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> sell the company to playstation

> stop updating or supporting your most successful game

> ???

> layoff your developers

> profit?

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Dear lord. The ill informed comments in that Bluesky thread hurt my soul.

EDIT: To clarify, the "golden handcuffs" tied to the Sony deal ($1.2B of the total $3.6B) already vested. The executives responsible for the downfall were paid and gone some time ago.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The notion that Bungie was some kind of golden goose prior to the Sony deal really relies on you ignoring how much the studio had floundered over the last decade.

This more speaks to how hard up Sony executives were, being forced to pick through the trash bin at Microsoft.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I remember when the acquisition was announced, it came out that Bungie went back to MS first to try and be acquired again, and MS turned them down at a price of something like only $1 bill.

People on the Sony fangirl forums like neogaf were all so happy thinking that MS made a bad decision passing on Bungie, and thought Sony getting them was bigger than MS getting Activision blizzard 🤣

Sony panicked and bought a company no one else wanted for about 5 times what they were actually worth.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was honestly surprised Sony paid that much for them when I saw the sale news.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Sony basically panic bought Bungie because of MS’s buying spree, and it has turned out as well as most panic buying does.