IOI is dying
>>742278798Yeah RIP. Setting looks generic as fuck from the single image that they've shared.
but shillbros told me 007 sold niggorillions???
womp womp
>>742278798>project fantasyhuh?
>>742279110007 isn’t related to this. It’s because they lost out on a big contract. That being said the fantasy genre is so insanely fucking saturated at this point, I don’t why they gambled on it
Die faster
Were they working with xbox on this?
>>742278798Another secret Microsoft collab? Today is cuts day.
>>742278798>stillbirth fantasy gamewhatever they'll make another hitman anyways
>>742278798These fuckers can't die without giving me a remake or a sequel of Freedom Fighters, I'll buy their stock if I have to
>>742278798Everything is falling apart. Prepare accordingly.
>>742278798Why Is every single western studio closing down or having massive layoffs?
>>742279092Why is no one ever inspired with the visuals of jackson's lotr...I hate pastel elves so much.
why would you make a boring, generic as hell fantasy game when you could make Hitmankino?Unless the answer is "we just wanna turn our brains off for one game"
I work down street IOI and these retards won't be missed. Magen til idioter skal man lede længe efter.
>>742278798Should have made more Hitman, instead of Jeet Bond retards. Now suffer.
>>742278798>Has ten (10) different depots for NuMan 1-3.Good. Maybe they'll figure out how to consolidate and sell the COMPLETE EDITION, WE PROMISE! edition in the next life.
>>742279092>>742279239Looks like tranny garbage. Trim the fat and make more 007 and Hitman, thanks.
>>742279265Market is big. Assets are cheap on the marketplace. Hitman 1407 isn't a crazy idea. >It’s because they lost out on a big contractWhat exactly happened? Is this fallout from the Xbox no third parties on pass or something?
>>742279445they thought they could defeat the chud despite the fact that the majority of gamers are chuds
The trend of western games being unprofitable has been one of the most telegraphed event ever2020's has been nothing but production costs going way up in usa, and high but not as insanely high in rest of 1st world, leading to publishers looking into employing orbiting sweat shop studios in low wage countries.China came online, flooding the market with their slopGame engines are freely available to indies, flooding the market with their slop.AI tools etc.
>>742279445Because about 5 years ago, gaming got pumped with extra dollars from Covid, and a number of big studios went on insane, woke Metoo binges, like Bioware, Sony, Bungie, all of ubisoft, EA sports. A full AAAA dev cycle later and you see huge bombs everywhere. At the same time, Xbox is digesting its Activision/blizzard purchase, and is reviewing why some shit in it's portfolio hasn't produced a goddam thing in 5 years. Combine that with a shift in computing priorities with the AI boom that competes for the few actually competent tech employees, and parts availability and other fiscal pressure, and you have the boom coming down on all the bigs in the west at once. >>742279472What's wrong with them. They seem like, at least gamers.
>>742279562"making it for the modern audineces" was possibly the biggest unforced error humanly possible for the game. I think they tried to recover with more bikini ass, and making moneypenny actually attractive, but that only goes so far.
>>742279768>What's wrong with them. They seem like, at least gamers.I am still mad at them for the bullshit they pulled with three separate Hitman releases that are sorta not really three separate games and you really have to pay extra for stuff you already own if you want to use the stuff you've unlocked in the next act of the game.And somehow their crack-addled brains came up with the idea of fomo seasonal content in a fucking singleplayer game
>>742279265>the fantasy genre is so insanely fucking saturated at this pointYet not a single developer has even tried to make TES competitor >b-b-but tainted grailorders of magnitude smaller than TES in every way.
>>742279989The new Fable?What features are necessary to make something a TES competitor?
>>742279954LOL. Oh yeah. I figured that was a quirk of the insane publishing route they went, first episodic with sony. The biggest dipshits on that front this side of Gacha. I figure the next one they make will be full live service.
>>742280123That's a fair question. I see shit ADVERTISED as at TES competitor, like goddam Avowed of all things. Stupid sack of shit that was.
>>742280123Huge open world with 100s of ruins, dungeons, caves and castles. The famous "something to loot/kill/explore every 20 seconds", in short the content density of a Skyrim.
>>742278798I thought the bond game was a hit? oh well.
