\u201cInexcusable\u201d Bungie layoffs have Destiny 2 players calling for CEO to step down BungieDestiny 2 studio Bungie announced 220 employees were being laid off on July 31, 2024, the decision leaving the player base fuming and many calling for CEO Pete Parsons to step down. Bungie reported that roughly 17% of its studio was being laid off. 220 staff were revealed to have lost their jobs in an announcement titled \u201cThe New Path For Bungie\u201d. The studio cited the typical \u201crising costs of development\u201d alongside \u201cindustry shifts as well as enduring economic conditions\u201d as its reasoning behind the layoffs. Pete Parsons, CEO of Bungie has promised the studio will continue to make great games, stating that over 850 team members are still working on both Marathon and Destiny 2. However, that hasn\u2019t stopped much of the gaming community from massively criticizing the announcement, with many pointing at Parsons to step down from their role as CEO of the company. \u201cPete is a joke,\u201d former Bungie employee Griffith Bennett stated. Parsons faced even further backlash when players discovered that the CEO had spent over $2.3 million USD on classic cars after Bungie was purchased by Sony in 2022. An account on the car trading website Bring A Trailer by the name of bngparsons has spent millions of dollars in the past couple of years. \u201cWell done Pete. So what\u2019s the next car you\u2019re getting?\u201d one Twitter user said. \u201cSupporting your CEO\u2019s spending habits so they can buy rare automobiles every 60 days before being laid off is very 2024 energy tbh,\u201d another joked. Bungie employees have stepped forward en masse to state that their teams and themselves have been laid off, with global community lead dmg04 regarding the announcement as \u201cinexcusable\u201d. According to a player support analyst, their entire team was laid off, with another former employee stating that the team worked harder than anyone else, \u201cthrough weekends \u2013 holidays \u2013 and the pay was atrocious, only to [get] tossed out.\u201d The layoff announcements come only two months after the massive success of The Final Shape, which we called \u201cone of the best expansions ever made.\u201d Hype around the expansion also led to an enormous spike in player count, nearly clearing Destiny 2\u2019s all-time peak. This news follows the announcement of an earlier round of layoffs at Bungie back in October, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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