Obviously, I didn't know the problem even existed until then, though...

Right, Cody?

(Unfortunately, I will have gotten home from a long afternoon at my cardiologist's office and will not really have the inclination to do much more than sleep... but if you're going to have corrective surgery on a congenital heart defect, it's better to do it sooner rather than later. Recovery is easier in your 30's too.)

In your 30s fix your ticker
For a recovery much quicker

🥁🛎️

(Unfortunately, I will have gotten home from a long afternoon at my cardiologist's office and will not really have the inclination to do much more than sleep... but if you're going to have corrective surgery on a congenital heart defect, it's better to do it sooner rather than later. Recovery is easier in your 30's too.)

https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1819075149360185737?t=NavssrTjgFmNoWIp8Mn7eQ&s=19

Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy also gone.

I've totally checked out of Destiny for a while. Didn't enjoy the chore it became and didn't want to buy into what Bungie had become. It's a shame. I don't really have anything thst interests me game wise to look forward to anymore.

If you didn't see schooly's post
https://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=182413

Also, if you didn't see Snipe's post about schooly's post.
https://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=182413

You know what? me too.
https://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=182413

Flush with cash, Bungie hired hundreds of new staff members and pursued myriad incubation projects, including mobile versions of Destiny, remakes of old games and new franchises.

We can narrow this down! Bungie doesn't own Myth, Oni, or Halo. So… that leaves Marathon, PiD, and Minotaur. I can't imagine Desert Storm or GNOP getting a remake.

My money would have been on Marathon, as a tie in for their new extraction shooter of the same name.

Is their new studio in the Netherlands just not happening? What's going on there?

Liana has clarified that she didn't mean to imply that he said it like "that".

Thank you for that piece of context.

I don't claim to know, but a big company needs a leader.

Pete is not a good one.

Notice how Jason Jones makes as much if not more, and yet nobody is calling him out.

I suspect he's more reclusive and not as quick to be social, which makes his lifestyle less visible.

Yes, this is the takeaway. Not flaunting your wealth is an OP strategy.

I'm not saying these people are wrong or untruthful, but we should refrain from criticizing Parsons on a personal level because 1) none of us know the man, 2) it's not relevant to the current situation anyway, and 3) the people who are saying these things have a very acute grievance with Parsons and plenty of reason to be angry right now.

This. I find the outrage about the car stuff to be stupid.

It isn't just the cars. It's that he allegedly invited a female developer to see said cars and then laid her off days later. It just displays a disconnect.

I endorse Coaxkez's response.

Guy climbed the greasy pole in a competitive, 100 billion dollar industry. He's been compensated for a while. How and when he spends his money is his business.

He's making the money he is, because of the people at Bungie who actually made the games. Harold Ryan was at least a tester at one point, contributing to the product.

Pete might be a "suit" in the most derogatory sense. I don't claim to know, but a big company needs a leader. I work for a software company, and part of the mythos around our founder is that he still codes. I see the appeal of that, but you need people who are thinking about the big picture, too. I don't think it's fair to judge value based on whether they've literally contributed to the product. Products have to be sold at a profit, or you can't keep making them. Sounds like Bungie (and Pete) have made some poor decisions that threaten the company's viability. Maybe he's on probation, or maybe he's a placeholder until they have the replacement they want. Bungie will start making money, or Parsons will be gone, and he'll probably be gone regardless.

He can spend his money how he wants, but we are also totally free to judge him for it. Nothing is wrong with using your money to make your life comfortable. But once it crosses the line from comfortable to excess, then people are going to rightly form negative opinions.

Yes, and others are totally free to call that judgment irrelevant. Most readers of this forum would almost certainly be judged as living a life beyond comfortable by most people in the world. It's all relative.

Notice how Jason Jones makes as much if not more, and yet nobody is calling him out.

I suspect he's more reclusive and not as quick to be social, which makes his lifestyle less visible. I guess we'll have to wait for your book.

One more note: maybe it's living in Raleigh and routinely seeing supercars with Epic-related license plates, but I was surprised by Pete's taste (save that Jag).

Again -- it's important to be careful when we criticize people we don't actually know on a personal level. Questions are valid. Judgment based on incomplete information is not.

It's that he allegedly invited a female developer to see said cars and then laid her off days later.

I'm not ready to extrapolate anything salacious based on one anecdote without further information. Yes, it's a bad look. Yes, I know what you're saying it might imply. But it could be perfectly innocent apart from the fact that it is tone-deaf.

It's a valid question to raise, but I'm not prepared to pass judgment.

I'm not saying these people are wrong or untruthful, but we should refrain from criticizing Parsons on a personal level because 1) none of us know the man, 2) it's not relevant to the current situation anyway, and 3) the people who are saying these things have a very acute grievance with Parsons and plenty of reason to be angry right now.

This. I find the outrage about the car stuff to be stupid.

It isn't just the cars. It's that he allegedly invited a female developer to see said cars and then laid her off days later. It just displays a disconnect.

Guy climbed the greasy pole in a competitive, 100 billion dollar industry. He's been compensated for a while. How and when he spends his money is his business.

He's making the money he is, because of the people at Bungie who actually made the games. Harold Ryan was at least a tester at one point, contributing to the product.

He can spend his money how he wants, but we are also totally free to judge him for it. Nothing is wrong with using your money to make your life comfortable. But once it crosses the line from comfortable to excess, then people are going to rightly form negative opinions.

Notice how Jason Jones makes as much if not more, and yet nobody is calling him out.

I don't really have anything thst interests me game wise to look forward to anymore.

https://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?id=182413