Xbox possibly planning to shut down FIVE OR MORE studios, including Arkane, in what is highly anticipated to be the BIGGEST layoff EVER in gaming history
>make games for troons and women>this happensWhat have we learned today?
>>742283014But Microsoft is a 3 trillion dollar company. Its has great stocks. STOCKS. STOCKS. Its all about the STOCKS G-G-G-Guys.
>>742283014It's market forces. There's too many AAA studios, too many AAA games, and they just cost too much and too long to make. The market likely peaked in the PS4 era and has steadily slightly shrunk since then. With China opening up, you'd THINK they'd try to woo them right? But making games for western tastes and standards seem to dominate. Survival of the fittest. The Western devs thought the gravy train would last forever. >blub blub blub people are getting fired!Make services people are willing to pay for.
>>742283014It wont be the biggest.
Rest In Piss
>>742283164Yeah, AI stocks. Move over luddite, the future of computing is ai JD Vance memes
>>742283205They could use an AAA studio to make an A game and an AA game, or two A1/2 games.
I just wanted Prey 2 and Arx Fatalis Remastered...
>>742283402YOU GET NOTHING AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY
>>742283014Okay. What lessons did they learn from this? Are we going to get more games like South of Midnight? No one wants to play as a black woman. They understand that right?
>>742283205>There's too many AAA studios, too many AAA games, and they just cost too much and too long to make.More importantly, all of the games are bad, gay and ugly.
>>742283014>Blade can't catch a breakSome Marvelfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill.
>>742283140Being woke turns you into a red heiffer
>>742283014I thought people were overreacting at first but it seems like a gaming market crash is inevitable
>>742283014>Can't make a new Blade movie without making it lame and gay>Somehow can't make a fucking Blade videogameLegit, why has this been in dev hell for four or five years? They can just slap a 3rd person view into their engine they used for Dishonored/Death Loop then throw together a lite-imm sim where you go around beating up vampires, ghouls, and other mystic shit around New York or London. Why the fuck is it so hard to make a new Blade thing when the reason Blade became popular with the Snipes movies is the most streight forward shit imagineable?
>>742283657Wesley won
>>742283014How do woke retards fuck up a game about a black guy who got the chud pass?
>>742283205>There's too many AAA studios, too many AAA gameFalse. There is too many BAD AAA studios and BAD AAA games. People will buy a product if it's good. Problem is none of the games these studios are making are any fucking good.
>>742283657>Legit, why has this been in dev hell for four or five years?It's an objectively woke studio that lost all its leadership, that arkane was still a b-tier studio putting out anything was surprising. I'm sad to see them go but the writing was on the wall for many years.
>iD on the chopping block>Bethesda tooall this just to have Call Of Duty on Game Pass, hope them Gamepass Sisters ate good
>>742283014I'm more excited for layoff week than game showcases
>>742283657because arkane wasn't even the right studio to begin with. blade is more fitting for an action hack-n-slash game, why give it to the guys that specialize in immersive sims?
>>742283014>ArkaneRedfall hacks? lmao bin these idiots FPS Blade game? Are they retarded? Just get PLATINUM. They are cheap as fuck nowadays but even a mediocre reskin of Ninja Gaiden 4 with a techno OST, made by the skeleton crew that's left at Platinum would still make a better, more appropriate Blade game than shitkane.
It's funny because the pretend gamers who rant about women and queer people always cheer these layoffs, but the end result has always been leaning harder into them because that's the actual consumer base. The same people heralding this as the end of woke in gaming will still be complaining about woke games a year from now.
>>742283014>Ninja Theory KILLDeserved for the DmC fiasco. I hope they kill Bethesda too.
>>742284296You're fired
>>742283014KWAB!
>>742284372Bethesda subsidiaries are getting gutted but the internal softworks TES team will be left.
>>742283014>ArkaneAbout time. God awful studio and all of their games have been actual garbage.
>>742283014How has Arkane even made it this far? Dishonored was boring as fuck and they butchered the Prey IP.
>>742283014>closing all the studios that made woke games in recent timesBASED
>>742283014When are they closing obsidian? That place is a bomb factory .
