Earlier today, CEO Pete Parsons announced that Buꦏngie is laying off 220 employees. Current, former, and soon-to-be former employees🌃 have taken to 💯social media to criticize both the layoffs and the studio's leadership.
Perhaps the most notable of these comments come from Dylan 'dmg04' Gafner, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:🎃community manager who left Bungie back in 2022 only to be rehired as the global community lead for Destiny 2. "Inexcusable," Gafner🀅 writes on . "Industry leading talent being lost, yet again. Accountability falling upon the workers who have pushed the needle to deliver for our community time and time again."
Several Bungie developers have revealed on social media that they've been affected by these layoffs, and it seems ಞat least some of them weren't aware of what was about to happen until the public post went live.
this is how I’ve found out I’m laid off //t.c🗹o/෴rhigwjnDY3
And I&r🍨squo;m affected. I’m so sick aꦆnd tired of these layoffs. Unionize unionize unionize. //t.co/onhzPvE48S
If I had a nickel for eve🉐ry time I was laid off from a studio I ha🌠d dreamed to work at, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. //t.co/2NqHHpQcH4
Some former Bungie devs have been very outspoken in pointing the blame squarely at Parsons. Griffin Bennett, a former member of the Destiny 2 sales and marketing team, "C-Suite taking accountability for any of this or still just 'withholding bonuses' and it'll be 'settled🐲 in-house?' Poor leadership has crushed one of the greatest developers of all time. Retire, Pete." Liana Ruppert, another former member of that team, , "Step down, Pete."
The news comes in the wake of the launch of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Destiny 2: The Final Shape, one of the most acclaimed expansions in the 𒐪MMO-FPS's history. It also c🦄omes after another round of mass layoffs in 2023. While the number of developers affected in the last round of layoffs wasn't publicly announced, sources estimated around 100 people were let go.
"I’m okay, but I’m angry and deeply fucking depressed about this," Collin MacGregor, associate world designer on Marathon, today's layoffs. "Please put your energy and goodwill towards supporting those impacted because they’re some of t🐈he most talented people in the 🗹industry."
Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. H🍌e's been covering gaꦓmes (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
