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Bungie job posting shows the developer has eyes on the esports market

Looking to the future.

A job posting for an Incubation Sandbox Designer may have revealed that Bungie has plans to once again take a shot at the competitive shooter market and see if the company can leverage some space in the esports scene. In a section of the job posting called “Nice to have skills,” the company states they are hoping to hire someone with “familiarity with the competitive gaming landscape/esports”. The news was first reported by the DestinyNews+ Twitter account.

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The posting also states that applicants should have experience working on “character-focused action games,” hinting at a potential hero shooter along the lines of Blizzard’s Overwatch or Hi-Rez’s Paladins. Since parting ways with publisher Activision, Bungie has been on a pretty aggressive path of expansion, potentially fueled by aggressive micro-transactions and pricing of new content for their spuriously claimed “free-to-play” tent-pole title Destiny 2.

Destiny 2 players will almost certainly be shocked to learn that the company has plans to develop a competitive multiplayer shooter as that game’s top-tier PvP activity, and indeed PvP in the Destiny universe in general, has been allowed to languish almost to the point of obsolescence at this point.

The head-to-head multiplayer portion of the game, which had already been built on a rickety foundation of peer-to-peer connections, has suffered from extreme balance issues since it launched as Bungie has struggled to marry the PvP and PvE sandboxes together in a coherent fashion. Here is hoping that the assumed smaller scope of a hero shooter solves quite a few of those issues for them, as they would not need try and balance hundreds of different weapons, which is certainly a challenging task.


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Aidan O'Brien
Aidan O'Brien has been playing games for over three decades and has been writing about them for five years. When not getting stomped on by the creations of Hidetaka Miyazaki, he enjoys spending too much time in Warframe, Destiny 2 and any other ARPG with a solid grind. When not writing, he is doing inexplicable behind-the-scenes magic for GAMURS Group.