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Bungie CEO has seemingly spent $2.4 million on 25 vintage cars and bikes after Sony acquisition
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mansoor1980
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they love vintage cars at sony
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
New money moves. Will be broke in 5 years.
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Denton
Member
Vintage cars, if taken care of, gain in value, not lose it. He probably saw the insane inflation and decided to invest to protect his newly gained wealth against it.
Sw0pDiller
Banned
Good for him!
I dont get it either. How is this relevant to.. anything?
crazepharmacist
Member
I thought I was on Resetera for a second.
Kupfer
Member
Well, you build a company on the backs of its employees. Without them, the company would never have become what it is now. It always smacks of a bad taste when the employees who make a significant contribution to the success of the company have to go, but the CEO is enjoying his life with a big smile on his face.
Of course it's his money and yes, that's how our system works, good old capitalism.
The top people live in their bubble, surrounded by other top people, the connection to the product and the working people who make this product possible is lost.
Of course it's his money and yes, that's how our system works, good old capitalism.
The top people live in their bubble, surrounded by other top people, the connection to the product and the working people who make this product possible is lost.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
He's no longer working at the company, right? Fuck him 24/7/365!
Perrott
Member
I bet the purple forum communists, looking at how Bungie struggles under Pete Parsons' command, actually believe that the man should not be able to enjoy his legitimately earned wealth and instead should be subsidizing Bungie's - let's remember an asset owned not by him, but by Sony Group Corporation - with money coming out of his own pocket.
That's the level of internet dementia behind this ill-conceived angle of critique against Bungie's otherwise terrible CEO.
PeteBull
Member
Sony fucked up paying so much for bungie, what should the guy do- deny freebie ?
News - BREAKING: Sony is acquiring Bungie for 3.6b
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-sony-buying-bungie-for-usd3-6-billion More Info for Destiny 2 Players: https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/50989 Edit 2: PlayStation: Bungie deal is about multiplatform, live-service games. Future Bungie releases to remain...
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VitoNotVito
Member
Am I missing something? Are people trying to tell him how he can spend his money?
Perrott
Member
Sure, but who would've made them anyway? Sony seems to run a tight ship in terms of studios and partners, so it's not like those nearly 4B would've materialized in twenty The Last Of Us Part II level exclusives if the studios that would've made such games are either not in Sony's orbit, not interested in making a first or second-party game or outright don't even exist.Sony fucked up paying so much for bungie, what should the guy do- deny freebie ?
That was literally enough money for 10 AAA high quality exclusives wasted for nothing, but again, blame stupid sony board/heads, not the guy who benefits.News - BREAKING: Sony is acquiring Bungie for 3.6b
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-sony-buying-bungie-for-usd3-6-billion More Info for Destiny 2 Players: https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/50989 Edit 2: PlayStation: Bungie deal is about multiplatform, live-service games. Future Bungie releases to remain...www.neogaf.com
Sony right now is not 2012 THQ struggling to keep their portfolio of projects beyond the short term going and having to cancel future projects left and right because of a lack of funds, so all that money isn't of much use to the existing PS Studios pipeline of projects and that's why they chose to invest it.
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Haint
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All of them are loaded, anyone there long enough to have worked on a Halo was probably earning a million+ a year, Destiny 1 500K+. That weirdo community manager probably made $150K for Tweeting and posting on Discord/Reddit. No they're not buying 2 million dollar cars, but none of them were riding the struggle bus. You're crying over people who bring home 30K, 50K, 80K every fucking month. Save your anti-captialist sympathy for all the people making 30K a year
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AeonGaidenRaiden
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Are we supposed to tell a CEO how he should spend his own money? If Bungie was putting out awesome games, they wouldnt need to lay off anyone but this narrative thinking everyone is Japanese mentality as in, let me as a CEO cut my own salary to benefit my team, yu cant put that on everyone else. Even in Japan, that has happened only twice. JAL (Japanese Airlines CEO) and Nintendo. As long as he didnt steal that money, he earned it fair and square. I dont remember any CEO being a charity. It took em decades to reach that position and they are there to make millions, maybe billions. They arent red cross.
PeteBull
Member
They could for example not close sony japan and we could maybe get Legend of Dragoon 2 or w/e they wanted really, love all their games
And sequel to non woke and amazing Days Gone from sony bend.
Just 2 simple nobrainer examples, that i could see as ur avg mortal
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Perrott
Member
Sure, but not getting any Legend of Dragoon-caliber game from Japan Studio in the 21 years since that game's original release and the 2021 restructuring of Japan Studio (into Team Asobi), or the decade-long period since Allan Becker was appointed as head of the studio in 2011 didn't bode well for the expectation of them ever having an internally-developed breakthrough AAA hit.They could for example not close sony japan and we could maybe get legend of dragoon 2 or w/e they wanted really, love all their games
And seeing one of their most prominent creative forces, Keiichiro Toyama, come up with a game such as Slitterhead following his departure from the company, kind of makes me understand why they didn't really have much of a future outside of the Team Asobi, who are otherwise knocking it out of the park with their Astro games.