>>742283987I remember reading a report from an employee yearssss ago that it was the most insanely cultish woke studio he had ever seen. Like straight up someone would pitch an idea of a game with a white man in it and the entire leadership would mock him for it and hurt his career over it. I thought it was parody when it came out but why lie over a studio not a lot of people even care about? And this was before dishonored 2 iirc
>>742283525>>742283821That's the cherry on top but the simple matter is the market has shifted since 2015, and they have to adapt. The model was for endless growth where each console generation is bigger and bigger and bigger than the last. Old gamers would retire or phase out of the hobby, but then more younger gamers would replace them. But instead of a flood of young "gamers", it was a trickle, because they were drawn to endless content type games as well.Add in, that many older gamers are loyal to a few franchises and play them forever and ever. Steam having games up forever means that all new games are also compeating against all past games ever. In the old days, a new console came out and interest in the old console dwindled. Since backwards compatability wasn't a thing, the old console faded from memory. So new games competed with new games only. Why buy AAA shit-fest when I can just buy 2018's Red Dead Redemption II? Why not play Resident Evil 7? Graphics barely look any different from the PS4 generation anyways. Why not just keep playing Counter Strike, or Starcraft 2, or DOTA? Those are forever games anyways. Hell, why not just sit back and watch pretty girls dance on tik tok? Or a pretty girl struggle with your favorite game? The entertainment market is much more competitive than in 1995 or 2005. Why not play the endless cheaply made indie slop instead? If there's 5000 indie games with 1000 players each, that means 500,000 people who are NOT playing your shit. Mobile is also dominated by gatcha and other shit, not the AAA games. Every angle: "AAA" model is being squeezed and they just decided to ignore it for over a decade and hoped it got better. Hollywood box office is in the same place too. Now it's come crumbling down as their system is unsustainable and are in dire need of a market correction.
>>742284584IOI getting the bullet first >>742278798
>arkaneit'd be woke trash where his daughter saves him
I'd be upset but... 10 years man, ten... fucking... years. And what was their greatest triumph, fucking Prey? Gen Alpha doesn't even know what Dishonored!. And I bet very few gen z people give a fuck about it either. If Microsoft decided to cut em, it would be justified imo
this serves as a good reminder to not trust anything anyone says from the gaming industry, even people like Toddevery game, every studio, is on thin fucking ice
>>742284817>yearssss ago
>>742283014I voted for this
>>742283014>Immersive Sims are dead.>Again.Fuckers should've stuck to what they knew, instead of making Redfall and then this Blade game.
>>742283804top kek, my first thought was this scene
>>742283014This is why you never go public so these big corpos buy you out once you make it big, suck you dry and then discard you while keeping all the profitsfuck the stock market
>>742283014lollmao even
I'm just a little upsetWhatever happens happens but blade was kinda cool, then again, knowing them the'd fucking ruin it so maybe its for the bestRIP blade
>>742283014>jeet ceo>promotes jeeta to head of gaming division>instant termination of 85% of the white workforceI’m conflicted how I feel about this. On the one hand watching these worthless studios collapse is gratifying, but it’s less gratifying knowing that the REASON isn’t “they couldn’t make good games”, it’s just “need more H1B room for Ranjanabesh and his AI development portfolio very good game saar extra cheap”
What is blade? I've never seen the movies. I would've watched the latest one till it got cancelled and I guess there's no need for the game if the movie doesn't exist
>>742283014MORE!
>>742288145No, they're just studios that haven't made a good game in decades now and are operating at a loss and going over budget for a product that will likely bombWhat's happening here is a good thing and a realistic thing and will happen in other gaming studios going forward, games are way too expensive to make these days and take a long time too
>>742283014Thank god. The more layoffs there are from shitty AAA studios the more gaming is healing
>>742283205This is not market forces. Big corpos used the Covid infinite money cheat to buy everything. Now the same big corpos are divesting from everything to chase the AI rabbit.
>>742283014maybe these game companies should drop the judaism and make actual fun games that a teenage boy would enjoy and fap to.
>>742283014Maybe they FINALLY realized that releasing endless woke flops is not actually a good business strategy.
>>742284131>why give it to the guys that specialize in immersive sims?Didn't you see the Disney exec on stage almost cumming his pants because they found a black game director to helm the project?
>>742288480>maybe they should stop being Jews so they can give pornography to minors (literally what Jews do)
>>742288321Yes but at least under white leadership an effort was made to give studios creative freedom and keep developers employed. Bad decisions were made by studio management and bad publishing decisions occurred, but an American company kept white people in high-paying white collar jobs while he was in charge. The instant he’s gone, all the whites get flushed out to the nearest shitting street.This woman has no more idea how to make good games than anyone else at XBox. She’s not about to rally Microsoft gaming to make good games again. She’s going to fire everyone making a living wage, replace them with H1B slave labor and AI slop, and go right back to producing the shittiest games you’ve ever seen, except with 2,000% higher profit margins because every game is made for the cost of 2 bowls of curry. That’s all.
>>742288603
>>742288253The old Wesley Snipes leading movies were so good, they completely changed the identity of the comic book character to that. It's about a man who's mother was killed by vampires during child birth causing him to come out as a half vampire. So he goes around brooding about never being able to truly participate in normal society, but also hating the monsters with a passion. It just boils down to cool guy in a trench coat shoots and stabs his way through vampire, nightclub, blood orgies. I'd at least watch Blade 1 & 2, it's legit the only reason the character has any cultural relevance.
