Bungie splits with Activision, keeps Destiny IP

[Chazore]

mjk45 said:

Chazore said:

Without publishing rights, you can't really publish your game, so really, why did they need to make any sort of deal with Activision for the split, if they owned the IP entirely and could simply walk away with it?.

Also, for Insomniac:

"We pitched it a few different places, and it was really important to [Insomniac CEO] Ted [Price] that we own the IP, so some of the conversations broke down over that," Sunset Overdrive co-creator Marcus Smith told IGN in an interview. "With Microsoft, they just came in very energetic and excited to work with Insomniac, period."

You must understand that they will have pitched the idea to those they have worked with for years. I highly doubt that they didn't once speak to Sony about publishing the game, and them being one of the companies where talking with them fell through. 

You silly boy you already  answered your own question "so really why did they need to make any sort of deal with Activision for the split" with your first statement "without publishing rights ,you can't really publish your game".

I wasn't really asking myself a question. I was asking them the kind of question that I already knew the answer to. I knew why the deal was made in the first place, and I know why they split.