GymratAmarillo said:
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. |
Layoffs are always sad to see, specially when companies are doing very well and there is no monetary justification aside from greed for bigger profits to please investors, but when a company/product is massively underperforming it is either that or full closure, specially after they spent so much money to acquire it, you can't keep throwing money away or things only get worse.
I don't think Marathon will do well even with the Destiny crowd, which has already decreased a lot itself, Destiny 3 feels like the only hope, and even that has zero guarantees to do well either.
Right now Bungie needs to do what they can to please the community that once showed interest on their games, I don't think taking any kind of risk is sensible, they should stick with what once worked and make sure to focus to build as much goodwill as possible.
