{"id":1198541,"date":"2023-10-31T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198541"},"modified":"2023-10-31T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:08:00","slug":"report-bungie-blames-100-layoffs-on-players-leaving-destiny-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198541","title":{"rendered":"Report: Bungie Blames 100 Layoffs On Players Leaving Destiny 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/25a7459f7bb801ab3f763c8a1b964722.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bungie employees knew the Destiny 2 studio was struggling, but might not have expected a <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/bungie-destiny-2-marathon-playstation-layoffs-ps5-1850973043\">recent mass layoff of roughly 100 staff<\/a>. That\u2019s according to a <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-10-31\/sony-s-bungie-game-unit-cut-jobs-as-destiny-2-popularity-waned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new report by Bloomberg<\/a> which details a meeting earlier this month in which studio leadership blamed poor player retention following 2023&#8217;s disappointing <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/destiny-2-lightfall-witness-strand-nimbus-exotics-1850173084\">Lightfall expansion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/destiny-2-lightfall-final-shape-bungie-layoff-ps5-1850978233\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Kotaku &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/destiny-2-lightfall-final-shape-bungie-layoff-ps5-1850978233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report: Bungie Blames 100 Layoffs On Players Leaving Destiny 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bungie employees knew the Destiny 2 studio was struggling, but might not have expected a recent mass layoff of roughly 100 staff. That\u2019s according to a new report by Bloomberg which details a meeting earlier this month in which studio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198541\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1198542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,110],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-1198541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kotaku","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-kotaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}