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Bunjie Announces Mass Layoffs (bsky.app)
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> sell the company to playstation

> stop updating or supporting your most successful game

> ???

> layoff your developers

> profit?

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[–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

They've been in the middle of remastering Halo because it's the best thing the company ever produced and still sells copies.

I wouldn't want them to stick to single player. But I also don't think the company that made the original game really exists anymore. The Leads and Senior Devs have all either cashed out or gone elsewhere. What we have left is a collection of IP managed by an increasingly detached set of business sociopaths.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    You're onto something huge here. This is why I have little hope for most long-loved franchises (Elder Scrolls, Halo, Fallout, Tony Hawk games, Call of Duty, etc). Like any other collaborative artistic endeavor, it's a product of the people at that time. The name applied to the group doesn't fully encapsulate it.

    The same Todd Howard who is credited as doing "additional design" on Daggerfall is the same Todd Howard who came up with the idea of releasing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary, TES 5 (FiVE): Ultra Titanium Edition: The Skyrimmening.

    So many of these games were born from the pool of creative synergy that could never exist again. Pertinent:

    Old Bungie vs. 343

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