Destiny 2 players ridicule Bungie CEO\u2019s \u201ctone deaf\u201d statement amidst mass layoffs E3Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has come under fire with the Destiny 2 community branding his statement about the developer\u2019s recent layoffs as \u201ctone deaf.\u201d On October 30, Bungie informed numerous staff members that they no longer had a job as part of its large-scale layoffs. Several disciplines across Bungie were affected including Social Media, Marketing, Art, and Quality Assurance leading to The Final Shape reportedly being delayed. Even some of the studio\u2019s biggest names were involved with Michael Salvatori let go. Salvatori was responsible for co-composing the soundtracks for both Halo and Destiny having worked at Bungie for 25 years. The reaction to these mass layoffs has been overwhelmingly negative, and the subsequent statement shared by Bungie CEO Pete Parsons hasn\u2019t been received well either. Bungie CEO\u2019s statement branded \u201ctone deaf\u201d following layoffs Sharing his thoughts on the layoffs at Bungie, CEO Pete Parsons tweeted: \u201cToday is a sad day at Bungie as we say goodbye to colleagues who have all made a significant impact on our studio. What these exceptional individuals have contributed to our games and Bungie culture has been enormous and will continue to be a part of Bungie long into the future.\u201d \u201cThese are truly talented people. If you have openings, I would highly recommend each and every one of them,\u201d he continued praising the talents cut by Bungie. Members of the Destiny 2 community were left unimpressed with several labeling the statement as \u201ctone deaf,\u201d and others believing Parsons shouldn\u2019t have said anything in the first place. Slamming the CEO\u2019s message one response stated: \u201cThis feels incredibly tone-deaf Pete. These were your people and the ink wasn\u2019t even dry yet before putting out a statement about how great they were, but not great enough to keep.\u201d \u201cYour senior social lead probably would have recommended against this post, which you would have known had you not let them go. Pity,\u201d read another comment mocking the CEO. Some attacked Bungie\u2019s higher-ups for not taking the hit instead: \u201cAnd how many executives were let go? Oh, none? Of course not, they obviously don\u2019t cost the company money in salary, perks, and other compensation at a rate of often dozens of times what a mid-level employee does\u2026\u201d The barrage of accusatory comments targeted at Parsons didn\u2019t stop there either with other replies including \u201cYou are the CEO\u2026 Jesus f**king Christ,\u201d and \u201cBro YOU did it.\u201d Many are speculating that the layoffs are connected to Sony\u2019s acquisition of Bungie in January 2022. Other Sony-owned studios to be similarly impacted in 2023 include the Visual Arts Service Group and Dreams developer Media Molecule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 players ridicule Bungie CEO\u2019s \u201ctone deaf\u201d statement amidst mass layoffs E3Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has come under fire with the Destiny 2 community branding his statement about the developer\u2019s recent layoffs as \u201ctone deaf.\u201d On October 30, Bungie informed numerous staff members that they no longer had a job as part of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}