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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 ____________________________________ 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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  • Edited by AssassinX: 5/24/2020 4:51:31 AM
    LOL had to chime in on this. Bungo really did rely on Activisions GOOD Studios to carry the weight. Now that they don't have Activision to Backpack them to good releases you can see how bad it has gotten. Everything is -blam!-ING LAME now. If the workplace morale is bad this will directly translate to the game experience. There is NO WAY can they hold up their promises on making this game better when they have no idea what the -blam!- they are doing.... oh well. Lost cause at this point. Bungo is Bunghole... And the Bunghole Fanboys on this Post..... CRICKETS....

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