How the FRICK do you go from one of gaming's largest, most beloved video game studios to an absolute laughingstock of a company in the span of 20 ... (2024)

>How the FRICK do you go from one of gaming's largest, most beloved video game studios to an absolute laughingstock of a company in the span of 20 years?
I don't care if it made bank. The general gamer population wouldn't go near it

>Bungie were only popular because Xbox needed a leading shooter and they pumped money into Halo, a series that was always sh*t and only survived on charity from Microsoft. Halo was backwards even when it first launched, and stayed behind its competition its entire life. But Xdrones wanted something and Halo was all they had so it sold.

because youre a fricking idiot kid thats why
Bungie was brought out by 343 and died after they released halo reach and ever since then it has been on a very obvious downhill ride

3 seconds on google could answer this for you dickhe*d

Modern Bungie isn't the same Bungie you remember (either Halo or pre halo even)

Modern Bungie is an over bloated mess of a company that only made it's games worse, they had a new cash cow series (destiny) and then proceeded israelite it to death each new thing attached to it until even the most die hard whale got sick of it.

>Killzone "Halo Killer" dev now runs Bungie
Hilarious.

Honestly the best part of Bungie is the art direction and gameplay people, the management was fricked for ages now. So this might be a positive unless we get some Concord tier dogsh*t but even Sony has seen the flops on the horizon and need to pivot.

Every single core Bungie member blames him for the reason why Bungie turned to sh*t.

GaaS has become their albatross.

Initially the thinking was "If we can get a live-service game going, we can charge people continuously instead of a one time $60"

Now the industry is realizing that a live service game requires continuous flow of content to be produced and if the playerbase drops off at any point you are fricked. Destiny does well when the main expansions get released but all of the seasonal content and Eververse sh*t has seen low engagement and it costs so much money to keep engine churning.

>How the FRICK do you go from one of gaming's largest, most beloved video game studios to an absolute laughingstock of a company in the span of 20 years?
You guys really don't get it, still? It's pretty easy to understand
>start with a small team of skilled developers who are passionate and inspired
>have some success, expand your studio
>skilled developers are still leading your teams
>sell out to a publisher/go public/incorporate
>now only the bottom line matters
>the skilled developers from before are now tenured, have experience, and thusly, you have to pay them more
>fire your talent pool of inspired developers that made your company in the first place
>replace them with entry-level developers fresh out of college with entry-level salaries
>continue to fire your devs when they get experience/ask for more money
>hire more cheap devs
>outsource slop to india to save even more money
>money money money
>shareholders shareholder shareholders
And then eventually, it gets to the
>video games????
state

You're welcome, hope you understand now.

Chad Warden was and is right.

Unironically Activision and Bungie's incompetence aka Pete Parsons an ex microsoft executive who was given the position of CEO by Jason fricking moron Jones.

D1 Bungie struggled but the game was actually fun by the Taken King, WAY better than Y1 and especially release but when Activision started forcing DEI policies and initiatives it ruined the fricking company just like blizzard. Now there's no talent and they've been effectively carried by Destiny 1's legacy.

Must've took tips from blizzsh*t

This was a pretty brilliant long game play by Sony in the long run.

For all of Bungie’s faults, they make the best FPS mechanics of any developer out there by a mile. If Bungie succeeded, Sony reaped the rewards of that financial success. If they failed, Sony gets to clean house and pillage Bungie of all that proprietary “secret sauce” FPS game design knowledge that can now go towards making whatever future Sony FPS intellectual property they want.

I think having all the elements of how to make an FPS game that feels as good as Halo/Destiny without the all of Bungie’s stupid business/design choices ruining it might actually have been worth the 3.6B sticker price in the long run.

Bungie has been dead since 2010. Not even joking, the last time they had the full team together was 14 years ago. Everyone is gone man, you have to let go.

Live Service dragon chasing, and glutting the frick out with a frick ton of investment you'll never return a profit on.

Destiny should have just been 3-4 standalone fps's with co-op support and a persistent character building multiplayer suite.

Dei.