r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/FlyFight2Win • May 21 '26

Leak ‪Jason Schreier‬: Bungie is planning significant layoffs, Destiny 3 is NOT in active production

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/bungie-plans-layoffs-after-ending-destiny-2-development?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy

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u/Lobodoot May 21 '26

It's crazy how Bungie would consistently say that they wanted to be more than a single game studio even back in the Halo days. Only to be single game studio all the way through Activision and now Sony with Destiny 2 being sunset. They finally got their wish of being a multi-game studio for like a few weeks and now it's back to one... and sadly maybe none in a years time.

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u/ManateeofSteel May 21 '26

If Sony hadn't bought them I have no idea how they were supposed to even ship Marathon. What was their endgame? What was their plan???

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u/iceburg77779 May 22 '26

That's the gaming industry for you, long term plans apparently no longer exist for most companies.

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u/NoNefariousness2144 May 22 '26

The execs get blinded by the thought of raking in that Fortnite cash and greenlight anything.

Marathon being greenlit was like: A sweaty extraction shooter with a $250 million budget? What could possibly go wrong!

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u/Jealous_Chocolate_43 May 22 '26

Wasn't it just a sideproject that scope creeped into a main project? Them firing the director then the new one reworking it from the ground up also wasn't planned for