Good. That’s the best news I’ve heard today.
I for one welcome our pajeeta xbox overlord
and 3/4ths will fail up to new studios or form their own and fail at Sony or 3rd party, until they eventually get bought by M$ again lol
>>741763962>Bethesda fucked up Saarsfield>no lay offsAmericans will be just replaced with H1Bs and/or offices opened in India.
>>741763962They are only firing white men btw
>>741764061The white men are safe until clockwork revolution releases
>>741764045>no lay offstodd,win
>>741764109>clockworkThis game looks cool, but I’d bet it won’t make much money.Just like *Doom: Dark Age*.
>>741764184Yeah, Them and obsidian are 100% going to be sent to the fallout and TES gulag to crank out spin off games in those series
>>741764045Saarfield actually turned a profit for them so over course they're not going to be hit with layoffs
>>741763962boring wake me up when they finally kick Todd out
>>741764184>take 1 (one) funny photo>become a meme emporium, live off the merch and never work another day in your lifei wish i had a cat
Did doulefine ever make any money? It feels like they operate at a loss for 26 straight years now.
>>741764485I recall Brutal Legend and Psychonauts 1 being modestly successful- but I'm probably misremembering that.
>>741764439How much does this nigga even make from having a famous cat?
>>741763962Welcome to 1,000 more visa jeets.
>>741764556After checking around a bit>Brutal LegendIt sold good but licenses (over 100 songs apparently) and production cost way more than what they made in sales (25 million budget vs 1 million sales on steam)https://web.archive.org/web/20230725113203/https://kotaku.com/thanks-man-never-say-never-but-i-would-also-not-say-1701325618>Psychonauts 1Complete flop even though people liked it and almost made the studio go under, 12 mill budget and they only sold 100k copies back on release. A lot more way later but probably still didn't recup.
>>741764819And they have a big asd staff too in San Francisco of all places.
>>741764109Sega cut Hyenas just before launch, and Xbox cutting Cockwork revolution now would be the best decision possible, the game looks like complete and utter scat, and it will feel good watching brian fargo retire in shame, and this is from someone who backed all of his kickstarters.
>>741764110I would laugh very hard if Bethesda was fucking laid off. Bethesda has not made anything good since Skyrim.
>>741765129I'm sorry u didn't get ur wasteland 4 bro...
>>741764294>Them and obsidian are 100% going to be sent to the fallout and TES gulag to crank out spin off games in those seriesGood, *The Outer Worlds 2* is awful.The game cost $100 million to make, yet has sold only 1 million copies.What’s more, the humour has all but vanished, and the quality of the writing has actually taken a step backwards.
>>741765145>SkyrimBuy my game, nigger!
>>741764045Nigga…#1 BGS and Activision are their most priced studios#2 Starfield was a success by all metrics#3 even if Starfield underperformed, they wouldn’t dare touch BGS before ES6 and FO5. Todd unironically has plot armor, and by extension, so does Starfield.
>>741765319They probably are making a flapput game right now and is the reason tim cain moved back down to California to work at obsidian again
>>741765496Fallout *
>>741763962>cut 1000 jobs>hire 1000 indians replace them.HAHAHA It's so fucking over for xbox.
>>741765496>obsidian№
>>741765581You know they have rpg two dev teams and a grounded team, right?
>>741764045Starfield is the most popular and most successful game of the generation, they did everything right with it.
>>741764045>No sweet baby>no DEI>no woke>shits on trannies >focused on the white man experience and love for space exploration>massively successfulWho could have saw this coming? Pandering to chuds wins again?
Flight Sim seemed like something that would be around forever
>>741765639>>741765639>rpg two dev teams and a grounded team, right?Both *Avowed* and *The Outer Worlds 2* are terrible.I’ve given up on the dream of them making *New Vegas 2*.
>>741764184I read reports about how Clockwork revolution is 100 people and the budget is only 100 million so far which makes it very cheap to make. They'll probably be sent to the Fallout mines if the game isnt a huge success though.
