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herculean levels of passive voice here for what has been a butchering of thousands of livelihoods over the course of years at the hands of incompetent executives. no shade to whatever poor community manager had to write this image lol

Bungie@bungie.net

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"final update for Destiny 2" and "all our future projects are in early incubation" dancing around not mentioning their current game Marathon that, what, the people whose careers are being tossed couldn't possibly be put to work on?

indeed! but also I guess they're laying off those people too anyway

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

Hermen Hulst: "We have made the decision to reduce Bungie’s workforce, affecting a significant number of employees, including most of the Destiny team and some Marathon team members." sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog...

SMH what a fucking mess. Not that Sony deserves sympathy, but Bungie shafted them so hard, and they're not even gonna make anything worth purchasing them for! Their CEO should be invested. Although it could just be the AAA industry as a whole since EVERYONES doing mass layoffs

am I thinking in an oversimplistic fashion when I wonder if just setting executive pay to zero (a well-earned zero) is the actual corrective course that assigns the blame where it rightly lands, and *actually* would set the studio on a course of recovery - fully equipped, manned and determined?

What's odd is that they're blaming Destiny 2, a 10 year old game in a now crowded game marketplace where over 20k games have been released in the last year. Clearly there must have been signs like, 8 years ago...

I saw someone on the other site talking about how they’d done contract work for bungie and their experience was that the ship was run as “leadership mandates something fucking stupid, the actual experts go all-hands to fix it, and the moment that fire is out the leadership runs into a brick wall”

The workforce is being reduced somehow, very mysterious. My guess is the invisible hand of the market. Always at it this one.