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Just passing the torch so we can burn.
Pete Parsons out as head of Bungie
- Thread starter Wastelander92
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Just passing the torch so we can burn.
Saber
Newd Member
Nothing says it could be both. And the brown finger of Sony is the cherry on the top.
And it wasn't like a difficult choice or anything. Just pick Bungie, make them simply do Destiny 3 or something very closer to Destiny and leave it at it.
But nah let's put full soy force and the social crap we do with their games nowadays, put someone in charge to applaud at any crap they make(even if they didn't made because they stolen stuff) and call it a day. This is the recipe for disaster.
And the reason I want all those projects to fail is because Sony really needs a hard swipe and clean.
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Horseganador
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By now, Bungie should be integrated into PS Studios, and with a good cleanup of the studio's executives, it's a start.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
It's super obvious that this is what they need to do at this point.
archangelmorph
Gold Member
Good riddance..
I watched this YT doc a while ago that provided some useful insight into Pete's influence at the studio and it's safe to say he probably shouldn't be missed…
I watched this YT doc a while ago that provided some useful insight into Pete's influence at the studio and it's safe to say he probably shouldn't be missed…
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
Fixing the "stolen" assets in Marathon shouldn't be a problem; all they have to do is use stuff from WipeOut 3 instead. Nobody's gonna notice the difference!
Also, I still think they had to have had a financial incentive to kill off Concord the way they did. Surely if they had that much invested in it, they'd have at least tried something... anything to try and salvage the situation!
Shame we'll probably never know. It just seems odd that Sony pulled the plug after a month, while MS allowed Redfall to limp on for a year.
Honestly I'm pretty certain that Redfall lost MS way more money than Concord cost Sony.
Also, I still think they had to have had a financial incentive to kill off Concord the way they did. Surely if they had that much invested in it, they'd have at least tried something... anything to try and salvage the situation!
Shame we'll probably never know. It just seems odd that Sony pulled the plug after a month, while MS allowed Redfall to limp on for a year.
Honestly I'm pretty certain that Redfall lost MS way more money than Concord cost Sony.
bighugeguns
Member
Xbox has Activision for insurance, they also have scary-money backing them up, someone mentioned before that Sony doesn't have that luxury, so brand reputational damage gets taken pretty seriously, it seems.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Yeah, if they start working on it now maybe it will be ready for ps6 pro launch in 2034, which doesn't even sound like a real year.
Bungie is cooked. They wasted way too much time on old and busted Destiny 2.
ChorizoPicozo
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Maybe secretly they've been somewhat working on a Destiny 3 in pre-production........LOL!
Gamer_By_Proxy
About to beat off
The assets is what they stole. Well the decals and what not
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
FIxed
Action Jackson
Member
Ok, so when is Hulst gone?
The guy is the personification of the Peter principle.
The guy is the personification of the Peter principle.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
They need to drop the Destiny games and Marathon and make something else entirely.
Ar¢tos
Member
Nah they'll reuse the assets for a new genderless neon colored dating sim.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Everything they do leaks, which is another mark of a well run studio.
It's honestly sad. So many top tier studios from the past are just shambling along as zombies. All the talent that made them good is gone.
- Rocksteady
- Bioware
- Bungie
- Obsidian
- Rocksteady
- Konami
- Blizzard
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
ByWatterson
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LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Bring in former UFC Champion Tony Ferguson and In Living Color's David Allan Grier to fix the studio.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Miles708
Member
That's a 30 mins video.
Quick recap as to why this guy is apparently considered bad?
Timberwolf25
Member
Is his replacement any better or actually worse?
Bungie needs a hatchetman to come in and trim the fat, but I doubt that will happen.
