Sony acquires Bungie, the original studio behind halo and manufacturer Destiny 2, with a sales price of up to US$3.6 billion in 2022.Ten thousand U.S. dollars with trailer. He even continued to buy them After massive layoffs at the studio.
Parsons has been a senior executive at Bungie for more than two decades. Destiny 2 Last October, leadership decisions resulted in 100 employees being laid off. The CEO tweeted to thank those who were laid off for their contribution to the company, but was accused of “tone deaf“At that time.
The long-time boss faced calls to resign again today and even temporarily locked his Twitter account, After announcing 220 additional employees Sony will be laid off, more than 100 more people will move to Sony Interactive Entertainment, and a smaller team will be spun off into a separate PlayStation Studio in a “deepening integration” that sounds to some like the end of Sony’s Acquired the once internally independent publisher.
“We were overly ambitious, our margin of financial safety was subsequently exceeded, and we began to lose money,” Parsons wrote in the blog post. “After this new trajectory became clear, we knew we had to change our Course and speed, we did everything we could to avoid today’s outcome. Even as our leadership and product teams did their best to address our financial challenges, these steps were not enough.”
But just two months before making this statement, Parsons appears to have bid $91,500 on a baby blue 1961 Chevrolet Corvette on the classic car auction website Bring A Trailer. “Bungie laid off 17% of its workforce…unrelated to CEO’s list of cars purchased on BAT,” Tweet Valuation Players Association project manager Taylor “tailor-made” Brumall. The post linked to an account page that appeared to belong to Parsons, named “bngpparsons.”
The page lists more than a dozen classic cars and motorcycles that Bungie executives appear to have won at auctions between September 2022 and June 2024. The winning bid was $205,000 on the 23rd. The total winning bid for all listed auctions was approximately $2.4 million. Many of the vehicles are featured in a photo album on Flickr called “2024 Avants Parsons Garage Tour,” where the CEO and others are pictured checking out vintage cars in a commercial-sized garage.
“How exciting!” the bngpparsons account wrote after winning the Chevy in June. “I’ve wanted a c1 since I was a kid. My second hot wheels (gold). Going to its forever home.
It’s unclear whether the millions spent on the series came from Sony’s acquisition or Parsons’ lifelong job at Bungie, and it’s likely a drop in the bucket compared to the massive cuts required across the studio. But so far, there doesn’t appear to be any evidence that senior Bungie leadership has taken salary cuts or other cost-saving measures in solidarity with laid-off employees or those who are still working but may be struggling to make ends meet. IGN reported last fall When Bungie division heads were asked if Parsons or anyone else was taking a pay cut amid the studio’s current crisis, they said “it’s not that type of company.”
When Sony originally acquired Bungie, some employees were optimistic. Although no longer independent, they told Washington postlauncher Their equity in the studio will be doubly vested, even though 50% of their payday will be realized in the next few years. They also said they were told there would be “absolutely no job losses” as a result of the acquisition and that the deal would not result in anything “significant” in terms of restructuring. Two years later, Parsons owned 20 more cars and more than a quarter of the company’s employees had been laid off.
Parsons did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
