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Destiny developer Bungie lays off 220 staff, roughly 17 percent of workforce


Destiny developer Bungie has laid off another 220 staff, representing roughly 17 percent of the studio's workforce. In …

But as we've navigated the broader economic realities over the last year, and after exhausting all other mitigation options, this has become a necessary decision to refocus our studio and our business with more realistic goals and viable financials." Collectively, between moving staff and layoffs, Bungie is down-sizing considerably, though Parsons explicitly stated the studio has "over 850 team members building Destiny and Marathon". For the past five years, explained Parsons, Bungie has strived to ship games across "three enduring, global franchises" but has since realised this "stretched our talent too thin, too quickly".

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