One month after a major round of layoffs impacted roughly 100 Bungie employees of 1,200, those remaining at the Destiny developer say the cuts, as well as other cost-cutting measures, came alongside an apparent scramble by studio leadership to avoid a total Sony takeover.
  • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Employees in one department recalled a post-layoffs Q&A session where a department head was asked if leadership taking salary cuts to prevent layoffs had been considered, only to respond that Bungie was “not that type of company.”

    Damn that’s cold. I mean, you know that’s what’s going on everywhere but it’s rare for it to be stated so bluntly. Anyone and everything is expendable except siphoning all profits to executive bank accounts.