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Edited by Sinisis:
5/23/2020 8:41:09 AM
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Former Bungo Employee on state of the game: A great company going through really hard time right now
I think this Glassdoor review tells you all you need to know about the state of the game right now:
Pros
-Amazing Benefits
-Aspirational 10 year plan
-Studio President is personable and cares
Cons
Things have changed quite a bit at Bungie since their split from Activision. I had been with the company since shortly after Halo Reach (almost a decade). While some aspects have improved, such as reduced crunch, the studio seems to have lost a lot of appreciation for veteran talent. Out of necessity, Bungie needs to learn and hire a lot of the publication roles Activision provided, and studio leadership has definitely let the fox guard the hen house in this time because of it.
As a result, crunch has become a regular occurrence again, and burnout of the Destiny franchise is real. Many veterans are leaving to other studios formed by Bungie alumni or going elsewhere in the Seattle game dev scene. Those roles are not being backfilled, but rather replaced with a "do more with less" attitude, filling roles instead with contractors rather than full time talent we had been clicking on full cylinders with between the Taken King and Forsaken releases.
These factors have led to the poorest morale I've seen at the company, which has been declining since late 2018. Leadership says they understand, and will do better, but still keeps leaning into not backfilling jobs and waiting to align on a direction before it's too late to deliver. This has been most obvious on the Narrative and QA teams. Not seeing any improvement in sight, I sadly left the job I thought I would retire at.
Advice to Management
Don't lose sight of who built Destiny. You're bringing in a lot of contract narrative, design, and QA folks, and it's making life really rough on your middle-level talent
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Edit: If you read the other reviews (link above), you'll see that many employees blamed management for most of the issues within the company. Bad management seems to be at the core of Bungie's decline. Something many of us already suspected.
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2 RepliesNo response from the Bungie shills or the BDF? Why is that I wonder? Maybe this is because this evidence is the likely explanation for the appalling state the game has been in since the split from Activision? Now I dislike Activision as much as EA, or as much as the next gamer. However the studios they brought with them (VV and HMS) arguably created the best content within the entire lifecycle of D2. Without Activision, Bungie have fallen back on the lamest of content and turned the franchise into a mobile game. If this fall DLC is not the very best content that matches or exceeds the previously and commonly agreed high points of the franchise (Forsaken and TTK), then this is going to be the end of Destiny as a franchise. Will Destiny die? No, I really don’t think that is possible. There are plenty of casuals and fanboys that will continue to buy content and play. However the lower numbers will certainly impact many aspects of the game, especially matchmaking. Lower numbers will also mean less revenue and a continual slide away from anything resembling quality content.
