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[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

 

[DarkShadowXI]

I can't say that I'm surprised at either one of those rumors.

 

[Conflict NZ]

Destiny 3 is at least 5 years away if they are even allowed to work on it.

To me this signals that they are giving Marathon 3-6 months and then closing Bungie if it doesn't improve.

 

[Sanepar]

Sony is a total disaster right now

 

[LordCBH]

Just shut them the fuck down, Sony.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

 

[asdasdasdbb]

Destiny 3 is at least 5 years away if they are even allowed to work on it.

To me this signals that they are giving Marathon 3-6 months and then closing Bungie if it doesn't improve.

Yep. Sony can keep the servers up and running indefinitely... but if they aren't doing Destiny 3 there's not much point in keeping the staff around.

 

[reinking]

No shit. With the news that they are winding down Destiny 2 and they are going to be incubating their next games, I could have broken this news, and I am just an idiot with a keyboard that did not even stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

 

[diffusionx]

I don't want to see anyone lose their job, especially in this economy, but Bungie is way too fat and not producing anything.

I expect to see like 60% of people laid off, just total gut job. Sony is done with this shit.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Rip Men_in_Boxes

 

[Topher]

$3 billion

$3.6 billion

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Top of the charts am I right.... Bitch

 

[LordCBH]

I hope Pete parsons spends the rest of his life having explosive diarrhea at the most in opportune times.

 

[Wildebeest]

The reputation of this company just fell off a cliff and hit every rock on the way down.

 

[Pop]

How fucking stupid is their leadership to not think Destiny over Marathon. And if Destiny 3 ever happens it will be at least 2032.

Tragic. First they gave up and abandoned Halo and now Destiny

 

[I Love Rock 'n' Roll]

So basically, that's the end for Bungie. At this point, the PlayStation board should resign, the brand has been managed incredibly poorly. They're incompetent and have become toxic to PlayStation and its users. Bungie was supposed to be their savior, helping them create their own Fortnite. Are they holding a contest with Xbox to nominate the worst board in the industry?

Spoiler alert : Marathon is not going to save Playstation!

 

[Warnen]

Sony should sell them to MS, maybe they can fix halo

 

[Topher]

 

[LordCBH]

How fucking stupid is their leadership to not think Destiny over Marathon. And if Destiny 3 ever happens it will be at least 2032.

Tragic. First they gave up and abandoned Halo and now Destiny

Their leadership is absolutely retarded. The company only sold for as much as it did because the leadership "approved" 4 or 5 projects for incubation that they KNEW were never going to actually be developed. It was a scam to inflate their value.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Destiny 3 is at least 5 years away if they are even allowed to work on it.

I am shocked that Destiny 3 is not in development, but Bungie is a massive studio, they could let go 300 people and still be able to develop Destiny 3, which must be the plan.

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

$3.6 billion

Ftfy

 

[diffusionx]

How fucking stupid is their leadership to not think Destiny over Marathon. And if Destiny 3 ever happens it will be at least 2032.

Tragic. First they gave up and abandoned Halo and now Destiny

I said when Marathon landed like a wet fart, when people said Bungie needed to pivot to D3, that Sony is not going to be excited to drop the $500M+ it will take to make that game. This seems to be the case.

So basically, that's the end for Bungie. At this point, the PlayStation board should resign, the brand has been managed incredibly poorly. They're incompetent and have become toxic to PlayStation and its users. Bungie was supposed to be their savior, helping them create their own Fortnite. Are they holding a contest with Xbox to nominate the worst board in the industry?

IIRC Sony already replaced most of the people in charge of Bungie with their own people, after they failed to hit their targets.

 

[Bernardougf]

 

[LordCBH]

I hope he gets explosive diarrhea too.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

The reputation of this company just fell off a cliff and hit every rock on the way down.

It's the Halo curse

 

[BennyBlanco]

I hope Pete Parsons parks outside the Bungie office and revs the engine in his mint Ferrari F40 while everyone packs their shit

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Think bungie could do with some of that morale right now Men_in_Boxes

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Rip Men_in_Boxes

We'll see.

We went from 300 before Marathons launch to "over 400" last month. The Marathon team and the non Destiny 3 incubation projects are all I care about. I have a feeling the Marathon team may grow to 500 pretty soon. Oh yeah!

 

[neo raider]

Sony should sell them to MS, maybe they can fix halo

Brother they cant fix their own games

 

[LordCBH]

Bungie is PlayStation's 343: a worthless husk that deserves to be shut down.

 

[The_hunter]

Bungie is cooked.

 

[Fake]

I hope was worthy. Fuck around, find out.

 

[FauxXeno]

Bungie is basically an industry slut , in bed with MS, Activision , tried to go solo before selling itself to Sony lol . I've never trusted them or cared for their games.

 

[Roman Empire]

 

[Arsic]

 

[coachmcguirk91]

So basically, that's the end for Bungie. At this point, the PlayStation board should resign, the brand has been managed incredibly poorly. They're incompetent and have become toxic to PlayStation and its users. Bungie was supposed to be their savior, helping them create their own Fortnite. Are they holding a contest with Xbox to nominate the worst board in the industry?

Spoiler alert : Marathon is not going to save Playstation!

Bungie was completely independent until recently. Sony had little or no say about the development of their games

 

[No Banana]

Waiting for the Bloomberg layoffs, they've been too long in coming

 

[Robochobo]

Live look of Bungie before they get shut down.

 

[I Love Rock 'n' Roll]

Bungie was completely independent until recently. Sony had little or no say about the development of their games

A number of Bungie staff, including some of the most experienced developers, have been working within Sony/PlayStation studios over the past few months and no longer at Bungie.

 

[Darchaos]

Bungie fucking did it, they managed to kill themself even though they had Destiny. Magnificent bastards......

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

at least we'll still get gummy bears

lol. lmao, even

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Z O N E]

I said this years ago that they should've just played safe and worked on Destiny 3 and let a small team work on Marathon on the side. Instead they bet all their marbles on Marathon and pumped out MTX on Destiny 2, only to be in this situation now.

Bungie was completely independent until recently. Sony had little or no say about the development of their games

That was one of their stipulations for being bought out. They wanted to be independent and release their games on multiple platforms. Sony said yes and offered a lot of money. Microsoft saw they were a financial risk and walked away.

Back in the day under Microsoft and Activision, they weren't independent and... it worked.

Bungie just doesn't work as an independent company.

 

[Guardian Monkey]

at least we'll still get gummy bears

lol. lmao, even

Maybe, as long as you all are subsidizing with your PsPlus subs who knows what Sony will do!

 

[FMX]

Brother they cant fix their own games

For all their problems 343 hasn't made a flop yet so the comparisons are really not the same. 343 didn't cost billions either and has made money for Xbox. They are home grown garbage.

 

[LordCBH]

Bungie was better when Activision was forcing them to meet deadlines and actually release new games.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

They shut down their flagship cash cow. Marathon flopped. They have nothing else in development.

Bungie is history.

 

[CLW]

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Maybe, as long as you all are subsidizing with your PsPlus subs who knows what Sony will do!

I've got discussions scheduled soon to talk about donations so fingers crossed

 

[Mondai]

Yeah , Destiny 3 is totally not blasting