I'm sure the executives will be getting hefty bonuses and pay raises as thanks for their services to the company.

Bungie is a shit company and has been for years. I have zero sympathy after what they've done to both their staff and their customers.

They should make good single player and smaller-scope games again. Their massive-budget, live-service games have proven unsustainable.

Bungie died in 2010 with the launch of the last good Halo game. They haven't been as good since. Their leadership have all been crooks and profit seekers. They deserve to die along with most AAA studios that have been corrupted by MBAs and shareholders.

They absolutely milked the living shit out of the Destiny franchise until it died unceremoniously. They also funneled that pile of cash into exotic cars and Marathon.

The part that blows my mind is how there are Destiny 2 fans out there that want Sony to greenlight Destiny 3 and let Bungie make it. They expect Sony to give $500M to this group of devs and leadership that managed to kill the franchise through repeated mismanagement and under delivery over the years? Destiny 2 fans want more of the most aggressive FOMO driven anti-consumer microtransactions to nickle and dime them for another decade? Seriously?

Probably the best thing that can happen for Destiny is for Sony to give Destiny IP over to another studio like Insomniac, Guerrilla, Sucker Punch, or Santa Monica. Perhaps they can make a better non-live service Destiny game.

Unfortunate that the union fought for them to the bitter end.

I want unions back and I'm a software engineer. Looking more and more like a depression hitting soon.

Imagine pouring all your effort into a company for years only to be fired because management mismanaged everything...

interestingly it's NEVER those who made the bad decisions who get replaced or made redundant.

Probably should have made a real Marathon game instead of that extraction shooter skinwalker that is only getting sub 15k players on all platforms (Steam is where the most NeuMarathon players are, not PlayStation), huh?

*Bunjee

"Leadership has failed, so of course the workers will now suffer."

Dear lord. The ill informed comments in that Bluesky thread hurt my soul.

EDIT: To clarify, the "golden handcuffs" tied to the Sony deal ($1.2B of the total $3.6B) already vested. The executives responsible for the downfall were paid and gone some time ago.

Good riddance, they could have done something great with Destiny but they choose greed instead.

Let me get this right, people are extra salty because how destiny was treated and sunsetted, so everyone hates marathon after they changed it and lost trust in company? Asking for a friend

You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain….

"Why have people that you have to pay all the time forever [yuck!!] when you can have AI do all the work for a fraction of cost? More money in our pockets!! [Yay!] Fuck quality, the stupid cheeto dust fingered, basement dwellers will still buy our shit because they're stoooopid and dumb!"

-All game company CEO's, probably

You don't understand what the sale to Sony was actually for. Sony bought Bungie for billions of dollars. A large chunk of that money went straight into the pockets of the board of directors and shareholders, not the people making the games.

What's there not to understand?

Also, Sony has been chasing the live service market for years, with failure after failure. They're also known for shutting down studios when they believe the financial risk outweighs the potential return.

So I honestly don't know what you're expecting here.

And, for me, it's just a game. My investment in Destiny largely ended with the conclusion of the Light and Darkness Saga.

More like

• sell company to Sony for hugely inflated price promising to be the linchpin of their live service strategy

• have one game that does okay, another game that everybody hates

• leadership bleeds money through a fire hose

• everyone is surprised when this doesn't work

I don't believe one word of that letter.

These days the equivalent of E3 is just a series of announcements about which studios are being completely closed down.

“I know you all were waiting for the closure of Psychotic Monkey studios, as soon as their new Blub Flobber title releases. Have I got a surprise for you. We have now finished a contract with our outsourcing company, that allows us to finish the game with them, and fire the whole studio right now. Security is shackling them right out, no severance. That’s right - you can log into Robin Hood and post high value expectations off our mass layoffs - Today!”

Dude you're gettin' a Riff!

Good management would have new game projects queued up so that their people could be moved onto the next thing. That way you retain talent instead of kicking it to the curb. What companies do instead is shameful.