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: I can't decide if I should buy TTK because I cannot get past this
: stuff...,and Jamie's tweet really adds weight. Dammit - I'd just talked
: myself into getting TTK to play with friends.
I don't like that conflicted feeling either, like your parents are fighting and you're not hungry for dinner anymore.
But there is still a heap of recognizable Bungie crew that has stayed with the studio, not to mention newcomers who have poured months and years into their work. Even Marcus Lehto, who left, just tweeted last week of meeting up with old Bungie friends and being impressed with what they were working on.
It's all conflicting and will probably always be so. I'd say different folk had different experiences and opinions with the changes of the last five or ten years. Obviously Griesemer had a poor one in the end, but maybe Lehto had a moderate one, and maybe Lorraine McLees and others who are still at Bungie are loving what they're doing.
I think it's easy to paint one side or the other as good or bad and be done with it, but harder to try and keep up with every side and appreciate what they all have to offer. I'm still looking forward to The Taken King and I believe a lot of the people working on to have a passion for it. But I'll also be excited to see what Highwire does. Maybe it's a good thing that different mindsets and approaches are finding different spaces to work at. Maybe that means better work from everyone.
I mean The Beatles broke up, but you could still enjoy the fun of Wings, the passion of Lennon, and the calm beauty of George afterwards. I guess that's how I see it.
(... and uh, Ringo did something, too I guess...)