>>742288253Half-Human Half-Vampire Vampire hunter whose mother got vampirized during pregnancy, was born immune to all the weaknesses that plague vampires such as sunlight, garlic, silver, etc. Is still super-powered however and extremely adept in several forms of martial arts.
>>742283014>spend years telling all of you retards voting with your wallet works>every industry has to become maximum enshittified before you retards stop buying games>you still barely make the logical connection that denying income stream to things that suck make them go away>instead go on tangents about hurr woke brokegoddamnit gamers are so fucking stupid
>>742288835>capitalism works, goyim, just forget about all the times Jewish filth peddlers got away scott free!
>>742288701I guess we’ll see. I’m just saying, when the makers of “fat nigger depression quest” get fired, you can’t just assume they’re getting replaced with the makers of “tit ninja decapitation adventure”. All signs point to them being replaced with the makers of “fat nigger depression quest, made with copilot”
>>742288965thank you for confirming the thesis that gamers are incredibly fucking stupid.
>>742288723>I'd at least watch Blade 1 & 2, it's legit the only reason the character has any cultural relevance.I wish Marvel would just fire Mahershallah Ali, remaster the CGI on the original 2 Blade movies, retcon the third one out of existence and bring in Wesley Snipes to their cinematic universe, or not, I'd be more than happy enough to see the first 2 originals with fixed CGI.
>>742283164Every dollar that was spent making woke garbage like South of Midnight, HiFi Rush, and Starfield could've been spent on making Windows, Azure, and CoPilot better. I hope they shutdown more studios.
Xbox is the new EA. Great
>>742283014>There's only been one Blade. There's only ever gonna be one Bl-ACK!
>>742283614More like appealing to heiffers puts you in the red.
>>742289070Nobody wanted fags, movies and shows and games with fags in them sold poorly, but the Jews still made faggotry legal in 2015.
>>742289120they did bring him. in the deadpool movie (and it was a good cameo)
>>742289156>copilotYou are more retarded than woketards.
>>742283014I hope they shut down MOREI'm happyTotal kike funded studios death
>>742283014AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA FUCK YOU AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAback to basics. small teams. targeted deliverables. lower budgets. no need for meaningless bullshit like fully-rendered peach fuzz on chubby women or facial scans. probably a bigger push for visual restraint + optimization instead of costantly chasing memes like gaytracing or HAIRWORKS++can't wait to see all the retards crying on Twitter about how SHOCKED they are. Anyone who has been employed at an xbox studio since 2023 has been on borrowed time; anyone who didn't save a fuckton of money expecting a layoff is about to realize why it's a good idea to have a 12 months fund.
>>742283014Even though the itself was pretty average, I thought they handled Blade pretty alright here. Never played Rivals and I don't see him come up to often when gleamibg threads, so I'm guessing he was as C-tier of a unit there as he was in Midnight Suns.
>>742288253Western Vampire Hunter D
Arkane's last hit was dishonered 1, the rest were just flops and mediocrities, what did they expect?
>>742290843Dishonored was faggot filled consoleslop
>>742290843I thought Dishonored 3: Bigger and Black Edition was actually really good, way better than 2 anyway.
>>742283014who gives a fuck
>>742288603>Yes but at least under white leadership an effort was made to give studios creative freedom and keep developers employed.This is not a commendable choice when the devs personal taste is shit and It has no resonance with most of the gaming consumer base, leading straight to flops.>She’s going to fire everyone making a living wage, replace them with H1B slave labor and AI slop, and go right back to producing the shittiest games you’ve ever seen.The catch is that its not a decided fact? what if they actually end up making better games than the rainbow devs that were fired? its not a hard thing to do, most people dont actually mind who or what made the game if the game is good, and if the new devs games end as woke and as shit as their predecessors games the flop will take care of it, just like its happening now.
>>742283140to put another one in production, and then have a smaller team start pre-production on a GAAS
>>742291179niggers
>>742284896Nah, that's just them cutting one of their teams because the partner for the fantasy game they were working on (Microsoft) is pulling back all spending.
>>742289803Anon, MS tried to shit Copilot EVERYWHERE. My roommate's work laptop has a fucking Copilot button on the keyboard because MS thought it was going to be that big. Stop being a dipshit.
>>742283014Microsoft never recovered from losing Peter Moore.
>>742283014Put the fries in the bag, woke niggers!
>>742283478Given the shit they've been making lately, I'd actually prefer nothing.
>>742283014How many years has it been since they went on a shopping spree? It didn't even last 5 years did it?
