On that most exciting of all social media platforms, former Bungie general counsel Don McGowan turned up the heat in a LinkedIn post (thanks, IGN), responding to a Kotaku article. McGowan praised the powers that be at Sony for "inflicting some discipline on my former colleagues [which] may have forced them to fix the things that were wrong with their game."
Taking no prisoners, McGowan continued, and qualified: "To be clear: I'm not talking about the layoffs, I'm talking about forcing them to get their heads out of their asses and focus on things like implementing a method of new player acquisition; not just doing fan service for the Bungie C-suite; and running the game like a business."
It's not often we hear from corporate lawyers in this context, and it's quite a nice change of pace. Still not done, McGowan's harang continues: "There were a lot of egos for whom it was important to pretend that 'nothing would change'. I remember sitting there during the deal saying, 'Do you think Sony describes this as them getting to pay $3.6 billion for the right to have no input into what Bungie does?' That was exactly what a lot of people thought."
Did Sony wait too long before getting involved? Was Bungie just missing its parent company's guiding, paternal hand? Let us know in the comments section below.