>>742279445wonder why
>>742279445They be Going woke and going broke anon
>>742280274it also has a massive fucking budget and royalties on every game sold to the Bond licence people. It hasn't broken even yet. It HAS done well enough to possibly break even in a reasonable timeframe, but it needs to stay on the charts, even when the heavy hitters this fall come out.
>>742280123I think what a lot of "competitors" fail at is having an actual open world that isn't tied down to main quests and shit like that. A game where you can ignore like 8/10 of the content of the game and still have a good time and feel satisfied. A lot of games also make the player too much of a pre-determined character, so you can't even loosely role-play anything.
>>742279092>>742279239AI?
> IO making a classic fantasy game (in an existing setting it seems)> Warhorse making a classic fantasy game in LotR settingKek. Modern audience enjoyers trying to make the next Baldur's Gate 3 and looking for a setting to defile with their faggotry.
>>742281250Although maybe I am misreading this.> External partner on our own IP ditched us, so we fire our employees.I guess IO came up with their own fantasy setting then.
>>742279989Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 has taken Todd's crown for now.
>>742281617It very well madeand even KCD1 mogs all the new toddsloppeople want fantasy not some stop from bumfuck europe
>>742281250>Forgotten Realms>defileLMAO
>>742279989CD and Zelda mog the shit out of Sky's rim
>>742279445nigga everything is expensive as fuck and no one has any money to spend on video games
>>742279306>>742279324Basically. Since Xbox/Microsoft is firing a ton of people (supposedly) next week. I bet that Kojima "exclusive" will be the next victim. Crazy how a multi-trillion dollar giant fumbled this so hard. Literally all Phil and Sarah had to do was use that 80 billion to choke out Nintendo/Sony but they spent it on ATVI like RETARDS
>>742281250>in an existing setting it seemsNope, their own original IP.Considering what is happening right now, this "business partner" was almost certainly Microsoft with some kind of Gamepass deal.>>742280274007 sold well enough apparently (as it should, it's a good game), but I'd be surprised if IOI keeps even 30% of any full priced sale of it in between store cuts and licensing costs.
>>742278798>project fantasyCouldn't even make a cool code name?Meh, into the trash it goes.
>>742278798>KCD2Oh right of course the token goyslop praised by little dick kikes lmao
>our ORIGINAL Ip is the most dreadfully generic tolkienshit ever created, drawn in the style of a phone game that AI has been training of for years.Why can't studio have real visions anymore?
>>742279445Covid overhiring. Western salaries are unironically too high. CEOs firing people to replace them with AI and jeets/seamonkies. Lackluster AAA/AA sales as people spend more on groceries than vidya.
>>742279445economy sucks. People with money would rather try their hand at AI investment because the return is better for now. Its going to get worse now that hardware is fucked and even less people will be able to play moderately demanding games.
>>742279445it's not a video game thinganything tech related is having massive layoffs as old dumbfucks are wowed by LLMs generating slop they fire everyone for short term profits
>>742278798they'd die less if they put the non-tutorial parts of Hitman WoA on a good sale
Never trust a company that puts the words "remain committed" in a press release.Never.
>>742278798>Xbox is bleeding money (mostly due to Gamepass failing) and shuttering all their studiosBUT HOW CAN I MAKE IT ABOUT THE CULTURE WAR??
>>742278798Confirmed it was xbox that pulled out. Welp
>>742278798Bondxisters...
>>742281617>>742282152>kcd, cd and zeldaBut they are not>character creator>first and third person>be in base>sort out gear and grab what you need>open map and pick location or quest>head out>20 seconds later something to fight>20 seconds later something to explore>20 seconds later something to interact with>2 hours later>visited 3 towns, villages or cities>leveled up twice at least>completed 4 quests>explored 3 dungeon>looted 3 new pieces of gear and a bunch of shit to break down into materials>ignored countless quests and events because otherwise you'll never do what you actually wanted to do>picked up a new companion and passed on 2 more because you are already too busy>now you are at your target location to do the thing>it takes you a couple hours and makes you travel even more>you've played the game for 6 hours and you return to your base>do some maintenance, craft/upgrade some gear, eat, sleep, head out againThat is the basic loop of a game that is comparable to a TES. And it's so insanely content dense that nobody else has tried to make that game which is also why it's been 15 years without a new one.
