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> Bungie and Activision teamed up all those years ago essentially because the former needed a jump-start to develop Destiny Jump start? I thought Bungie was o

• manfredo 8y ago
  Being a self published studio isn't just about having a lot of money (though that's often a prerequisite, at least for AAA games). There's also experience with marketing, relationships with console manufacturers, market research, negotiating platform pricing. Publishers' knowledge of these things make it useful for a studio to still team up with a publisher even if the studio is swimming in cash.
• SeanBoocock 8y ago
  As a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft from whom they had just been spun out. I doubt they had anywhere near the capital to staff a AAA production, and even if they did why not mitigate your downside by working with a publisher? This is standard practice for most large independent developers and for many of the same reasons that people take on investment in the broader business community.
• Kapura 8y ago
  Bungie had only marginal experience supporting online persistence in the style of an MMO. Building the new systems from nothing and building them in such a way that they could scale required tremendous investment. Activision/Blizzard operates World of Warcraft, the largest and most successful game of it's type. And they had the resources to allow Bungie to build something much larger than anything they had ever built before.