>>742284131>blade is more fitting for an action hack-n-slash gameExacly, could've just been a black version of DMC and I think people would've liked that just fine if the gameplay was good and looked cool, oh and the women look like women and are hot.
>>742283205>There's too many AAA studios, too many AAA games,Not just AAA games. A and AA games too. The market is more saturated than ever before. And it's gonna get worse, especially with AI games being made.
PEOPLES LIVES ARE AT STEAK!
>>742292869This is a good representation of what's contributing to games flopping. What's providing the second gut punch is the loss of attention to other stuff like porn, Polymarket, social media, and whatever else people can access on their computers and phones. Why drop $20 on vidya that might suck when I can get an ethot to wink at me for $5? Dopamine is dopamine.To put things in perspective, the entire PS1 library was less than 5k games, and that was across almost a decade of releases. More than five times that amount came out in one year on Steam alone.Saturation barely begins to describe it.
>>742290843I hope that after their closing Xbox picks up the ip and make a reboot faithful to the first game with a new studio.
>>742283014New CEO is letting her nuts hang finallyGod she's hot
>>742293098with ue6 preferably, of course
>>742293179whats with this gooner shilling for that indian cunt lately, is this some retarded pahjeet pr campaign to make her look better while she folds and kills microsoft's gaming division?
>>742283014Really sucks we'll never get a black protagonist, but what if something happened and they revived the xbox brand? That would certainly be a no go.
Don't worry lads, Xbox has 1 (one).... movie next year.
>>742283014got whacked for pandering to the wrong crowd, good shit microslop for killing these niggers.
AI can't destroy gaming if studios shut down before Ai games can even become a thing
BasedYou can't heal a wound without removing all the rot from it first
>>742289156what's woke in hifi rush?
>>742283014Good good
>buy 100 studios to pad out your subscription service>they put out absolute bilge, if they manage to release anything at all>close them allWhat a waste of everyone's time.
>>742294262NTA but disgusting Cartoon Network art style with shitnigger quips that only the subhuman amerimutts think are funny the game is an insult, forcefully infiltrated by western worms writing and forcing their dogshit aesthetics but Japanese devs used as code slaves - like forspoken >t-that's not wok-don't care, it's gross, glad they died and had to sell the corpse to gooks
I'm surprised Obsidian is still alive, should have been shut down right away after Avowed and Outer Worlds 2
>>742294262>what's woke about HiFi rush
>>742294580I expected Microsoft to try and squeeze an actual Fallout game out of them to market on the back of the New Vegas legacy, but they don't seem to have any strategy at all.
>>742283402Arx insanity anytime now
>>742283014Good, Arkane deserve it
>>742294948It makes me wonder how much was Avellone or if the team just deteroiated that hard. I think they were still using Gonzalez on their new games, but I'm honestly not sure.
>>742294578>>742294721Man who cares if the gameplay is good, I don’t even remember the story or any of the characters, but I liked the gameplay it was fun and engaging. and the art style was peak too.
>>742293685I liked all except for the vampire shit
>>742283014All they had to do was remaster Dark Messiah.
it's been 8 fucking years since state of decay 2 came out, these retards 100% deserve to get laid offit's state of decay not GTA, how the fuck do they justify this development time besides milking microsoft for money
>>742295317Because they made one bad game?
>>742295615>one
>>742295756What's the second one?
>>742283014>dei closingnature is healing
>>742295786>second
>>742295859?
>>742283014I don't blame them.They already shut down three studios that haven't put out anything in years.The studios that have put out games aren't selling, even if they're multi-plat.You could ask all the faggots whining about layoffs if they bought any of the studios' games and they won't give a straight answer.
>>742295913Your personal opinion of whats a good gane doesn't matter, if people didn't buy and it flopped its shit. Kek
>>742283014Snipes wins again
Why can't people accept Miles has replaced Blade as the face of black superheroes?
>>742296492What a retarded opinion
>>742289156>>742294578>>742294721>Black people and women (cute women at that) makes a game woke even though they've been in vidya forever and its not even presented in any political way. Not to mention the game is actually fun.Goddamn. You niggers are so fucking lame, gay and retarded it hurts. I bet you fags would call Final Fantasy 7 , the Soulcalibur games and Gears of War 2 and 3 woke because it has all that shit.
lol*taps sign
>>742296770The "Its good" opinion will never win against the "its good" fact, cope, if most people liked it and bought it, its a fact that its good, if it flopped and closed the studio, the minoity that liked doesn't matter because the majority found it shit, which caused the flop and studio to close. Woke studios are closing because their woke games are factually shit that nobody wanted, cope again.