Bungie needs a hatchetman to come in and trim the fat, but I doubt that will happen.
diffusionx
Gold Member
This signifies the full takeover of Bungie by Sony. They've been cleaning house for a year or two at this point.
kazuyamishima
Member
Have Sony even recoup at least 50% of the 3.6B spent from the Bungie Acquisition with revenue from Destiny 2?
simpatico
Member
Dude was so close to hitting the heist of the century. One of the video essays mentioned some clause he had in his contract that was gonna pay out BIGLY very soon. I wonder if he hit that milestone of if someone at Sony finally woke up and saw that they very well might have been defrauded of billions.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
What reputational damage? The game by all accounts was just mediocre. It actually has a higher Metacritic than Redfall.
The plain fact is that it was just a game that most people felt there was better, cheaper, equivalents to. It wasn't a broken, bug-ridden mess, just a bland hero shooter! Just saying, nothing I've seen indicates to me it that it was exceptionally terrible as a game. That being said the successful hero shooters look pretty shit to me (!)... I'm just not the market for that sort of game.
However it does support my point that it didn't look so egregiously substandard *within that genre* to constitute a thing that was reputationally damaging to the Playstation brand. The problem wasn't that every who played it hated it so vehemently they demanded a refund... most just people looked at it, looked at the price-tag and expected GAAS bullshit, and decided... "Nah. I'll pass."
What I'm getting at is: Yes, it was unpopular. But companies doing unpopular releases usually doesn't result in total shutdown and full refunds in a month!
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
The sad thing is, they needed Marathon out there making money to give them space to work on D3. Some hard decisions coming up for Bungie.
archangelmorph
Gold Member
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Man.....when you put it that way geez! That's horrible. I'm glad the Chinese devs are stepping up.
Miles708
Member
That would even make sense financially, but that trash Marathon needs more millions pumped to get released and bomb hard, so it ain't happening
StreetsofBeige
Member
They're done.
Not yet though. Bungie will close when Destiny 2 is eventually sunsetted. No point supporting D2 making them convert to another SIE studio. Just keep it under the Bungie badge.
Marathon will be cancelled soon too.
Give it another year when D2 is on its final legs. But who knows. Maybe they got more DLC packs coming.
But I'd say in 1-2 years tops Bungie is gone. A bunch of people will shift to SIE and rest fired. Timing will depend how long D2 stretches out.
New Sony exec doesn't fuck around when it comes to shutting things down. If marathon is cancelled and bungie is asked to stop making content, so all they got is supporting existing DLC, I can see Sony shutting them down in 6 months.
Not yet though. Bungie will close when Destiny 2 is eventually sunsetted. No point supporting D2 making them convert to another SIE studio. Just keep it under the Bungie badge.
Marathon will be cancelled soon too.
Give it another year when D2 is on its final legs. But who knows. Maybe they got more DLC packs coming.
But I'd say in 1-2 years tops Bungie is gone. A bunch of people will shift to SIE and rest fired. Timing will depend how long D2 stretches out.
New Sony exec doesn't fuck around when it comes to shutting things down. If marathon is cancelled and bungie is asked to stop making content, so all they got is supporting existing DLC, I can see Sony shutting them down in 6 months.
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mitch1971
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Timberwolf25
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According to the post, he's been at Bungie for the last 15 years. A full takeover would be someone from outside of Bungie taking the lead.
Timberwolf25
Member
I like Cliffy, but he needs to stay away from management. His "talent" lies in the creative elements.
StreetsofBeige
Member
What happened was Destiny 2 was rocking so well they didn't want to make D3. If they did then D2 would fizzle out, but if they do marathon they could have a 1-2 punch covering two games and two revenue streams.
Fast forward to now and they didn't think D2 would fizzle out so bad and marathon being a stolen asset meh GAAS hardly anyone cared about.
There's always chance they also got D3 in the works they could show people as a trailer, but that game wouldn't come for probably 5 years. And no way Sony brass is waiting that long for results.
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ByWatterson
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I think we should stop and appreciate that Sony routinely fires or demotes poorly performing executives.
bender
What time is it?
kpopSuperstar
Member
Don't forget Rocksteady.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
i watched it. Tl;dw he was a corporate stooge who repeatedly fucked over his employees and lost all of Bungie's top talent because it.
