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Bungie Devs React To More Mass Layoffs: ‘My Whole Team Is Gone' (kotaku.com)
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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To me, Bungie died a long time ago. The initial core imploded and they have just been awful in their pursuit of "success."

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE!

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

THANK GOD IT'S YOU

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

As a teenage Mac gamer in that time, I think I legitimately cried when Bungie sold out to MS.