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Ryuu96 said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

Bungie has lost nearly half of all its employees since Sony bought them out. While upper management does an absolutely shit job and deserves to get canned, gotta admit they did a great job at bullshitting their way to Jim Ryan lol.

It's insane to think now how much authority Sony handed Bungie when it came to overseeing their upcoming live service portfolio. Now not only have Sony's live service ambitions imploded outside of Helldivers 2, which I don't think Bungie would've had much say over since it was a partnered game, but Bungie's own upcoming live service game is imploding lol.

From this horrible PR to the lukewarm reception of Marathon's alpha, to the constant preferring of the upcoming Arc Raiders over Marathon, things are looking bleak AF. Destiny 2 is still Bungie's saving grace right now, but we'll have to see how well this new model of smaller expansions holds up.

Lost a bunch of employees who didn't deserve to go and nobody who actually deserved to go and it feels like Bungie's leadership shit canned those developers to save themselves. Done a shit job at helping Sony with its live service portfolio, a lot of controversy with Destiny 2, plagiarisms, lawsuits, employees upset at leadership, changing Marathon IP for no reason, etc.

Honestly Bungie would be lost without having a major company propping them up, whether that was Microsoft, or Activision, or Sony, a lot of blame used to be thrown at Activision for Bungie's issues in the past but it's clear now those issues are largely Bungie themselves, Bungie leadership is carried HARD by the rank and file employees and they should be kissing their feet.

Bungie's success is all to do with their amazing rank and file employees and nothing to do with their leadership.

I'm ashamed to say I was right there popping off and celebrating when Bungie split from Activision. Hindsight is 20/20 though lol