>>742283595B-b-but Jeeta good?</Jeets>
Retards trying to make it about IOI when its Microsoft doing it
>>742279445Because the AAA way of doing videogames is not sustainable. It never was, and that reality is finally catching up to them.
>>742280329Pro tip, whatever happens with gta won't happen with any other game.GTA is a meme, people really don't like it, they've been memed into caring about it, gta 5 is a massive shitshow of an endless boredom and hacking in the online service, this game won't be fun, it won't be revolutionary, it'll be a massive gimmick filled boredom.
>>742283678KCD is like that though. Riding to your next quest you encounter some other quests. Even during fast travel they force you to stop for quests sometimes. Probably the closest Bethesda-like I've played.
>>742279265If 007 was actually the huge success they boast about they wouldn't be firing anyone.
>>742283953Microsoft is the one canceling it nimrod
>>742278798has first light made enough money to cover bond ip license tax yet?
>>742283953When you are given funding to pursue a big project you hire more for it. When that funding is cut then you can’t reasonably support the new staff you hired for it
>>742284053>>742284117But First Light was a MASSIVE success. Bigger than your mom.
>>742278798>project fantasylet's fucking go
>>742283953You don't understand how captial works You just can't use one project's money on another one
>>742283915I set up this specific scenario as an example of a TES(or just Bethesda game) because that is exactly what both Fallout and TES are like and it is exactly the kind of game that nobody else has tried to make. KCD doesn't have a character creator or a third person view, it doesn't even have dungeons or companions. Some games have dungeons and companions and some have everything that a Bethesda game has except for the content density. And Bethesda games have it all plus mods. And i'm not saying that to praise Todd and his butt buddies, i'm saying that out of anger about an industry that is basically saying "well, if you like that kind of game just buy Bethesda or go fuck yourself."
>>742279445it's because many zoomers and especially all that trash born after them got addicted to some platform game like roblox or fortnite and doesn't even grasp the concept of buying a full-priced game for a limited time experience.
>>742279445A multitude of bad decisions and since they spurned all their core audience they have literally have nothing to fall back on.
>>742278798>SE sells it >it dies in less than a decadeand we all thought that SE was dumb for getting free of their shit studios lol
>>742279445because nobody who knows what they're doing wants to work in the western games industry. you get worse hours for worse pay and less stability across the board, and even highly competent people who really want to make games will go for a better deal elsewhere if it presents itself. basically, you're just left with scraps and shitters staffing these companies and calling the shots
>>742279445jews, anon
>>742278798IOI ImaO
>>742284163They aren't sitting on pile of cash even if the game is successful It probably allocated to creating more content for 007 and next hitman game they just can't use it fund that big fantasy game that was supposed to be funded my MS
>>742284346If I was a jew I wouldn't want to fund flops either desu
>>742279861>unforced
>>742283880underage, please be quiet
>>742278798yeah a "bold" take on bond from the hitman game maker...you just made another hitman game and called it bond
>>742283715It works in japan. Just don't make shitty games.
>>742279445COVID boomAlso market is as big as it's ever going to be without third world countries getting more consumer power Corporations want infinite growth/Fortnite But there already a Fortnite and all growth is done
>>742284294Perhaps. It plays the same way I play Bethesda games though. I play first person and don't mess around with the character creator. If you play a stealthy character or knight its very similar. I'll give you that its not a fantasy game so no magery. Plus you do have your trusty doggo companion.
>>742284561Works for eutope too >Don't spend more than 70 mil
>>742279562It is unironically this. Saints Row should have been the wakeup call but apparently they need a bit more failures
>>742284642Yes, it is totally the same except for all the ways it is not. Thank you.
>>742279445Because the strategic reserve is running out in 2 weeks but unironically. What makes you think this is isolated in games? Germany automobile industry fired everybody.
>>742284490they made a pseudo-hitman game stripped of everything that made it hitman and added marvel dialogue you mean
>>742283595Good, Microsoft needs to fuck off from gaming entirely.
