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.

[Whitey2k]

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-Fly]

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

[Andrew336]

Yes... yes he did.

[Crows90]

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

[Gamer75]

Sony own Bungie so it has nothing to do with MS

[Whitey2k]

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

[RAFTECH26]

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.

[Sephiroushin]

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

[Christopher]

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

[Extermin8or3_]

Maybe final shape is further ahead in dev than expected.

[ChasterMies]

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_Frampt]

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_]

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_Observer]

"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".

[Crows90]

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

[-Mika-]

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_Bomb]

Eh. There’s always YouTube.

[Petebloodyonion]

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

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

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

[Redemption-64]

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

[Lightning77]

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

[Redemption-64]

@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

[Christopher]

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

[Rude-ro]

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 Kim]

Maybe because there isnt? Where is your proof?

[Crows90]

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

[-Foxtrot]

Hang on

So when someone posts on here about it it gets flagged since it was posted directly from twitter (despite some other news on here being directly from twitter) and is classed as a “rumour

https://n4g.com/news/257283...

Yet once again Videogamer gets a free pass from the rules….who knows how many others published a similar article before this one and this still got put first.

[Extermin8or3_]

Yeah and videogamer is making stuff up aswell in that article and presenting it as news.

[Christopher]

Just FYI our guidelines only allow social media submissions from publishers and developers.

[aconnellan]

FYI the guidelines on the page actually say:

“Twitter posts are also an acceptable source of news, but only if they are made by an industry professional”

Is Jason Schreier of Bloomberg News, who made the Tweet in the original failed submisssion, not an industry professional?

You even acknowledge it as the original source in this very submission by having it in the ‘Credit URL’ field

[Christopher]

From our guidelines at https://n4g.com/articles/ou...

"b) direct links to YouTube, social media sites, personal blogs/sites, forums, or the like are not allowed unless: 1) the individual or company posting the material is a video game developer; 2) the individual or company posting the material is a video game publisher; 3) the link is to an image that is relevant video game news on its own;"

These guidelines have existed for over a decade.

[aconnellan]

Appreciate the clarification, I took the previous excerpt from the Guidelines page in the footer

[DefenderOfDoom2]

Looking forward to playing Final Shape . If it is delayed, I will patiently wait .

[Lightning77]

I hope they land on their feet. Sucks to see Marathon get pushed back to 2025. Unfortunately these things do happen. They'll recover though.

[ChasterMies]

Studios don’t “get hit by layoffs”. Bungie is laying people off. Bungie’s leadership is making this decision.

[RAFTECH26]

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

Remember this

[Crows90]

Was that during the actual court sessions or from when he was just trying to stop the deal.

[RAFTECH26]

Not sure that matters. I think both. Lmao

[Crows90]

It kinda matters because

Xbox sucks, cant make good games and is last in everything. - Phil Spencer

Remember that?

[Ryuk_2007]

Jim Ryan gone, Connie Booth gone, layoffs at Media Molecule, layoffs at Naughty Dog, layoffs at Bungie..

[Hofstaderman]

Looks like theres a shift away from GaaS.

[Petebloodyonion]

As much as I want to listen to conspiracies I'll just point out that Epic Games fired some ppl recently, MS did the same, Sony, Embracer, etc.
Perhaps it's just the current period hitting the whole industry instead of MS versus Sony.

[Workshyskiver]

Wow, laying off Michael Salvatori is insane. Mans music is incredible.

[ravens52]

No one in the industry is safe smh

[anast]

Corporations make devs cut corners and release trash to increase profit, people get tired of the trash, therefore, devs get laid off.