At this point I'm honestly believing it's mostly a Bungie issue. They were having problems before the acquisition. Now they're running into Marathon issues and they had to cut some folks to balance the budget (due to sony oversight).As a longtime Bungie fan, it’s hard not to feel like the acquisition fukked over the companyShortly afterwards Destiny was already dealing with a lot of issues (technical & community-wide) with resources being stretched thin for Marathon
Granted it’s still entirely possible that they could’ve experienced layoffs while independent, but getting bought out by a company that orders widespread layoffs just a little over a year after the buyout would have me sick if I worked there
This company has been burned by Microsoft, Activision, and Sony at this point
Another wave of layoffs at playstation
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In tough times, tough decisions need to be made. Sony will prevail.
Bungie keeps talmbout their culture and how they wanna be independent but each time shyt gets tough they sign with the first publisher that will throw them money.
Soon they will be talking about how sony ain’t treating them right
Soon they will be talking about how sony ain’t treating them right
iceberg_is_on_fire
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From what I'm reading, it seems stoked by mostly greed but I also think they are getting ahead of themselves in terms of what is happening at Sony proper. Microsoft purchasing Bethesda and Activision has only accelerated this. Sony historically made 75-80% of their money from third parties. The big AAA ones hold down the fort and since the player base gets expanded so wide, small companies feel comfortable releasing their AA games on the console. These smaller companies won't have that level of shelter anymore in the near future on PS systems so they will have to put games on more platforms in the future, further eroding the theme of being the only place to play these games.As a longtime Bungie fan, it’s hard not to feel like the acquisition fukked over the company
Granted it’s still entirely possible that they could’ve experienced layoffs while independent, but getting bought out by a company that orders widespread layoffs just a little over a year after the buyout would have me sick if I worked there
This company has been burned by Microsoft, Activision, and Sony at this point
With Call of Duty and Minecraft, Microsoft is getting a 70/30 split with Sony and everything from Bethesda that isn't GAAS is exclusive. Sony has two evergreen franchises currently. God of War and Spiderman. Both have come and gone this generation. What's left in the oven from them? This generation is slated to go till 2028. Spiderman ain't holding them down for 5 years. I know I'm one of the few that will actually pick up Star Ocean: The Second Story on Friday for my PS5. Sony is going to need those games to pop more but those are niche in nature.
Business wise, I'm just not seeing it. Microsoft has, after payment to stock holders and additional costs, just dropped north of 70 billion on ABK. Sony still hasn't paid for the Bungie acquisition because there are hundreds of millions in deferred payments still to make.
The companies are in two different stratospheres financially and Microsoft has ultimately made it a game of finances and have seemingly put Sony in a position that they have others, force a company to operate in a torrential downpour (of money) and not get wet (get affected in some capacity.) To me, that's where we seem to be.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Jim Ryan retired because Bungie finessed him.This adds to the belief that Bungie was down bad before the acquisition. These half assed expansion/seasons and absurd amount of MTX finally bit them in the ass. They were spending money on Marathon that they really didn't have.
Well, hope they can pull it together. Sony had to know they were taking a chance on them so I wonder if they had the "cuts" written in the contract in case they got news like this.