>>742284310I'm a millenial who grew up in the golden age, I stopped buying full priced games after the 360 era. I never changed my value perception of new game = 30 - 35 bongs, if a game i want launches at that price I consider it, if not I wait till it's 5 pounds. AAA think 80+ is what is fair value when my interest is lower than it's ever been.I also have a fuck tonne of disposable income, if I was a zoomer of course I'd be skipping the entire hobby.
>>742284890Why though? Gaming peaked when Xbox and Sony were competing
>>742284982But not because of Microsoft.Even a lot of the best Xbox exclusives were made by companies not owned or funded by Microsoft.So I will reiterate, Microsoft needs to fuck off from gaming entirely.
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>>742285363TW
>>742284916>if I was a zoomer of course I'd be skipping the entire hobby.That's honestly a good point. Our generation grew up with gaming. We got gaming consoles gifted to us and fell in love with it.With 1000 bucks consoles, this will happen less and less. If you don't grow up with it, you sure as hell won't spend that blindly to maybe who knows pick up a new hobby.People talk about poorfags or whatever but if the entry price isn't accessible enough, you'll only bleed users as people die or stop playing for whatever reason and young people do not pick up the hobby at all.
>>742284916it's more than that. they also don't pirate these games. they are locked-in into their platform game since childhood and aren't interested in bringing up the commitment to focus on a single player game for 30+ hours and to master its gameplay to some extend. that's what they use twitch for. it's a real mindset change between generations that was created by the industry itself to suck as much money out of it as possible.
>>742285363I'm convinced Phil and Sarah knew they fucked up way back and decided to leave/get booted beforehand so that some other shmuck could take the fall.
>>742285476As fucking awful and subhuman as game journalists became they did provide a kind of important service for championing actual games. They were replaced by twitch streamers and vtubers who only play fotm slop so real games fly under the radar.
>>742284268Randy Pitchford found a way to funnel Sega's money into Borderlands :^)
Nuhitman sucks ass btw
>>742285363she cute
>>742279445Because there's no such thing as a deadline or a tight budget anymore.Ran out of time? We'll delay it! Ran out of money? Here's some more! Everyone's making games now like they're George Broussard.Back in the day if you had a half finished game and no money, you got six weeks to ship that shit and hope like hell it sold well enough to get the rest wrapped up in a sequel for next year or your studio was fucking gone within a month.But now thing's have changed. Someone did the math and realized that with these delays and budgets they could be the best selling game of the last decade and still not be profitable. So just cut your losses and invest into something else.
>>742279365>Everything is falling apart. Prepare accordingly.There is no preparing for what's coming. The resources and energy that the entire world is built on, the fossil fuels,the rare earth metals, will all be extracted and used up and destroyed in the wars of the 21st century. These things that took hundreds of millions of years to form will all be gone in just a few decades and all the machine parts and engines and electric grids and agricultural systems and everything else that needed them will be gone forever. There will be no shelter and there will be no rebuilding. There will be nothing left to rebuild with.
>>742284815>2 more weeks!Mhm. Sure.
>>7422906012 weeks ago pedophile said 4 weeks left meaning only 2 weeks are left now
>>742290946>listening to the kike owned orange faggot at any pointMaximum retard.
>>742283595>Spending about the same amount>What's changing is where we're investing and what projects we're backingShe's already mentioned not having new TES and Fallout games several times, it's all going to Todd and Bethesda along with a deadline
>>742290946so he's a evil liar pedo... but you still believe him?
>>742279550>Hitman 1407idk sounds kinda lameFantasy assassins are supposed to be ninja dudes with daggers and parkour and shitNot some spy who steals servant uniforms
>>742291101>>742291229you can cope if you want but reserve depletion is reported even without the orange child fucker that just lost the WW3
>>742291847If we're all doomed in two weeks why don't you get ahead of the curve and kill yourself?
>>742293190I'm safe and sound though
does anyone have that guide on how to buy hitman? I lost it somewhere in a folder
>>742279445making games no one wants
>>742294029You don't, stick with the first ones
>>742279239how can companies blatantly lie about their progress and future solely to scam potential investors and buyers and then face absolutely zero repercussions when they openly admit to having lied less than two months later?
>>742278798>IOI's fantasy gameFirst I've heard of it.
