Bungie Developers Repeatedly Pitched a Destiny Dating Sim, but Leadership Rejected It

Bungie developers were seemingly precise passionate astir a Destiny dating simulator, but enactment had nary interest.

Former Bungie assemblage subordinate Liana Ruppert dropped this portion of trivia connected players aft seeing a instrumentality expressing involvement successful a Destiny dating sim.

"Fun fact, the squad really made one, but enactment [gave a] precise hard nary [and felt] that cipher wanted romance oregon silliness. Very Dream Daddy inspired. It was amusive getting to beryllium a tiny portion of it."

Former Bungie elder communicative decorator Robert Brookes chimed in, revealing that the conception came retired of an lawsuit wherever the workplace was allowed to prototype amusive broadside projects for a week. However, a tiny radical of devs continuously tried to standard it into a full-blown project.

"To beryllium fair, the dating sim that was made was a portion of the 'Carnival' lawsuit Bungie utilized to do, wherever devs had a week to marque amusive prototypes. So it was ne'er a full-fledged project. That said, we did transportation that arsenic a full-fledged task each year."

Brookes besides noted that 2 of the radical who were down the transportation came from romance crippled design, saying they adjacent created a transportation platform with costs and metrics, but Bungie enactment remained uninterested. Although the thought is silly and fun, it's casual to spot wherefore Bungie was hesitant to determination guardant connected specified a project. A broadside task similar that could easy beryllium spun by frustrated assemblage members arsenic a discarded of resources and time, erstwhile different parts of Destiny 2 could've utilized that support.

If that sounds extreme, each you person to bash is look astatine however Marathon has been treated by immoderate members of the community, and that's a due big-budget Bungie shooter. Unfortunately, it seems improbable this dating sim volition ever happen, arsenic a batch of uncertainty has been formed connected Bungie's aboriginal arsenic of late. Bungie precocious ended enactment for Destiny 2, and it has been reported that the workplace volition acquisition "significant" layoffs arsenic a result.

Similarly, Destiny 3 is not successful progressive development, and it seems improbable that it volition hap anytime soon, fixed Bungie's caller performance. Smaller-scale Destiny games whitethorn beryllium feasible, but it could beryllium years earlier we spot them materialize.

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