Bungiella pölisee: yli 200 sai potkut, pomo blokkasi kritiikin ja eroa vaaditaan

Destiny-firma Bungiella tapahtuneet irtisanomiset ovat kohauttaneet peliyhteisöä: lähes 20 prosenttia pelistudion työvoimasta (220 henkilöä) irtisanottiin ja 155 siirtyy Sonylle uuteen pelistudioon, vaikka Destiny 2: The Final Shape on ollut menestys. Samalla toimitusjohtaja Pete Parsons asetti X-tilinsä yksityiseksi, ehkäpä palautevyöryn välttääkseen. Sittemmin tili on taas avattu.

Palaute päätökselle on ollut murskaavaa ja Parsonsia vaaditaan jopa eroamaan. Kotaku on kerännyt vielä pidemmän kavalkadin kitkerää somettelua.

Inexcusable. Industry leading talent being lost, yet again. Accountability falling upon the workers who have pushed the needle to deliver for our community time and time again.

Please maintain focus on those who’ve lost their position & income. Offer help where you can. https://t.co/SSDveUd5uW

— dmg04 (@A_dmg04) July 31, 2024

Coward.

You did this. You chose this.

I’m already listed as “do not work with” and I don’t care anymore. You lied to my face. Straight to it. You also invited me to come see your new cars TWO DAYS before you laid me off. Two. Fucking. Days.

Leave. Now. pic.twitter.com/nWVGgWXH8J

— Sam ???? (@TheSamBartley) July 31, 2024

I'm safe but I'm fucking enraged!!

This is hitting people who were told they were valued. That they were important. That they were critical to business success. But none of that mattered.

— Prismatic Ash (@_Ashdown) July 31, 2024

You are a liat, a thief, and so many things we can’t discuss publicly. STEP DOWN and WITHOUT the giant Sony payout. This isn’t on Sony, this is squarely on the failure of lead ship. Plain and simple.

— Liana Ruppert (@DirtyEffinHippy) July 31, 2024

Leadership needs to be changed.

Their decisions have consistently led to disaster for everyone who has actually been making the games we play.

They’ve been reckless with the studio, its employees, and its franchises.

The problem is clear. Bad leadership. It needs to change. https://t.co/ga01igprSl pic.twitter.com/lQhmkUIzgw

— My name is Byf (Lore Daddy) (@MyNameIsByf) July 31, 2024

my whole team is gone.

— ? Alexandra, alexthegr8r on bsky (@_AlexTheGr8r_) July 31, 2024