>>742279989avowed mogs TES
>>742279445Probably has something to do with ballooning prices of luxury goods combined with people having less money to spend on luxury goods.I don't have the necessary brain injury to earn an MBA so I can't with certainty tell you why raising prices of non necessities is essential when the cost of living is outpacing earnings.
>>742278798>"..challenging transition"problem spotted
>>742294802You wish anti-white troon, Obsidian is next on the chopping block
>>742294802
>>742294802>>742295116
>>742294802>>742295227
>>742295227>>742295116Reminds me of the FEAR vs. Bioshock Infinite webms comparing FEAR's dynamic lights and props vs Bishock Infinite's static dollhouse bullshit. Gaming continues to regress.
>>742294802>>742295342
>>742294802>>742295474
>>742279265>That being said the fantasy genre is so insanely fucking saturated at this pointHow?
>>742295116>>742295227>>742295342>>742295474>>742295582Holy mother of mogs, hard to believe Oblivion is 20 years old and that other trash was just released last year, what a regress
>>742284316What do you mean telling your fanbase to deal with it (in various variations of the phrase) when making a game they don't want ISN'T a good idea?Looking at you relic entertainment and volition.
>>742278798Good, they're awful
>>742287662They brought her in precisely because phil and sarah did take the fall. Asha is the judge, jury and executioner of xbox. Right now she is putting some of the studios who have been fucking about with games in development hell and studios between releases to the sword to slow down the bleeding. Next studios that are currently supporting games (like playground and 343) will be under review for trimming some fat, hence why the rumours going around of her telling bethesda to sort their shit out.
>>742281617Neither KCD game really occupies TES' niche despite nominally taking inspiration from it, even beyond what the other anon mentioned it's missing other stuff like being able to dynamically drag random objects around and even surface level things like a fantasy world
>>742279483>milk an ip stale enough to have already gone through a reboot as a live service title with three titles even harder>never ever try to do anything else>wtf why is every company only making remakes, remasters, sequels, and prequels?!?!?!
>anon posts the shittiest quality bait possible and then replies to himself 7 timesWhat do you even get out of this? You don't get any money for it. Nobody thinks it's funny or engaging. It doesn't even make people mad. You've posted bait and replied to it for absolutely nothing.
>>742294342They are shutting this game down.Same happened with a few studios under Microsoft.
>>742279092>Project FantasyI think generic is what they are aiming for. I don't have a problem with that. IOI is really good at taking something generic, nondescript, and making it evocative.Hitman. Could have been something simple. They gave it an identity.Mini Ninjas seems like a throw away For-Kids title, and make no mistake, it isn't up to the same standard as Hitman, but it IS complex enough to be a novel experience. Generic branding. Something memorable on the other end.Let's go back farther. Freedom FightersThis could be any old generic patriotism shooter. In a way, it is just that. But give it a try. It's something unique. Jesper's soundtrack is doing some very heavy lifting, but IO's style of vague camp means playing the patriot (literal plumber from New York) is something surprisingly easy to get into.I admit I never bothered with Kane and Lynch, but I digress.Bond was well received, so I suspect they still have talent. I have no reservations Project Fantasy, even if they kept the title as anything other than a working label, would be more of the same. Generic on the surface, but something memorable in practice.
>>742284252I'm still upset we never got that Hulkenburg.
>>742279445>Games have to be full of GRAFFIX and TECHNOLOGY>This means years of dev time>Which also means hundreds if not thousands of devs on each titleAAA game dev is a bloated beast and even many AA studios are falling prey to it. This is also why they keep making games aimed for everyone, easy, generic to try and get as many people playing as possible.
>>742297097Except you're assigning the imaginary quote to me, even though I've never once said that, you fucking cretin.Companies can specialise in a particular genre or setting, especially if they do that very thing best.Rockstar should stick to making GTACapcom should stick to making REBethesda should stick to making Elder ScrollsI've never once asked for these people to branch out and try some other shit that somebody else is already making better.
>>742299532So small
>>742278798Good.
>>742283681>IOI gets fucked>Ninja Theory gets fucked>Doublefine gets fucked>id gets fucked>Bethesda gets fuckedYes, Jeeta very good. Excellent even.
