Legacy Enduring. (Destiny)

by INSANEdrive, ಥ_ಥ | f(ಠ‿↼)z | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ| ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Friday, August 15, 2025, 20:41 (7 hours, 34 minutes ago) @ Vortech

Reminder: How do we feel about this? What exactly does this mean for the future of Bungie?

It doesn't matter.

Coaxkez: People will get laid off. The gaming industry will lose a major player in the live-service space. The products we enjoy and discuss as fans of this company's work may change.

I mean, we're talking about this on a site called Bungie.org right now. Why? For what reason did we each find ourselves here if not some level of interest in the company known as Bungie?

The sky isn't falling or anything like that, at least not because of this, but I can't agree with you that it doesn't matter. ...

People will get laid off? ... Kinda speechless on that one. *Gestures broadly at the last two-ish years of industry bloodbath*

The gaming industry will lose a major player in the live-service space? GOOD. ...but also just a drop in the ocean. A tree that falls in a forest. ...plus the whole reason Sony went for Bungie (apparently) was because they pretty much made the live service money printer, so really, THAT's not going to happen.

The products we enjoy and discuss as fans of this company's work may change? ... Oh, it will change. But that was already true as well.

... man this is weird. After that I'm pretty sure I made the same statement before. "A site" and "bungie.org", my oh my. How... intriguingly meta. As for your question after, in many a way, that's the question that brought me to respond as I did, don't you see it?

I get it, the idea of Bungie being integrated into PlayStation Studios matters as it's where the sites fandom heart has been placed. But honestly? I can't recall the last time they gave a shit, but that's on me, I suppose.

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Kermit: A huge part of this big hobby of mine has had one common denominator: the word Bungie. If that word ceased to mean anything, it would mean something to me.

You're right. You'd need TWO glasses raised high.

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ManKitten Agreed. Recognizing that current Bungie is not the same Halo 1 Bungie, the legacy of the name remains.

For who? It's interesting, but I really don't know how true that is anymore. Everything has grown so homogenized... a name alone is so fleeting, or bloated. It feels so much less... cultural. I can't recall the last time the cake was a lie. And yet, I don't know if it's my error in observance or something larger among this modern day... something something yada. I'm not sure. It just feels to me that the rock star days that gameing had in the aughts is so different in the saturated, condensed environment of now, and... I don't know.

Maybe for indies though. ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Vortech I'm seeing so many people saying it is meaningless because Bungie is not the Same Bungie as it was during Halo and I'm over here remembering when people said it was no longer Bungie because they were not going to make Mac games anymore, or Seropian left, or 343 splintered, or whatever else. I'm not trying to flex about being old, I'm just saying it's easier, but not always better to cauterize the wound in your mind and move on. Either it's good or it's bad, but it is still Bungie.

Oh ho ho! And just like that, Vortech solved the Theseus's Paradox. Tune in next time when Vortech solves the statement: "This statement is false!" OR! Better yet... "what this company is", now THAT is a fun paradox.

And now, this is the part where I reiterate what I said... cause, folk's... it doesn't matter. Despite the significant corporate changes, ONCE AGAIN happening at Bungie, where they lose independence and become fully integrated into Sony... at the core, what made Bungie special; their games, their ideas, their legacy... will persist in the memories of we its fans.

That's... why this question is even asked, right? Why this curiosity was brought forth? Our memories, and what is to be?

But I say ever yet again, it doesn't matter. Really. Take it from the guy who probably throw a literal book of words pondering such things over a decade... if this is the end, I am content. If this is not, than the answer I give still rings true, me thinks.