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[Strakt]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...-scenes-at-bungie-making-destiny-2-and-beyond

Some quotes:

"Absolutely we took criticisms of the original Destiny to heart," Jason Jones, co-founder of Bungie, tells Newsbeat.

"We knew it had amazing parts... but we also saw the real mistakes we made."
In a rare interview inside their Seattle offices, in the USA, he says the experience shaped how they tackled Destiny 2.

"It was stuff we already knew but it was a sharp and clear message from our community - they expected better."

Jason says the studio have learnt their lessons, and judging by the reaction to the new title and the positive reviews he might just be right.

The challenge now is keeping the players coming back for more.

Speaking to Newsbeat the game director of Destiny 2, Luke Smith, says: "For our game quantity is a part of quality.

"Especially for our players who'll consume our content faster than we can build it, it takes months to make a cool adventure and players will go through it in 20 minutes!"

Many of the studio's 700 employees are busy keeping the game's online living universe going, working on extra content and developing a PC version

Keeping Desitny fans happy is the main job for people in the studio at the moment but Jason tells us that they have started thinking about what's next.

He says: "We're starting in a small way to look at what's beyond Destiny.

"Every time you do a new thing to surprise and delight people you risk being ignored.

"So you could make your hand very tired writing down all the risks going into a new game project, but unless you're taking risks then your not going to do something people care about."

You can watch our behind the scenes at Bungie film on BBC Click on Saturday the 22nd of October.

 

[Magwik]

I'm looking forward to this but they totally are going to sweep the game being rebooted a year ago under the rug aren't they

 

[Glassboy]

700 employees?!

 

[Magwik]

700 employees?!

I assume they are counting High Moon and such under that umbrella now?

 

[Gator86]

I'm looking forward to this but they totally are going to sweep the game being rebooted a year ago under the rug aren't they

I doubt they want to let too much intrude on their triumphant redemption narrative. D2 is a huge improvement, but man, they definitely didn't learn some important lessons from D1, and some of the things they did learn are not the lessons they should have learned. If you learn from D1 "we cannot balance anything to save our goddamn lives," the solution isn't just to remove interesting gears/weapons or remove customization from the game entirely.

Keeping Destiny fans happy is the main job for people in the studio at the moment

They should definitely not look at Reddit in the near future...

 

[Strakt]

https://twitter.com/BBCNewsbeat/status/921254660912107521

1 minute preview of the film