Comment on "The New Path for Bungie", 220 people, 17% of Bungie, laid off
almost1337@lemm.ee 1 month agoThese actions will affect every level of the company, including most of our executive and senior leader roles.
Sounds like at least some management will get hit.
Defaced@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yep, OP clearly didn’t read the article and is banking on fake Internet points to fuel their comment. I’m glad management is getting the axe, they clearly have no fucking idea what they’re doing in Bungie.
irish_link@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would generally agree with this statement but I think in this particular case it may be a bad thing. From what I understood of the article they are taking a portion of the Bungie dev team and spinning off to be a part of the Sony game devs. I have a feeling the manage team being taken out had been a big pushback on that.
Bungie wanted to leave Microsoft because they wanted to do new things and not just Halo. Unfortunately it turned out activation screwed them in terms of their development and mad then cut 70% of the D1 story with less than a year to release.
After all that they are eventually bought by Sony that now does almost the same thing MS was doing to them.
Don’t get me wrong, I am glad it’s more managers and corporate office than devs but I have a bad feeling that this is just the start of a bad turn of events for them.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean… regardless of how this goes, I think we can all agree this isn’t the start of a bad turn for them.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not really. Microsoft did not absorb Bungie the way Sony is doing it. Bungie more or less remained untouched, like an independent studio under Microsoft. Microsoft didn’t mandate too much on them and that was part of their agreement with Microsoft. They had to do a certain amount of Halo games (I think it was 5) and in return Microsoft would more or less leave them alone. And then when the deal ended after Halo Reach, Bungie chose to not renew or sign a new deal with Microsoft. That’s pretty different from whatever is going on with Sony.
irish_link@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good point. Sorry I wasn’t clear. I only meant that they couldn’t branch out and develop other games like they wanted to. Essentially I was making the same point that you are in terms of what they HAD to develop. MS it was Halo, Sony it’s destiny but in either place they did not have the option to make new IP. At least maybe not till now but that looks more like a forced dev.
I agree with your sentiment, though that Sony is pushing them more in house.