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GymratAmarillo on 28 November 2025
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BraLoD said:
GymratAmarillo said:

If Media Molecule is making a service they are the only OG studio that I wouldn't be afraid for because they have been making software platforms the longest, just without monetization.

That's something the Litter Big Planet bros who talk shit about Astro don't get lol, MM moved on from LBP after 2 because the level creator didn't have anything else to give and the level creator was the most important part of LBP, not the actual levels that came inside the game. Dreams was the obvious evolution.

The problem is that they take too long to make their games and they are running out of time. The release of Marathon will be the breaking moment for Bungie (now officially a PS Studio), personally I think the game won't flop but it won't be as successful as Bungie promised, that means layoffs and while Bungie still has 800 people so it would make sense to fire people from there there's always the chance that Sony will fire people from other studios so Bungie can keep as many devs as possible. Media Molecule wasn't really impacted when Sony started cancelling services but they were next in the list when London Studio was closed so the clock is ticking. In the best scenario Marathon finds its miracle and no one need to be fired or Sony is actually loving what MM is making so they fire people from somewhere else lol.

Marathon is going to flop hard, there is no interest in the game anywhere, nothing about it ever made it appeal in an unique way to get people interested.

Destiny 3 better be ready before 2028 because Bungie is headed for disaster.

After the reveal it got 400k+ wishlists on Steam and the number has actually grown little by little with no new anything (other than controversies LOL), the last closed test had 80k players. I'm not saying that is going to be Helldivers 2 all over gain but frankly I can see the game moving more units than what the game that must not be named did lol. There's also the X factor that is the chinese community. Destiny is quite popular in China, the chinese community are leaking the gameplay from the closed tests and some of those videos have millions of views. There's things left to be decided. 

Now that doesn't mean that Bungie won't be affected if Marathon doesn't flop next year, either because Marathon won't sell millions over millions or because Destiny 2 is done done before time, the chances of people being fired are very high. If next year Sony decides to fire 200 people from Bungie or maybe even half no one should be surprised, the half left will have to be enough to develop Destiny 3 and the rebuilding will start from there. I don't like to talk like that about layoffs because I like to put developers over everything else included the players but if I was working at Bungie right now after all that has happened I would be ready or getting ready for that day.