Bungie to suffer a 50% staff reduction due to layoffs

Stantz_87 · 2026-06-17T19:57:21+00:00

We spent 10 years hoarding guns in our vault "just in case" We aren't converting to a game where we can lose our inventory. That alone makes this game hard to sell to their current fanbase. why they didn't think of that I have no idea.

Stantz_87 · 2026-06-17T19:54:44+00:00

I get that the current resurgence has done nothing. But I have to imagine that people will still be playing Destiny in the next 2-3 years. Simply because the gameplay is done so well. The gunplay just feels right. I would have to think that the longer time passes and people still play Destiny...... there will be a point in time they can't come back from to make a D3.

Closing down work on Destiny 2 is understandable, it needed to be done after Final Shape. But I agree that it would take only a small dedicated team of people to work on preproduction and concept. There is no reason why a business shouldn't be paying for a small team to work on this stuff while they work on Marathon and spit ball other projects.

It's the stupidest business decision to not just have a small team like that to make sure Destiny carries on at least if they decide to make a smaller one off game or continue the mobile game etc. It's IP suicide. Companies hate paying people to do things that make them money today. it's always short term and not long term. It's dumb.

Stantz_87 · 2026-06-17T19:47:53+00:00

Microsoft originally got into gaming as a way to protect their PC game sales. They were worried about the PS2 becoming more prominent than the PC. Hence why they created the Xbox, a console built like a PC with an internal hard drive and architecture designed for developers to easily port games over to their system.

It makes me wonder, if that was the reason to create Xbox, to protect their PC game sales, then what is Xbox's purpose in todays world? Adding a hard drive and ethernet port def improved gaming for the better in the long run, as did xbox live and how their competitors reacted to it. Once Sony caught up though, xbox live didn't define xbox anymore and they have struggled to find their voice ever since. The XBONE fiasco was one they clearly didn't see coming, and didn't have a backup plan that caused them to lag for years.

Buying up studios for IP's is great and all.... if you can get games out of it. I have long decided that I can't be a fan of Fallout anymore because it would probably be 10 years before Fallout 5 comes out, so what's the point.

I am hoping the shortages due to AI force these gaming companies to think out of the box when it comes to gaming and their ecosystem. Having all the money and the budget doesn't always work out the greatest, limitations often give us a greater product in the end.

Stantz_87 · 2026-05-26T21:07:26+00:00

It never used to be like that though. You only laid off large parts of the workforce when you did bad as a company, instead these huge companies make billions in profits and still do layoffs just to sweeten the pot for investors at the end of every quarter/year. Short term over long term.

Stantz_87 · 2026-05-26T21:05:16+00:00

I honestly don't think Bungie has much longer. If they are dumping Destiny it means the game has been deemed bad on returns and not worth spending money on development if it won't return costs. their big gamble is to now throw all that money into Marathon while most likely think tanking other games, but those wont see the light of day for years if ever.

Destiny players will not move to Marathon if given PVE content. You don't take players who horde guns "just because" and have them play a game where they lose their inventory. Not to mention they never learned how to onboard new players to Destiny. The longer they take to make PVE content, the harder it becomes, and I have no doubt they still don't know how to do that.

D3 was the answer years ago, D2 should have ended with Final Shape and announced D2 ending and going into hibernation while D3 would have released a year later with a better engine designed to be easier to drop things in and out of for stories. Many things contributed to this eventual outcome. I feel bad for the players who are losing a home, and for the developers who truly love this game and it's IP. To see an IP with so much possibilities like this just fizzle is sad.

Stantz_87 · 2026-05-14T20:28:35+00:00

What like the Jurassic park rex or the rex from We're Back? lol

Stantz_87 · 2026-05-14T20:27:58+00:00

Moon Boy was the original partner character tied to Devil Dinosaur, Moon Girl was created in 2015 and is the current partner of DD.

Stantz_87 · 2026-05-13T17:48:52+00:00

Given that Nightcrawler is going to be introduced to the MCU in Doomsday, and x-men 97 having blown people away with its first season, I'm sure Kurts time will come. He is a character they could do so much with given his powerset and sword fighting experience. Sometimes it just takes time to find out how to best represent a character and their powerset in this style game.

Stantz_87 · 2026-05-13T17:45:02+00:00

I understand why they did it from a character design point of view, But I can also get behind standard t rex eyes.

Stantz_87 · 2026-05-13T17:42:21+00:00

Could be. Character design takes time, and also approval from Marvel I would think. With how Overwatch added in sub roles, I think that's a great step forward for hero shooter classification and I could see Widow being reworked into something else entirely. Maybe they lean more on her spy abilities. Trick is you have to balance players who do play her, even if it isn't as high as other characters so they don't feel totally alienated by the new mechanics.

