- RigZ Boi
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Yes, times do change. However, I find it odd for a co-founder of Bungie to completely depart himself from a principle of his.
Yes, money is a large factor, however, if Bungie and Jones desired to stick to their roots as much as they're praised for doing, surely they could have navigated their way out of this?
Your analogy involving music is flawed. Principles are something which a person, or group of people asscoiate themselves with for a lifetime. Music is a form of an entertainment, something to be enjoyed and thus people's opinions on music are always changing.
Nowhere did I state Bungie shouls start all over again due to this quote by Jones. I simply stated my opinion, and the fact that I find this quote to be very hypocritical.
Note: I completely understand why Bungie did go for sequels and entered into a contract with Microsoft - to strengthen their fanbase, gain more money and be able to produce multiple AAA games.
Posted by: x Foman123 x
What is this, a political campaign? You can't hold people to every single thing that they said twenty years ago. Times change.
Twenty years ago, I thought that I would be a lifelong fan of rap music and thought that 80s rock sucked. Nowadays I can barely stand to listen to any new rap that comes out but enjoy newer rock songs. I listen mostly to old rap or newer rock music. I'm not a "hypocrite" because the world of music changed. Nor is Bungie because the world of game development changed.
Twenty years ago it did not cost tens of millions of dollars to develop and produce a video game. Now it does. When a game developer produces a successful AAA-caliber game, it makes complete sense to produce sequels that have already built up a successful name, large fanbase, and guaranteed dollars.
It is exactly the same with big-budget movies. That's why you see every big studio taking its big-budget, high-dollar risks on already successful movie franchises, already successful directors, and already successful actors.
Implying that Bungie should, on principle, start all over every time it makes a new game simply because Jason Jones said something twenty years ago that has zero applicability to the video game development world or the way Bungie makes games nowadays is short-sighted and petty, IMHO.