Bungie: 'We Know We Have Lost a Lot of Your Trust' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 November 2023 / 8,558 Views
Bungie on Monday was hit with layoffs with a report claiming eight percent or around 100 employees were laid off due to a drop off in the popularity of Destiny 2.
The Destiny 2 development team in a new blog post to fans said this has been a difficult week and they aware of having lost a of trust.
"This has been one of the most difficult weeks in our studio’s history, as we’ve parted ways with people we respect and admire," reads the blog post. "We’ve spent this week supporting one another, including those who are at the studio, as well as friends and colleagues who no longer are.
"We want to acknowledge the feedback and concerns you have about Lightfall and recent Seasons, as well as your responses to the reveal of The Final Shape. We know we have lost a lot of your trust. Destiny needs to surprise and delight. We haven’t done this enough and that’s going to change.
"To us the path forward is clear: We need to make The Final Shape an unforgettable Destiny experience. We want to build something that will be regarded alongside the best games we’ve ever made – a fitting culmination that honors the journey we’ve been on together for the past ten years. Forsaken, The Witch Queen, and The Taken King – these are the standard bearers we aim to live up to.
"We are intensely focused on exceeding your expectations for The Final Shape. Destiny 2 has more than 650 dedicated teammates pouring all their energy and expertise into delivering this epic moment and its subsequent Episodes.
In the weeks ahead, you’ll be hearing more from us about what’s next on the short-term horizon, beginning with our next Season in late November. Afterwards, we’ll begin to unpack our team’s bigger, bolder, and brighter vision for The Final Shape, as well as the bridge we plan to build to take us all out of this Darkness and into the Light."
The next expansion for Destiny 2, The Final Shape, was reportedly delayed from February to June 2024. The next game from Bungie, Marathon, has also reportedly been delayed with the release window pushed back to 2025.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Where did the $1.2 billion Sony spent on staff retention go? The board?
Yes Bungie lost my trust, I always defend them in every argument. But since Light fall first trailer i lost my trust for Bungie and D2. I know exactly something bad gonna happened in Light fall year. It's filler DLC with the highest price in Destiny history.
I'm done shooting cabal fallen hive taken for 7 years straight. I feel bad for anyone who got fired at Bungie.
so does the corporate arrangement of bungie with SIE mean this is likely to lead to more Bungie work on other Sony exclusive games? seems the case, if their own projects stutter and they would need additional funding.
Probably not. Being multiplat because of their focus on live service titles makes sense for Sony too, if perhaps not ideally what they may want. Some ppl do speculate that perhaps non-live service games that Destiny may work on could be PS exclusive. But there's no way of knowing that.
MS dodged a bullet by not buying them.
Microsoft -did- own and buy them back in the year 2000.
Bungie requested to become independent again in 2007, so they were allowed to do so on the premise that Microsoft keeps Halo. - Microsoft retained a small stake in the new company as well.
Microsoft actually treated Bungie extremely well.
I wouldn't say Microsoft would be against the idea of Bungie becoming a part of Microsoft again... And I bet their first project would ironically be a Halo title.
Not sure, too soon to say for sure...
Well, if the price was $3.2 billion, the deal didn't make sense for Microsoft. But, you have to remember that Sony needed something from Bungie - live service experience. So even if nobody ever logs into Destiny 2 again, Sony still has the benefit of that Bungie expertise. Microsoft didn't need that expertise, at least not to the same degree that Sony needed it. So, if Microsoft pirchases the studio, the success of Destiny 2, and any future titles, would have been more important. But, while Sony certainly still cares a lot about their games doing well, it's not the only thing Sony cares about.
