I don't buy the line it was get bought by Sony or close. The article states that Bungie were giving people bonuses of >100% because they'd been so successful fi

I don't buy the line it was get bought by Sony or close. The article states that Bungie were giving people bonuses of >100% because they'd been so successful financially, and they'd just signed a lease on a really expensive new office These are not things you do if you're clinging desperately on for survival. To me this reads like corporate greed and nothing else. Here's my take on the cycle Bungie is trapped in and how they got there: They sold to Sony to get sizeable payouts on their owned shares and they over-inflated the value of the company whilst doing that. Sony is now asking where the money is. In response, the senior team at Bungie claim that the economy is hard and then passes on all the consequences of their actions onto the workforce. In doing so, they destroy the day-to-day working of the company because nobody actually wants to work there anymore and it just becomes a place where everyone is utterly despondent. The revenue continues to fall, and the senior team continue to respond to the falling revenue by passing more layoffs/discipline/cruelty onto their employees. Eventually there is a surplus of managers left at Bungie and nobody to actually do the work. They desperately try to plug these gaps with contractors and outsourced staff but the burden of training people to work within a 7 year old code base that is riddled with spaghetti and bugs just means that nobody can actually successfully build anything. Bungie as a company will not survive long enough to make Destiny 3.