>I guess we really are south of open. https://kotaku.com/xbox-shuttering-south-of-midnight-peabody-award-compulsion-games-2000706065
>kotaku
>>741154663deserved
literally who
>>741154663it was an indie studio anyway
Does Xbox make bad investments or does their bad leadership lead to bad games?
>peabody-awardwhat?
>>741154958Yeah, I don't see how that translates to anything amazing for gaming. Isn't that like some journalist writing award, which means dick in comparison to gaming? It'd be like Kojimbo bragging about perfect attendance awards or something as a kid as part of his pedigree to make great games.
Ive never heard of them
Literally who?
>>741154663Whomstve
>>741154663S
Meanwhile, here's a successful video game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4704690/MECCHA_CHAMELEON/
>>741154951Microsoft had their eyes on being a Netflix for games and was making sure they were the ones to get paid for Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Cawadoodie. However they're figuring out people will only subscribe one month, play what they want, then cancel meaning their $80 video game made like $1 when they sort out the costs and royalties.
>>741155218is this like Octocamo the game?
>>741154663>award winning What award did that game win?Most accidently racist dei slop?The Negro mc isekaid because she couldn't swim and her superpower was picking cotton. Also shit gameplay - Good riddance.
>>741154663What's sad is that compulsion did we happy few and that was actually pretty good if they didn't focus on procedural generation and actually made the maps themselves
>>741155218you dont see snake
>>741154951DEI at both those stages
>>741154663They’re the ones that made we happy fewWhat a loss
>>741154663>"Go woke go..... succACK!"
>>741154951Both
>>741154951>Tried to run the money burning growth at all cost playbook in a mature and developed marketMicrosoft management is just retarded
>>741155445The DEI woke award
>>741154663hope they kept the receipts
>>741154663hell of an output
>>741155871>7 years for a game no one playedWtf, Phil.
>>741154663You are meant to cry and be angry because it's a black studio btw.That's the context of the reporting.
>>741154663The gameplay was horrible. On paper, it's an action game like any other, even to look at, but playing it is horrifying. You feel the input lagging, and I'm not talking about the animated spider-man-style framerate, I'm talking about the missing animations.
South of Midnight felt like an early 360 game. It didn't sell me on the folklore of the South, and neither did anything noteworthy with the soundtrack. I doubt a white protagonist would have saved it.
>>741155871contrast was their best game
>>741154951Yes.
>>741156114Duh, all dei shit is dei shit so they can hide criticism at gamplay and lack of effort behind a person of kfc
>>741155943Wouldn't they of had to made games I wanted to play in order to be upset its going under?
>>741154663>trannies gaslight you>you racist small penis'd chud>you can't handle black peoples>poojeets shut them downFeels good mane
>>741155239>However they're figuring out people will only subscribe one monthnetflix did too, so they schedule slop for every monthxbox never managed to figure out how to do that
>>741156114>he thinks all they changed was the race of the character
>>741156114>South of Midnight felt like an early 360 gameOne of the bad ones! Some games dream of being like Kameo.
>>741154663Go woke?
>>741155871Them having to assure in their Steam board FAQ that Randy isn't working on We Happy Few after Queerbox became their publisher will never be not funny.
>>741154663ARKANE NEXT
>>741155871They should've just remade Conker or Banjo. The level of mismanagement to let them spend 7 years making an action platformer with horrible gameplay is absurd.
>>741156470I would play Blade if it looks okay. I dont think I have ever played a Double Fine game. How are they still around?
>>741156676They make fun games, Keeper works as a small game. However, they suffer from the syndrome of an indie studio that experiments too much and doesn't settle on one genre.
>>741154663KWAB
>>741154663Cool, do Arkane next.
>>741154663If it smells even remotely woke I will not buy it
I guarantee there's at least one person from Cumplosion so found out about their job from this thread.
God damnit, for how much longer do we need to get these stupid DEI games and how many more times do they need to fail for publishers to take a fucking hint?
>>741154663I am not surprised, have you actually seen the game in action? it's a fucking eyesore, its like the devs saw Spiderverse and went "WE CAN DO THAT!" without even thinking how that would translate into a game you play vs a movie, the actual game just feels bad and choppy and constantly switches from the bad staggered animation to smooth animation for no reason, it's so fucking bad and obviously no one got it because of that
So nothing of value so far.
>>741157609The money is fake and infinite. It will never end unless we force it to end.
Too bad, it was a neat idea but gameplay was clearly underbaked.
>>741154663Live Asmon reaction ETA 20 minutes
>>741154951we are in late stage DEI
>>741158497He said he thought that game was fine but it was gonna fail. Also no stream today.
>>741154663alright, who's next? place your bets!for me, it's double fine, ninja theory and machine games, possibly arkane
>>741154951They're a westoid company, so they're inherently incapable of making good games.
>>741158717Double Fine and Ninja.
>>741158717Unless Microsoft/Activision actually greenlit the leak Crash Team Racing AI sequel, Beenox is on the chopping block.
>>741154951Bad investments. They bought all these studios then expect massive returns for no reason and then they keep not meeting their predictions and close things. They have no patience and unreasonable expectations and a horrible read on what gaymers want.
>>741158717>>741158879More like Double Fucked.
>>741154951Both. Reminder that they put out a memo that restricts how female characters can look.
is this the game that was about "the South" slavery, white man bad etc. SBI worked on it and they openly said they hate whites1:18https://youtu.be/qFT2AVNho84?t=77 [Embed]Compulsion Games Community Manager Katie Robinson Claims "I Hate Gamers" After Previously Claiming "White Male Gamers Were A Mistake"https://archive.ph/4oN9E
>>741155396Its TSNE without Kero&GA-KO but you draw your own camo
>>741158879Ninja Theory will go nowhere, they run an animation mocap studio used by everyone.Mr shitface? for sure gone
>>741159223>Making ugly characters supports gamedevwhat? how?
>>741159357All the had to do was fix up her face a bit and that Perfect Dark game would have kicked ass. Damn shame.
>>741154663Really? On the week of Juneteenth?
>>741159325The MC is mixed. White dad died, white grandma bad.
Man, this is gonna be an interesting day. I wonder if it's true that they plan to sell off Crash and Spyro IPs after the new game releases.
>>741155239>>741156316Problem with that plan was Steam made owning digital games to easy, cheap and permanent. In an effort to compete, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo had to follow suit. Now its too late for them to have a subscription era of gaming
>>741159474This is Xbox we're talking about here, the company that said they needed to focus on smaller, critically-acclaimed games a day after shutting down the HFR devs. Terrible timing is their forte.
>>741159408DEI consultants told them attractive women bad.
>>741154663Reminder that this game had a normal White protagonist until Sweet Baby got involved
>>741156316>xbox never managed to figure out how to do thatThey couldn't understand that a game now it's going to the 10 years development cycle, netflix can throw out 10 new things every month because you can film a movie or a whole 6 episode show planning to release in a single year.
Every time a white knight cuck complains about not enough black women in gaming, this failure should be brought up to help them understand black women do not care as much about video games as white cucks think they do. They like complaining about lack of representation and improper representation and a million other things but not paying for video games.
>>741154663Why did they even buy this, why did they buy half the studios they were gonna buy. Anyway rumors are 2 studios are closing and one was gonna be kind of shocking. We know one is gone, im guessing the other one is DoubleFine
>>741158717Its DoubleFine, they are goners dude. Last success they had was Psychoonauts 2 and even that was crowfunded.
>>741160035Because acquiring companies is equal to growth and growth makes stock price go up, at least until it doesn't.
>>741160035>>741160164>Double FineKings of making games for no one.
Okay, if they made the MC hot, and whiteall you fucks would think it would sell?
>>741158717>XboxCoalition: safe, E-Day will be make or break for layoffsCompulsion: goneDouble Fine: 300 employees in San Francisco, either knocked down to 100 employees or closedHalo: never going to die for better or for worseinXile: Safe, Clockwork is getting good engagementMojang: never going to dieNinja Theory: Sassuna is make or breakObsidian: Old Yeller it alreadyPlayground: safe for the most part but will get downsized if Fable flopsRare: surprisingly safe with Sea of ThievesTurn 10: Iffy, Horizon gets more engagement and not a lot of crossover from arcade to simUndead Labs: Safe but may need to pivot to a new IPWorld's Edge: Who?>ZeniMaxArkane: In trouble, if Blade falls through, they can justifiably blame Disney but pivoting will be costlyBethesda: LMAOiD: safeMachine: safeZenimax: safe>ActivisionSafe because either sent to COD mines or reviving IP
>>741154958It was a well-written game.The thing I don't understand is why they keep marketing these things like every other game, when they're clearly intended to find a different audience than most games. Make distribution deals with black bookstores and art galleries and, like, hair salons and shit.
