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Bungie Laying off Staff. TFS and Marathon Delayed
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this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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It sounds to me like this is a general Sony/PlayStation financial issue that unfortunately affects Bungie as they were bought by Sony
Probably. But Bungie set aside a billion to retain staff. And then a year later from that these lay offs hit. But who knows.
Agree - they were 100% heading this way, but being part of Sony took this decision out of their hands and escalated it, I would wager.
Ouch. Looks like I was wrong.
sony gave bungie 1.2b for retention. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/84365/sony-offers-bungie-employees-1-2-billion-retention-incentive-plan/index.html
this is on executives imho.
If it is Sony's fault. I really wonder why they couldn't just wait 6 months, ya know, seeing as Bungie does have a pretty important thing coming up in a few months. I get it probably doesn't work that way, but you'd think they'd be like, "Okay, we need to get rid of some of your staff, but we'll let you finish off what you're doing.
Yup it's come out that we both were, Destiny 2 underperformed in sales and that's the source of the layoffs...