Bungie has released an official statement declaring that they have let go of a number of workers in their company. The reason they’ve done this, as said in their statement, was that they were unable to continue operating at the size they were at. Bungie also claimed that they will have more to announce in the future, alongside the news of their downsizing. However, this statement didn’t make a distinction of which part of Bungie they downsized, or who they let go of.

An internal email from Herman Hulst, the CEO of the Sony Interactive Entertainment Studio Business Group, sheds more light on the situation. The email itself stated that SIE had made the decision to reduce the number of employees at Bungie, and that most of the employees consisted of most of the Destiny 2 team and some of the Marathon team. Hurst further stated that this decision came after extensive discussion, but ultimately came to the decision that a reduction was necessary for the company to meet the expectations it had for the long-term. Hurst also communicated to SIE’s employees the following:

Our immediate priority is supporting affected employees through this transition. We are providing transition support and, where possible, working to identify opportunities across SIE and our global network of studios.

While Hulst has stated that their current priority is helping the employees they’ve let go of, there’s nothing to be done but wait and see what comes of the aid that SIE is providing to their now former workers.

While Destiny 2 has been going strong since 2017, the final major update was bound to come eventually, and it did as of June 9th of this year. But, with that update, the decision to reduce most of the team’s size quickly became an expected outcome, with the company’s track record. This isn’t the first time Bungie has laid off a larger number of workers on the Destiny 2 team, but it now may be the last now that updates for Destiny 2 are out of the picture. With more projects from Bungie in the future to be expected, many are wondering what’s next for the company now that it’s missing so much of itself.