>>741154663How many more millions must they lose until they get it?
>>741154663>make up nigger-award>award nigger-award to nigger game>use new found nigger-accolade to try push gametale as old as time
>>741160376what the fuck is this? is this a fighting game?
>>741160390Probably at least a bit better, yeah. 'Sex sells' is a longstanding adage for good reason.t. bought Sin Episodes solely because of Elexis Sinclair back in 2006.
>>741154951Look at what happened to Halo. How the hell do you fumble a franchise like Halo? Only Microsoft has managed to be that shit. I highly doubt Nintendo would have fucked up with Halo the way Microsoft has. Sony however would have never had the chance because they were never even good enough to have a franchise like Halo in the first place.
>>741160524>Elexis Sinclairamazing taste anon
>>741160501All awards are made-up (and political).
>>741160442its because they are credentialist and the largest credit possible is an "award". doesn't matter if the award is real or not, it just has to be given out.
>>741160534Not even SEGA with Sonic or SE with FF have mishandled their IP as hard as MS has with Halo and Gears. Its absurd how self-inflicted it all is.
>>741160618all but the darwin award
>>741160419>Obsidian: Old Yeller it alreadyBut they said they wanted to keep making games with "mild success" to stay alive! They live to made mid-tier games because that's how they stay around for 100 years according to them. I wish I didn't make that up.
>>741160390>if they weren't woke and went anti-woke, things would be difrunt
>>741154951As part of talent retention Phil basically was very hands-off about the studios he acquired. It's why he even bothered letting Ninja Theory make that one multiplayer game or Double Fine make that one pottery multiplayer game everybody already forgot about. If this was at Nintendo for example, infamous for rejecting so many ideas, that wouldn't have even made it past the pitch meeting, much less have gotten anywhere serious in development.Compulsion Games has released 3 games in its 13 years of existence. There is 7 years between "We Happy Few" and "South of Midnight." There's nothing wrong with a midbudget story-focused 10-hour linear experience but it should not take that fucking long to make that kind of game. Obsidian has released 4.5(Grounded 2 in early access) games since being acquired by Microsoft in 2018. Playground Games has been shitting out Forza Horizons like nothing while also making Fable. Games with much wider scope. Compulsion's problem is it's trying to make indie level shit for a major publisher. Which again would be fine, but they also don't have the quantity of output to justify it. Fucking Don't Nod put out 10 fucking games in the same time frame. TEN. Capcom has put out every Resident Evil game since RE7 in this time frame. Treyarch has put out three Call of Duty Black Ops titles in that same time frame and is in the middle of actively supporting BO7 as we speak.As an aside I think South of Midnight was fine but it would've been better as just a straight cinematic Prince of Persia-style platformer instead of having to waste time on its rudimentary combat.I am not so histrionic as to think another mid-00s-level developer purge would magically fix anything but there's a lot of studios that are way too bloated or given way too much cash for output that does not justify their existence. Go indie or get in the AAA mines and get to fucking work.
>>741160803Obsidian isn't going anywhere, they recently hired back the co-creator of Fallout. They've probably been sent to the Fallout mines to milk those games until everyone gets sick of Fallout.
>>741154663black female leads get studios shut down! HAHAHAHA
BUT IT WON A HECKIN PEABODY AWARD!
LOOK AT ALL THE AWARDS IT WON AND WAS NOMINATED FOR!
>>741159223Will poojeta be based enough to remove the dei stuff from xbox?
>>741154958I think it's some kind of leftist award show?Kind a good summary of the game industry: when you create games for leftists, you fucking go out of business (no audience)
>>741160942It's possible to have a studio where people are reliably employed for a decade or more making good content. But that's on leadership. People hear "bloated" and immediately think "headcount", when it's actually shitty managers and producers who can't make up their mind and burn millions while the labor has been ready to ship something, anything.
>>741155829>Hi! Hire us and you can pay us $300,000 to destroy your studio and get you shut down in the next 3 years!
>>741160000Reminds me of how feminists complain about how men don't support women's sports, but women also don't support women sports.
>>741154663Do they have to give back the award?
>>741161013wouldn't be the first!
>>741159357Not playing a female lead (sorry :( )
>>741154951Bad leadership lead to those bad investments.
>>741160657It is, ironically, because they don't have (the right) black people in leadership.>"If we put a black person on the cover, black peopl will buy it, right?">t. exec who vetoed a black marketing lead with like HBCU and music industry ties who could have built synergies and had that shit blasted across black radio for 10 weeks for a pittance>"Let's market to the white boys who vomit nigger like a bulemic.">"Aaaaaugh why aren't they buying our gaaaame?"
>>741161439Isn't that one of the games Sony originally wanted to make "timed exclusive"?
>>741159474>JuneteenthDid you just make that up?
>>741154951They bought every damn studio because the plan was to become the netflix of games, which has now been scrapped. A terrible investment that would have destroyed most companies, but they have a trillion dollars so I doubt they even care.
>>741161439I can't understand how these leaders in charge can't play the game and notice that it's not going well from the beginning ang steer the ship properly
>>741159567>mixedDoesn't exist. There's White and non-White.
>>741161565lol those people don't play games.
>>741161565Anon, video game executives rarely engage with the games themselves. Their number-crunching suits, not capital g gamers.
>>741158584And what does that mean? That this shit is starting to end?
>linking to K*taku without an archive Unironically, how did it get this bad?
>>741161565Activists make the games and if anyone criticizes them they get accused of bigotry and removed from the industry. Nobody is going to say "this sucks" and risk that. Just put your head down and hope for the best.
nothing of value lost
>>741154663Whaaaaaaaat!?! But wasn't this secretly huge? So many people said that the silent majority was playing and loving this game!! There's no way!!!I love how modern gaming has just become gaslighting success until they absolutely can't lie anymore instead of just firing the people ruining games and giving people what they want.
>>741161714>>741161774what? how do you even make games if you don't play them? they're not selling stocks, it's video gamesdo people that make movies not watch movies ether?
>>741161439This was in development before the acquisition ??? Phil released it instead of canceling it.
compulsively stimming my goonbud rn
>>741160376We didn't realize how good we had it.
>>741161439Redfall was already being made before the Xbox acquisition. Zenimax greenlit shitloads of live service games just to fluff up the buying price because shareholders were going insane for those kinds of games. The only that actually didn't die immediately was Fallout 76 and that's because they were basically giving it away for free on PSN and was doing well enough to continue supporting.
>>741161058>PeabodyWho?>Stories that matterClearly not.
>>741162023The CEO of Xbox said she's new to games lol.
xbox is dead
>>741155085>niggerGOOD.>>741156114You can always tell when there’s a black woman the game will be a preachy DEI flop about how white men are still the problem. I hope niggers lost their jobs again
>>741161501Are you a retard?
>>741160376Keeper was good but it's not a "5 years since Psychonauts 2 for game pass filler" good. They really should been putting out more games faster if they're just gonna be making weird shit
>>741154663Explain yourselves. Why didn’t you buy this game?
>>741162234Because there was an ugly black woman as the main character and it was "preachy coded".
>>741161921(((Foreign shills))) were unhappy we weren't patronizing their hasbara I mean proper journalistic sources.
>>741162234I am non-buy-nary.
>>741157927It will never not be funny to me that a white guy wanted to make a game inspired by his own childhood in the south, but since the industry is so swamped in performative pseudo-progressiveness he either let himself get bullied into or happily revisiond his experience out of it to tell a generically black story instead. Absolutely deserved studio failure, hope he never forgets it.
>>741162184>You can always tell when there’s a black woman the game will be a preachy DEI flop about how white men are still the problemAll the white men in the game including the MC's father are treated sympathetically even if they're not conventionally heroic and the two antagonists are her white grandmother and a god that appears as a black guy.
>>741157927Definitely a cool idea, but making a game in a predominantly black part of the US at any point after 2020 means it was doomed to be wokeslop, especially with Microsoft as the publisher.
>>741158717why is turn 10 still there, didnt they obliterate it last year and merge the leftovers into playground
>>741154663good
>>741154663>south of midnightLiteral Gamepass filler game to make their library look bigger, lol.
>>741157926Unfortunately this
What's crazy is how they didn't get fire after we happy fewWas phil high?
