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Bungie Lays Off 220 Employees and Moves Another 230 to New Divisions Within Sony | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited July 31 in News & Features Discussion

imageBungie Lays Off 220 Employees and Moves Another 230 to New Divisions Within Sony | MMORPG.com

After prior cost cutting came up short, Bungie is laying off 220 employees and moving another 230 to other divisions within Sony, to focus on Destiny and Marathon.

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  • EldrachEldrach Member RarePosts: 461
    Tbh, with that amount of employees, I’m baffled by the tiny expansions full of re-used assets they’ve churned out over the last couple of years. I’d guess that studio had around 100 employees based of the shallow and short expansions they’ve charged a premium for
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  • GreatswordGreatsword Member RarePosts: 414
    I am quite surprised by this, too. If my math checks out that would be around 1,300 employees? Guess most of them must be working on Destiny 3.
    55522s
  • mitech616mitech616 Member UncommonPosts: 108
    This is what happens when the MAIN focus of a game is just the bottom dollar. How much money you can make in the easiest way possible. Is it about quality? No.

    You get uninspired content, then when it doesn't meet profit margin expectations, the dev teams take the punishment. They're just commodities in the game factory churning machine. It's sad, really. They will waste millions on their executives' salaries, but fire the hard-working staff on a whim.

    Another reason I'd rather support indie devs. They make better products that cost less and they don't USE and exploit their dev team.
    55522sJeroKaneValdheim
  • ArglebargleArglebargle Member EpicPosts: 3,465
    Sadly, the people responsible for the trouble won't be getting their pink slip. 

    As I understand it, the D2 engine is just awful to develop for, and has hamstrung their ability to deliver new content. 
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    "accountability for development timelines”. 

    How development works in the real world or...

    Words never spoken at Roberts Industries.

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  • XiaokiXiaoki Member EpicPosts: 4,036
    Arglebargle said:
    Sadly, the people responsible for the trouble won't be getting their pink slip. 

    As I understand it, the D2 engine is just awful to develop for, and has hamstrung their ability to deliver new content. 

    Yeah, that's correct. 

    Destiny 2 uses the Tiger engine. Heavily modified because the version of Tiger engine used for Destiny 1 was very difficult to use and hamstrung delivery of new content. Bungie themselves admitted to this.

    Tiger engine is also just a heavily modified blam! engine which was what they made for Halo: Combat Evolved.

    Bungie keeps thinking they are great graphics engine designers but much of the development time for Destiny 1 and Destiny 2 was designing and re-designing the graphics engine because of how bad it was.
    ValdheimArglebargle
  • 55522s55522s Member UncommonPosts: 31
    years of broken promises, content vaulting, scummy MTX, and general scummy business practices have finally caught up to them. Many times when they could have turned this around, all ignored. Bungie has only itself (C-suite) to blame for this
    ValdemarJ
  • Asm0deusAsm0deus Member EpicPosts: 4,600
    Arglebargle said:
    Sadly, the people responsible for the trouble won't be getting their pink slip. 

    As I understand it, the D2 engine is just awful to develop for, and has hamstrung their ability to deliver new content. 

    Agreed, the one's really responsible almost always weasel out with a bonus instead of a pink slip.

    Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.





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