Their externally produced games, such as those made by FromSoftware, you'll continue to get without Japan Studio acting as the middlemen, as a new partnership with From has been rumored for years and even hinted at by Hermen Hulst himself at one point.
Embearded
Member
Who cares?
As long he is not breaking any laws why should it matter? CEOs are overpaid mofos, we know that, so what?
People make it a big fuss and they blame capitalism and all, while they are on their expensive phones, manufactured in a third world country by underprivileged kids.
As long he is not breaking any laws why should it matter? CEOs are overpaid mofos, we know that, so what?
People make it a big fuss and they blame capitalism and all, while they are on their expensive phones, manufactured in a third world country by underprivileged kids.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Are CEOs overpaid Vs the average worker and at what cost is the question you're supposed to consider, I think.
The point isn't critiquing how he spent the money (I think he's got some good choices in there) more that perhaps that a tiny minority of people could get paid merely a ridiculously large amount of money instead of the even bigger paycheck they get, and maybe businesses would be able to lay off fewer people.
At some point owning 25 cars doesn't really feel much better than owning 10, etc.
The point isn't critiquing how he spent the money (I think he's got some good choices in there) more that perhaps that a tiny minority of people could get paid merely a ridiculously large amount of money instead of the even bigger paycheck they get, and maybe businesses would be able to lay off fewer people.
At some point owning 25 cars doesn't really feel much better than owning 10, etc.
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LectureMaster
Gold Member
That was point of making the thread, folks are derailing all over the place
Team Andromeda
Member
Get a life and a grip. One can't blame anyone who made millions from selling their business, spending that money and enjoying themself's.
SONY laid off the staff
LectureMaster
Gold Member
Jeez, save the preaching. I simply think the vintage collection is rad.
Team Andromeda
Member
I'm not one starting silly threads about people enjoying spending their money ' how they see fit '
Pegasus Actual
Member
But did he also buy that Leia bikini?
I feel kinda dumb, for 175k I could've swung it. Another grand or two for just the right escort on a leash so I could splay out on my couch like Jabba... I mean. I guess I just didn't know they were selling it. So I'm hoping this guy is doing that. Along with the cars.
As for Bungo... they thought they could just make an expansion like this and somehow everyone would get to keep their job forever:
Got what's coming to em tbh
I feel kinda dumb, for 175k I could've swung it. Another grand or two for just the right escort on a leash so I could splay out on my couch like Jabba... I mean. I guess I just didn't know they were selling it. So I'm hoping this guy is doing that. Along with the cars.
As for Bungo... they thought they could just make an expansion like this and somehow everyone would get to keep their job forever:
Got what's coming to em tbh
POKEYCLYDE
Member
The CEO's personal money isn't going to save people's jobs from getting cut.
If the employees at Bungie are worried about job security, they should unionize.
If the employees at Bungie are worried about job security, they should unionize.
Bernardougf
Member
Yeah... take this topic to the purple communist forum ... its his money if he wants to burn in the fucking yard he can.
Utherellus
Member
Pretty much this
POKEYCLYDE
Member
This just in, game developers make more money than the average fast food worker. How is that fair? /s
If anybody had an issue with him getting paid that much (to be buying those cars) at the time in the company the board could have reduced it but you don't retroactively try and lambast somebody. This is different to being frivolous with company money while or shortly after doing massive cost cutting. If he got a pay raise now while others got fired then by all means complain but this is a dumb witch hunt to be going after him for how he spent his money after 2022.
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Imagine Wagons
Member
What was the correct way for him to spend his money?
Imagine Wagons
Member
Launder assumes he was trying to obscure his money downstream. This couldn't be further from that. It's literally out in the open for you to count
Did he pay cash? do you know the source of funds? expensive vehicles and propety with limited purchasing checks are a prime feeding grounds for integration and rarely do those industries do the 'right thing'. That downsteam illusion is exactly what a launder wants you to see.
But I get what your saying, I'll let it go
he probably earned it legtimately as CEO off the backs of his employees.
Imagine Wagons
Member
I know about integration, layering, and placement. If the IRS or FBI really wants to find out they can. These auctions are out in the open.Did he pay cash? do you know the source of funds? expensive vehicles and propety with limited purchasing checks are a prime feeding grounds for integration and rarely do those industries do the 'right thing'. That downsteam illusion is exactly what a launder wants you to see.
But I get what your saying, I'll let it go
If he stepped on the backs of his employees maybe the employees should seek better employ?
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