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zero129 said:

shikamaru317 said:

It's an utterly baffling decision to clean house of all veterans in the wake of an acquisition. Why would Sony acquire Bungie just to layoff all of the devs who made Bungie what it is today? Bungie without the veteran devs isn't even worth half of what Sony paid for them, the quality of their games will noticeably tank without the veterans there to guide the more recent recruits, and then the sales will plummet when the quality of their games plummets. I really can't understand why Sony would do this, or rather why they would allow the dynamic duo of Bungie's continued downfall, Jason Jones and Pete Parsons, to layoff all the veterans devs, instead of themselves laying off Jason and Pete and putting somebody decent in charge of the studio in their stead.

It's looking like Sony spent $3.6b on the hollow shell of a once legendary studio and their IP's.

This is gas as its pretty much what Sony and Nintendo fans used to say about Rare.

The Rare that existed before the acquisition never really was a thing for very long after Xbox acquired them, they are right about that much. Many of the veteran devs left, the tone of their games changed as the leadership decided to chase Kinect and then later GaaS. Rare managed to find success, but only after reinventing themselves.