OH NO NO NO NO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAGO WOKE GO BROKE!!!!!!!!
>>742421464shoud've maked Fallout: New Vegas 2
>>742421464please please shut obsidian down please
>>742421597None of the people that made New Vegas good outside of Sawyer are still at Obsidian It's basically completely different company at this point
>>742421464Thats what happens when you rely on gamepass success.Obsidian might be making money because microsoft pays them for every copy played but how much money is microsoft making from having their games on gamepass? How many new subscibers? How many people retain their subscription to play obsidian games? Probably not very many.
>>742421464>negotiationthey'll be fine
>>742421464>Number of japanese anime game devs that have shut down>really makes you think
>>742421464Who cares. Its not the same devs that made new vegas or KOTOR 2.
>>742422324How? They have no leverage. They literally cant make a game that sells only one that people will install and try out for free on gamepass for like 30 minutes before dropping it
>>742422480I care because grounded 2 is amazing and I want them to finish it.
>>742421464>flop after flop>nothing but PR damage and wasted money>not even the most delusional redditor actually thinks they could even get to develop new vegas 2 not to mention make an actually good gameit's a miracle they've stayed afloat as long as they havethe industry is healing
>>742421464>Be a business that makes games and sells them to make money>Make things nobody wants to buy and even gloat about it>You don't make money and dieWhy are people confusing and industry with a charity?
>>742422982Because it was a charity when Phil was running xbox
Xbox seems to be shutting down almost every studio they own.
>>742421464Good riddance
>>742422620They only need to sucker in one investor to buy them back and if they have one or more games in the works this will be easy.I also think Undead Labs (State of Decay 3) will be fine even if Microsoft drops them, there's a playable version of the game so it's low risk for investors to buy them even if it ends up having middling sales.
>>742423282they only have one successful ip (grounded), everything else flopped. on top of that, it's unlikely zenimax/todd will let them touch fallout after this since everything else they're working on is officially cancelled for TES/fallout
That's crazy considering Obsidian's consistent output. You can say the games were bad, but Obsidian was actually putting out games unlike other retards who piss & shit around for 10 years only to have to "crunch" in the last 6 months because they weren't actually doing ANYTHING in all that time.
>>742421464You fucking wish, CHUD
>>742423651OH NO NO NO NO /v/KEKS WHY DOES OBSIDIAN KEEP WINNING IT'S NOT FAIR
>>742421464>w-wait please we can make Fallout new vegas 2 please please don’t fucking fire us
>>742423651So only layoffs at the moment but after they make their next flop closure is likely.
>>742421464I would crurb
>>742421464get woke go broke, simple as
>>742423063Almost every studio they own is dead weight. They basically need to flush the entire system and rebuild from scratch because they've got a legacy of absolute unproductivr junk hanging off the side like a boat anchor.
Actually Tumblr: The Game running around with various bluehairs and lesbians doing quirk chungus quests. The Obsidian that made New Vegas is long dead
so what are you guys now as a board?human beings or pro-trannyfagnigger shits?
>>742424605>/pol/slopi just wanna grill for god's sake
>>742424968you can't grill if libtards ban your meat
>>742421464Weird, they were the only ones outside of forza devs, who actually released games
>>742422676Even if they die now and leave the game unfinished, it's already the best game in the genre. I'll be mad, but I'll be more happy I got to play it than mad.
>>742422982Phil Spencer was too nice to devs and ran it like a charity. Now the money men are here and they see that he's been giving away billions for years and now they want to cut the losses.
>>742423063As expected. Microsoft buying up all of those developers and publishers was never going to end any other way, it was a a total waste. Only the retarded jeets paid to shit up this board with nonstop Xbox advertising threads the last 11 years thought otherwise.
>>742424398The sad part is that it wasn't even that woke. Greens and liberals were just as fucked up as the corpos. Their worst sin was dykes with bad haircuts. TOW2 was pretty fun too but I kinda doubt it even made enough to break even.
