Lawsuit documents reveal Bungie made substantial changes to Destiny’s story
Since Bungie launched Destiny last September, some people have been thinking that the story was shallow when compared to the pre-release trailers and promotional material regarding the game. A sample for the game was shared on a since-deleted Reddit thread about how a tester was invited to Bungie to try Destiny before launch. However, he found it different from the released game story. Although Bungie has also remained silent on this issue, rumors were triggered further when Bungie’s lead writer Joseph Staten departed a year before the game was launched.
Recently, Bungie was in a lawsuit against Marty O’Donnell, a long-time former employee who constructed the score for the game and was fired soon after. Mr. O’Donnell won the lawsuit, and was able to obtain $142,500 as a result. The dispute was caused due to a disagreement between Mr. O’Donnell and Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI), where Activision wanted to take the entire credit of the score without mentioning Mr. O’Donnell’s name. This led to a long dispute between the two, ultimately resulting in Mr. O’Donnell getting fired from the company and in the game’s launch getting delayed, according to documents published by VentureBeat, as reported by IGN.
Destiny reasons that the lack of story was due to the fact that the story was changed at the last minute during the development process, leading to the delay in the game’s release. Destiny was supposed to release in August 2013 initially, but was eventually launched in September 2014.
While this may not reflect well for Bungie, there remains a lot of hype for the upcoming expansion titled “The Taken King.” One way Bungie can redeem itself is to make sure The Taken King lives up to its fans’ expectations.
Bungie’s Destiny: The Taken King is set to release on September 15, 2015 on Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox One, Xbox 360, Sony Corp.’s (ADR) (NYSE:SNE) PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
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