En af årets hidtil største nyheder er at Bungie har taget rettighederne til Destiny-serien tilbage, og at fremadrettet er dem selv der står for udgivelsen af serien. Dette gjorde at Activisions aktieværdi tog endnu et slag, men nu har de desuden slået fast, at serien i forvejen var en klods om benet for virksomheden, da det ikke mødte deres forventninger.
For nylig afholdte Activision Blizzard som bekendt deres store investormøde, og her slog CFO Coddy Johnson fast, at Destiny 2 ikke havde formået at møde de interne forventninger, og at spillet sågar optog ressourcer fra andre projekter.
"Destiny, it is highly critically acclaimed, high quality content, but it was not meeting our financial expectations. As we went through at the end of the year our financial planning for 2019, it indicated that Destiny would not have been a material contributor in operating income to our business. We had internal resources supplementing Bungie's work, and that means they're tying up one of our scarcest resources, which is developer time, which now under the arrangement we have reached, will be freed up after short transition period."
Det lader nærmest til at Activision er glade for splittet, men det er investorerne naturligvis ikke.
