17% of Bungie's employees have just lost their jobs.
Bungie has today announced and it will lay off 220 employees — 17% of its workforce — and further integrate into Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Blaming some of the layoffs on a “quality miss” in Destiny 2‘s Lightfall expansion, Bungie head Pete Parsons delivered the sombre news in a new update.
“Due to rising costs of development and industry shifts as well as enduring economic conditions, it has become clear that we need to make substantial changes to our cost structure and focus development efforts entirely on Destiny and Marathon,” Parsons began, also confirming the layoffs will impact “most of our executive and senior leader roles”.
Parsons added that Bungie is “deepening our integration with Sony Interactive Entertainment, working to integrate 155 of our roles, roughly 12%, into SIE over the next few quarters,” adding that “SIE has worked tirelessly with us to identify roles for as many of our people as possible, enabling us together to save a great deal of talent that would otherwise have been affected by the reduction in force.”
Bungie already laid off approximately 100 employees back in October of last year.
“We still have over 850 team members building Destiny and Marathon, and we will continue to build amazing experiences that exceed our players’ expectations,” Parsons concluded.
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