Bungie Devs React To More Mass Layoffs: ‘My Whole Team Is Gone'
Bungie Devs React To More Mass Layoffs: ‘My Whole Team Is Gone'
Bungie’s CEO locked his account just as the layoffs were announced this morning
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There's a few things going on, here
- A lot of leaders are using layoffs as a flex on workers that got raises post-2020. There's a lot of "they need to know their place" language in boardrooms, and not just in this industry.
- I'm assuming this gets them out of paying company-performance-based bonuses, as well as PTO and leave for people who were looking forward to a post-crunch break.
- AI. Executives, especially in creative fields, are salivating over the kinds of headcount reductions AI can provide.
- There are some relatively forward-thinking leaders who are looking at the economic landscape and figuring they need to conserve cash. Not say that's the case here, but it's a reason that some companies that aren't run by utter assholes are citing.
As someone who's been a Bungie fan since Pathways into Darkness (yeah, I'm that old) this makes me sad in a way that only the sale to Microsoft had managed.
To me, Bungie died a long time ago. The initial core imploded and they have just been awful in their pursuit of "success."
Bungie used to have culture.
Weird, sometimes cringe culture in hindsight. But they used to be cool.
I don't know what happened but it was probably the search for more money instead of making something they could be proud of.
FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE!
THANK GOD IT'S YOU
As a teenage Mac gamer in that time, I think I legitimately cried when Bungie sold out to MS.