>>742295404>hrt rush fags already copinglmao
>>742297067>cutebad, terrible taste but thtaa is all hrt rush fagskek
>>742295404It was a commercial flop and even though it's on sale RIGHT NOW during the steam sale no is suggesting it because it's GAY as SHIT and SUCKS. No one actually likes HiFlop Suck, it's just a signal that you #supportallgamedevs
>>742283014surely, if the game was any good somebody else would bankroll it. Its deep in development and its capeshit which is right up SONYs alley
>>742283140make game for trrons and women, they are also games they don't playselectively hire politically oriented hacksas thing go sour put in charge poojeta who is into AIit was hopeless from the begin
>>742288593>strawmanwho cares what you say
>>742294721>>what's woke about HiFi rushPeppermint was a dyke and a cunt
>>742297464So games being good does not matter, only sales? Shalom
>>742283014Lets workshop names for this:>The Great Purge>The Flush of 2026>The Brown Wedding
>>742294262>>742297067One of the main characters is a disabled brown half-shaved lesbian. That level of intersectionality is Dustborn tier but get's a pass because she's attractive. Also there's a muscular woman as a boss
>>742299654you people are a joke
>>742295317>>742295615>>742295756>>742295786>>742295859If we're talking about Arkane in general, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, Deathloop, and Redfall, if that wasn't the implied game.
>>742284296What player base? They’re getting shutdown cause no ones playing their games lmao
>>742299773they've literally become the thing they hate the most
>>742299773The only joke ITT are Hifi Rush's abysmal sales numbers and player base.
>>742283014Fucking good, I've hated Arkane since Dishonored 2. About damn time someone took em out back. Put them out of their misery.
>>742300106reddit is thata way, fag
>>742283014Finally
>>742283014>spends billions buying studios>shuts down almost all of themWhat is this business model called? The EA?
>>742283478This was a right wing meme btwThe dumbest most retarded turdbrained motherfuckers alive got grifted by the most stupid scheme alive, they actually thought the billionaires that control the world were the rebels fighting the deep state and not the deep state themselves
where's the bad news?
Okay lads, who's it gonna be? Place your bets.
>>742283014>western studios dyingYou mean wonderful news
>>742283657You don't understand. They NEED a story. A story where Blade himself cries because he failed to save someone, only for a woman to take the lead and teach him to man up. Where Blade has to decide on sparing a vampire after it killed half the town.
>>742283014You know what would be welcoming for a change? A black character getting replaced with a white one. Why can't we have a white vampire slayer?
>>742302471van helsing games were forgotten it seems
>>742302391No, that's exactly what they couldn't do because Mahershala Ali hated the idea of making Blade a mentor to his daughter.
>>742283014Blade just can't catch a break...Also what are we really losing here?It doesn't seem to be anything of value
>>742283014those 5 fans are now very sad
>Arkham City is universally considered the best cape game ever>it was made in under two yearsWhy the FUCK should Microsoft allow a D-list hero like Blade to suck up like 200+ million in dev time across 5 years when fucking Batman's best game was made in less than half that time?
I just want a good modern Blade (or Spawn) vidya. Chopping up vampires Dante style then chatting with Whistler in between levels while he upgrades my vamp slaying gear.Dorf coming back as Deacon Frost would be nice too.
>>742283014i did this
>>742284296If woke faggots played anything but gotcha and mmos I'm sure you'd be right on more then one account. They will keep pushing faggotry but I'd expect nothing less from the retards in development.
>>742302810Back then games were just made. Devs were coders and modellers and they just made games at their work time. Then came covid and blackrock and women developers and everything went to shit. To work in a game is an endless bureaucracy of sectors and meetings and whatnot with very little actualy sent to indian codemonkeys who vibecode their way into project management roles. It's all a scam with no one doing anything ever.
>>742302810Arkham City was just a fluke since all other Arkham games were flops. Not to mention Arkane's way of making games is just expensive AF for some reason, they can afford hollywood actors yet can't even animate the cutscenes properly unless you give them 200 million dollars.
>>742283164This stock? MSFT has been downgraded and even Bill Gates sold everything and jumped ship. Hire jeets, women, and don't market products to straight white males, and go broke.
>>742302317Obsidian should be next. There is no reason why they are still exist.
>>742303735>Arkham games were flopslol lmao when every western game including wolverine is still copying it to this day
>>742303982Please, anon.If they were copying Arkham City, they wouldn't be taking years to make
>>742303982Origins and Knight were disappointing dogshit no one liked. >every western game including wolverine is still copying it to this dayLiterally when lmao? Western games were busy copying Dark Souls with its gay combat system.
Xbox will be studied years from now as a case study on why unlimited resources and financial backing doesn't always translate into market dominance.
