At E3 Gamereactor caught up with Bungie's Jason Sussman, who was able to tell us more about the alpha and beta for Destiny, and give us a little more insight into the studio's ambitious project.
With the alpha now put to bed, Sussman's comments on the beta will likely be of interest for those who played the early access version and are looking forward July's beta.
"We will treat the beta like a full launch," we were told, "we want to make sure we get it into as many hands as possible, and the thing about the beta - alpha actually - this is giving us a chance to get it out to the world and get a glimpse of how people play and also look at how our systems work, and the beta's going to do that to. I mean this is truly an alpha, this is something that we wanted to get out there and really start getting on our systems squared away. We want to hear feedback and we want to see how people play."
Bungie - "Join our development team to see the new updates arriving with Destiny 2: The Final Shape. Releasing on June 4, 2024."
Amid ongoing anxiety within Bungie following layoffs last year, the studio is now preparing for another shakeup, this time on Marathon.
Talk about mismanaged Bungie is a studio of tremendous potential and have made some of the greatest shooters to date. Sony pushed them to just make another Destiny style game and consult on other studios live service games and are now getting thrown under a bus as the pivot away from predominantly gaas games is unfolding.
I'd love to see a world where Bungie can focus on telling great sci fi stories again away from a live service dungeon but we all know that's a pipe dream
This studio has had three owners and its never worked well with any of them....Management has issues
Destiny 2’s game director Joe Blackburn is stepping down ahead of The Final Shape, leaving Tyson Green to take the reins of the PS5 and Xbox FPS.
As someone who bought every story DLC for DESTINY 2 but not every season. the first thing I would do as game director is , if anybody pre-orders The ?Final Shape , they will be able to play all older DLC and seasons with purchase of FINAL SHAPE. . I think that would bring back a lot of DESTINY 2 plsyers who have not experienced the seasons a chance to play season activities before Final Shape comes out.
It looks like their really trying to take on board everything that has happened in the last couple of years with these Mass on line launches.
With so much riding on it, you want to avoid the problems that happened to Diablo, GTA5 and Simcity.
Hope they are successful, because if they are, it will be a lesson for the industry on how to roll this thing out.
"we want to make sure we get it into as many hands as possible, and the thing about the beta - alpha actually.."
In my opinion they should stop using the terms alpha and beta. They are constantly throwing the term alpha around and with release so close in September, it's going to give people the wrong impression. People will just start assuming and spreading gossip that it was rushed if something goes awry.
I know it really is an alpha for what they are doing but they should just say they are testing so people are not thinking of development processes.
The game needs some creatures in it to make it more alive and real surely the alien races would have some type of alien guard/attack dog creature maybe.
EA treat a full launch like a beta.
And a beta like an alpha.
And an alpha like an early dev build.
And an early dev build like a proof of concept.
Betafield 4.
Excited for this game. The hype and buzz had died down until E3. The surprise "alpha" was a brilliant PR move. The hype built up some, and the response was amazing on the whole. There was it's issues. It looked beautiful (IMO) and I cannot imagine the graphics looking better at launch, I'm sure they will be.
I believe this game is going to surprise people with the staying power it has. I trust Bungie.