>>741162582Pretty sure they're just a skeleton crew that just helps develop the forza engine and helps playground with forza. Basically just playground's bitch now lmao
>>741162004>they only evar made 3 gameskeek gamers dont need to be their audience
>>741161348It's being melted down and sold to pay for expenses.
>>741159745How does that supports game dev?
>>741156114>I doubt a white protagonist would have saved it.Yeah, but maybe, just maybe, NOT attaching more deadweight instead of floaters doesn't help. There are more mid games that made it carried by appealing character designs than the opposite believe it or not.
>>741162438He must have accidentally killed a gypsy woman's dog or something to have the Monkey's Paw curl so thoroughly for this lifelong dream of his, damn.
>We don't have any money left for goy slop games. All the money goes straight to AIAll investor right now
>>741154663Should've made the black slut look good if they were gonna race-swap the character in the first place.
>>741160419Double Fine has 300 fucking people?No fucking way, post fucking source
>>741163210I'm pretty sure they're around 150 just like inxile
>State of Decay has been in development hell for yearsIf it doesn't sell 3 million in the first month say goodbye to the studio.
I would have given it a try if the main character had stayed white or was hotter
>>741156505This. These faggots would rather make some negro bs game that nobody gives a shit about, than make a Banjo remake. A Banjo remake would be cheaper easier, and got a huge spotlight from Smash. Do these faggots hate money? And this is coming from someone who doesn't even liker Banjo.
>>741154663>7 years to make negroslopThe fact that they didn't get gutted by 2022 was just sunk cost
>>741162938You've seen the backlash from the woke mob for Stellar Blade right? DEI consultants make characters that spare you from that backlash.
>>741163370I only played the first game, and had a lot of fun with it. Scouting random towns and building up your base in a zombie apocalypse was fun.
>>741154663Nothing of value lost.
>>741163494Is Microsoft Smithers?
>>741163370They just literally announced it too early and were actually still updating/working on 2.
>>741154663You forgot >[UPLIFTING NEWS]
>>741163389She slightly changes her look twice in the game.
>>741159423They also needed to make a game rather than run a scam.
>>741159745Except the image you shared proves that the overton window measures are working as intended because Gears shouldn't have female soliders.
>>741163743This game doesn't look very good...https://youtu.be/uIG-VEfBrIs?t=4h44m54s
>>741163494Yes.
>>741163940>>741163494I was wondering if Asha might actually change this stuff in an effort to save the brand. It's obviously too late for stuff launch this year and next, but in the future I wonder what games the brand will develop or if they'll push the DEI shit super hard. Especially if they split Xbox from Microsoft like they've talked about doing
>>741164108I doubt it. Woke is too heavily embedded in large corporations.
It's going to be annoying on /v/ for the next few days because of this.
>>741159845Most of them do
>>741164108>save the brandI think Microsoft wants to yeet Xbox and has for years. Consider the following:>Microsoft CFO set a profit margin target of 30% for the division, which is literally impossible (for comparison, Nintendo's profit margin is usually around 20%, and Sony's is at 16-18%)>Sarah Bond brought over as Xbox co-CEO with Phil, but then she's totally left out of this new Asha shake up. Since Bond was also a black woman (huge DEI points and MS loves that shit), that suggests Asha coming in was the result of a shake up in Microsoft's board level, since it came as a surprise to everyone)>Asha was in Microsoft's AI department and knows how fucked the hardware parts scene is, and since MS doesn't have a mountain of RAM it's sitting on, she knows the Xbox hardware will never make a profit in its next generation>it's only been 100 days of her in the role and they're already talking about having 'hard and honest conversations'All of that makes it sound like MS wants to sell Xbox, almost certainly at a loss, or spin it into a separate subsidiary that won't fuck up MS' corporate financial numbers. There is not going to be a magical turnaround where the Xbox 360 era returns.
>>741163370>being worked on by zoe quinn>with input from anita sarkeesianstate of decay 3 will be the last game this studio makes
>>741154951a little bit of both.
>>74115466317 years... 17 years and only 3 shit games to show for it.
>>741164385>Sony and Microsoft both rumored to be planning big shakeups>/v/ is going to be annoyingYeah, if you're a joyless cunt who doesn't find major gaming news and upheavals to be interesting, I guess.
>>741155871I heard contrast was ok and we happy few had a decent trailer and setting but sadly didn't live to expectations.south of midnight i heard it was pure garbage with uglo protag.
>>741164591>trillion dollar company>has the tech, capacity and know-how to fabricate>chooses not to, would rather pay 700% higher costs foreverLook, I know creating the fabs and building something from nothing is expensive, but what exactly is stopping MS (and other trillion dollar companies like Apple) from making and selling their own RAM? Is it licensing and IP or some shit?
>>741164802>contrast was okContrast was shit. The shadow mechanic was decent though.
>>741163940Why do they even hire these actresses, if they're going to look nothing like the actress in the game?
>>741154663Oh for fucks sake, THEY WON A FUCKING PEABODY. YOU DON'T JUST SHUT DOWN A PEABODY AWARD WINNING STUDIO.
>>741165087Face and name recognition.
>>741164802>south of midnightWas okay but not up to standards. Art direction and story are all that is decent. It was $40, short, limited replayability, and played like a 360/ps3 era generic action platformer.
>>741164880>what's stopping MS from making their own fabsThree things: >constructionFabs are some of the most (maybe the most) complicated factories to make on earth, and a single moderately sized one will take a decade at least if made in the US (maybe a few years shorter if built in Taiwan or China)>talentWith gen z being retarded, there's a very narrow talent pool of the high tech competent people you need to run a fab, and they've already got jobs at the existing fabs and wouldn't want to move>no future guaranteeEver stopped to think about why the big ram makers didn't expand their current stuff to meet the new demand? Because when demand subsides (which it will), you do not want to be left with a huge, super expensive piece of real estate you can't easily repurpose>>741165201>face recognitionI'd say they lose that, since all of these character models end up looking like they just lost a boxing match to Mike Tyson
>>741154951compulsion was one of the first studios they bought out they were a new studio without much to show for themselves but someone at microsoft had faith in them for some reasoni'm guessing because it was an early buy out they thought they could build them upmind you this was long before activision and bethesda were on the table for microsoft so it seemed like there was a genuine effort to build up the microsoft brand with smaller titles they really picked wrong because the game they were developing was We Happy Few. a lot of people wanted this game to be good but it really sucked ass. cool premise but the actual game systems were not fun at all, i think whoever pushed to buy compulsion based on that was like everyone else.south of midnight is a game no one played and microsoft didn't do much work to try to push it since it was a game that was approved by the old guard (phil spencer) because he left
>>741157927>make video game about your childhood>you somehow become a black ladylol, he monkeypawd his own video game.
>>741154951>>741161560It's like Windows in the 90s, they bought every important/emerging software they could, kept the company for 1 or 2 years, renamed the product to microsoft "software name", shut down the studio and killed the rebranding ONLY to keep the IP from being used anywhere else.The jeet CEO is actually using 30+ year old tactics all over again
>>741165201i didnt even know this was that bitch or her name until someone brought up it was an actressand ive seen her in stuff before
>>741154663Can we break a record this year for layoffs?
>>741158717doublefinethey haven't done any work to try and push their last few games, they clearly have no faith in thempsychonauts 2 was a wet fart, no one even knew about keeper and its apparently a game they made, and klin? what the hell is klin?microsoft would rather give their advertisement budget to the bigger titles now that they own them
>>741165406Nah, because I think the last few years of layoffs meant there aren't that many people to lay off at this point.
>>741161191This. Seven years doesn't sound to me like "This game took seven years to make." It sounds like "Management pissed away four years on experimental builds and prototypes that went nowhere before finally settling on making this game."
>>741154663Wasn't South of Midnight a great artsy game on the level of Psychonauts? I'm yet to play it, but I've only heard good things.Though, I guess if it's like Psychonauts, that one had terrible sales too, despite the critical acclaim, gamers just want to unga bunga.
>>741164753cough, cough
>>741165248>With gen z being retardedmy experience is anecdotal but everyone i've met working at intel fabs has been genuinely retarded and every shade of browni don't know how they stay employedbut hey, must be complicated work
>>741154663>makes literally nothing for 17 years>the only things you release are artistic unfun shit>cries when they close your studio.sorry studio but next time create actual fun and memorable shit.
