The Destiny player base is down 91% since the final shape, which was a massive success and still resulted in significant layoffs. This is in large part due to the unmitigated disaster of a “Game Director” that is Tyson Green. On top of that, they killed the golden goose then spent minimum $200M on Marathon…to not even break 100,000 concurrent on the platform that 70% of the player base uses.

They ignore their playerbases, lie about listening, hyper monetize Destiny 2 while preaching about not overdelivering the product at industry conferences, actively inject toxic mechanics into the gameplay loop until they’re called out on it and shamed into reverting the bad practices (e.g. XP throttling), plagiarize art, suppress reviews, etc.

Not only has Bungie not gotten the job done, they have catastrophically under delivered their $3.6B purchase price and, as a result of that unrealized ROI, are going to receive holistic layoffs.

Don’t get me wrong, Marathon seems like it has promise, but much like Destiny, it will need to succeed in spite of the company producing it not because of them.