- Recon Number 54
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.
Posted by: Elem3nt 117
I was surprised that Microsoft let Bungie go. If it were Activision or EA, they would have simply said "No" to Bungie asking for independence.
Which would then put the ever-present but usually unspoken "nuclear option" into play.
Where the parent company doesn't allow the subsidiary to move along, so over a period of time, the staff of the subsidiary leave and form a new independent company (which is all they wanted in the first place). This results in (using names to outline this hypothetical) MS still "owning Bungie" but the people who made up Bungie within a matter of a few months are now in a new company named "Bungle" and are doing what they proposed and wanted to do.
This "nuclear option" can also happen when a parent company dissolves a subsidiary. Example: Ensemble Studios.
As much as the phrase "corporations are people" ruffles feathers, this is what I believe is meant by the phrase. That the "company", the name, the logo are not people, but the enterprise itself is a collection of people who like working together and do good work together. Those people are who make up the company and as long as they are working together, they ARE the company. Logo, name, are irrelevant, the people are what make the organization.