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Destiny (2014)

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Review

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According to Activision, Bungie’s Destiny grossed more than $325 million dollars within 5 days of its release, not including the $500 million it made by selling the game to retailers in the first place. Activision haven’t yet revealed full sales figures, but Activision publishing executive, Eric Hirshberg, said:

“Destiny fans played more than 100 million hours of the game in the first week. That's on par with the engagement levels of our most popular Call of Duty games, which obviously is an industry leader.”

Interestingly enough, the reviews for Destiny aren’t all that positive. I haven’t reviewed it yet, but if I were to sum it up in a single word at this point, that word would be ‘disappointing’. I can’t quite comprehend why the game is so popular, honestly.

Microsoft have acquired Mojang, the developers of Minecraft, for roughly $2.5 billion. Apparently this won’t stop the game from being available on other devices, which makes sense, because that would realistically just be a very easy way for Microsoft to lose out on some pretty easy money. Regarding that, Mojang said:

“There’s no reason for the development, sales, and support of the PC/Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Vita, iOS, and Android versions of Minecraft to stop. Of course, Microsoft can’t make decisions for other companies or predict the choices that they might make in the future.”

The phrasing of that last part is interesting – of course, Microsoft can’t make decisions for other companies. No, but they can make Minecraft extremely expensive for Sony to host on the PlayStation 4, and then Sony themselves could decide not to have it anymore. I don’t see that happening, but the fact that Mojang actually mentioned that raises some flags.

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