Phil/Matt: This is amazing, time to cancel it.
Also it does sound a bit Destiny-like but looking at the shitshow Bungie is in lately, I'd argue that launching a Destiny competitor could actually be a smart bet to take advantage of Bungie's stumbling, if it was as amazing as executives were saying it was, then it could have had a strong chance at pulling jaded players away from Destiny, especially in 3 years from now when Bungie will likely be winding down on Destiny even more.
And it turned out that the thing people were using against it, the 7 years of development, wasn't even true because they straight up paused development at some point between 2018-2025 and went back to the highly profitable The Elder Scrolls Online, and since returning to Kestrel things were going smoothly. At no point was Zenimax Online losing money, turns out they're a big profit maker.
If this is the justification we're using now then just cancel every single new IP with a big budget. Shit you might as well cancel Halo next, a big budget for an IP that has declined in recent times, not worth it, send it to AI /s.
Reckon we'll see Kestrel leaks soon of in-development footage, that stuff always happens when a great game gets cancelled for greed. I'm not ready for if we start getting reports that Everwild was amazing too.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 03 July 2025