>>741154663I guess they wanted to turn games even more woke and failed... she was the lead on the game. Hopefully obsidian is next and that racist Matt whatever gets fired
>>741165523SoM had decent writing, but it was stuck in a sea of forced woke shit.If you want a comfy bayou game, go play Deadly Premonition 2 or NORCO.>>741165618What you're seeing are the rank and file jeets who can barely handle following existing instructions and operate the machinery. (The same kind of 'foreign talent' that Amazon and MS love to hire because they're cheap and disposable and won't rock the boat.) What I'm talking about is the next generation of people who need to design and build fab equipment and the stuff those fabs will build. >>741165612Nintendo isn't doing that hot either, but it's not early as self inflicted as Sony and MS. And I think Nintendo hires contractors and fires them, so you never see headlines about 'Nintendo lays off employees'
>>741157927>love letter to the south>but only if you're americanno wonder it failed so hard lol
>>741158717Double Fine, Obsidian, Rare, Arkane and Machine Games.
I wouldn't even have played this game if it had the hottest white woman in a bikini in it because those 10 fps trailers were already giving me a headache after 15 seconds.
>>741162023>what? how do you even make games if you don't play them?Badly. The people calling the shots are total normalfags with no life outside of their job. The sort of people who were boring, straight laced people who went from HS to their BBA to MBA without exercising a single creative thought at all, with a head full of theory on how things *should* work. To them, video games are a product that should be approached with the same mentality as a mousetrap or a refrigerator.
>>741165848>it was stuck in a sea of forced woke shitHow was it woke? Genuinely curious, I'm yet to play it.
>>741165473But me mum always told me if I believe hard enough all my dreams can become real
>>741163494That didn't stop stellar balde from selling well and being a good game from what i've heard
>>741165848>And I think Nintendo hires contractors and fires them, so you never see headlines about 'Nintendo lays off employees'https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-nintendo-of-america-laying-off-contractors-ahead-of-switch-2-launchNintendo's doing fine.
>>741165913I don't think it actually was. MC's dad was white and seen as a character the mother and MC both still love and miss as he died. The villain though was the white grandma.
>>741163494Wokies are harmless as consumers. They weren't going to buy the game in the first place.
>>741166107Mediocre game that sold only because of Eve
>>741162023Theres two ways to run a successful business, one is activision and EA the other is Iwata era nintendo and FROM. One requires insane industry leading talent, the other requires a corporate suit and a zombified IP, its not really surprising why there's more of the former. It is a giant mistake for a hardware owner to run it like activision though because 1 successful IP isnt enough, you have to understand what excites the core in order to provide a lineup that can sell a console.
>>741158584>we are in late stage DEIPretty accurate description>>741161860>That this shit is starting to end?Shit will never get better. It will always get worse.
>>741163210Shit your right. I remembered wrong. It is 105 but still way too many when you look at the types of games they make.
>>741165913Among other things, the MC was supposed to be a white girl, then one of those woke consulting companies got forced into the mix and a bunch of stuff got changed, like flipping that character to being a black woman.>>741166187Nintendo is honestly the healthiest of the major gaming publishers because they actually control their costs and don't make retarded decisions like spending $300m or more on games that go on to completely flop.>>741166336>shit will never get betterI would agree if the Indie scene wasn't so strong. AAA is woke dogshit? No problem, I've got thousands of indie games that aren't. The only problem is that finding the good indie games is getting harder and harder, but they do exist.
>>741158717Double Fine is safe regardless, either MS considers them cheap enough to pad out indieslop for game pass, or Mr Shitface or some other San Francisco nepobaby company like Annapurna buys them outRare on the other hand is fucked, they're not gonna last much longer. Sea of Thieves will eventually fizzle out, and their last title was announced years before they even knew what the fuck it was gonna play like. All of the old Rare either took on higher up positions or left years if not decades ago, they're not gonna magically shit out a Banjo and have it be as good as the N64 ones. True story, they don't give a shit about their legacy IPs so much that the Conker IP was nearly sold off to The Completionist years ago.
>>741155871>We Happy FewSuddenly, I'm mad again.
>>741160390It would have sold better SBI is the killer here. They key problem here is that their previous game needed gameplay elements. They had weird quasi rogulike procedural generation when well made levels would have worked better . This game also had underbaked gameplay. Game budget here is low AAA. SBI was the last thing they needed. Their lead literally grew up in the deep south and doesn't need goddam contractors to tell him what it's like there. Instead: 10 percent of SBI's millions to pick good deep south music. Country, bluegrass, jazz, zydeco, Song related. It's shockabilly from the game WET. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWuLOSZfJIM90 percent goes to beefing up the actual goddam gameplay. More enemy variety. Better platforming. Compelling boss fights. >>741163870SBI, when it has control over designs does a terrible fucking job of anything appealing to anybody. And more budget doesn't help them. Unknown 9. This game. Shadow Gambit.
>>741164108The question is, can she outweigh the existing woke fuckers? The art director from Obsidian? Fucking Blizzard? I mean Blizzard is INCHING back towards horny, with Overwatch. Personally, I doubt she makes a statement at all, but we'll see in 3 years or so.
>>741154663>>I guess we really are south of open. >>I guess we really are Hi-Fi Rushsee i can be an asshole too.
>>741166534>Double Fine is safe>but Rare is fuckedWhat the hell am I reading? Double Fine has only produced flops, and Rare has Sea of Thieves and other things in development. Why the hell would Double Fine escape the executioner's axe, especially because they're based in San Francisco and super expensive?
>>741165523No. Journalists hyped it up ONLY because of SBI's involvement. It's not great. It's not artsy.
>>741166873idk man, everyone praised the visuals, creativity and the music especially, though apparently the gameplay is mediocre (though the same could be said of Psychonauts, hence me thinking it's a similar case of the masses just not appreciating the artistry).
>>741158717>>741160419I don't think The Coalition is surviving next year if that $400m budget on E-Day is true.
>>741166848DF is safe because even if Microsoft shuts them down Tim will either reopen by himself and be independent again or they'll just find some other rich san francisco faggot to finance them. The modern indie scene is such a fucking circlejerk they would never let them die.
Yeah Tim schafer will use his jew magic to secure funding someway somehow
>>741165913Literally SBI. It's a lower budget version of Unknown 9's plot, except the lead character's magic ability is about dealing with the trauma of dead slaves ,with the big bad being her white ancestor. >>741162527I was expecting them to go maximum white slave rape as part of the story. They showed SOME restraint.>>741160524Superb taste.
>>741167129>they would never let them dieI'd agree in 2021 when VCs were giving out money like candy, but that dried up by 2023. There's no good business argument for investing in Double Fine, and muh quirky indie darling doesn't mean anything to anyone except for a small clique of liberal fart huffers along the west coast.
>>741166468>I would agree if the Indie scene wasn't so strong. AAA is woke dogshit? No problemYea, that's true. You're right.There are some very good indies AND there is still an unlimited amount of old games I will not be able to finish in multiple lifetimes. If new games stopped being made TODAY, I'd still have enough to play to satisfy me.So not that bad after all.
>>741167231I don't think slavery bad is a particularly woke topic, even Nip games like Tales of Arise often use it as a major theme.
>>741167304Yeah, and this is exactly why Sony is running away from PC: because nobody wants to put up with their overpriced woke bullshit when there are literally tens of thousands of alternatives that cost half as much if not less.
>>741167037Play the game and see. It's animated at half the frame rate it should be.
>>741167403What often makes slavery a woke topic is the framing that it's just something evil whites did against innocent blacks, when it's intentionally deceptive and ignores large parts of the US slave trade and how slavery has been a thing for as long as humanity has existed.And I guess you have retarded shit like Harriet Tubman being a full leader in Civ7, but that's tangential.
>>741167220Double Fine means you pay twice!
>>741154663The fact theyll shut down any shutdown but not 343 is astounding. 343 must have some dirt on Microsoft for them to be kept for so long after how many failures they produce
>>741167550Don't look up who exactly owned slaves in the US
>>741154663I don't know, i don't like both of these entities, so like, can Compulsion Games also shut down Xbox?
>>741154951Kikes have been fucking murdering every company because they are misandrist losers trying to please their women by making the competition ugly
Source?
>>741159018How the fuck can they be so bad at handling cb
>>741167403It's the whole package. Not just slavery bad. Chunni style black people with magic hotep powers fighting evil white people is SBI's bread and butter. Unknown 9 where the magic brown people fight evil colonizers. Shadow Gambit, where your multi racial, mutlti genderer and sexual squad of pirates take on evil catholics. In this game it's Flood fighting generational trauma of suffering black people, with the key baddie being her white old relative Bunny.Have you played the game ? If you have, and don't think it's woke, I certainly don't care enough to convince you. But this isn't even close as far as I'm concerned.
