Yes. (Gaming)

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Sunday, September 06, 2015, 17:28 (3368 days ago) @ breitzen

There are lots of good hard working developers at Bungie. I can have issues with individuals or even the way upper management works, but the majority of employees just want to make kick ass games. Games I like. So yeah I'm gonna keep supporting them.

Alex Seropian left more than a decade ago because he wasn't digging the direction - was I supposed to hate everyone who remained back then?

Lorraine McLees, Jason Jones, Lars Bakken, Tyson Green, Derek Carrol, Sage Merill, Luke Smith, Jesse van Dijk, Evil Otto, Aged Tinman, Achronos, Veegie, not to mention Urk and Deej, are all people who I respect and whose work I've enjoyed for years or, for some, more than a decade. I've even had the chance to meet and talk to a couple of them.

They still work at Bungie. I'm not going to immediately assume they're now all evil co-conspirators because of this sad event.

Even those who have left Bungie don't all despise it now or something. Scrolling through Marcus Lehto's recent tweets you'll see that even despite change and turnover, things can still be optimistic.

So here's a crazy idea - what if this ruling isn't somehow proof Bungie has been corrupted forevermore but actually a good thing for the company? Now that the crack in the foundation has been exposed and analyzed, why can't they learn from it? How do we know some people at Bungie don't feel shitty for what happened and will remember that going forward?

So that's why I'm not going to sort all of this affair into organized boxes and put it up on a shelf so I can have a neat opinion. I'd rather feel sad, bummed out, or hopeful and a heap of other feelings and maintain a question mark.