>>742423651press jew kike is far more trustworthy in video game news than anyone else so obsidian is going to be fine
>>742425336Every character was insufferable. I sided with the baddies as soon as I met them just to kill everyone ASAP and get the game over with. Thank god it was during the $1 gamepass era so i basically didn't pay for it
>>742421464i mean they only make trash but i thought they were save because they were doing exactly what ms wanted them to do, shit out goypass slop to pretend like the service has value
>>742425476The only reason I haven't tried it is because every Obsidian game seems to have an entirely different team behind it. Even Grounded 1 and Grounded 2 have different directors.
>>742422324>we're an expensive game development studio in California with a few hundred employees and probably an annual operating cost in the tens of millions>ok, how much revenue do you make on your games?>..about one tenth of what we need to break even>Ok, what about your upcoming games?>We've got this one called Avowed 2..Yeah, I don't see it going well for them.
somehow these geniuses decided to make another outer worlds instead of new vegas 2
>>742423651toddjeets not like this...
>>742423049>>742425296Spencer was a chode but Microsoft's top brass must have been approving all the studios that Xbox bought. That's where the problem really began. No idea if that was Spencer or some other hands thinking they'd win favors and market share with endless acquisitions of B or C-list studios but the results were written years ago.What I'm wondering now is how all this is gonna pressure Zenimax.
>>742425664>NV was a total failure and hated by everyone until youtubers decided to shill it>these days all big name influencers are in Sony's pocket, as starfield release proved where they complaiend about not being able to land and walk on gas giants, everyone, like it was in written scriptNah, if anything it's a good move
>>742425837Microsoft was extremely rich, they had way too much money without anything to invest in and spencer convinced Satya to open up the wallets thanks to Minecraft making so much money. Then they bought activision which caused the accountants to start asking for the bill and then AI came in which requires a ton of money which MS needs right now so they cant waste it anymore on gaming.
I don't actually hate the POE games and would probably buy a third game unless they promote is as gay cuckshit like bg3 or whatever.
>source: blue checkmark on twitter
>>742421464>GO WOKE GO BROKE!!!!!!!!They also got rid of people that actually knew how to make good games.I am not going to mourn them after the shit they did.
>>742421464>sell me kotor game with no ending>sell me fallout game that corrupted my save file 3 timesFinally I get to spit on their grave.
>>742425476>he didn't get it for free from tim sweeny>he didn't genocide the corpocunts
>>742421464take my energy microsoft, shut down obsidian
>>742425890Don't be retarded anon.>NV was a total failure and hated by everyonePeople hated when it ran like shit and got rushed out for a prime release window. People came around when it stopped being like that because of a little thing called patches. Not sure why you're letting YouTubers live rent free in your head.>as starfield release provedStarfield got shit on because everyone who played it hated it. The only person I know who enjoyed it was my brother and he's a burned out druggie who only likes games that hold his hand because his rotten brain can't connect three thoughts.Is your entire fucking personality worrying about what other people think? Do you even play video games?
>>742426594You mean the patches that cut content because they were too incompetent to fix things or add separate dlc areas without deleting existing npcs?
>>742426594>reddit spacing>pretends that his retarded opinion forced by grifters isn't retardedpottery
>>742422620>They literally cant make a game that sellsYeah, but they can make games in under 10 years, which puts them in the upper third of Microsoft studios.
>>742421464Debunked.
the article doesn't say anything you fat nigger
>>742421763New Vegas' lead writer just came back last year
how could this happen
>>742426714>oh we left this unfinished shit in because we we had to rush the QC>just patch it out>retard on 4chan: REEEEEEEEEE INCOMPETENT KYS>>742426732>reddit spacing>because of a single double line break asking a follow up questionKYS
>>742424331>Almost every studio they own is dead weight.Only in the sense that Microsoft is god awful at selling products. Don't be obtuse.
>>742425371>trustworthy>schreierLmao
>>742426958>name my band
>>742421689*inhales*>>742421464>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>742426761>Can make games quickly>But no one buys them
>>742421464They made one good game, and that came out 16 years ago. Fallout New Vegas is almost old enough to vote.
>>742422384They closed Tango after Mikami and Nakamura left, and they sold some of the IPs, if not all of them, like a year later
That's....uhhmm>passes wind and leaves
>>742427140>stumps for Veilguard>privates tweets when it flops and he gets btfo>intentionally misrepresents while it failed because he can't admit going woke ruined the franchiseNever trust that sleazy rat fuck.
