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6/27/2016 6:19:08 PM
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You are correct that Bungie had no say in the matter, but Microsoft did. You think Activision didn't approach BOTH companies with an exclusive deal? You are out of your mind if you think that. Let's not forget that Microsoft had the timed exclusive content for Call of Duty up until last year. No, Microsoft had to say no at some point and it was most likely due to the price Activision was asking for. Sony didn't just get the exclusive content for free you know. There had to be incentive for Activision as well. Activision gets the money and the partner gets increased sales due to content being exclusive, timed or otherwise, to their console.
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Edited by iMoto Bro: 6/27/2016 7:54:57 PMActivision did have a deal with Microsoft in the past during the last generation of consoles. Xbox 360 used to get CoD DLC early. That contract ended and Sony made a new deal with Activision. Sony used to get have a deal with EA and they got Battlefield 3 DLC early, but then Xbox got BF4 DLC early. This type of thing happens all the time. I don't think it's as complicated as people seem to think. I don't believe Bungie holds any resentment towards Microsoft or the other way around. They just parted ways in fairly positive way. Obviously not all break-ups are drama free though. A few employees were unhappy with the decision and some stayed with Microsoft to keep working on Halo. But I don't think there's any bad blood between them.
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No there is no bad blood I am sure. There was a rumor about six months in after Destiny's release that Bungie wanted to go back to Microsoft because of how badly things have been handled under Activision. Again that is nothing but rumor. But at the same time that rumor is a little more believable when you consider Destiny was originally planned to be exclusive to the Xbox 360 and Xbox 720 (before the official name) for at least a year. Bungie had spent the past ten years working with just Microsoft and clearly were very comfortable with them. Then something happened, again most likely large sums of money was involved, Activision flipped on the original deal and signed exclusive deals with Sony. And because Bungie is not the distributor they had no say in how that deal went down.
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Microsoft wanted more Halo games and Bungie wanted to work on something else (Destiny). So they finished their contract with Microsoft and parted ways.
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Edited by DisturbedShifty: 6/27/2016 9:56:31 PMI am aware of that. That still doesn't change the fact that the original deal, between Bungie/Activision and Microsoft, was to release Destiny on the Xbox consoles first. Essentially the timed exclusive content was reversed in the beginning but only with the entire game.