>>742279445multiple factors:>bloated budgets having diminishing returns, increasing the price of games can't fix it>games take +5 years to develop causing droughts in line ups. (and that's assuming shit doesn't get delayed/restarted)>components are more expensive due to AIslop>corpo's chasing "muh graffeix" and "muh stor-wee" over gameplay>falling for the live service meme despite the fact it is not at all sustainable, even fortnite is slowly losing players>the cost of living has only gone up making people less likely to drop money on expensive consoles/hardware>other things are competing with peoples free time (social media, tv, movies, etc) on top of people in general having less free time.>why bother buying something when you can just watch your favorite parasocial vtuber/streamer play the game instead and get the same experience?>>742299286this guy gets it, chasing hyper realism has diminishing returns, like does anyone actually care if a horses testicles shrink if it gets cold in game? it doesn't add anything.if you want realism, go for a walk down the street, I want weird stylistic stuff like mad world or stupid cartoon styles.
>>742283595So they are just putting Xbox out of its misery despite all the talk of revival?
>>742279445Hiring 500 women, 500 blacks, 500 trannies and paying 15 billion dollars a year to executives
>>742279445I worked for XBOX for 2 years and I never want a job in the game industry ever again. If only you knew how bad the rot is from the inside.
>>742299748I do appreciate immersion and TECHNOLOGY but its becoming too much of a drain on devs now. Only Rockstar can get away with and even then they have only released one game in the last decade.
>>742279445Xbox heads were hands off of their studios. The Initiative spent five years developing a Perfect Dark game and still had nothing to show.
>>742300050do you have any good horror stories? (assuming your not just larping)
>>742300125Plus, alot of those realism games usually end up aging really badly, look at metal gear solid 4 for example, at the time it was impressive, now? it looks like plastic shit (also, fuck all gameplay)
>>742300125Obsidian seemed to be doing fine with releasing games, but they weren't good or devs caused controversy. Same with Double Fine but they just had shitty games since Psychonauts 2.
>>742278798Not really sure if people don't understand what IO is posting here. They are cutting a contract with a 3rd party dev team. I don't see the problem here with IO cutting a shit team. It will likely lead to better quality of the game over all. Get fucked chinese and indian devs.
>>742299372>hurr durrYou literally complained about them making a game that wasn't hitman. And here you are now demanding every dev only milk their old IPs dry, on a site that used to bitch about garbage like madden and call of duty and the endless onslaught of remakes and reboots when it was filled with actual humans and not stupid cunts like (You).
>>742300352I'd argue double fine was bad, need I remind you they made brutal legend.
>>742300142Just trannies doing retarded tranny shit like making big deal out of being misgendered when their ms teams name was literally fucking male and there was no other way to know. Just dealing with trannies and other snowflakes made the job hell because you had to be on tiptoes constantly, the one time someone made a sex joke a team wide conference call had to be made that someone feelings were offended.Working with trannies is genuine hell, I hate them so much it's unreal.There are some horror stories related to game dev itself but I'm not breaking any NDAs.
>>742300125>Only Rockstar can get away withthat remains to be seenlike you said, they have only released one game in the last decade.
>>742300547Thanks for confirming you're larping at least.
>>742300672My name is in the credits of games I've worked on but whatever lets you sleep at night.
>>742278798FOCUS YOUR EFFORTS ON FREEDOM FIGHTERS 2 NOW
>>742284416He's not wrong. GTA and Rockstar games in general stopped being revolutionary after they made GTA IV/ Read Dead Redemption. Literally everything Rockstar does today is either on par with those games or worse in many cases outside of the graphics. There's no way people truly enjoy GTA6 and while I don't expect it to bomb, the hype for the game will be its downfall because most people will realize that it is in fact just a better looking GTA V.
>>742278798The fabled video game crash finally arrived.
>>742278798reads more like they told an outsourcing studio to fuck off so they can do it themselves
>>742300731Sure, sure, I'm sure everyone totally believes you actually worked at microsoft with your story posted to post-2020 4chan that just happens to conveniently be about trannies.
>>742284561>>742284664True but AA and AAA studios in Japan and Europe don't spend 7+ years on a game and hundreds of millions in money unless its a prestigious title like Resident Evil or something else that will get that money back. Things are done a lot more cheaply than in American and British game dev.
