Ex-Bungie lawyer praises Sony for \u201cforcing\u201d Destiny 2 devs to make major changes BungieFollowing the announcement that Destiny 2 will be making major changes to how it handles future expansions and approachability, a former lawyer for Bungie supported the news and Sony\u2019s overall handling of the studio after its acquisition. Legal expert Don McGowan, who worked as Bungie\u2019s General Counsel for three years until he was laid off in November 2023, praised Sony in a post on his LinkedIn account that links to a Kotaku article. \u201cMuch though it pains me to say this, it appears that Sony\u2019s inflicting some discipline on my former colleagues may have forced them to fix the things that were wrong with their game,\u201d McGowan said before discussing some of the issues he noticed in his time at Bungie. \u201cTo be clear: I\u2019m not talking about the layoffs, I\u2019m talking about forcing them to get their heads out of their a**** and focus on things like: implementing a method of new player acquisition; not just doing fan service for the fans in the Bungie C-suite; and running the game like a business.\u201d Bungie specifically discussed Destiny 2\u2019s approachability issues in a blog post celebrating the series\u2019 10th anniversary and laid out future plans for the game. In it, director Tyson Green admitted players \u201cpractically need a PhD\u201d to navigate its hundreds of activities and promised changes to make the game more approachable, starting with UI modernization. McGowan also criticized the various \u201cegos\u201d among Bungie leadership who wanted to \u201cpretend that \u2018nothing would change’\u201d after Sony acquired the studio for $3.6 billion in 2022. \u201cI remember sitting there during the deal saying \u2018do you think Sony describes this as them getting to pay $3.6 billion for the right to have no input into what Bungie does?\u2019 That was exactly what a lot of people thought,\u201d he shared. The legal expert ended the post by saying \u201cThe changes described in this article are the things you do to run a franchise, not to keep making the game you and your friends have mastered, or to chase trends.\u201d Beyond the approachability improvements, Bungie has also revealed that Destiny 2 will change its approach to new content releases after they \u201cclosed a door with The Final Shape\u201d back in June 2024. Rather than receiving one massive annual expansion, the game will get two \u201cmedium-sized Expansions\u201d a year, as well as four major free updates. Destiny 2\u2019s new release schedule kicks off with the codename Apollo expansion in summer 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ex-Bungie lawyer praises Sony for \u201cforcing\u201d Destiny 2 devs to make major changes BungieFollowing the announcement that Destiny 2 will be making major changes to how it handles future expansions and approachability, a former lawyer for Bungie supported the news and Sony\u2019s overall handling of the studio after its acquisition. Legal expert Don McGowan, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}