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Bungie hasn't made a good game since 2010, they deserve it.
No they don’t, you ghoul.
You don’t get hired at Bungie by being a shitty game dev.
You make shitty games or get fired by having shitty management or a parent company run by a shitty exec.
Shit like this is what is making the game industry suck and why you are seeing more bugs and more garbage and as long as companies fire people after every project, and no one sticks around, it’s likely to just keep worsening things.
Do you know why Elden Ring, Mario, and Zelda games are good?
It’s because the devs at Nintendo and From Software have people in charge who have been making games for like 30 goddamn years and have become literal masters of their craft.
Meanwhile, all the companies making shitty games are firing people as soon as their game ships and chasing trends instead of focusing on fundamentals of good game mechanics and gameplay design.
…And so then the next quarter when they need more warm bodies to ship something, they basically have to hire a bunch of 20-something fresh graduates who generally have no idea what they’re doing, pay them next to nothing, give them unrealistic deadlines, crunch the shit out of them, burn them out, and then repeat the cycle.
That’s at least one of the reasons why even industry celebrities like Cliff Blezinski got out of making games.
Not a fan of Joe Rogan, but go watch John Carmack - one of the singular greatest programmers of the last 40 years and basically also one of the creators of the FPS - tell Rogan that game dev is harder and less secure and pays less than Facebook.
It’s why most game studios’ average tenure is around 5 years… and why a lot of people (myself included) left… because the pay and job stability is better in adjacent careers like just general software dev.
These people are trying to make games that they are passionate about. No game dev gets into it to make money or micro transactions… especially not someone who would want to work for a studio that once crafted flagship titles like Bungie or Blizzard or any of the other big name studios.
People telling game devs that they “should lose their jobs” really need to redirect their ire toward the private equity bean-counting suits - who are making off like bandits while absolutely gutting the future of an industry I fucking guarantee is having its legs cut out from under it by shit like this.
Edit : Holy shit some of the absolute chirplords in the thread below really make me happy I got out of making games. To anyone still soldiering on in the trench that is video game dev work, I salute you... I really wish you had the fortitude to still do it, but I'm a mere mortal. Here's to hoping you guys are able to get what you need and that the suits just get out of the way.
Bungie literally deleted content I paid for. They can get bent, they have lost myself and my money, among others, as customers permanently. The result of the company getting less money means people get let go. That's how business works.
Any person that keeps working with a company that actively harms its customers is not a person that I will support. My personal work ethic and integrity could never allow me to continue to work in such a dishonest place of work. I quit on the spot when one of my old bosses told me to lie and tell a customer that they needed parts replaced for their car that they didn't need so he could charge them more. Walked across the street and got a job at the competing shop the same day, and ended up getting paid more. If you are good at your job (as good as you seem to think all Bungie employees are), then finding another job will be easy. Sucks for the few good people that might work there, but if they get let go they will have the opportunity to work somewhere better. If they're a good person, they will likely pick a place that doesn't actively harm its own customers (and employees).
With every word out of your mouth, you paint a more detailed picture of just how shitty a person you are despite your supposed ethics.
Feel free to pick up the brush and continue painting at the bottom of this message..
I hope you have an excellent day as well.
BTW, I work for one of those evil games companies that do reprehensible things, because I like having a good working environment and having a well paying job. You too have a good day.