Bungie lays off 220 people, will set up spin-off studio
Bungie lays off 220 people, will set up spin-off studio
Bungie is facing another round of layoffs, this time hitting 17% of its workforce.
Fuck bungie. I paid for destiny 2 and the first dlc or so, and they literally removed that content and didnt compensate anyone for it. If you're okay with behavior like that, fuck you too. They're forever anathema to me.
I do not understand why anyone bought Destiny 2, The first game was so uneven and hard to define, was it a MMO or a loot shooter or what, and then they came out with another game without fixing the first one, why would you expect it to be any better?
My general rule of thumb when it comes to this is that if they say "due to rising costs" within the first few sentences it usually means "not enough money for the important people."
I've seen indie devs make more functional and graphically intensive games on a shoe string budget. And then go around and sell it for less than $60.
Plenty of amazing small studios make great games for a budget of a couple packs of mtn dew and some cheese whiz crackers
I think it would be easier for indie devs to keep cost down. They have fewer devs and artists on payroll. The issue with triple A games is that they're super expensive to produce, and small teams can output excellent work as well.
Let's be real though, they are only so expensive to produce because they have the notion that bigger and more expensive means better. Just look at what happened with Starfield. You can't tell me that game wouldn't be immensely better if there were just like 8 or even less planets. You don't need to make things as massive and expensive as possible to make a successful game. You just need to have a good idea with a good execution. I'll play a game like Deep Rock Galactic or RimWorld over and over again, but I got bored of Destiny within a year or so. Heck, I've probably put more hours into the Halo games over my life than I ever will in Destiny.
Wow. We’ve come full circle. Wouldn’t it be ironic if Marathon is not released for the Mac.
e: I think it was about 30 years ago when I first played Marathon on an Apple Macintosh Performa 450.
Maybe about 25ish years since I watched Bungie demo the “Mac” game called Halo with Steve Jobs.
Whatever they're making now isn't even Marathon. Some random game with the same name and a few references, but its a crappy live service looter shooter like Tarkov or whatever. I love Marathon, but this imposter deserves a fat L.
Hey so our main studio is floundering, lets make another one!
Know a guy who is a project manager at bungie. Seems to be constantly doing everything but actually working. Highly paid and when I ask him what he does, he can’t quantify his work. Can’t seem to figure out why their games are always coming out shit nowadays……/s
Sounds like a lot of corporate project managers
I was in a meeting yesterday where one of our corporate managers admitted he doesn't actually know what his job is supposed to be.
But realistically is that his fault, or the companies?
Understandable. They haven't made a good game since Halo Reach.
Haven't they ONLY made Destiny since Reach?