As Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreyer put it on a recent episode of the Skill Up YouTube channel's “Friends for Seconds” podcast, Bungie's new live service, Marathon, will be in dire straits.
According to Shrier, who received the information from inside sources, who can be considered more than reliable, the plan Hardly hit by Sony's cutsThere will be a total of 500-600 people, including developers, QA and support developers (so not only internal employees counted by the company, but also external employees are not included in the layoffs, because they are temporary) . In short, there are fewer people working on Bungie's projects, which are gigantic.
Decision crisis
Those who are left in a very chaotic situation now have to do double the work. For this reason, “Marathon's prospects are not great; there is a reason why it is postponed for a whole year domestically and some developers are pessimistic and think He cannot even meet the current deadline.”
According to Shrier, there will be a release of the game Set for 2025But it's unlikely to launch unless Bungie makes major sacrifices at this point.
Schreyer's statements did not come as a surprise. We believe it is truly impossible for Bungie's current plans to remain unaffected by layoffs and changes in management. In some ways, Destiny 2's latest expansion was truly a last-ditch effort for the company's previous structure, which Sony had to scrap. The acquisition makes sense. In short, the multinational company's management is trying to rebuild the studio we owe the Halo series to, which has been in a crisis of results for years.
