A month after mass layoffs at Bungie, Marathon game director Joe Ziegler is leaving the studio

"It's been a pleasance seeing each the stories you've created"

Another regular time successful Marathon Land. Following connected from wide layoffs astatine Bungie aft the last large update for Destiny 2, and up of adjacent week's mid-season 2 Marathon patch, the extraction shooter's crippled manager Joe Ziegler has announced that he's near the studio, with Del Chafe III taking implicit his role. Chafe, up until this point, has served arsenic Marathon's adjunct crippled director.

"Hey everyone I've got a spot of an announcement to make. Today, Friday 7/17, volition beryllium my past time astatine Bungie and I'll beryllium passing the torch of Game Director to the precise susceptible and astonishing hands of Del Chafe III, who volition usher the crippled guardant alongside the Creative Director Julia Nardin," reads the statement. "Both of them person been operating successful a beardown enactment capableness for the squad and are acceptable to usher Marathon into the adjacent section with an adjacent amended and brighter future. I'm arrogant of them and I'm excited to spot them helm the aboriginal of this brainsick small satellite we've created together."

Ziegler doesn't look to beryllium leaving without conscionable origin however, arsenic helium noted that he'll beryllium "heading to thing new, determination else, and volition update you connected wherever and what soon." And, perchance to assuage immoderate concerns implicit a crippled that took a rocky way to get wherever it is, Ziegler besides said that, "The ngo volition proceed successful caller and astonishing ways truthful enactment tuned for what this squad has successful store for you! It's been a pleasance seeing each the stories you've created, each the clever ways you've recovered ways to execution robots and 1 another."

All of this evidently marks a batch of changes astatine Bungie successful a abbreviated play of time, not to notation putting a elephantine question people supra Marathon. The workplace is fundamentally putting each of its eggs into the extraction shooter, and it's inactive beauteous unclear if that volition ever wage off. Next week's mid-season update volition adhd successful the game's archetypal due PvE mode (for a while, anyway), truthful possibly erstwhile a afloat mentation of that arrives things mightiness commencement turning around.