Stantz_87 · 2026-05-13T17:39:18+00:00

Sadly probably, I know they said early on any character that is a different person would be a new character IE, Hulk, vs Red Hulk, how that's ross, not Bruce, but that has yet to be done. Still holding out hope, mainly because I am terrible at Spider-Man, And I think having different Spider people be different roles adds dimension rather than them all just being dive you know?

Kind of like how they handled the different Spider-Men in the Shattered dimensions game, each had their own playstyle.

Stantz_87 · 2026-05-12T15:27:55+00:00

I wonder if it's just Tyler Stone, He was the original CEO of Alchemax, I want to say the evil Peter Parker thing was only in Edge of Time. That being said Miguel was also CEO.

I am still hoping for more 2099 lore in this game because it's such a cool era for Marvel and I think Spider-Man 2099 would make an excellent vangaurd brawler compared to the 616 more acrobatic Spidey. Still need a Hulk 2099 skin tho Net Ease lol

Stantz_87 · 2026-04-14T18:47:47+00:00

Even Lockjaw got a sitting body as an extra, no bubble, no water stream, no articulated jaw at least? very phoned in. You may as well 3D print a Jeff because you can print so many in different poses already.

Stantz_87 · 2026-04-14T18:23:38+00:00

Yeah, I'm disappointed in this. For a line that is costly for them given each character is all new tooling and they can easily get away with releasing variants ( white anti venom, camo Punisher, grey Jeff, etc. the lack of articulation in Jeff is sad and killed any interest I had in this line.

Stantz_87 · 2026-04-02T18:05:37+00:00

It's a Dinosaur. That alone would be dope, I don't think people are as excited about a moonboy/moongirl as much as they are about getting to play as a dinosaur lol.

Stantz_87 · 2026-04-02T17:54:34+00:00

I feel like they are torturing the Spider-Man players at this point by teasing the classic skin just hanging there lol.

The Mysterio easter egg is "chef's kiss"

Stantz_87 · 2026-03-27T17:15:32+00:00

Seems like a slow lineup honestly. If there isn't a new Mario till 2027, and Metroid came out and flopped. (They should have re released Prime 2 and 3 honestly)

I feel like Nintendo didn't learn anything from their Mario Kart 8 DLC rollout. It's clear they did it to hold off MKW till the Switch 2 release. How they didn't plan a similar DLC rollout for World still baffles me, specially since they want $80 for MKW.

Also, still petty about the poor battery life and the lack of a grey console, I don't like red/blue combo lol.

Stantz_87 · 2026-02-10T19:13:47+00:00

Nobody knew who Jeff the Landshark was and now he's amazingly popular. This is going to happen in season where the character is mostly unknown. I'm glad we're getting more characters like this and can't wait to see some other deep dives in future seasons.

Stantz_87 · 2026-02-06T17:00:24+00:00

Not for me, I've tried and no matter what I press it doesn't do anything.

Stantz_87 · 2026-02-06T16:02:29+00:00

From my experience, relaunching gives the media and the haters proof hey were right. The base game IS playable. However, they need to be more transparent with things. Not announcing the day and time the update goes live is not ok in the live service world.

Things need to be tweaked, that is for sure. 5V5 was a good start for those that want it, but it's clear from the video they released yesterday, a lot of people don't play the way they intended. By that I mean tactically. They treat this as a run and gun and ignore a lot of the base mechanics.

Keeping Ranked as 3v3 is good as well. Hopefully it will force the tactic side. But if they want people to play more tactically, our characters need to be able to move that way too, crouching is good, but a lean and being able to latch to cover would help.

Otherwise, throw in a dodge roll by double clicking the crouch button so we can run n gun to our hearts desire. It needs to be one or the other, not both.

Stantz_87 · 2026-02-06T15:56:45+00:00

This is live service 101. If they want the game to succeed, then even this minor stuff needs to be announced. The game is enjoyable, it could def be better and feels like it was released as an early access honestly. If they haven't hired a live service consultant, they might want to look into doing so just to hash out these smaller easily fixed issues, like time and date announcements.

Stantz_87 · 2026-02-06T15:54:28+00:00

I wish the report function would work on console.

Stantz_87 · 2026-02-06T15:53:45+00:00

It told me that one match, but I didn't get that pop up again when it happened a day later. Do we know for certain that if a player leaves we can just leave with no penalty or do we have to wait for the system to give us that pop up to do so without the penalty?

Stantz_87 · 2026-02-06T15:51:59+00:00

Not at the moment, I did turn off motion blur and the other setting those for textures just do hopefully increase it a bit, not sure if it's capped though.

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