Earlier this week Pete Parsons, chief government officer at Bungie and (in all probability) the one individual on the studio to spend $2.4M on retro vehicles introduced that the studio can be making a number of adjustments, essentially the most notable one being it could layoff 220 workers.
To say that the announcement was shocking to the builders being laid off and the gamers who take pleasure in Bungie’s video games is a little bit of an understatement, and the announcement sparked a wave of backlash towards Parsons and the remainder of Bungie management.
What was significantly shocking is the truth that Bungie’s newest launch, The Ultimate Form, which was arguably the largest enlargement in Future 2’s historical past, has by all metrics achieved extraordinarily nicely.
A brand new report nevertheless reveals that whatever the success of The Ultimate Form, these layoffs nonetheless would’ve occurred, as a result of they’d been a part of Bungie’s plans since earlier this yr.
Chatting with Recreation File, three sources declare that these cuts had been selected months earlier than The Ultimate Form launched. Whether or not or not it was an enormous hit, the cuts would have, and did, occur.
The report even reiterates what we heard from Bungie workers the final time there have been layoffs at Bungie – that the blame isn’t with Sony – however with Bungie’s personal management.
“I believe Sony overpaid for Bungie. I believe Bungie bought issues they had been simply not capable of ship,” a supply instructed Recreation File.
For his personal half, Parsons has been known as “a joke” by former workers, and plenty of have immediately known as for him to resign, with former and present workers criticizing management, Parsons particularly.
It ought to be famous that in his announcement of the cuts, Parsons gave a model of the occasions that led Bungie so far. Management made selections to determine a number of groups every engaged on massive tasks, budgets and expertise had been stretched additional than they may go, and Bungie started to lose quite a bit cash.
As soon as management realized that this was taking place, they made “exhaustive efforts” to keep away from layoffs however finally determined to go together with layoffs. Although these “exhaustive efforts” would allegedly by no means have included slicing the salaries of executives, the individuals in any other case generally known as management, those in cost who made the selections that led to Bungie dropping cash.
Having all that in thoughts brings up an fascinating question: what number of builders might Bungie have stored on if they’d, say, an additional $2.4 million to maintain individuals employed?
Supply – [Game File]