>>741763962almost every studio they own should be closed, i'm sure activision is the only one still making money
>>741765778>Clockwork revolution is 100 people and the budget is only 100 millionWhy can a team of 100 people spend US$100 million?
>>741765854because they've been working on it for more than 5 years.
>>741765775TOW2 was pretty good though. The only thing that was a step back from TOW1 was the score. Though the insanely soulfull radio makes up for it.T. Person who actually played it.
>>741765778Not all of the 100 devs even work at their California studio. They have a satellite studio in New Orleans where a good chunk of that headcount works. https://x.com/i/status/1987926935822102829
yeah you know this board is full of kids who never worked a day in their life when they cheer for people to be fired even though the guys that will get laid off have nothing to do with the decision to make shit games, and now they'll go to unemployment taking your tax money and become unproductive members of societylike always, chuds can't see further than their nose
>>741766005Microsoft has been nothing but kind to the devs by giving them a decade, unlimited budget and the ability to make whatever game they wanted. If they couldnt come up with a game that sold well on them, it's their fault.
>>741763962Why is it okay to hire people and later lay them off but it's not okay to import people and later deport them back?
>ninja theory: 120>compulsion: 80>asobo (flight sim): 250>worlds edge: 40 to 50, let's say 50 >double fine: 105that's 605. let's a say a margin of error of 100 so 705. who are the other 300+?
>thank you applying. Unfort-fuck em all
>>741766121Turn10 100% , They are useless now that forza horizon is the cash cow
>>741766121could just be 20 from every studio gets sacrificed.
>>741766048sure they did honey
>>741766121They need to chop up Halo studios.
>>741763962and none of those will be Emil
>>741766219they were already gutted, and the remaining people are support for forza horizon and fable
>>741766284Close down 343i and then give the halo ip to id or machine games
>>741765854>I will give you bag of money to do a thing>where did my bag of money go?
>>741765887>5 yearsBloody hell, it takes far too long to make a game these days.>>741765906I’ve actually played TOW2.I just feel that, apart from the combat experience being slightly better, everything else in this game has stood still.The only thing that made me laugh was a beggar on the lower levels of the space station who said he’d bought a ‘begging licence’.Everything else was rather dull.The game feels more like an expansion pack than a sequel.And the most important problem.Nobody is buying it.It costs $100 million, and sales stand at 1 million.
>>741766380Obsidian are so lucky that grounded sold well and that they have a grounded TV show greenlit by Netflix
Another loss for Timmies
>>741763962Based. All DEI hires and troons.
>>741766121Rare. IDSoft, CoD devs having some layoffs maybe.
>>741766668One of the major streaming services just greenlit a sea of thieves show for some reason so they're probably safe for now...
>>741763962Praying for Tim Schafer to be at least 1 or two feet in the grave. Please god, will it to happen.Not just for Space Base DF9 but for everything he's ever done.
>>741767516Now I'm glad that he didn't do a brutal legends 2. Could you imagine how lame and gay that shit would be with Anita consulting the game?
>>741767516Isn't Psychonauts 2 the most profitable Double Fine release to date?
>>741765319>The game cost $100 million to make, yet has sold only 1 million copies.The guy who said this admitted right afterwards he just made those numbers up btw.
>>741763962>rumor>blue checkmark xsheetThis won't make the steam goy cube not extremely overpriced.
>>741767771Probably because it's the only game people anticipated from him really. Which he went through at least two rounds of crowd funding to get it finished before he ran out of money two fucking times and it wasn't finished. Psychonaughts 2 would have continued to be in unreleased/unfinished turmoil if Microsoft didn't pick up the tab. So if they shut his whole studio down it's kind of Double Fine's own fault for being so irresponsible and unable to manage budgets to begin with. At least I'm praying that's what happens. Aside from his very preachy liberal personality in general he was always a shit inefficient worker as Bobby Kotick correctly asserted about his professional conduct, or lack thereof.
