Care to sight a reference for this claim? Yes QA is terrible, but this does not mean the entire QA team was fired.

Their estimations for the business as a whole were so bad. I truly cannot believe that other people are actually blaming Pete parsons and his car collection as the sole problem here. Let's face it Sony over valued bungie as a whole and once they sold everything went downhill faster with the Sony investors being down their backs. I doubt Pete personally wanted to fire anyone, but he had to for a fast fix to their books so Sony didn't gobble them up right there and then. And who goes first the people who aren't 100% necessary at that moment in time so ur music people, because the music for tfs was probably done and then ur qa testers because bugs can always be found by the community. Now was Pete a particularly good ceo probably not, but the this whole downfall isn't directly on him, but it's on bungie as a whole, management, devs, executives and even their investors.

You do realize a portion of the buyout was to prevent lay offs right? Sony let bungie develop destiny 2 entirely on their own pretty much letting them do whatever the studio wanted. Sony bought them for their intelligence in the live service model (not realizing its beyond outdated and the devs that made the original game work are long gone) not destiny 2 or their IPs but still monitor their progress.

And u do understand that after the buyout the first expansion missed bungie's revenue estimations by I believe 57%. If that happens ur investors aren't gonna be happy and that mean Sony isn't going to be happy so they have to balance their books by doing something and when most of the employees that got laid off had probably around a 100k salary. That's a pretty fast way to lessen the hit.

I mean, that's entirely on bungie's pitch to investors, and it was 40% unless im misremembering, but Sony has just now started integrating to bungie proper. So assuming Pete didnt want to fire people feels disingenuous when its entirely likely all of leadership monitored their numbers and just overestimated themselves. Granted I want to know what they are smoking knowing full well all their projects haven't moved past the concept phase.

I looked and it was 45%. But either way they were very overvalued by Sony and Sony wants some their money back. So for bungie to be not so far into the red they needed to lay people off. To say that they missed revenue by that much all because of Pete is crazy. They missed revenue because the dev management team made dumb decisions and the narrative team did a terrible job.