- POKEY CLYDE
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Posted by: MURDUR 587
Posted by: POKEY CLYDE
Yeah. A contract is a contract. It's legally binding. Activision gives Bungie a schedule, and they follow that schedule. It can be pushed back, but that would result in overage penalties for Bungie, and possibly contract termination, which would allow Activision to basically give Bungie's IP to third parties for 10 years (as I understand the contract). Actually yeah, the contract would be vague enough for stuff to change while still being under the contract, I was just thrown off when people started quoting "persistent structures in a dynamic world".
Because why have design decisions in the contract?Oh, common practice in the industry. You have to have your game plans basically layed out, and have a pretty good grasp on how the game is going to be at final release. If you don't, a publisher will not fund you. So there was probably A LOT of pre-production on Destiny (enough for hints of it to be in ODST).
If Bungie didn't have that stuff for Activision, Activision wouldn't have contracted with Bungie. And in the contract it lays out a little bit about the game. It's massively multi-player style, sci-fantasy action shooter. It says some other things in other sections of the contract, like what Bungie's responsibilities are, and this gives us a hint at what the game will require, like "in-game game masters". (Whatever those are)
There was probably detailed stuff about the actual game itself, in Exhibit A of the contract, but Exhibit A seems to have not been there. Which I'm glad about. It doesn't ruin the game. But Exhibit A would have probably had the concept art, the plot, the plans for the game, what they're hoping final release to be, some in-game assets probably.