One month after a major round of layoffs impacted roughly 100 Bungie employees of 1,200, those remaining at the Destiny developer say the cuts, as well as other cost-cutting measures, came alongside an apparent scramble by studio leadership to avoid a total Sony takeover.
  • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The industry did this to itself, and while i cannot imagine the pain and stress of working 80hrs+ and hitting dead lines…no one pulled the brakes on the train, covid revealed how absolutely deficit heavy the gaming community was operating under. this happened once before, history isn’t repeating but its dropping and spitting hell fire rap bars

  • sharpiemarker@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    My heart goes out to the Bungie team. It’s a terrible feeling to have to rely on your job for a paycheck and healthcare and to have to endure the anxiety of thinking you’ll lose your job or benefits any day. Especially with the industry being in such turmoil right now. Dozens of gaming dev houses are laying off their staff and shuttering their doors, so it’s not like you can just pick up another job in the industry when veterans are competing for the small number of positions available.

    • Tosti@feddit.nl
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      11 months ago

      While terrible, the most of these people make a lot of money and could have also unionized over the past years. Covid also showed them what was on the horizon. But instead the prevailing US worker strategy in these high paying jobs seems to be “get yours”.

      • sharpiemarker@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        This is about the worst take I’ve seen recently.

        Blames the workers for not leaving sooner, for not seeing it coming, for not unionizing, for making a decent living.

        So you blame the victims of corporate greed instead of the corporations themselves.

        Maybe you should consider keeping your opinions to yourself?

        Bungie has show themselves to be a good employer for a decade or more. You can’t blame workers because the company was sold to Sony and now are being mistreated.