Thanks to a decade of accumulated contradictory live-service grievances, Destiny players are rarely unified in their discontent. Today, however, is a special day: Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced his departure, offering the Destiny community a chance to join together in slamming the door behind the man whose leadership has become synonymous with studio mismanagement.
Appointed as CEO in 2016, Parsons' tenure brought hundreds of employee layoffs across multiple rounds of mass bloodletting, driven by the financial fallout of overextending Bungie's development resources across multiple "overly ambitious" incubation projects. Still reeling from that instability, Bungie has—in the last year alone—endured an art theft scandal, a Marathon delay, a Destiny 2 expansion launch that earned all-time player lows, and the loss of studio independence.