>>741167714Its not 343 that's valuable, its halo. They should have passed halo off to ID, machine games or one of the COD studios years ago. 343 is completely braindead at this point and they are degenerating into a C-tier polish remake farm.
>>741167570Tim Schafer is an anagram for Mr. Shitface. Suits him well.
>>741167718Oh I know, anon. I've always known.
>>741166468>Nintendo is honestly the healthiest of the major gaming publishers because they actually control their costs and don't make retarded decisions like spending $300m or more on games that go on to completely flop.>most expensive game Nintendo ever developed was BOTW>needed 2M copies sold to break evenYep.
>>741167885You and me both
muh peabody...
>>741167856To be fair, Microsoft Activision Blizzard have been terrible at handling just about EVERY franchise they own. Name one that's actually doing well.
>>741167874Honestly why didn't they give halo to anyone else after the $500 million dollar disaster that is Infinite is beyond me
>>741167987Wow, Minecraft, and candy crush
>>741167885>>741167980This has been debunked though. There literally were not enough jews alive for that number to be true.
>>741160942Bobby Kotick was absolutely right about Double Fine.
>>741168071Grim, that's three out of how many IPs they own?
>>741168067>MS gives Halo to another studio>it's fucking Sledgehammer
>>741168137This isn't /pol/, otherwise I'd continue.>>741168158>being young is thinking Kotick is a self serving prick with terrible opinions>being adult is knowing he was right about almost everything and was justified in everything he said and did
>>741168195What if it was Raven
I can't wait bros, I love the studio closure betting gameWhen can we expect news to hit?
>>741168067sunken cost. 343 wasn't a terrible studio in terms of multiplayer game mechanics but they had no fucking clue how to make a compelling single player game. It would take time for any other studio to grapple with the same issues that stumped 343 for years when trying to find a formula halo 3 fans were happy with. They should have handed the single player component off to a studio who knew how to make one and let 343 make the multiplayer portion.
>>741168067Who do they have? Also consider why they would give half a billion dollars to make halo to a bunch of Melissa Sheboons who hate guns and the millitary in the first place.
>>741168329Anything in California or Washington have to let the state know a month in advance because of WARN laws, but those notifications are almost always public. And since developers usually don't know they're being laid off until the story breaks in the news, I don't think there's going to be any leaks.But looking at each company's financial calendar could provide some hints, since they probably want all of the layoff costs to be in the same quarter.
>>741154663SISTER!
>>741168292Back then, I thought he was a soulless corporate lizard who didn't give a fuck about games and only about money. Now, someone who gives a fuck about money from the customers by selling them what they want to buy over people who fuck up games for GREAT JUSTICE puts him in the top tier of execs. He also turned out to be completely right about Tim. Schaffer. Dude makes cool shit but needs a tard wrangler and a budget.
So what's the plan to cut development cost then? They have to make games from the US, and it's fucking expensive to live there.
>>741168594Cause its Microsoft remember the latest gears game budget is 400 million dollars... For fucking Gears
>>741159845Everything makes sense when you realize Judaism is matriarchal full of very jealous women
>>741156114>white would not have saved itThat's the key thing about these developers:They themselves are so focused on politics, ideology, and race that literally nothing they could make would be good.There's a lot of actual clinical retard incel losers muddying this with sincere racism, but it's the point the industry refuses to comprehend.Racist soapboxing retards are not capable of making a good game and there are thousands of games all across the political spectrum that proves this. It's just that for some reason leftist virtue-signaling sociopaths are being uplifted by the industry at the cost of literal millions of dollars. It's total lunacy and everyone is sick of it.
>>741166245They don't want anyone else to buy it either.
>>741154663more like REPULSION games
>>741154663Go woke go broke. Does larry fink care his anti white war is backfiring bigly?
Can someone please archive this Jason Schreier article about it?https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-15/studios-in-microsoft-s-xbox-division-brace-for-closures
>>741156470
>own chuds>job stolen
>>741154663Shit studio, who cares? Wake me up when they finally close Ninja Theory snd Double Fine, neither studio has ever produced a good game.
>>741168967Pretty timely. I hope we start seeing a lot of insider leaks now that people are probably realizing they'll get cut and just say 'fuck it' and start blabbing
>>741168967https://archive.ph/kL6CDhttps://archive.ph/dvUmLhere's the shitaco article and (((jason)))'s slop
>>741154663Night of the Long Knives
>>741169214thanks bro
>>741169214>domain blocked in my country due to being used to distribute CPOh well.
>>741169223This is Asha's 'Thank you, Jim!' moment right before they get shut down. George Lucas was right, history does rhyme.
>Xbox is "saved">Multiple studios reportedly getting shutteredI love days like today.
>>741169389wtf
>>741169441Rev up those 'THIS IS AN XBOX' memes where it's a pink slip or the unemployment office
>>741169441these two studios deserve to die too
>>741161565the only "game" executives play is competing with each other to see how much coke they can do while they're balls deep in a child prostitute on a private island
>>741169389http://archive.today/kL6CDhttps://archive.today/dvUmLwhat about those
>>741154663>I have killed another game studio!Why do black female protagonists hate vidja?
>>741169479THIS IS AN XBOX.
Only Asian games succeed now. Get rekt American capitalist dogs. You bring shame and dishonor to game industry.
>>741154663>Peabody award winningWho on earth gives a fuck?
>>741154663They literally won the DEI award for turning the previously white MC into a sheboon. I'm not joking
>>741169479>>741169664THIS IS AN XBOX
Didn't Kotaku die like 5 years ago when Hulk Hogan bankrupted their company?
>>741169553Especially Ninja Theory considering they're to make Hellblade a franchise when it shouldve been a one and done
>>741169732Nobody. This is shittaku trying to frame it as a studio somebody gives a fuck about, which isn't the case because their game was a huge flop.
>>741169827>make the same game three times>it doesn't sell>keep making it no matter whatwhat is their problem?
>>741158717I hope machinegames disappears from the face of Earth.
>>741169827Literally no idea how they got a third game after the second flopped so hard
>game has good setting, music, story, art style, voice acting, SOUL>actual gameplay is the most boring mediocre dogshit ever and even has a "skip combat" option because of how garbage it isThis game unironically could have been a "we owned the chuds" game because it legitimately would have been good, but they fucked up the one thing you can't fuck up in a game, which is the actual gameplay. I think the game could have easily been an 8 or 8.5 out of 10 on a bad day but now it's like a 4.5 at best. What a huge let down.
>>741169935I saw an anon in a different thread explain it by Ninja Theory basically using the games as an advertisement for their mocap studio or something, kinda like how CryTek used the Far Cry games to advertise their engine.
>>741169479>>741169753THIS IS A BRITISH XBOX.
>>741169935Don't forget about Bleeding Edge, a mulitplayer only game that didnt even last a year
>>741170071>security camera in plain viewYou can leave out the 'British' part, anon
>>741169997Because they work smart. The games look expensive but were made with tiny teams and resources. The third game is their biggest one at around 80 people.
>>741165248>there's a very narrow talent pool of the high tech competent people you need to run a fabPro tip, the average worker at a fab is completely retarded, those machines are designed to have over 99% uptime, they probably have people there who know how to fix them, but 95% of employees at a fab don't need any technical knowledge to move things around and input a set of parameters to a machine.That's why samsung has been involved into several employee death scandals in south korea because they hired fresh out of high school kids, didn't give them proper protection against chemicals and other dangerous products around the facilities and they ended dying up pretty young, if you don't know a fresh out of high school kid doesn't have the technical knowledge to fix a machine, nor they would be taught how to, they're simple as, cheap, quasi slave labor that they can fire once they become ill.Plus, anyone who isn't desperate for money wouldn't apply for a sub minimum wage job that requires daily 12 hour shifts the 7 days of the week.
>>741170019interesting, that seems very plausible considering how much they focus on the "performance" in these games rather than the gameplay
>>741170071THIS IS AN AUSTRALIAN XBOX.>>741170117They need security cameras to prevent people from stealing their xboxes!
>>741154663>xbox axing more studiosThank fucking god someone took control, it mustve gotten real fucking bad if they are going after indie darlings. >Ninja Theory taking 6 years to make Hellblade 2, got told to make a fucking video game and made Sanua>Double fine shit out Kiln and Keeper, the first 2 games since they were bought and they are giant flops>Compulsion took 7 years to release south of midnight and while it was a game it flopped>343i/Halo Studios first game in like 6 years post infinite is a remake made by an outsourced studio and has no multiplayer meanwhile Halo Studios is fucking MIA>The Coalition got kicked in the ass and after 5 years has a new gears ready to go>Rare has been a Sea of Thieves factory and produced nothing else>Activision has the studios in the mines putting out more CoD and more Warcraft, added gooner bait to overwatch againThe age of fag indie shit and 5+ year dev cycles is over
>>741170224THIS IS A CALIFORNIAN XBOX. COMPANY SIZED.
