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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 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 the reason why people like Cliff Blezinski got out of making games.
That’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 your ire toward the people 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.
Also Destiny was a damn good game, with great map design, enemy design, and world building. I don't know how you blame the developers for the clearly top level decisions to turn the game into a content treadmill where everything was undeveloped and disposable.
Nope. But what the other guy said still stands.
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.
Bungie shits in your mouth, consistently, over the course of D1's life cycle.
"No it's not Bungie, it's Activision!"
Bungie splits from Activision in D2
Proceeds to release Shadowkeep
"Crickets"
Fast forward to Lightfall.
"Noooo, it's Sony! Sony is at fault!"
God damn, the excuses Destiny players make for what is a shit company will never cease to amuse me. Idk what Bungie's collective cum tastes like but it must be fucking ambrosia considering the lengths the community goes to defend them. That corpo-speak in the TWABs is puttin' in work!
Icing on the cake? Shadowkeep is the first expansion dropped by Bungie for d2 without Activision. It is also widely acknowledged as the worst expansion. Congratulations, you've written an essay and proven you just shouldn't be weighing in on this. At all.
The more words you use in your next essay won't help, you don't know what you're talking about. It's almost like you got an AI to spit this out with how much cherrypicking you do. What's the term for a sealion that weighs in on something they know nothing about?
You... please name the logical fallacy I've employed.
I'll wait.
No I just don't read what you're saying, mainly because I've got better things to do with my time than to read a nobody bloviate about something they don't understand. Your experience doesn't matter, do you know why?
I've refuted your claim that it's somehow all the publishers fault. You, for some reason, think that Bungie releasing a terrible expansion the first time they're free from a publisher somehow doesn't obliterate your argument.
You're absolutely sealioning btw, you can keep the corpo speak to yourself. I'm not reading it, because it's just a waste of my time. There are plenty of devs to defend, Bungie is not one of them.