Bungie announced yesterday it would lay off 220 employees, 17% of the company, move 155 to roles within Sony Interactive Entertainment and take ~40 or

Mass Bungie Layoffs Draw Fury From ‘Destiny 2’ Fans, Past And Present Employees

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2024-08-01 22:00:02

Bungie announced yesterday it would lay off 220 employees, 17% of the company, move 155 to roles within Sony Interactive Entertainment and take ~40 or so and create a new sub-studio under Sony for a new game.

It’s a decimation of the company which comes after 100+ layoffs late last year. The reaction was sorrow, but also unbridled rage mainly directed at Bungie leadership, namely Bungie CEO Pete Parsons where it was dug up that he allegedly has spent $2.5 million on classic cars since the Sony deal according to an online auction website.

The message announcing the layoffs, written by Parsons himself, says that 850 people are still working on Destiny and Marathon, and depending on the Marathon team size, that’s likely around half the number of people working on Destiny, the live service game that demands constant additions, compared to a couple years ago.

The move has drawn widespread rage from essentially all observers, and those directly in the line of fire. While it’s true that many video game publishers and developers have had layoffs, Bungie has now fired essentially a quarter of the company within the last year, and it seems like a unique situation of mismanagement for which no one responsible is…being held responsible.