>>742421464>Make dogshit game 1>Make dogshit game 2>Make dogshit game 3>In a row>That's all you do in 10 yearsGood
>>742421464I mean.. yeah, no shit. Look at what they put out in the past 10 years. Their IPs are garbage, the only possible hope they would have is if Microsoft wrangled Fallout from Bethesda and gave it to them.
>>742421464Obsidian have only ever made two good games in their lifetime, Fallout New Vegas and Kotor 2, and both of these games were made with 75% of the work already done by Bethesda and Bioware with the prior games, and Obsidian STILL released both of them as unfinished buggy messes. Obsidian could die and nothing of value would be lost.
>>742427486>complains a studio is too white>works at an all kike newspaper
>>742427808Rules for thee but not for me, goy
>>742425371
>>742427017>finished content is unfinished because I NEED to defend new vegas!!!!!They literally deleted fully functioning and complete npcs in places like camp mcarran and camp golf because they fucked up when adding dlc and blamed it on "memory limitations".
>>742421464I don't care. I don't care about any of these companies that Microsoft owns. I dont even care about minecraft any more as it has superior successors. How is any of this news??????? If Microsoft owns the IP you might as well not ever post about that shit again because it's been bad for the last 20 years minimum.
>>742425648Why do they refuse to make a profitable game? The woke shit turns off half of the players. It's not like Microsoft is making them do it.
>>742427276You know why your post is retarded.
>>742421464you're saying that like Bethesda isn't next
>>742423063Good, I wish they bought Ubisoft too and shut the entire thing down.
>>742423651I have absolute trust their next flop will make Microsoft reconsider.
>>742429004It's not them refusing, anon.It's these leftist retard studios channeling Principal Skinner with the>Am I out of touch? No. It's the gamers who are wrong.meme becoming real.To say it differently, they're not making a game for the chuds. Hell, they're not even making it for the mass market. They're making it for their echo chamber where the Modern Audience lives.The achilles heel here is that there's nobody in upper management to tell them 'No, stop being retarded.'
>>742424968enjoy your bug burgers
>>742421464SHOULD HAVE MADE NEW VEGAS 2!!!!
>>742426761>ok we can't make any money, but look how fast we can burn it!brilliant negotiation position.
>>742424968the people who "just" want to grill are people who already benefit from the status quo.so they have no incentive to campaign/protest against pro-tranny slop.
>>742422982commies unironically think that investments are a charity and that guys lending you the money aren't expecting anything in return.
>>742429035It isn't. They put out 3 games last year, the only one that got any attention was Avowed. And all of it was centered on how much worse it was than Oblivion/Skyrim. I seriously hope you aren't going to say some shit about gamepass.
>>742421464Obsidian died a long time ago, anon
>>742429384Except when the status quo is to say that grilling is toxic masculinity and that your house party needs to revolve around Karen's drama.
>>742421464well, I m ean the last game they made was fucking Outer Wilds 2, what the fuck did they expect?
>>742429064bethesda was bragging about pulling in 15 million dollars a month from ESO paypiggies and they havent disclosed how much they're milking 76 sloppers, they seem to be doing fineAt worst, they're pulling in half of what rockstar makes from GTA online ($38~ million a month)
>>742429590>the last game they made was fucking Outer Wilds 2they goddamn wish they could get the chance to butcher outer wilds
>>742429376They are making more money than the studios who don't release anything. Their games aren't hardcore flops either. Brainless retards, the lot of you.
>>742429785whatever lets you sleep at night
>>742421597What a trans positive idea, sister!
>>742421464>in negotiationWhat's there to negotiate about?If the parent company wants to shut them down it's over.
>>742429832You're the one taking a fake twitter post as reality anon >>742423651
>>7424216892nding this
They should have put them on Fallout and Elder Scrolls games to fill between BGS releases. I don't understand why they were just given blank checks to make slop.