>>741763962Let's start with the new ceo
>>741763962half the people working on offices should really be in a barn shoveling horse shit, because that's the only thing they are qualified to do
>>741768293>The guy who said this admitted right afterwards he just made those numbers up btw.So what are the real numbers?Given that there has been virtually no discussion of the game since its release, I suspect the figure is no more than 3 million.
>>741768541>So what are the real numbers?Don't know, but that's not the point. Just reminding you that people lie on the internet and to watch out :).
>>741765581Didn't do Avowed fairly poorly?Why would they make a 2nd one, kek
>>741763962Xbox is done, people forget that MS real business model is not making games, its selling OS, support and cloud infrastructure to businesses
>>741763962Hire the jeet get the yeet
>>741764061Nigga they are probably getting rid of the whole xbox division
>>741763962How likely will those fired workere be replaced by indians?
>>741765312Speaking of which, what are the chances we get Pillars 3. Answers that will make me feel better only.
>>741765553It's honestly crazy it just keeps happening, how has anyone not learned yet? Stop putting indians in charge lol.
>look up Compulsion Games>south of midnight devsAt least two woke studios are getting buried and snoys are pretending to care about them. No one likes Double Fine except for blue hair retards and no one played the DEI trash other game. I don't know if there are Ninja Theory fans out there but I'm not one of them.It's unclear about what's happening to Arkane but they produced Redfall so giving them mercy after such a flop would be generous.
>>741768796>Why would they make a 2nd one, kekPhil Spencer told them not to worry about sales figures, but to do what they wanted to do.They did just that.
>>741769308Arkane austin made redfall and they already got closed down years ago. Arkane lyon isthe one that's still alive and is making blade
Microsoft is dumb for not building a real game on the Flight Simulator Engine. Give me some fighter jets and alien spaceships and let me defend LA from Alien Invasion or shit like that. Basically anything but just slowly flying around.
>>741764294Obsidian hasn't made a good standalone game ever. So good.
>>741768986Why would you want Pillars 3 with the Avowed team? Its like being excited for another Dragon Age title from Bioware.
>>741763962>Age of EmpiresWhat were they thinking, releasing the Mobile Edition on Steam?
>>741769625Idk I think they could make a good pillars 3 if Josh sawyer is in charge of the project and if he can tard wrangle his dev team.
>>741764061Good. Let it all burn. Their dei hires can't make or do shit. Without timmy they're nothing.
>>741763962I legitimately remember when ShillUp and all the YouTube drones were shilling the Activision merger so hard saying they were going to make all these studios better and instead Xbox is basically raping them into the ground kek fucking based
>>741768796The gamers were wrong. This time they'll show them they're supposed to LOVE avowed.>>741765319Fallout won't save them. Maybe the first game by fooling people, but nothing afterwards. I don't know what happened to obsidian but whatever spark that once resided within them has long vanished. Everything they put out is dei slop. Just completely shit, and devoid of beauty or artistry. Like watching a shambling corrupted abberation trying to mimic its original inhabitant, with no fluidity or comprehension.
>>741765906>shit eater disagrees that the shit was shit, but was rather slightly worse than the previous iteration, which was also shit.>his proof to quality is that he ate the shit that other people refused to.You shouldn't publicly admit to playing either outer worlds.
>>741769657Xbox should have immediately put them to work on a new starcraft rts as soon as the abk deal closed. Xbox is actually ran by retards.
>>741763962Should lay off all the managers and bosses who allowed it to get this way too. But that won't happen :)
>>741765319> quality of the writing has actually taken a step backwardsfucking HOWeven inside edgewater the millennial "corpo bad" and quirk chungus women were bad enough, only to get infinitely worse on the spacestation and next planet where I just gave up
>>741763962Nope, it's turn out it false.https://old.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1udbw4c/blind_xbox_game_studios_cooked_compulsion_ninja/
