Earlier this week, Bungie confirmed it had to say goodbye to many colleagues after a report revealed the PlayStation-owned studio had axed 8% of its workforce (around 100 jobs). Bungie higher-ups had also revealed just weeks before to staff that the company was running at 45% below its revenue projections for the current year.
Now, in an update from the Destiny 2 development team on the official Bungie website, the studio has addressed this "difficult" week while mentioning how the team knows it has "lost" a lot of the community's trust.
Bungie's plan going forward is to rectify the situation by making the next expansion 'The Final Shape' an "unforgettable Destiny experience" that matches Destiny 2's best experiences - referencing Forsaken, The Witch Queen and The Taken King.
The next expansion currently has more than 650 dedicated teammates working on it, and in the weeks ahead Bungie plans to reveal what's on the "short-term horizon" - beginning with the new season in November. After this, it will start unpacking the "bigger, bolder and brighter vision" for The Final Shape.
The job cuts currently taking place within PlayStation are reportedly part of a "larger-money saving initiative" with a number of other Sony studios impacted. Even some key figures have departed including the boss Jim Ryan and PlayStation veteran Connie Booth. Sony originally acquired Bungie early last year.
How do you feel about Bungie and the future of Destiny 2 at this point? Tell us below.
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So their answer to laying off longterm members of their team in a way that minimizes how much they had to pay in benefits is to make an "unforgettable Destiny experience."
Yep. That'll fix it.
I will always associate Bungie with Halo and Xbox
And have played a fair amount of Destiny in the early days and really enjoyed.
When Bungie went up for sale I thought, yes maybe Xbox could buy them and just give them Halo. But then the world doesn’t work that way I’m afraid.
@GrumpyDev the article pitting gran turismo against forza was even worse the other day
@GrumpyDev THIS 100% 👏👏👏
@GrumpyDev Agreed. This is bad and quite obvious. There's no reason why PlayStation is mentioned in the headline. This is specifically about Bungie, who is still multiplatform btw, so taking a stab at the fact that they are a PlayStation owned studio was completely unnecessary and everybody already knows they are owned by them.
It's not like Microsoft/Xbox has been immune to the layoffs, btw...
Yeah, its never a good look when a bunch of top people at a company are "leaving" aka fired or let go. First Jim Ryan "retires," then Connie Booth is gone, her team is upset, Media Molecule, Fire Sprite, and now this? All in a short amount of time.
Get your house in order, Sony. Good grief.
@Kaloudz I dropped Destiny when they started to remove content from the original, I could see then what Bungie had become. I think I read sales are down 45% on what they expect for the new expansion? I heard that news and thought, GOOD, it’s about time because Bungie do not care about their community and has poo pooed on them time and time again.
They might have to send a little more on marketing to offset the loss in reputation ... Advertising some more playstation exclusives on purexbox.com linked to a site with an invalid SSL certificate is a good way to go :-s
should've stuck to making Halo games with xbox, kept their relevance. Also...the start ocean R adverts on pure xbox wish it was out on my console of choice
As a once die hard Destiny fan, it's all become quite stale and cluttered. I'm begrudgingly committed to the last expansion simply to finish the story, but I'm pretty much done with the "seasons".
@GrumpyDev Good for you for standing up for poor underdog Sony, who promised at the acquisition there would be no layoffs.
@Jenkinss you beat me to it. LOL.
@GrumpyDev I have been saying this about Pure Xbox and Push Square for a while. It's pandering to fanboys and it's quite sad, really.
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