>>742279445Name the last big name western game you thought looked good enough to pirate, let alone to buy.There's your answer.Larry Fink killed video games with his ESG mandate, frankly.
>>742300928Save this post and look back at it on december of this year when competing console will release a certain xbox game with their first dlc.
>>742300407>You literally complained about them making a game that wasn't hitmanPrecisely. Which means I don't complain about everything being sequels, that's what I *want*.Do you understand that, you subhuman troglodyte?
>>742300882No it means a source of funding pulled out
>>742282190I thought that buying ATVI was their least bad decision. WoW and CoD essentially finance themselves while also bringing so much new revenue to the brand that can be invested elsewhere. Their biggest mistakes were Game Pass, Bethesda, all these other lousy studios like 343 they've kept on life support all these years, plus just general poor management.
>>742300407>you're not allowed to have an opinion you must merge with the reddit hivemind
>gave IOI 6 years to work on this>this game hasnt been announced yet and does not even have an official title which means that it's not going to be ready for a long whileHoly shit Xbox keeps funding games but the devs are taking their sweet ass time on them, no wonder they're cutting everything now.
>>742300609And they're multii billionaires overnight. Only a retard would think gta6 wouldn't do well.
>>742278798JUST MAKE HITMAN YOU RETARD
>>742302845I agree that Gamepass was a bigger retard decision, but ATVI was bought for Gamepass. Last public reports for ATVI was in 2022-2023 and that was right around peak covid when game companies were rolling in dough and even then their net income then was only ~$1.5b a year. All of their IPs since then besides maybe WoW and Candy Crush have declined since then. So, what? Like 50 years to just make their money back? And that's not factoring in: IPs declining again, opportunity costs, spending that money in the stock market to make same/better gains, inflation, etc.Phil should've spent that money clowning the fuck over their competitors because more Xbox sales = more Gamepass sales. No xbox sales? No Gamepass subs. It was that simple. More exclusive third-party deals to make Xbox a better buy. More exclusive games to make Xbox a better buy. Buying up chink gacha to make console exclusive to fuck on Sony's stranglehold on the chink market. A more successful Xbox and Gamepass would mean that they could negotiate better deals for Gamepass as well instead of spending $30 million for [dead flop] like 40 times. And all this would've only cost them $20b at most in total, which is a way better deal than outright buying ATVI. I'm just baffled the retards in charge fumbled something so simple.
>>742303785Maybe they were making fantasy Hitman, you never know.
>>742278798>buzzwords and liesgood
>>742279445Its over for every single industry, not just games
>>742301113Let's be real here, the writing was on the wall long before ESG was ever a thing.
>>742278798>shitters that haven't made anything even middling in 13 years are dyingG O O D
>>742278798Good.They deserve it for the ridiculous way they made purchasing WoA, and for everything involving First Light.
>>742303725no one is saying GTA6 won't do wellreadmonster hunter wilds did wellit is also dog shit
>>742301193and santa will give you presents if you be a good boy oh and if you click your heels three times and wish reallllly hard all your dreams will come true!
>>742304646>gta6 doesn't even have a GAMEPLAY trailer>people are unironically defending it being digital onlygamers really are fucking cattle to their masters...
>>742280123>First person.>Totally open world.>Detailed cities and NPCs.>Light immersive sim mechanics.>Freedom to do any questline at almost any time.>Mods that add sex with dragons.>Expansive lore to make the world interesting.I can't think of any other games that scratch the bethslop itch.
>>742280123NPCs, they need to have lives and schedules and the towns and cities need to be composed of nothing but unique NPCs and maybe generic guards
>>742281617Nobody talks about anything related to it short of the homosexuality and blackwashing dramas, kingdom come 1 had some memes and such going for it, 2 has nothing
>>742278798Just make another fucking Hitman game.
>>742284268Then why did my workplace get fucked because money was moved off us to something else that didn't even need doing
>>742278798Bond did well and Hitman is a money churner so they should be OK from the Trannysoft rugpull>GO WOKE GO BROKE!!!!!!Fuck off back to /pol/ and lick Paki ass there.
