I had a Destiny poster on my wall back when all we knew was the name of the game and a bit of promotional art. We named our cat Bungie. So yeah, I'm pretty sad about the current state of things.

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I was listening to some Halo 3/ODST OST's, it was very bittersweet thinking about what we had.

[–] BigVault@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago

Sadly I lost interest in the game once they decided to remove content I’d paid for.

Gutting to see the developers suffer like this as I doubt they’re the ones making the shit decisions but are the ones taking all the hits with the layoffs.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

was with this threat looming that Bungie leadership - not Sony, according to Parsons - made the choice to lay off roughly 100 employees last month.

But the cost-cutting at Bungie isn’t limited to just personnel. Multiple current employees confirmed to IGN that the company has implemented numerous other cost-cutting measures recently, including a studio-wide hiring freeze, reduced travel budgets, elimination of holiday bonuses, keeping its annual Bungie Day virtual, delaying its weeklong company “Pentathalon” event to next December, and reducing numerous morale events such as cooking and knitting classes from monthly to quarterly. Bungie is also pausing or fully ending benefits like annual employee compensation adjustments to meet market rates, its new hire lunch program, employee donation matching, its peer recognition program, and gift cards for employees birthdays.

[–] Aremel@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

So Bungie is officially dead

[–] BrowseMan@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

Whouah, okay so all the good things removed.

Fuck the employees I guess?

[–] echo64@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Tbh, sony needs to take over. Sony seem to do okay with their stuff, and Bungie leadership seems to be totally at fault.

They must have the most wild buyout contract for Sony to not be able to just swoop in and fix this nonsense.

[–] sarcasticsunrise@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure they had a reason to do it, but why the hell did they leave Microsoft again??? Working under Sony sounds miserable

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Working for Microsoft doesn't seem to be all sunshine and rainbows either, according to some firsthand accounts I've heard.

[–] OscarRobin@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

None of the things happening at Bungie are related to Sony at all, as the article states

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, Sony gave Bungie a pretty sick deal. Bungie gets financial backing from Sony and if Bungie doesn't drive itself into the ground they keep their autonomy, and I guess the main benefit Sony got is/was live service expertise from Bungie (which is what Sony was focusing on when they acquired Bungie). The fact that Sony might need to step in is all on Bungie and it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has been keeping up with Bungie. The short gist is that the entire company is horribly mismanaged and that's why they had to lay off and are likely to get taken over by Sony.

And if I'm being honest, I think Sony takeover might be the best thing for Bungie (assuming it doesn't get entirely dissolved). Get rid of the shit management and then, once you've put some reasonable people at the helm, let them do their own thing again.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Ah crap.

Didn't realize this post came first: https://lemmy.world/post/9222778

I searched before I posted, so weird that I didn't see it.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

Nobody's safe, it seems