardus, 2015-10-20, 16:19
        
        Halo 2 was different - Fuertisimo, 2015-10-20, 16:26
        
        Yes, it is not skyrim - Durandal, 2015-10-20, 16:57
        
        Halo 2 was different - Fuertisimo, 2015-10-20, 16:24
        
        +1 - dogcow, 2015-10-20, 16:51
        
        Halo 2 was different - cheapLEY, 2015-10-20, 17:42
        
        Halo 2 was different - Fuertisimo, 2015-10-20, 20:37
        
        Halo 2 was different - cheapLEY, 2015-10-20, 21:39
        
        Halo 2 was different - Cody Miller, 2015-10-20, 21:47
        
        Halo 2 was different - Schedonnardus, 2015-10-21, 11:44
        
        Halo 2 was different - narcogen, 2015-10-21, 12:13
        
        Halo 2 was different - narcogen, 2015-10-21, 12:15
        
        Halo 2 was different - Cody Miller, 2015-10-21, 13:08
        
        Halo 2 was different - uberfoop, 2015-10-21, 17:34
        
        Halo 2 was different - cheapLEY, 2015-10-21, 21:50
- :\ - Funkmon, 2015-10-20, 18:48
  - :\ - Fuertisimo, 2015-10-20, 20:38
  - I'd trust it. - electricpirate, 2015-10-20, 23:46
    - Given Kotaku's gamergate performance, no trust. - Durandal, 2015-10-21, 09:32
      - Given Kotaku's gamergate performance, no trust. - Fuertisimo, 2015-10-21, 10:11
        
        Given Kotaku's gamergate performance, no trust. - Funkmon, 2015-10-21, 10:16
        
        Given Kotaku's gamergate performance, no trust. - cheapLEY, 2015-10-21, 11:30
        
        Given Kotaku's gamergate performance, no trust. - someotherguy, 2015-10-21, 12:25

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