The developers of this game are currently being ruled over by tone deaf money hungry businessmen who don't care about player or developer feedback with the developers/community managers having no sway over them. Every finance related decision made by Bungie has been terrible as of late and I unfortunately don't see this ever changing.
If a company has a massive layoff of 8% (hundreds of people in this case) ranging from juniors who haven't been here for long to industry vets who've been part of the company for decades and the only part of the company unaffected by it is management, I think, shows pretty clearly what state the company is in.
What's worse is the layoffs happened even after Bungie got an absurd amount of $1.2 Billion to help retain staff after the Sony take-over, and was apparently caused because Lightfall preorders were 45%~ less than estimated among many reasons such as declining performance.
All of this is happening after they decided to have a new bigass office in Bellevue, Washington which is one of the most expensive places to live while Bungie is known for being stingy in the salary department.
It gets worse the more you dig into it, and as much as I want the developers, the people who care for the game to succeed, I don't really see a way to do it without letting the management continue doing what they're already doing and so I cannot recommend this game to anyone whether new or returning

The developers of this game are currently being ruled over by tone deaf money hungry businessmen who don't care about player or developer feedback with the developers/community managers having no sway over them. Every finance related decision made by Bungie has been terrible as of late and I unfortunately don't see this ever changing. If a company has a massive layoff of 8% (hundreds of people in this case) ranging from juniors who haven't been here for long to industry vets who've been part of the company for decades and the only part of the company [b]unaffected[/b] by it is management, I think, shows pretty clearly what state the company is in. What's worse is the layoffs happened even after Bungie got an absurd amount of [b]$1.2 Billion[/b] to help retain staff after the Sony take-over, and was apparently caused because Lightfall preorders were 45%~ less than estimated among many reasons such as declining performance. All of this is happening after they decided to have a new bigass office in Bellevue, Washington which is one of [b]the most expensive places to live[/b] while Bungie is known for being stingy in the salary department. It gets worse the more you dig into it, and as much as I want the developers, the people who care for the game to succeed, I don't really see a way to do it without letting the management continue doing what they're already doing and so [b]I cannot recommend this game to anyone whether new or returning[/b]