You're calling THESE games woke? You guys wouldn't know woke if it slapped you in the face.Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004)Neverwinter Nights 2 (2006)Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (2007)Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (2008)Alpha Protocol (2010)Fallout: New Vegas (2010)Dungeon Siege III (2011)South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014)Wasteland 2 (2014)Pillars of Eternity (2015)Pathfinder Adventures (2016)Armored Warfare (2015)Tyranny (2016)Skyforge (2017)Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (2018)The Outer Worlds (2019)Grounded (2021)Pentiment (2022)Avowed (2025)The Outer Worlds 2 (2025)Grounded 2 (2025)
Good.
>>742427113In the sense of taking a Senate term and spending >$50 mil making a game that sells a few thousand copies.
>>742430058Why, just because they made New Vegas? Fuck off.
>>742423651Good news only if Asha transitioned them to Fallout/Elder Scrolls B Studio
>>742430091The main issue is not that they are woke but that they are shitThe fact that they are woke is a secondary problem
>>742430091Avowed, Outer Worlds 1 and 2, and (I think) Grounded 2 are certainly woke.
>>742421464>>742423651>Obsidian CEO finally gets his wish of being bought out by a big publisher>studio gets put on the chopping block eight years laterDidn't work out the way you wanted it, huh Feargus?
>>742430231I don't even like New Vegas at all, I think it's the worst Fallout. But compared to what crap they've been churning out and knowing no one is even at the company that made all their good games, they should have just been a factory for the two franchises that actually sell in Microsoft, instead of waiting 15 years for BGS to make them.
>>742430091>The Outer Worlds (2019)>Grounded (2021)>Pentiment (2022)>Avowed (2025)>The Outer Worlds 2 (2025)>Grounded 2 (2025)to be fair their output under microsoft has been absolute mediocre slop, though. it's comical grounded turned out to be a commercial success, while pentiment was a decent game but clearly one-man's passion project more than a serious success story.
>>742429384Grillers are cowards who are just barely smart enough to realize that one side is deranged but are also far too cowardly to join the other side because they're afraid of being hounded by the former.
>>742430406Considering how they're not on the chopping block, yeah it has worked out the way he wanted.
>>742430091>Flush twenty yeara of goodwill down the toilet to appease insane retardsThat's literally the woke pipeline newfrend. NWN is my favorite game of all time and I hope they die a painful death
>>742430091Obsidian spent way too much money on Outer Worlds 1 and 2 and Avowed.More expensive than all of the other games they made combined.
>>742430231Fallout is booming thanks to the show right now but Xbox can't capitalize on it. You know why? Because Todd wasted almost a decade on Saarfield and is spending another decade on TES6. you wont see Fallout 5 until at least 2032.Neither Fallout or TES deserves to be dead for that long.
>>742430491When you look at it Microsoft used Obsidian exactly how fans wanted it: to develop more TES and Fallout-syle games. Problem is neither TOW or Avowed were that good.
>>742429939The cope is MS studios can find someone willing to buy them. Management is amusing this joke just to put a positive PR spin on it.
>>742430091>Trans Vegas isnt wokeKek
>>742430590>Obsidian spent way too much money on Outer Worlds 1 and 2 and Avowed.Source?
>>742421464TOTAL WOKE DEATH
False alarm. Turns out this report was from Chris Dring who has gone on record to admit he's funded by Sony because a lot of his article has been debunked or are straight up sony fanboy talking points.
>>742423651Why is this heeb always brought up? Who the fuck is he?
>>742429384>the people who "just" want to grill are people who already benefit from the status quo.you do realize that could easily be flipped and turned against you, right?how would you like it if i said that White people aren't into politics because they already benefit from the status quo, and that's why minorities are constantly protesting but you rarely see White people do that?still want to use that argument?
>>742422324They'll be double fine!
>>742430754I hate this fucking RAT.
>>742430778Genuine industry plant.
>>742430778Someone who wants to group people who want to fuck this under the label of "pedophile" for completely mysterious reasons.
>>742430491> it's comical grounded turned out to be a commercial successthey wanted to make an adaptation of Honey I Shrunk the Kids, but didn't have the rights, hence Grounded.
>>742430491I doubt Pentiment lost money, while it didn't sell that well it was made by a team of about three people.I think it's a good example of a smaller project that would be good for xbox instead of just spending millions on everything.
