Fireteam Chat Ep 187 - Why Destiny Isn't Living Up to Activision's Expectations - IGN's Destiny Show

Fireteam Chat: IGN's Destiny Podcast

IGN

Leisure, Video Games

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Activision said on a recent earnings call that Destiny 2 is not meeting their expectations. This week we discuss why that may be and what it would take to bring fans back.

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0:00.0	And the Welcome to Fire Team Chat I. G. N's Destiny show.
0:28.0	Thank you so much for joining us.
0:29.0	Joining me today is CJ Gibson.
0:30.0	What's up?
0:31.0	Stephen Roo.
0:32.0	Hey, Guardians. And... Gibson. What's up? Stephen Roo. Hey guardians and
0:32.7	chop. We're going to have a more serious episode today.
0:37.1	That's what I was going to say.
0:38.2	We're going to be talking about the Activision's earnings call for the most part.
0:42.3	And I'm posing the question is the
0:45.3	destiny brand two damage to be successful and by successful I'm using
0:49.7	Activision's definition which seems outlandish to me and let's talk about why.
0:54.4	By the way you can watch us first on I.G.N.com and then one day later Saturday at 5 p.m. on
0:59.4	YouTube so that's Friday at 5 I.gN.com, Saturday at 5, YouTube.com
1:04.0	slash fire team chat. So Activision is saying that Destiny 2
1:10.0	is not what they were hoping for.
1:13.2	They're saying it did not achieve our commercial expectations.
1:16.2	There's still a lot of work to do to engage the core destiny fan base.
1:20.6	What did they expect?
1:22.0	Because digging into the statistics it was the number six best-selling game of the year from August 2017 to August 2018 and in September it was the number eight best-selling game of September.
1:34.0	Do they need it to be Fortnite?
1:36.0	And what scares me about this is,
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