Has Bungie actually expanded Destiny 2 to 1,400 employees?

Everyone, including some Bungie employees, is confused about some Recent listings Which suggests that the Destiny 2 developer has laid off up to 1,400 employees, shortly after laying off a large number of workers.

While the number may technically be correct, there seems to be a lot of red flags here based on what I've heard about the situation. like:

• There were about 1,100 employees when Bungie began layoffs.
• They laid off about 8% of the company, which had just over 100 people, getting them down to about 1,000 people.
• There were far fewer roles after that, with many removed from job boards. It's possible that Bungie has hired back up in some places, but not to this level and at this pace.
• What appears to be happening is that this total number of 1,400 appears to include some contractors and perhaps also some people from Sony Studios who are now stepping up to help at Bungie. There's been some talk of contractors filling in some of the layoffs, but we haven't received any official announcement about other Sony studios potentially stepping in to help with things. For example, the recent leak of Final Shape's strange design appears to have come from an external Sony division.

This of course is reminiscent of when Bungie had support studios from Activision helping with Destiny 2 content in the Forsaken/Black Armor/Drifter/Opulence era of the game, which many players have fond memories of due to the breadth of what was produced. Now, with talk that Bungie really wants The Final Shape to be the best expansion they've ever made, they may have asked Sony to pull support for them to help make that happen.

However, the number of employees working on Destiny 2 and other Bungie projects is 1,400, which is quite a lot. While it would be great if this kind of reward support spawned another massive expansion like Forsaken, I wonder how much of this is contractors replacing jobs that Bungie employees were just fired from.

We don't know all the details, but no, it doesn't seem like a few months after laying off 100 people, Bungie suddenly hired 400 more, this seems to be a combination of some things going on here.

As for the final result, we will see what this apparent increase in the workforce will do, in any form, in the final form. Another internal thing I've heard is that…the finish is pretty good, but what that means specifically remains to be seen. I hope we can get something on the level of Forsaken, and maybe it will happen that way. we will see.

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