>>742304226Literally every game with magnetic one button combat, which is all of western games
>>742304365>why unlimited resources and financial backing doesn't always translate into market dominance.More like a case study on why you shouldn't put ugly niggers and ugly femoids on the coverart
>Oh brahmin jeeta mommy save my videogamesThe ones who simped need to rope now
>>742304457Humorous thing to say. Fun fact: when Microsoft were at their peak, they had a more hands-on relationship with their subsidiaries. Notably Lionhead, who wanted to put a black woman on the cover of Fable 3. Alas it didn't happen, because of one based Microsoft exec telling them that shit doesn't sell. Flash forward a couple of years later, and a game with a black woman on the cover is now the catalyst for its studio being closed by Microsoft. Because people forgot to state the obvious, or chose willingly to ignore it.
>>742283014guess her next job
All those hardworking Americans are losing their jobs bros...
>>742304426>Literally every game with magnetic one button combat, which is all of western gamesWhat Western games did you play? Most of Western TPS melee games have been copying either GTA or Dark Souls to death. Assassin's Creed 2, Arkham Asylum and Prototype 1 came out in the same year and all of them had that kind of free flow combat so who copied who?
>>742283014They should’ve been completely disbanded after redfall
>>742283657Wokies can’t into bad ass dude kills monsters whilst aura farming
>>742283140FUCKING NOTHING
>>742283014>and nothing of value will was lost
>>742283014GO WOKEGO BROKE!
>>742283402Raphael moved on before timeloop or whatever it was called
>>742283014>the one game that people would WANT to play as a nigger in, theyre considering killing offthe entire industry is just chickens running with their heads cut off isnt it
>>742304880Wendy’s drive thru window
>>742283402Best we can do is a fat black woman in power armor.
>>742304729Asha shawarma will be forever goated if she decapitates Arkane. Phil should’ve done it years ago.
>>742305719Interest in capeshit is at all time low and Arkane has been making nothing but flops so there is no point betting it all on an expensive liscenced game when all of Arkane's inhouse IP are dead.
>>742305859yeah i jumped the gun when i made the post by not reading the rest of the sentence. I didnt realize arkane was the one on it.
What the fuck have these companies been having these studios make all these fucking years? Have they just given them carte blanche to do anything and gotten nothing? The main problem is definitely the companies chasing some unobtainable every game is a billion dollar per month live service slop title, but these fucking studios clearly have also been faffing around doing fuck all as well.
>>742305830I blame Bethesda for that
>>742305830I'm not delusional enough to think she is some sort of based 4channer who will save Microsoft but i do believe that she has the gall to shutdown those endless money burning pits. This company should shutdown their videogame subsidiary completely and focus on making an actual good Windows for once.
>>742283014>be game publisher>buy all the game developers>make no games>close all the studiosThis seems like some ploy by someone to damage the gaming industry on purpose. I mean what the fuck.
>>742306126>Make no gamesMicrosoft has been letting their studios do whatever the fuck they want for years.
>>742302080>What is this business model called?being retarded and squandering resources, think about it, this shitty new "fable" game is finally coming out after about 8 years in development when we got the original trilogy in about 6
>>742306387It is actually insane how slow game development has become. Have devs become lazy or the process has become so bloated with realistic graphics and amount of assets need to be made?
>>742283014how is there even anyone left at these companies when i hear about hundreds of people getting laid off every day?
It's over.
>>742306621>Have devs become lazy or the process has become so bloated with realistic graphics and amount of assets need to be made?50/50. Devs are just lazy to deal with bloated stuff, let that sink in
>>742306126The developers were left on their own with blank checks, its straight up their own fault kek.
>>742306834I partially blame the mindset of hardcore fans back then who demand every sequel to be super better than the last.>Just don't rush the development. Take your time to make the perfect sequel. We can wait.Bunch of naive retards didn't know how good they had it.
>>742306779>7% of the workforce at Microsoft is 70 or olderHoly shit, it really is the retirement home of tech companies.
>>742284296Yeah but instead of 80 woke games it will be like 5. These studios and jobs are not coming back.
>>742307193I know woke has become such a meme but the type of games with nogs and feminist undertone definitely deserve to be called as such and unfortunately they are not gonna go away anytime soon since indie market is full of them.
>>742283804>how come he don't want me man
>>742283014>have have one job>make a game about a cool nigga being cool>uh wow, that's toxic and problematic, can we make the character lame and gay instead
>>742283014As a Microsoft stock bagholder this is great news.
>>742283014>>742283140Get woke go broke
>>742283205Its nothing so elaborate, their games are just shit.
>>742283014No seriously what was Phil Spencer's game plan here? At least Herman Hulst and Jim Ryan had a vision, a worse one at that.
>>742283014i keep hearing studios names but i have yet to heard of a good game name that has been lost
>>742283657I'm guessing the studio is majority black.
