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Ryuu96 said:

Wow, so it was confirmed.

Dude straight up removed all references to Bungie on his site...I'm actually speechless, Bungie has lost the damn plot, it would be one thing for Michael to want to retire or move on to another company but for Bungie to lay him off is insane. I know a ton of Bungie veterans have left the company over the years but still, what has happened to Bungie man.

Over 20 years of service and they lay him off like that. Michael Salvatori deserves just as much credit as Marty O'Donnell on Halo's music but Marty is the one who got the fame, Michael was happy to just sit in the background out of the spotlight but he co-composed Halo 1, 2, 3, ODST and Reach with Marty alongside co-composing Destiny 1, 2 and the expansions.

I hope that he goes freelance, he is too talented to restrict himself to one company.

They laid off this guy as well.

I guess Bungie wants no music in their next game. They are now down both of their OG Soundtrack guys from the Halo days, Marty after cheating him out of owed revenue in Destiny 1 days, and now Michael as well.



shikamaru317 said:
Ryuu96 said:

Wow, so it was confirmed.

Dude straight up removed all references to Bungie on his site...I'm actually speechless, Bungie has lost the damn plot, it would be one thing for Michael to want to retire or move on to another company but for Bungie to lay him off is insane. I know a ton of Bungie veterans have left the company over the years but still, what has happened to Bungie man.

Over 20 years of service and they lay him off like that. Michael Salvatori deserves just as much credit as Marty O'Donnell on Halo's music but Marty is the one who got the fame, Michael was happy to just sit in the background out of the spotlight but he co-composed Halo 1, 2, 3, ODST and Reach with Marty alongside co-composing Destiny 1, 2 and the expansions.

I hope that he goes freelance, he is too talented to restrict himself to one company.

They laid off this guy as well.

I guess Bungie wants no music in their next game. They are now down both of their OG Soundtrack guys from the Halo days, Marty after cheating him out of owed revenue in Destiny 1 days, and now Michael as well.

It wasn't just music legacy guys at Bungie. They're clearing house of all veterans at the company.



She was at Bungie for over 20 years...Since 1998.

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gtotheunit91 said:
shikamaru317 said:

They laid off this guy as well.

I guess Bungie wants no music in their next game. They are now down both of their OG Soundtrack guys from the Halo days, Marty after cheating him out of owed revenue in Destiny 1 days, and now Michael as well.

It wasn't just music legacy guys at Bungie. They're clearing house of all veterans at the company.

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.

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Royally pissing off developers is going to cause some to leave. 



I honestly think we have blamed the wrong person in the past now, Bungie had horrific development issues during Halo 1-3, Microsoft is blamed, Destiny has a bunch of issues, Activision is blamed, Bungie leaves Activision, Destiny continues to have issues, Bungie makes very questionable layoffs, Sony is blamed. I'm thinking all this time it was just Bungie is a poorly ran studio, if anything, I wouldn't be surprised if it was Microsoft who was holding Bungie together during Halo's development.