Some employees will be moved elsewhere.
Bungie CEO Pete Parsons this week announced that Bungie is taking a “new path,” one that involves laying off hundreds of workers while the executives take a big bonus for themselves. To ensure that he can keep paying for expensive vintage cars, Pete Parsons revealed that 220 employees have been let go in addition to another 155 that will be shuffled around to other areas of Sony.
For over five years, it has been our goal to ship games in three enduring, global franchises. To realize that ambition, we set up several incubation projects, each seeded with senior development leaders from our existing teams. We eventually realized that this model stretched our talent too thin, too quickly. It also forced our studio support structures to scale to a larger level than we could realistically support, given our two primary products in development – Destiny and Marathon.
This leaves Bungie with over 800 employees. The developer is currently working on Destiny 2’s continued content as well as upcoming extraction title Marathon.
Gamers can rest assured that Mr. Parsons will still be well compensated despite captaining the ship into this mess.
its said 3000 people work on destiny 2 when other studios have 2-20 employees… it can be viewed like bungie is bloated with people with nothing going on in there