>>742306126>tell them to make games>they dont make games in 10 years>they get closed down and firedSounds like a justified decision to me?
>>742283014good. arkane dead to me since deathloop
>>742308454This is unironically how wokies actually think
>>742309186>1. Buy studios>2. ????>3. Profit
>>742310190>what? Our woke game failed because the market rejected it?>fucking chuds sabotaged it! But at least we were on the right side of history.>huh? I'm being laid off because the studio needs to cut costs?>well, at least a diverse POC can take my spotIt'd be more respectable if they just came out and declared themselves a death cult.
>>742283140Polfags need to leave /v/
>>742283140Nothing, they never learn.They'd rather commit studio suicide just to own the chuds.
>>742310565racist website since before you were born, retard
>>742283014Same company that is making Gears have a budget of 400 million dollars (Seriously why? Gears isn't that big of an ip anymore.)
>>742283014imagine being in charge of a Blade game but you're not allowed to do anything cool with it. just put it out of its misery.
>>742283014im pretty sure that just like the perfect dark game they had nothing to show amd were sitting on their asses
>>742313172Halo is dead so they are not allowed to half ass Gears Of War anymore. It is a desperate last ditch effort.
>>742283014lmao It's B L A D E. The material exists. The technology exists. The budget exists. It's even easier than a movie. Miraculous fuck up
>>742304365They did force their way into the market and even had control of it for a brief period of time. It took twenty years of non stop full retardation for the unlimited money glitch to lose. A competent non-jeeted company would have forced Sony and Nintendo out of the console market in some way
>>742304734Larry Fink mandated that shit prior to the covid lockdowns. Any company getting those billions of free government printed money was required to do the DEI thing. The last wave of them are releasing now
>>742313172that must be a Phil decision and they're too deep into it at this point
>All they have to do is make dishonored 3>Doesn't make it I wonder why they shut down
>>742283014AAA continues to disappoint. In two more years ball & gun games will be all that's left.
>>742313914Don't worry, mid level budgeted rollslop games with cryptic storyline and dialogues will keep AAA alive.
>>742313470This is going to be a disaster since the last gears game that was received well was 3 in 2011, nearly 15 years ago.
>>742283804Except when it comes to the IRS
>>742313707>dishonored 3no thank you
>>742313707>Dishonored 2 cost more to make than Skyrim >didn't sell all that well They would have shut down if you were in charge too.
>>742305345They were, Redfall was by Arkane Austin who got killed shortly after release.
>>742283014Can someone please explain why it's so difficult to make a Blade game or movie?>Have cool black guy>Kill Vampires>That's itWHY IS THIS SO HARD TO FOLLOW?
>>742308545>>742303817
>>742284296if that's the actual consumer base, why are they shutting down? could it be that this elusive consumer base doesn't actually buy games?
>>742314032>soulslike but without the soul is the only thing keeping AAA aliveIt's been a good run fellas, see you after the crash.
>>742283014WHEN WILL THE CLOSINGS STOP AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
>>742299245>So games being good does not matter, only sales?This is /v/
>>742313519Something like this would've been an easy slam dunk for an half-competent developer, makes it more sad honestly
>>742299308>>The Brown WeddingXD
>>742283014This is from Double Fine's latest game, they deserve to die for this
>>742283014Based! No nigger games for niggers and their lovers.
>>742302317All of them except for Mojang, Halo Studios, Obsidian and Playground Games.
>>742299245You seem to forget, like all the subhumans infiltrating studios to uses them as propaganda platform for their faggotry, that a studio main purpose is to create a product and sell it.
>>742309852How did this happen like ten times in the last few years. Its unheard of
>>742283014They could have just made Dishonored but with a Vampire Bloodlines Marvel skin and it would've done gangbusters, well gangbusters 3-4 years ago but still it's a shame they spent a decade making garbage outside their wheelhouse
>>742283140Nothing. The same thing will happen next year.
>>742315551The one on top shows their player numbers. That's creative.
>>742315668>Halo StudiosNeo-343i are fucking invincible. I don't understand how they survived Infinite. Any other studio that releases an underperforming game? Your ass is gone. But with Infinite it was ridiculously expensive, took 6 years, utterly fucking flopped and couldn't even cover the running costs of the F2P MP until 2 years later after they laid all everyone actually developing it. Not to mention actually fucked with the Xbox brand.
>>742310565Nah, but you have to go back
>>742283014I’m starting to get excited.
>it takes 7+ years and 400 million dollars and a team of hundreds of people to make a game about a black vampire dude wearing sunglasses and a treench coat killing monsters How?
