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It was not clear when or why Marathon director Chris Barrett left both the project and Bungie itself, but now new details have emergedBarrett was fired by Bungie this past spring after being accused by at least eight female employees of inappropriate behavior which reportedly included calling the women attractive, being flirtatious, asking to hang out, suggesting they play Truth or Dare, all the while being in a position of power as a top level director at the studio, something he made...
The circumstances around Barrett leaving Marathon were always strange. No one learned that Marathon had gotten a new director, Valorant’s Joe Ziegler, until nine months after it happened, and even then it only came out through outside reporting. Ziegler eventually confirmed the timeline which meant he took over just a month or so after Barrett was prominently featured in a vidoc revealing the core concepts of Marathon.
Bungie has previously been accused of failing to react to situations like this. IGN previously reported complaints that HR was“There was at least one long-standing Bungie employee in HR, still with the company, who almost all of our sources described as actively protecting harmful individuals. Multiple people said that their job seemed to be to"make it all go away" whenever someone had an issue with the company.
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