Hah! Activision offering a $2.5M bonus for a 90 metacritic, when it was probably partly Activision's demand for gimping on the story elements so they could sell them as DLC in future that caused it to be under 90 on meta.
Main gripes I can see from Destiny are: piss weak story and characters; grindfest elements poorly designed/executed with terrible effort/reward ratio. The first we know Bungie is capable of delivering a good story, because people love the Halo story and it seems it has enough story to at least have people thinking about a movie. The second is Bungie operating outside its comfort zone trying to make a FPS MMORPG so they have something to learn.
Acti needs to give Bungie more creative freedom, and Bungie needs to bring in some MMORPG design experts. Of course I'm sure Acti is quite happy to not pay Bungie $2.5M while it reaps sales for a game that is selling like it's got a 90 Meta.
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