You greedy -blam!-!
Destin put out a video we’re he’s interviewed current and ex-devs at bungie and they admitted that management purposely makes armour look not as good as whatever the original concept art is because it’ll effect eververse armour sales.
Damn near every armour set we’ve had in years, I’ve always said “why have they made that particular design choice? It would’ve looked so much better if…”
That taken shader is another perfect example. Looked amazing in D1 but it’s so toned down in D2. Why? Because how they going to sell shader packs, if the best damn shader in the game is free.
Management can -blam!- -blam!-. Nothing but love to the devs , who we all know if they were given creative freedom, this’d be the most beautiful game out there.
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None of this is surprising. Bungie's job is to make money. This model must be working to some extent.