“As we speak is a tragic day at Bungie as we are saying goodbye to colleagues who’ve all made a big impression on our studio,” Bungie CEO Pete Parsons wrote on X, previously Twitter. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, the layoffs come a number of weeks after a gathering through which execs stated that Bungie’s income was 45 % decrease than projected, and through which Parsons blamed Lightfall, Future 2’s most up-to-date (and poorly received) enlargement, for a drop in participant retention resulting in the shortfall.
The Final Shape is an bold new enlargement pack for Future 2 that’s meant to conclude lots of the franchise’s most important storylines. It was initially anticipated to be launched on each Sony’s and Microsoft’s platforms in February 2024. Marathon relies on the beloved first-person shooter Bungie initially launched on macOS again in 1994. The brand new recreation, now delayed to 2025, is predicted to be a PvP “extraction” recreation. Bungie by no means assured it could be launched in 2024 however had hinted at that plan.
Replace, October thirty first, 4:45PM ET: Up to date to incorporate the estimated extent of the layoffs in addition to context about Bungie’s missed income projections, each first reported by Bloomberg.