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1. Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 03:34:35 JST Meemoo
   >Revenue is 45% lower than predictions
   >Operating on a loss
   >The 1.2 BILLION dollars Sony gave them for Employee Retention has been "misplaced"
   >Employees, including the last of the Halo old guard, have been fired
   >Cutting costs across the board and freezing new hires "the weather the storm"
   >The Final Shape is in a terrible state and has been put back to next summer "to try and reboot it and salvage anything"
   >Lightfalls reception was so bad player activity on consoles has dropped by 72% with the lowest season pass attachment rate in the IP's history
   >Laid off staff are getting fucked over and all their shares given to them during the sony purchase are reverting back to Bungie, they get nothing
   >While sony is undergoing a massive restructuring to undo the damage jim ryan has done to the brand, notably in europe and asia, this was all ordered by Bungie leadership
   >All benefits and insurance expire one day after they are let go
   >Most found out via Jason Schrier on twitter
   >Even team leaders didn't know which employees they were losing till the next morning in the office when they saw which employees were locked out of their terminals and accounts
   >Sony has given them warnings to "clean up management" as they have not only failed to return on Sonys investment but Destiny 2 is sinking fast and may be the reason for the Sony higher ups to have soured on Jim Ryans "14 live services are the future of playstation" plan.
   
   I'm so fucking glad this piece of shit company is finally exploding
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   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 03:37:11 JST Meemoo

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     >Removed 4 expansions from the game that people paid MONEY for
     >Cranked up monetization to a thousand despite going independent
     >Putting trannies in the game, hell, putting trannies in their videos, putting trannies fucking EVERYWHERE to force them in your face
     >making the piece of shit character in pic related the star of the current expansion who's VA was gloating about the character making people uncomfortable on Twitter and talking about how players were forced to have "his bulge" on their screens challenging their chuddie beliefs.
     >Making "never overdeliver" their company motto
     
     Couldn't have happened to a better company.
     What a piece of shit
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   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 04:03:37 JST Meemoo

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     • Jens_Rasmussen
     @Jens_Rasmussen he was running the playstation brand since 2018 afaik.
     the guy is responsible for the company's extreme focus on big movie games and the aggressive stance on Japanese developers and recently, he's taken an interest on games as a service bs.
     the guy did irreparable damage to the industry by forcing all developers to censor their games while first party titles get off scot-free effectively killing anime games outside of gacha shit.
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   • Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 04:03:38 JST Jens_Rasmussen

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     @Meemoo Quick rundown on this "Jim Ryan" figure? I don't know anything about Bungie or Destiny or even the inner workings of Sony.
   • Mcf3dcomicz (mcf3dcomicz@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 04:06:19 JST Mcf3dcomicz

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     @Meemoo them losing a ton of money is pretty much Karma for sucking ESG dick
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   • Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 04:08:20 JST Jens_Rasmussen

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     @Meemoo On one hand it is a shame that it happened, but on the other hand I am happy that Nintendo and PC picked up most of what Playstation lost.
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   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 04:09:05 JST Meemoo

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     • Jens_Rasmussen
     @Jens_Rasmussen I wish everyone would ditch sony and xbox personally.
     their insane ESG-compliant policies have done nothing but harm to video games.
     Nintendo is bad, but they are at least more lenient because they don't have a hate boner for anything non-american like the others
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   • Dragon Zero (william_the_dragonborn@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:33:52 JST Dragon Zero

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     • Christi Junior
     @ChristiJunior @Meemoo Holy shit, even though I hate Gamefreak and what they did recently….
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   • Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:33:53 JST Christi Junior

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     @Meemoo "Never Overdeliver"? Even Game Freak doesn't openly brag about being lazy, greedy and incompetent!
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   • Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:34:41 JST Christi Junior

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     @Meemoo Man, and here I though Microsoft was good at ruining companies, but it seems that Sony has them beat!
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   • Cleisthenes (cleisthenes@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:41:58 JST Cleisthenes

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     @Meemoo the great AAA studio die off cant happen soon enough
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   • The Very Merry Mancow: Christ is King! ✝️ (cowanon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:42:01 JST The Very Merry Mancow: Christ is King! ✝️

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     Turns out chasing the almighty DEI score for the woke mob didn't work out so well!
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   • Cool_Zone :njp: (tarnishedyarmulke@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:42:04 JST Cool_Zone :njp:

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     • Mcf3dcomicz
     Fuck (((Larry Fink))), Fuck (((Blackrock))), Fuck (((ESG)))
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   • Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:42:38 JST Anime Wong

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     • Christi Junior
     @ChristiJunior @Meemoo Yeah, I saw some video a while back where their (((ceo))) was bragging about how working to make something they enjoy is elitist and racist, and that actually finishing a good product isn't as profitable as making stuff as fast as possible and then patching any issues later on.
     
     Literally, their business model is "our audience are a bunch of addicts who will pay us no matter what".
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   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:46:01 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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     • Christi Junior
     • Anime Wong
     @Elliptica @ChristiJunior @Meemoo
     That's what I don't get. I tend to give companies I've liked in the past the benefit of the doubt, but if you do the same shit over and over and consistently underdeliver, that makes me not want to buy your stuff and less willing to trust you. Can grown adults really not adjust their expectations based on new data?
   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:47:24 JST Meemoo

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     • Christi Junior
     @ChristiJunior their hack of a CEO ran a whole slideshow telling companies not to make good products in order to keep player expectations low.
     He cites "overdelivery" (read: making a good product) as "problematic" because it sets expectations too high which he sees as "unprofitable". It's disgusting
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   • Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:50:55 JST Christi Junior

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     @Meemoo We know that Game Freak operates the same way (as evidenced by how many objectively good features they've removed from Pokemon games over the years), but again, even they aren't so arrogant that they actually say it out loud.
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   • Meemoo (meemoo@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:44:14 JST Meemoo

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     • lolipunk2069
     @lolipunk3069 troonies in there burned money on pointless shit at such a high rate that even Microsoft recognized it as a red flag and skipped out on acquiring them
   • lolipunk2069 (lolipunk3069@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:44:15 JST lolipunk2069

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     @Meemoo With that amount of awful mismanagement, it sounds like the troons that took over the company decided to turbo-kike everything up, parasitically embezzling company funds, and engaging in mass lay-offs in order to intentionally destroy the company out of nothing but pure spite for all the long-time Bungie fans, the ones that stuck around for Destiny at least.
     
     At least all the actually good games still exist, and some of 'em are even open source.
   • Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:59:51 JST Anime Wong

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     • Christi Junior
     • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite
     @ArdainianRight @ChristiJunior @Meemoo They cannot.
   • Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:59:51 JST Christi Junior

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     • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite
     • Anime Wong
     @Elliptica @ArdainianRight @Meemoo
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   • :tamamo_dab:Tamamo:tamamo_dab: (tamamo@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:26:41 JST :tamamo_dab:Tamamo:tamamo_dab:

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     • Jens_Rasmussen
     @Jens_Rasmussen @Meemoo >happy that Nintendo and PC picked up most of what Playstation lost.
     
     Tell that to Senran Kagura fans
   • Totally not suspicious Minty (minty@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:51:57 JST Totally not suspicious Minty

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     • Christi Junior
     @ChristiJunior @Meemoo I'll never forgivee them for getting rid of megas. That's the only way shiny grngar looks any different :tantrum:
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