>>741170078I would never hear of any of these games if it weren't for /v/Kinda insane how much money keeps getting burned
>>741170356thanks literally who-fag
>>741155212Why would a game about the deep American South/black folklore feature a ginger white MC?
>>741169789>Didn't Kotaku die like 5 years ago when Hulk Hogan bankrupted their company?That was Gawker, Kotaku was next but Jews saved them
>>741170412THIS IS A FRENCH XBOX FOR YOUR PHONE
>>741169389Is this like with the anime image search site that anti cp bots uploaded cp to the site and then reported it to the authorities because the cp they uploaded showed up at the site on the searched image box?
>>741163743>>741169223This girl isn't even that unattractive. If she was just in a normal game that wasn't about muh slavery, it would be fine.
>>741170524Because the lead who grew up in the deep south is white, because the deep south has a lot of gingers who got booted out of ireland, and therefore a lot of redheads. Because culture isn't just about your fucking skin color. Your statement is about as ignorant as asking why they would have a white jazz musician character.>>741170606They died and were bought out.
>>741154951Literally both. Microsoft has even owned both Bethesda and Obsidian for 6+ years, yet they still haven't been able to shit out a new Fallout game.
>>741159745Anon, why are you comparing a woman and a light-skinned black man?
>>741170727If SBI didn't waste tens of millions of dollars of dev budget on stupid shit, and that money went to gameplay, or making it last more than a dozen hours, or getting the frame rate into the double digits, it would have been fine. But that's not where we are today.
>>741170494It was another hero shooter with barely any advertising
>>741170895Wasn't the framerate just a toggle? Pretty sure it was only there because they wanted it to look like stopmotion puppets.
>>741165484during covid everybody was coasting on the government money printer so nothing got done, so the budget was inflated but it wasn’t their money so who cares
>>741155871They'd have had another game out in 2035 you fucking Chud!
GO WOKEGO BROKE
>>741170821I'm shocked they haven't capitalized on the Wasteland IP considering modern Fallout is a disaster and people do want a classic fallout or something similar to it and Bethesda will probably never give it to them
>>741154663when will these cynical motherfuckers get that woke doesn't sell and will only lead to mass layoffs and studio closures?
>>741170317Honestly this is probably for the best Xbox legitimately was just buying studios for no reason other than to stopping sony and Nintendo from having games
>>741169441Asha is cleaning the entire division up singlehandedlyfiring retards that deliver games that don't sell = saving xbox
I remember e3 2018 when Xbox announced the purchases of 5 studios. These were Ninja Theory, The Initiative, Compulsion, Undead Labs and Playground. There's a good chance after today most of them are gone
>>741169789like every woke antiwhite blog failed after (((Silicon Valley Bank))) collapsed
>>741171360im just glad Microsoft is going belt to ass on these studios, its insane the amount of wasted potential and jackoffs getting paid to sit around and do nothing for so long. if they also kept them from Sony thats good to
>>741154663>antiwhite cuck devs diePRAISE JESUS
Anyone who actually plays videogames could tell you that this game was at best a 6/10 akin to bargain bin licensed games of the PS2 era. The combat is awful. I played on hard and there are so many issues with just the design of it in general. Also the music and art feels really uninspired like they were trying to stretch an idea for a three hour game way further than they could doIt got a Peabody award so people could all stand in a circle and pat each other's backs for supporting the idea of the game more than the game itself
>>741171398>it's been 8 years since this picture>all we got were complete shitphil needed to be fired way sooner
NINJA THEORY IS CONFIRMED KILLhttps://x.com/Wario64/status/2066633898805838244
>>741154663I see all that money that went to SBI was put to good use.
>>741154951I don't want to sound like a commie, but the entire western capitalist corporate mindset is completely against allowing devs to create good games. Literally everything is profit driven and even if they bought the best development studio in the world, they would end up shutting it down if there was even a hint that they would develop 2 or 3 games that wouldn't be profitable, so management forces them to create a game which is solely made to chase trends at the expense of what the devs actually want, ironically resulting in a worse game that doesn't make a profit.
>>741171589They announced a game last week Xbox is so funny man
>>741171589lmao didn't they just announced a new hellblade game?
>>741154951Horrible leadership and talent or lack there of all around imo.
>>741171589https://archive.ph/DHyZ8
>>741170818Culture literally is about skin color you fucking larper. Found the lefty. Kys.
>>741171589This is so fun to watch in real time.
>>741164591>target of 30% for the division, which is literally impossibleIt's not impossible when you have Microsoft as a parent company.You have to realize that these niggas are building fucking time crystals and quantum computers and shit. A consumer video game console is baby shitThe Xbox division is just retarded, they could have easily made 25% just coasting if they didn't adopt all of the DEI retardation and actually fired shitty devs after buying studios. They did none of that and instead pushed out all of the great talent into indie studios or into companies that develop for Sony/Nintendo.
>>741157927Absolute self loathing antiwhite cuck.Faggot
>buy studios>release nothing >close studios >lie to investors Very cool, microsoft
>>741171589Fucking finally. I have no damn idea how Hellblade was a good enough justification to keep that Studio around for years. Microsoft will probably just grab the motion capture stuff.
It's fucking wild how all these games started development during the coof and floyd days, and now they're shat out every month with no end in sight, and they all flop.
This game is one of the best examples of souls inspired character action gone wrong. You literally have to mash dodge constantly to not get hit, but normal difficulty is just so piss easy as far as damage you take it doesn't matter
>>741158717yatch club games
>>741171589Honestly after Bleeding Edge and the Hellblade sequels there was no saving this studio
>>741160000checked
>>741171589>they are hopeful that they can find a buyerlol
>>741160442>Make distribution deals with black bookstores>blacks>readinglmao
>>741172027Hellblade was cool as an indie game. As a big AAA exclusive (literally the first Series X Xbox revealed btw) it was not
>>741172212some chink studio gladly will to be fair
>>741154663did they make literally anything but low-fps nigress in louisiana or is that it?
>>741160442>black bookstores
And another one bites the dust
>>741160442>black>bookstoresnext you're gonna say something like deaf music store
>>741158717Arkane is 100% getting the axe.
>>741160442>It was a well-written game.So well written that flopped big time lololol. No one cares about this wokeslop trash
>>741154951I dont think anyone expected Starfield to be quite as awful as it was
>>741171589end of an era
>>741171686probably to attract investors, like that Gang of the Dragon game.
>>741171470>belt to assAnon, they're going gun to head if some of these rumors are to be believed.
>>741171589At this point, anyone who works at Microsoft needs to have their resumes in their pockets.
>>741158717>check all clickable studios on Activision's section>they're all making CODtop kek
>>741172685Where the hell are they going to go? everyone is laying off devs
>>741171589nothing of value was lost
>>741161930I remember an animation director tweeting about the blacklist she was creating during gamergate from tweets.That world is surprisingly small and most of them are in cliques so its very easy to shut down your career if you have a "wrongthink" publicly.Leading to the entire AAA industry being quickly hijacked by those cliques while everyone else puts their head down and shuts up.The AAA industry is completely fucked at this point, indie is the only way forward.
>>741172767My local McDonalds is hiring.
>>741171779>30% profit margin>not impossible for XboxIt absolutely is, especially when your more competent competitors can't even get 20% profit margin. It's the classic executive trap of giving a team an impossible goal with the aim of the failure to reach that goal justifying something you've already decided you want to do, but need an excuse for.
>>741172539The fact that this faggot projects always flops puts a smile in my face. Fucking deserved for almost killing DMC for good, fucking faggot dev
>>741172897>indie is the only way forwardThat's been true for at least six years.t. aaa dev
>>741158717Compulsion and Ninja Theory are already fucked.Double Fine, Arkane are probably fucked.inXile and Rare are on thin fucking ice, especially Rare because their only game Sea of Thieves is struggling hard right now.Machine Games will go if things are getting extremely dire
>>741172930I have more respect for a McDonalds wagie than a AAA dev.
