I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
, Tuesday was all about making sense of the mess, and uncovering new information about what happened, why and how it was linked into the performance of Destiny 2 specifically., and the picture painted through all of it is rough to see, especially if you’re an avid player of Bungie’s games, including Destiny. Here’s the information that was uncovered yesterday about how this went down, and what on earth is going on over there.
Employees were often not allowed to say goodbye to other team members or exchange contact info, which had to be done after the fact. Many team/line managers had no idea who was being cut from their teams until it happened. Some teams only lost a few people, others were decimated. Many employees had unvested shares as a result of the Sony deal that mandated they stayed with the company a number of years afterward to collect. But that is null if you leave, and that includes being laid off. When that happens, shares revert back to Bungie, and as such, many employees just involuntarily lost those shares to the company that fired them.
Lightfall was a big, negative turning point. While achieving a whole lot of players at launch extremely poor reception to the expansion reverberated through the rest of the year and player engagement fell off hard. Marathon too is delayed to 2025, and there are reports it may be looking at little rough at present. Marathon needs to be a smash hit in order for Bungie to have a significant revenue source they can rely on that isn’t Destiny 2.
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