>>742430625Fans want the fallout new vegas team to make more games, they hired the lead writer of that recently so maybe they got the message.
>>742422324Do you think they're going to manage to negotiate a good outcome for themselves?They're either getting put to rest or their workforce is being cut by two thirds.
>>742427141The Cripple and the Mystery Meats
>>742430425>>742430620Nothing is better than Obsidian shitting out another shit game.
>>742430656It's not though? Ignoring the mentally ill freaks who latched on to the game, there's no modern wokeshit and the legion does some heinous shit that would require trigger warnings in this day and age.
>>742424605neither, i just want a good show.t. misanthrope
>>742431365overcompensating by pretending to enjoy those absurd proportions does scream 'pedo trying to hide'
>>742433941Someone needs to check your hard drive.
>>742432057I think what will happen is obsidian will do work on fallout 5 with Bethesda to but then be allowed to do whatever they want for a game or 2 before doing more fallout again. Apparently obsidian is not at risk of being closed but Microsoft had wanted them to do more fallout a while ago but they refused. I can see a world in which Microsoft makes a deal with zenimax and obsidian to not cut much of either of them in return for both tes6 and a fallout game coming out in the next few years.
>>742423651>They're not in negotiations to avoid shutting down.So they're being shut down.
>>742421464 All they had to do was make Alpha Protocol 2 and add 2 hour long Sis sex minigame
>>742421464There was a time this would of made me mad but fuck them when was the last time they made a game I wanted to play. Now all I have for the devs is apathy and my apathy is money out of they're pockets.
>>742421464Should've happened over a decade ago.
>>742421464lmao it was inevitable ever since microshit got thembut their games have been horrible too at least since outer worlds
>>742430778Remember gaymergayte? 2016, 2020, 2024, and beyond have mindfucked everyone who used to campaign against games journos and now they actually think schrier is a valid source and someone to promote on the board.
it's been 16 years since I last played one of their games. I really don't care one way or the other.
>obsidian>undead labsdamn...I really hope they get to finish Grounded 2 and State of Decay 3 before closure...
>>742421763>SawyerSawyer is the one greenlighting woke slop. Obsidian's fate is pretty much on his shoulders.
>>742434230>Dark Notion looking ass
>>742430783that's just correct
>>742421464Why does /v/ keep falling for twitter posts?
>>742421763wouldn't matter even if they werefor some reason people keep sucking visionary cock for decades after something good was made even though it almost never pays off
>>742438235why is zoomer humor so fucking shit
>>742430778you answered your own questionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK3ZEnM2IaY
>>742421464Good, Outer Worlds was shit
>>742421597It wouldve been ultra garbage, outer worlds was there attempt at new vegas in space and it fucking sucked
>>742439329Zoomer humor? How new are you?
and i will do NOTHING again
>>742439745 all unfunny lame humor is zoomer humor. duh
>>742422982Why do games need to make money? Why can't you just allow people to make art?
>>742439836Buddy, pal, look up Xavier Renegade Angel. It's free on YouTube. You'll thank me later.
>>742440018Why should other people grow your food so that you can make art?
>>742421464Deserved for Avowed and Outer Worlds.
>>742434230sexo
>>742439357Is the top right person really an elected official ?
Jews
Debunked and retracted.
>>742421597They made their own new vegas twice, looking at the dire sales numbers from the last entry it's not like they were onto something.
>>742421464S
>>742427141Impacted Anus
not my problem
>>742423651Isn't this the same guy that kept silent about the Blizzard rape and said Avowed was a massive success then it flopped?
>>742422238The economics of Gamepass do not work. "Netflix of games" sounds cool until you realize Netflix lost money, every quarter, for more than 10 years and it took forcing people into lockdown to turn a profit. The sweet spot is to make what would otherwise be a $30 game and pitch it to MS as a AAA product for enhanced payments. Gamers are a discerning bunch so of course they see through that which is why Avowed had all sorts of memes about lack of persistence, interactibility, enemy variety, etc. and it becomes quite clear that Gamepass is just a slop sub.
>>742421464They never made a single good game.
