Following the last Destiny 2 update, layoffs at Bungie are underway, with most of the shooter's team affected

Some Marathon and SIE devs are being laid disconnected too

Back successful May, Bungie announced that their agelong moving shooter MMO Destiny 2 would beryllium getting its last ever large update successful June. At the clip determination were rumours that layoffs would travel not agelong aft the update arrived. Now, a small implicit 2 weeks since the update dropped, Bungie person confirmed that layoffs are taking place.

"With large sadness, we are announcing a simplification successful unit arsenic we reorganize Bungie. As the leaders of Bungie, past and present, we admit Destiny 2 fell abbreviated of expectations these past respective years," reads Bungie's statement. "Following our last contented update to Destiny 2, and with our aboriginal projects inactive successful aboriginal incubation, we unluckily could not proceed operating astatine our erstwhile size."

The enactment goes connected to marque notation of the "profound impact" these layoffs volition person connected unit and their families affected by the decision. There is nary notation of however enactment astatine Bungie whitethorn instrumentality work for Destiny 2's nonaccomplishment to conscionable expectations, lone saying that "these changes are indispensable to champion presumption the workplace present and for the future."

In a abstracted connection from Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hermen Hulst, further details were shared regarding the standard of the layoffs, explaining that astir of the Destiny squad and immoderate of the Marathon squad are included. "There are besides reductions crossed SIE teams that enactment Bungie’s operations," the connection explains. It besides notes that Marathon "remains an important portion of our portfolio, and we volition proceed to enactment the squad arsenic they physique connected the beardown instauration established successful Season 1 and 2, and arsenic they enactment connected incubation efforts for aboriginal projects." So, astatine slightest for a portion longer, Marathon volition propulsion on.

As always, solidarity with those affected by the layoffs.