>>742283014Arkane are overrated.Double Fine are shit and that is the case of an accidental acquisition and some industry bribery that saved Schafer from ruin for his mismanaged Psychonaughts 2Romero Games was something that should have been shuttered a long time ago.Combustion games and Ninja Theory were acquisitions of average studios that were a coin flip on their potential. South of Midnight was your standard DEI trash fire affair. Undead Labs are a coin flip on whether State of Decay 3 would have been a hit but there is people who really like zombie survival singleplayer games so they may have squandered this a little. I doubt this was their respective Dead Rising 1.Mismanagement of a studio with potential: Tango Gameworks.
>>742314090>360 red ringed like 4 times and I just gave up on it>PC either didn't get ports or it was Vista shhit>Remember liking GoW and going to check on where it's at>It's some chick who looks like she's never seen a steroid needle and isn't even a tac recon edgelord>Her black guy also doesn't use steroids and looks like a school janitor>None of her squad even looks that jacked or like they play football in the Warhammer universe What in the actual fuck happened to the franchise? Is there a soul who cares about it beyond 3?
>>742318296Man Tango is fucking depressing.>We got Makimi to do anything he wants!>Pull what EA did with Shadows of the Damned and have him make RE4 again>Oh, he's leaving TEW squad to mentor a new gen of game devs with Ghost Wire>Constantly go in and force changes to the point the chick working on it breaks and leaves half way through>Oh hey that small side projecting we ignored and didn't meddle with actually did really well critical and with the niche given its comparitively small budget>Better kill the studio now, Makimi left and won't make RE4 anymore
>>742318365At least the problems with Gears is the narrative. They didn't molest the gameplay and artstyle too like post-3 Halo did.
>>742283014Shame. Blade is actually cool and deserves a good game
>>742303839Obsidian is the only one of Xbox's acquisitions that actually releases games instead of sitting on their ass for 7 years. Even if none of their games have been hits, they're worth keeping around as a content studio for bigger IPs. Xbox could just make Obsidian the TES6 DLC team so Bethesda can ship FO5 faster.
>>742318825This guy gets it. Obsidishits are pretty safe for now
lol oh nowhat a shamethats so sad dawg
>woke isn't cool anymore>look for places to save money>see this studiowhat do?
>>742319370It was funny, back when the Homecoming debacle happened and CoH came back, there was some faggot in my League talking about how he worked at Arkane and was working on a game, what I assume now to be Deathloop. Going on about how well written the Marvel movies are and how bad anime is, and how women are beautiful, and how he was Jewish. Hope your family has some foreskins saved up.
>>742313707>>742314328>>742318296I'll be pissed if Arkane actually got shut down because imo the Blade IP would have saved them from their greatest weakness: boring storytelling. Dishonored 2 is actually one of my favorite games but the story sucks. I don't even think the storytelling is that good in Dishonored 1 to be honest. It's a boilerplate revenge plot with an edgelord protag. I never understood why they thought the Outsider was so cool. Why the fuck would I want the incarnation of the void to be some prissy college student?But the level design and gameplay was literally the best of any stealth game I've played. And with the Blade IP, they could finally have a kickass story instead of characters who monologue at you until you're bored to death.
>remembers those years ago sony and MS buying all those sudios and doing fuck alll with them>few were lucky enough enough to go independent before they were dragged into the abyss with no way outNo wonder nintendo doesn't buy anything outside of once in a blue moon
>>742319582you know they would have made blade super lame and gay
Chances of them closing down Blizzard and thus Overwatch getting shut down?Please.Nothing would make me happier.
>>742283014looks like christmas is coming early
>>742283140>Chuds will destroy everything that doesn’t suit their bigoted world views>But chuds are also an insignificant minority and should not be taken into consideration
>>742317698LMAO
Remember that brief period in time when every capeslop movie had a videogame tie in game released in the same year as the movie? They weren't mind blowing or anything but they were mediocrely passable and had to be done like within a year or two. Wtf happened since then that a capeslop tie in game can't even get done in 10 years?
>>742320242Accelerated schedules for movies, eg the Marvel Method. Slowed schedules for games. Also SBI and fucks screwing with game dev.
>>742320242shitty tie in games were a staple of every generation up to the ps4 honestly. they used to be the backbone of the libraries of every console. Now they try to make them "real games" which is just sony movie game slop
>>742319641Zero. The best you could hope for is the people behind the Blizard Diversity matrix getting the boot, but even that's a stretch.
>>742320242The moment Disney bought the Marvel license this became damn near impossible to do. Remember at one point the Marvel brand was so tainted they considered selling to Michael Jackson.
>>742283014good. the last thing the world needs is even more capeshit slop.
>>742319370>>742319475>>742319582Their survival depends on Blade, clearly. The problem is that the nearest game to base it on is fucking Redfall.
