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Does anybody have any thoughts on how this separation squares with Bungie's recent 100M investment from NetEase? [1]. IIRC this is the same company behind Activision/Blizzard's Diablo mobile game.

It would seem that the biggest change here is that Bungie cut out the middleman.

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/1/17418862/bungie-netease-inv...

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I'd think that the NetEase investment gave them the confidence boost they needed to try out on their own and self-publish in most of the world. As with every non-Chinese game company the question is how they can get a piece of the Chinese market, and now Bungie has their answer.

Or, they took that investment knowing that they’re going to split Destiny from Activision and self-publish in the ‘near’ future

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