Bungie laying off 220 employees. 155 additional roles to be integrated into SIE, ~40 additional roles forming new studio. Gone from 1300 to 850 staff.
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More layoffs that doesn't need to happen, mostly due to shit decisions made by leadership.
And then Sony is esentially taking more and creating a whole new studio, which just adds further hittiness onto that leadership. It a shame Sony couldn't take those 220 affected as well.
And then Sony is esentially taking more and creating a whole new studio, which just adds further hittiness onto that leadership. It a shame Sony couldn't take those 220 affected as well.
If they don't like it they shouldn't have agreed to it then lol
But it seems like Destiny and Marathon and presumably future in-house Bungie games would stay multiplatform.
Oh I'm 100% sure the blame can be spread to both parties involved.
I dont think it is being a cynic, I think it is realistic. Sony said Bungie games are multiplatform, this is no longer a Bungie game. Easy to work around it.
Fucking hell, Bungie. Pete is running this ship into the ground.
Has The Final Shape not been doing well?
Has The Final Shape not been doing well?
Yeah they had a few incubation teams workshopping other projects, I imagine most of the layoffs are coming from there
Longterm Bungie wanted to build themselves up into a studio with several games on the go at once. I really like Destiny but I was looking forward to seeing what else they had in the oven :/
A third of Bungie gutted or assimilated? WOAH.
Outside of Helldivers 2, Playstation's GAAS push has been an abject disaster. Half of their dozen or so live service games cancelled, and now Bungie, a key part of that initiative, has been seriously neutered. Round of applause for Jim Ryan.
Outside of Helldivers 2, Playstation's GAAS push has been an abject disaster. Half of their dozen or so live service games cancelled, and now Bungie, a key part of that initiative, has been seriously neutered. Round of applause for Jim Ryan.
It sounds like they are:
That said, not a single word about Pete getting the boot... Dude needs to fucking go.
Marathon is still coming, plus whatever the future of Destiny is.
Oof 17% is significant. Hope those people can land on their feet. Bungie kinda seems like a mess. Seems kind of over ambitious by management to have grown to their peak size in the first place, it's not that surprising that it wasn't sustainable.
Should have did that with Evolution Studio! (DriveClub, Motorstorm) 😭
Some of the best graphics and sound in gaming at the time..
I'm aware, I'm referring to the incubation teams that were impacted. There was quite a bit in the works
Crazy how much Pete got away with from all the hard work and success of others and the guy gets to stay around lol. Jokes
Is this shuffle resulting in Sony taking full control of the board of directors? What does this mean for the power struggle that was reported to be occurring between the Sony execs and the Bungie founders?
We can't have the people actually responsible fired now, can we? Outrageous!
No, regular devs should pay the price.
This industry in a nutshell.
The only positive thing about this is the 155 jobs they managed to save... Which still means they're/Bungie's losing 375 people.
Yeah. At least one of them is moving to PlayStation Studios under this new team of ex-Bungie people. Presumably that shows it's promising.
How many years have they been talking about having multiple new IPs being planned in the background? Feels like it's been at least five.
All that work for nothing (except for the one being sent to Sony) is really depressing. For yeeeears Bungie has been talking about bringing out the creativity of its employees and wanting to incubate a bunch of new IPs. Having to let all that go and become solely a Marathon/Destiny studio has got to be crushing.
All that work for nothing (except for the one being sent to Sony) is really depressing. For yeeeears Bungie has been talking about bringing out the creativity of its employees and wanting to incubate a bunch of new IPs. Having to let all that go and become solely a Marathon/Destiny studio has got to be crushing.
Goddamn… and didn't they just have a major round of layoffs a few months ago too?? Fucking Bungie man…
I really hope that Sony is able to take over soon and clean house with the leadership, but unfortunately I fear that this is Sony taking control of Bungie rather than them trying to avoid it…
I just hope that Sony starts replacing some of the leadership/putting some of their people in charge…
I really hope that Sony is able to take over soon and clean house with the leadership, but unfortunately I fear that this is Sony taking control of Bungie rather than them trying to avoid it…
I just hope that Sony starts replacing some of the leadership/putting some of their people in charge…
I think the last two are separate, since it says "Second..." rather than "As part of the integration..."
So it's 220 + 155 + ???, and whoever's left is going to be split between working on Destiny and Marathon.
Pretty sure the last 2 are the same.
155 are going to a brand new Sony Studio (unnamed for now).
Probably further along than that but at least a couple of years off still (or whatever it will be, titled D3 or not).
Not surprising, as already a lot of people have been leaving the company these days and this second round of layoffs was called in the first one. No matter how good TFS was, there was no escape. It's nice that Sony managed to find position to 155 people but it still sucks.
Curious about the game being spun out, as it's not Marathon. I wonder if it's not a live service, because if it was they would surely mention and Bungie has been regaining their campaign muscle over the years.
Let's hope Marathon and whatever they have planned for Destiny with Codename Frontiers delivers else we're in for more layoffs, as this year's episodes seem to not be the change Destiny needed to keep players satisfied.
Curious about the game being spun out, as it's not Marathon. I wonder if it's not a live service, because if it was they would surely mention and Bungie has been regaining their campaign muscle over the years.
Let's hope Marathon and whatever they have planned for Destiny with Codename Frontiers delivers else we're in for more layoffs, as this year's episodes seem to not be the change Destiny needed to keep players satisfied.
That sucks, have really enjoyed getting back into Destiny 2 playing through the missed campaigns to get to the Final Shape. All those devs being layed off are super talented.
I'm not super concerned with SIE taking a more active role given the complaints about Bungie specific management but laying off that many people is brutal.
I'm not super concerned with SIE taking a more active role given the complaints about Bungie specific management but laying off that many people is brutal.
Kalentan Dizastah Jason Schreier is saying about 75 people are going to be moved to the new studio, and that is separate from the 155 being integrated into SIE:
View: https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1818674500013097178
View: https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1818674500013097178
Nah make it sound pretty clear that the 155 are going to SIE specifically. The new studio seems to be a work in progress.
Edit: Jason S posted above 75 to the new studio.
Not struggling but The Final Shape probably didn't do what they expected it do. Expansion brought back some previous players but not new players all that much and the attachment rate after launch dropped heavy.
This is what it sounds like, with 12% of their workforce being integrated into SIE.
Looks like Final Shape failed whatever metrics Sony set to avoid said takeover. Sad that this is what it has come to.
I think this was their goal from the get-go while Pete tried to trim some fat to keep the numbers high enough to not trigger the take-over clause. Now he might have given in to Sony's strategy while cutting a deal to keep himself on the ship?
Hope everyone lands on their feet...