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Destiny 2 developer Bungie is the latest studio to get hit by layoffs

Destiny 2 developer Bungie is the latest studio to get hit by a massive wave of layoffs, according to several reports.

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Whitey2k180d ago (Edited 180d ago )

I don't know if this has to be towards gass games or since Microsoft brought Activision knowing they wont get as much income as they originally get. Cost saving while staff get short end of the stick and get let go

Si-Fly179d ago

Did you really just manage to blame MS for job cuts at Bungie? 🤣

Crows90179d ago (Edited 179d ago )

Maybe they had no clue that Bungie has been independent for a while and is currently owned by Sony

Gamer75179d ago

Sony own Bungie so it has nothing to do with MS

Whitey2k179d ago

I think u all are misunderstanding me I'm not blaming Microsoft I'm on about the income that sony use to get from call of duty which they wont be getting anymore hence the layoffs by cutting staff

RAFTECH26179d ago

The PlayStation organization will never recover if MS acquires activision - Jim Ryan

Connect the dots!
The scary part….. is behaviour like this points to a fall out…… Sony is ripe to becoming acquired themselves.

Sephiroushin179d ago

On first emails that same Jim Ryan said that they would be okay, he was crying just like phill saying they would go out if they do not get x subs by 2027 which they would not because their target is unrealistic

Christopher180d ago

I expected this early next year near the release of Final Shape, not this early on.

Extermin8or3_180d ago

Maybe final shape is further ahead in dev than expected.

ChasterMies180d ago

Final Shaped pushed back to June, 2024, but reportedly not delayed because it needed more time. February and March have become a dumping ground for games, and June is a great window to avoid all that competition.

Gameseeker_Frampt179d ago

Except that Destiny 2 is a live-service game that depends on keeping to it's schedule. Seasons last 3 months each and only have enough content to keep players engaged for a few weeks. A four month content drought between the end of Season 23 and The Final Shape is not the best way to end the Darkness and Light Saga of Destiny 2, especially with how much of a disaster this year has been for the game.

Extermin8or3_180d ago

Completely unfounded assumption at the end if that article that sony's expansion in acquiring devs has come back to bite them. That laid doesn't stand up to even the most basic scrutiny. Who hires these morons to write for them and literally make up news?

Obscure_Observer179d ago

"Completely unfounded assumption at the end if that article that sony's expansion in acquiring devs has come back to bite them."

Sony paid $1.2 Billion to keep Bungie devs from leaving! That´s 1/3 worth of the whole deal!

To layoff Bungie developers this early after just one year as a Playstation first party studio is total disaster!

Something gone terrible wrong at Sony and its plans, and I think that´s is the reason behind Ryan´s "retirment".

Crows90179d ago

Exaggeration at its finest. Good job. Let's pretend there hasn't been a steady stream of layoffs everywhere.

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-Mika-180d ago (Edited 180d ago )

There is just straight up chaos and dysfunction at PlayStation studios currently. Why isn’t there more articles about this? If this was Xbox, we see hundreds of articles about how Phil needs to go. The double standards is insane.

P_Bomb179d ago

Eh. There’s always YouTube.

Petebloodyonion179d ago

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
That's the best answer I have seen for if you don't like what you're seeing well....

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SPEAKxTHExTRUTH179d ago

You already know why there’s not more articles about this on N4G…

Redemption-64179d ago

You people live in some made-up bubble. Should we assume there is huge dysfunction at MS since they have laid off the most people? They recently also laid off close to 700 people at LinkedIn and very few even care, yet let Sony lay off 10-20 people, compared to Microsoft's 10,000+, and people like you want everyone to just focus on Sony, and not they one laying off the most amount

Lightning77179d ago

If Marathon is getting pushed back to 2025 it's way more than 10 to 20 ppl getting layed off.

Redemption-64179d ago

@Lightning77

Delays could literally be for anything, they can lay off 10 people and delay the game, hell, they can hire more people and still delay the game. Bungie specifically if I am not mistaken went on a hiring spree not too long ago. There have been a lot of lay offs across the industry. Epic, Sony, EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard and Microsoft have all had lay offs, as I mentioned before, with Microsoft laying off by far the most. There is a reason some specific group of fanboys only want articles about Sony. Hell they are commenting under said article, but want to see more

Christopher179d ago

You're literally reading the article and... How are they going to get rid of the guy already leaving?

Rude-ro179d ago

You say that…
Let’s see what you say when they do lay off tons of people next year and what the articles actually say.
Microsoft does not even spend money on their own beloved franchise…
Do you really think they are going to keep FOUR studios worth of paychecks alive to work on one ip? *cough cod.

You confuse people in comment sections over hit piece articles because Microsoft has their pockets in most of gaming journalism.

Shane Kim179d ago

Maybe because there isnt? Where is your proof?

Crows90179d ago

Except the CEO is gone. And people have been complaining about the gaas direction. And most Sony fans disliked the acquisition in the first place ...so no. Sorry the only double standard is with Xbox. Nothing yet from Sony fans except whatever you guys make up or imagine

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein7h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii3h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo3h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows903h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

qalpha3h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno3h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan3h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno2h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19813h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno23h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno3h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga23h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator17h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac15h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto2d ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger881d 20h ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19811d 7h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein1d 5h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.