>>741173148Based, the only thing worse than a triple a woke dev is a gaming journalist
>>741172930I wouldn't want these fucks making my burger, it'll end up tasteless like their games
>>741172767Nowhere, unless they have the skills to strike it out as an Indie. Pretty much every company over-hired during COVID because they thought the numbers during COVID were going to become the new norm. Companies also seemed to realize that having massive staff didn't make games come out any faster as well since it still takes ages for new games to come out.
>>741173096Add Coalition on there as well considering Gears E Day will most likely flop because of its budget being 400 million fucking dollars
>>741154663I would make fun of South of Midnight but it floppeded and shitteded itself so hard there werent even any means KEKAt least Concord was timeless in its own way
>>741171718ok mutt
>>741157927So it's based on a white guy's childhood, but the original character design was a white woman, then it became a black woman? Why didn't it have a white guy as the original?
>>741171589weren't they unkillable because their mocap studio or some shit?
>>741174174you know full well it couldn't have a white male protagonist when it was made in 2020s in Canada
>>741173946Gottem
>>741171686to be fair there isn't a single person on earth that wanted a new hellblade, I actually have more respect for xbox for shutting the studio down than funding another mega flop.
can always count on microbox to deliver a good laugh
all these people are getting rehired instantly btw
>>741174582where?
>>741174582Not this time anon. Jew shotcallers who created the ruin, maybe.
>>741172972Microsoft has a deep relationship with OpenAI. They control the entire OS layer for nearly every game dev on the planet.And yet none of their games are innovative on the AI front. Playfab has stagnated for years and years. They haven't developed a single game engine that other companies rely on.There's just no talent in the entire division. Zero creativity or leveraging the advantage that Microsoft provides them.They can't even ship a Halo remake with working multiplayer
>>741171621>so management forces them to create a game which is solely made to chase trends at the expense of what the devs actually wantExcept these games aren't chasing any trend, where was the trend for southern black women dealing with magical creatures? If you go on twitter, the trends are always goon bait, but western companies avoid that to the point where they've told designers to avoid making the female characters attractive. The devs are the biggest defenders of their works and call anyone who does not like them a bigot/incel/racist/etc. They want these games to be successful because they embody certain attitudes about women, men, society, and gender that they want to be popular. These devs are also vocally "anti-capitalist", they don't hide that and if you worked in that environment and said you liked capitalism you would definitely be quietly blacklisted.
>>741172759cod or middleware for cod, its so dire
>>741170727She looks hot as fuck in the last picture with the black dress but still it's funny that she was supposed to be white first from the main dev.
>>741175025This here, the biggest problem with western game management is that the execs have been giving the devs way too much leeway to produce divisive political works instead of forcing them to make shit that does not piss off most of the user base. Game management has also failed on its tard wrangling job to get games done within a reasonable time & budget. Games of this scale should take at most year or two to produce, not seven years. Management that followed trends and forced devs to get stuff out while it was still a trend would be a massive improvement from what we have now.
>>741175463The story is just kind of odd in general. It's about mostly the girl's white grandma being evil and using/abusing her family including the white dad and black mother and has evil magic powers.
>>741175717>Management that followed trends and forced devs to get stuff out while it was still a trend would be a massive improvement from what we have now.Good point, trend following fails if you produce shit years after the trend was relevant, the game industry moves too slowly to seriously be called trend followers.
>>741162234I found out about it, thought huh neat i'll try that when it comes out and then the next time I heard about it they had replaced the ginger Disney princess with a black woman and SBI had been hired and after that I didn't just not want to play it I actively decided I never would.
>>741163494>DEI consultants make characters that spare you from that backlash.They make characters that spare you from getting sales you mean.
Lmao Arkane has to be next on the chopping block. They made Dishonored lame and gay and Redfall was a collosal embarassment.
The irony is that Sony is making good games and equally as retarded business decisions.Is Bungie really not large enough of a studio to keep Destiny alive while they develop Marathon, for example?The entire industry is utterly mismanaged from top to bottom. Nintendo is stuck in remake hell with underpowered hardware. Sony has no fucking games. Xbox has no games.What are we even doing anymore man
>>741154663Wokebros, I thought South of Midnight was a smash hit......
oh n-
>>741154951Microsoft is an AI company now and they are draining every cent from all of their departments to keep funding more data centers
>>741162438u got that?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuBETyA_yxc
>>741160419300 employees at Double Fine is insane. Zero chance they’re turning a profit
>>741154663How does this Blackrock shit work if the companies that go along with it don't even receive enough money to not go bankrupt from the games they are making?
>>741177252You forgot about deathloop and prey. They’ve been putting out snoozers for well over a decade
>>741177439That looks really nice.
>>741174582The vidya job market is shrinking. Most of these people will be forced into other industries
The artist who made the models for South of Midnight said that Microsoft didn't want him to make "curvy" women and posted his version of Lara he wanted.
>>741178101Trump's america isn't about selling products to the mass market. It's about getting top 1% investors.
>>741178126>deathloopBut that game was actually good
>>741178475Isn't she a teenager?
>>741178126Prey itself is a pretty decent game, it just didn't manage to appeal to the playerbase of simgames.Deathloop on the other hand was pants on head retarded. The game suffered so much from being built around the Dark Souls invasion mechanic.
>>741154663Well deserved for releasing woke crap.
>>741178635It's Lara Croft not the MC from South of Midnight
>>741172548>>741174501yeah but they showed a little bit of it last week and are already canning it. it is fucking weird lmao.
>>741154951Mix of both.Why did Phil buy Compulsion and Double Fine in the first place? I can see Ninja Theory at the time but man, those other studios are garbage tf.
>>741178603It wasn't. You may count yourself amongst the most tasteless people on this board.
>>741178475>>741178851I trust this man with my local McDonalds
>>741178961kys. It and dishonored 1 are the only tolerable arkane gaymes
>>741175905It literally sounds like a Flannery O'Connor game from the initial pitch. I don't even necessarily hate the race change since it isn't THAT non-sensical . The biggest problem was the gameplay sucked and The Suffering games did that this game did and said what it said but better.
>>741178938This happens all the time, its a cry for help (investors). Microsoft is allowing them to pitch the most appealing game they can to a potential buyer before shutting them down. Same reason that clutch game was just announced or the nagoshi game was announced last year, they lost funding and need a new owner. The fact that a hellblade 3 was the most exciting thing they could come up with is a sign the studio is completely drained of any life.
>>741178475nobody becomes a pop culture artist to make ugly shit, every straight male artist i worked with hated the woke shit but did it because they were forced to.
>>741179369>clutchI skimmed trough the trailer and I thought it was a new NFS game or something
>>741171398>buy all western studios>literally all of them>wait 10 years doing absolutely nothing>close all these studiosI don't company management
>>741171589>https://x.com/Wario64/status/2066633898805838244>but they are hoping the studio will find a buyerhahahalmao even
>>741179532I don't need to explain why it lost its funding. Its pretty funny that amazon dropped it while it continues to fund the tomb raider.
>>741154663>You don't want to play as a smug black woman in a super niche setting?What the fuck were they doing
>>741178475This man should just look into doing NSFW stuff or something.
>>741172759the price of an annual release schedule
>>741178475>>741178851Too cartoony for me, but she looks pretty hot on a base level. Not bad. It's so crazy how western devs hate attractive women in vidya, yet Eastern devs know that fundamentally sex sells and if you want to get the primarily male gaming audience to buy your game, sexy women really really help in doing that.
Just how hard is to make a game with:- no blacks,- no browns,- no faggots.
>>741154663I'm heartbroken for all those poor black cosplayers who were empowered by being able to use their natural hair. who will they idolize now?
>>741154663But it won all those awards????
>>741178941We have to assume that Phil was totally out of touch and listened to some very bad advice
>>741180282Who cares about nigger hair, they all wear white girl wigs. You see them come off in every video when they fight in a fast food place
>>741180425That's worse than Hugo awards for fiction.
>>741178475Good guy, he did what he could. The main character is still pretty appealing compared to the grocery store auntie she could have been.
>>741180247try it and report back, but I suspect certain people would do everything to interfere if your company has a certain size.
>>741180687they are forced to wear good hair wigs because they are stereotyped and oppressed with their natural hair
>>741154663Seems.....compulsive
>>741181040bullshit
>>741181040by eachother yeah
>>741181040No one's forcing them to do shit. If you happen to find yourself on black twitter for one reason or another, you will instantly see they're absolutely obsessed with nails and hair and appearance in general.
>>741154663McDonalds is hiring. Put the fucking fries in the bag tranny.
>>741180282>all the little girls are going to cosplay this characterWhat level of delusion is this? It feels like the same level as 'Concord is the next Star Wars.'
