Marty beats Activision /Bungie

Frozpot said:
It says a lot, I think, that so many stalwart Bungie employees have left since the move to Activision. s***, Joseph Staten and Marty O Donnell WERE Bungie. Whatever internal culture Bungie had before the split seems to be gone. Hell, Staten is back to writing Halo novels.
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and apparently Jason Jones presence is basically non existent any more.
 
I think for a lot of founders, its hard to see their baby handled in a way that isn't... Nurturing?

Some people blossom under growing budgets, but its easy for a close team of visionaries to splinter, when they're all being driven by different principals.

Marathon, Oni, and Halo, are not games that were being driven by the daunting prospect of "By the way, $500 million is on the line...."

I think it would be easier to be (I don't want to say ignorant, but...) more resistant to overt corporate pressure, if you were able to remain an artist. Marty had reached the highs of working with musical royalty, and he should be proud of it. Money, and min-maxing wouldn't have meant the same to him as it would to the 'sell-outs' that Bungie had become.

Rare had similar issues. Heck, most companies do.
 
eVo7 said:
The thing is though is that Microsoft OWNED Bungie and published their games obviously, Activision does NOT OWN Bungie, they just have a publishing agreement.

Activision didn't do that to Marty, BUNGIE did. They are no longer the humble Bungie of marathon, myst, H1/H2 era, since Halo 3 they have evolved into a egotistical company....
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Even though Activision doesn't own Bungie, they're fronting the costs of Destiny, so their "suggestions" have to carry some weight. I wouldn't hesitate to think that Bungie is under Activision's thumb more so than they were Microsoft in a lot of ways.
 
Frozpot said:
Didn't he leave years ago, though? He always seemed a bit of a negative fellow to me.
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As far as I know he's still there. I think it was IGN(?) that had a "rare" interview with him a bit before Destiny launched. I think there was an April fools joke about him leaving the company recently too. Up until Halo 2/3(?) he was pretty active in the development of Bungie's games, programming/design/etc, then he seemed have less and less involvement.
 
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