>>741181661Woke grand delusions where everybody is afraid to even voice any form of criticism (I don't think that's a good idea)
>>741161860It means that enough time of "race is just as important as skill in hiring" has passed that enough skilled people were replaced with people of the correct race and that the remaining skilled people are no longer able to make up for the difference.
I'm nonbuynary
>>741178475Why are there no far-right or at least conservative millionaires/billionaires creating gaming companies that appeal to straight men? They could literally sweep the whole scene rn? Are they stupid?
>>741154663If I can go one fucking week without seeing a NIGGER doing stankface I would be a different person. Why? Why do I have to look at it? Why do leftists think access to white people is a human right?
>>741160390better sales but the game play was super mid sold less than a thousand units on steam
>>741171621>I don't want to sound like a commieI guess just sounding like a retard is fine to you. Microsoft's issue is that they just let those studios do whatever they want and the studios chose garbage. >Literally everything is profit drivenHey, I'm wondering. Am I supposed to plant grain or rocks in my field? You better pick rocks and enjoy mass starvation, because planting food is profit driven. Starvation is freedom. You subhumans somehow managed to retard your way into thinking that profit is a bad word, when profit just means that something works. Not profit is giving someone $400m and creating a game nobody wants. Why the fuck would that be virtuous? Those $400m didn't fall from the sky, they represent value that people had to work for to generate. Value that went poof and is gone.
>>741183995rich people interested in sexual stuff have way better things to do than fictional characters
>>741183995Look up Blackrock retarded mongoloid
>>741177558>muh AI company Plebs getting high on investor babble that is both dumb and was never meant to them.
>>741161305Thanks, I'll take two.
>>741184163>get money from blackrock to produce shit no one wants to buy>make no profit>go bankruptOkay? So why not make shit people want to buy and make a profit?
Who?
>>741184126Why does that mean they can't make money off of a large and neglected consumer demographic?
>>741157927Guess they shouldve made the game about a little white boy exploring the swamp and you could've had some of you SOUL in it? Huh? White cuck traitor?
>>741157927Hope those awards were worth it! Doubt you could trade them in for a tin of beans
>>741156114Just like how race is more than just your skin color so are ideologically driven changes much deeper than just cosmetic changes. Think a bit harder before you just assume that you are smart and everybody else is wrong.
>>741184509it means rich conservatives aren't interested in arts or sending a "message". If they want to cum, they have IRL lolis and their money already gives them influence
>>741160390If they weren't racist in their hiring, didn't make a game that focused on their retarded ideology and made the MC white they would be doing great.
>>741154663When will xbox just let white men run the show like they did during the 360 era prior to Don Mattrick fucking things up?Pete moore is what made xbox the winner that gen.
>>741183810That's as big a kiss of death as having Morgan Park write a positive article about your live service game.
>>741155829>Let's hire racists to work on our game.Good riddance.
>>741164613They were gay race communists while making the 2nd game too.
>>741167220Should have listened to the big jew to not get scamed by the Mr. Shitface one.
>>741164613The absolute state of decay (of the industry)
>>741161305Crazy that companies would rather hire a consultation company with an awful track record than listen to their fans and make a profit...
They deleted a thread on the steam forums talking about this, it only had like 5 replies too, these devs are not happy lmao
>>741183995You'd have the entire industry working against you. Tons of articles written about how you're bad, the people you hire that come from gay universities sabotaging you from the inside. You are a retard who thinks that you can just plop down a bunch of money and magically have a business show up, but the real world is not a signle resource RTS.
>>741180247this is very antisemitic
>>741185448>bobby tried to warn themThey should've listened!!
>>741185143Because they'll fuck it up just like Don and Phil did despite being white males and just pander to dad gamers, just like Sony with their white male CEO, Jim Ryan.Peter Moore was also a white dude. The difference was that he worked at Sega before he became Xbox's CEO and knew what made games good and liked them as a concept to. Turns out retards that look at skin color miss the most important part of the equation: in order to properly sell shit, you have to have someone that knows the field in and out and has a genuine interest in it. Literally NONE of Xbox's main executives give a shit about gaming or what makes Xbox special ever since Moore and it fucking shows.
>>741185903You say that as if there are not plenty of people who would rather work on games that appeal to more people than some tranny discord, most people in the gaming industry are not troons or feminists, they just wanted to make good games but the environment was taken over by a clearly hostile minority. No leftists would work for the RWer because doing so would risk them getting associated with the company, even if they tried to save face and claim they were trying to sabotage him from within. A RWer who is willing to make the one company that makes games for the actual enjoyers of games and doesn't give a single shit what the media thinks would win over more than enough gamers to make a profit. You act like having the media on your side determines if you win or lose when we have seen plenty of games be championed by media and fail.
>>741186809He's absolutely right. A studio making entertainment for a straight male audience would be a prime target for leftist feminist entryism. Have you been paying attention over the past 10-15 years. It's not just gaming. It's also tv, film, literature. It's a deliberate, concerted effort targeting straight male entertainment. They're fighting a culture war, "by any means necessary" as they say.
>>741160524>>741167231Looked better in 1998, her 06 model looks nothing like her original model
>>741172413THOSE ARE FUCKING ROOKIE NUMBERS
>>741183810Lel, the only thing these fucking cretins do is flood the writing department.No talent whatsoever but to make sure they turn a story gay, and lame.
I can think of many IPs I'm interested in desu. Krafton could take the chance and get The Evil Within IP from them since they already saved Tago Gameworks anyway.Prototype is a wild card.Perfect Dark could be sold to either the chinks or koreans. I doubt nip publishers are in any shape to make acquisitions.Fallout is completely raped and will probably go with Bethesda when they separate from Xbox. Same with DOOM and TES.Dishonored is fucked either way.Age of Empires will probably separate with its own studio.Toys for Bob will steal Crash and Spyro and turn them even more gay.Activision/Blizzard wil either get separated or get bundled with Xbox when it goes on sale.
>>741154663If they'd just let the lead artist go wild, maybe they wouldn't be facing layoff.
>>741160419>Clockwork is getting good engagementLoL that poo poo IS flopping
>>741181317well it's not kosher to blame a woman for anything so it must be someone else's fault
>>741155871Was We Happy Few any good?
>>741171068Yes, but it means that all the animation and VFX is designed around that framerate, so it looks like fucking ass.
>>741190051It had some good ideas but needed work on it's gameplay. Instead they got a AAA budget, that went to SBI for their next game. >>741188781I would like to see his original or coomermaxed designs for her.
Is Senua a virgin?
>>741183995>>741185903i think they should just stop hiring college graduates and just start hiring porn artists from internet.no obnoxious toxic ideology that can damage the image of your product and can be very creative, you just have to leave them alone and respect their creative freedom and it's guaranteed success.
>>741185553Look at what they did with mimimi. They bragged about threatening them to get them on board with this shit.
So if all these game companies shut down, then all youre gonna play from now on is indie games. Is that what you want?
>>741190051thought i'd get a SP game with a plot full of crazy shit then booted it and it was the survival slop that was already popular at the time with a different painting
>>741154951both
>>741178101Blackrock doesn't make money on directionality. They make money on motion. And they're using other people's money. In addition, they are the ones who set up the "SBI COMPLIANCE AUDITING" companies, and that is still a rev stream for them, indirectly.
>>741160942>Compulsion Games has released 3 games in its 13 years of existence.Jesus Christ.
>>741188680>prototype I'd be down. People loved the Spiderman games for the gameplay at least even if the story pushed them away with each installment. So that's definitely a market that still exists. They just have to make it fun. A not trivial task.
>>741154782fpbp
>>741155396its a fun spin on the old custom game from CS:Source, Hide and Seek.Its got a whole painting minigame, very rough, but its a solo developer and the game went nuclear in like 1 week. so he's got a long way to go polishing the game.100% worth the $5us it is. Hide and Seek was a hall-of-fame custom game from CS:S and im amazed nobody has made a game based on it until now. Voice chat is a mess though, i can't get it to work in that game.
>>741162234I thought it looked mildly interesting, but it's way too expensive for mildly interesting.
>>741190051Fuck no, not even worth pirating
Put this >>741178475 here >>741177439 and I will buy your game Day 1. Gorgeous art. It's amazing to look back at the last 15-20 years and think of how much human artistic potential has be squelched by woke. Communism is gray.
>>741159357>Ninja Theory will go nowhere, they run an animation mocap studio used by everyone.You think AI pajeeta understands that? Bitch never played a videogame in her life, let alone developed one
