Microsoft finally drops the axe.
>>742700635>[Good News!]
>>742700635KWAB
Obsidian sisters, we are safe for now...
>>742700635[Fantastic News]
I unironically love watching the western games industry crash and burn while japan remains strong
>>742700635the real question is whether the 4800 are jeets or not.
>>742700635>mostly management and deadweight on mojang/blizzard/zenimaxok so nothing of value was lost, was scared they'd close machine games or ID
How the fuck is double fine still afloat
veddy good now microsoft will do the needful and open 10k h1b positions
That's honestly good news tho? She's taking things seriously unlike Phil Spencer
>>742700635It's good to separate the wheat from the chaff. Here's hoping there's any wheat.
Fucking delicious, you love to see it, the only thing I left is that the loss is as usual passed to the guys on bottom instead of the sellouts on the board.But at least it will teach bottom feeders not to feed on Satan's hand.
>>742700635>compulsion gamesliterally who?
>>742700635>Firing all the deadweight non devs>the smaller studios werent closed but were given freedomAll in all good news for gamers.
>>742700741this but korea instead of the american vassal state known as japan
Oh hey, it's exactly what we all knew was going to happen.Good, fuck Xbox, fuck Microjeet, and fuck all the devs who worked there.
>>742700635Archive because no one should be paying for this shithttps://web.archive.org/web/20260706133248/https://www.theverge.com/news/961546/xbox-layoffs-studio-sales-2026
>>742700635[WONDERFUL NEWS]
>>742700635Oh. It’s nothing.
>>742700635The white rpg studio was not impacted.
>>742700635I wanted Obsidian dead god damn it
[Wonderful News]Am I right reddit brothers!
>>742700809I don't think they will be for long. They can say they're going independent, but that doesn't mean they have the cash to stay open for long.
Based Jason's take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHbS3L2isl0
>>742700635>jeet fires thousands of white men>this is somehow good news
>>742700947That's nice. I'm not too sure about their next game though.
>>742700741The japanese game industry has been shit for decades at this pointJaps printing money with gacha games does not change that
>>742700635Get woke, go broke
>>742700741Also applies to Hollywood. Capeshit is getting destroyed by zoomer YouTubers.
>iD gone>Bethesda gone>FROM goneholy fuck
>>742700635>double fine going independent hows that gonna work when their games don't make any money?
>>742700947the whitest rpg studio they have is given more money and freedom to make more kino games like Starfield.
The fact that a hack like Tim Schafer will still make games is blackpilling desu.
>>742701006They will be put into the fallout and elder scrolls gulag to pump out better rpg games than Todd could ever dream of.
>>742700895I fucking hate third worlders having access to first world sites so much its unreal.
>>742700635>Ninja TheoryAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALMMMMMMMMMMMMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOThe indian caught up to the scam. Ten years to make a shitty game no one bought and no one remembers.
>>742700635>nothing getting closedSo doomers lost?
>>742700635thats the best outcome for double fine they could have hoped for
>>742700895korea is literally the only asian country that's more of an american dicksucker than japan lmao
>>742701095Those obvious lefty looking woman... I don't feel so good bgs bros
>>742700947Why are they so old?
ok but how dies this affect me ?
>>742700635[Heartwarming News]
>>742700895>>742701107More like a leftist press intellectual excrement.
>Buy 500 studios>Release Zero(0) games>Lay everyone offWhat was their endgame here?
>>742700635LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOSONYBROS WE CAN FINALLY DEFLECT
>>742701172tims such a fucking roach he should be homeless with his output
>>742700635And what of good Bethesda?
>>742700741Gacha does not indicate strength
>>742700635>doesn't close the studios>cuts the fat that doesn't make gamesGood.Now back to sony killing physical, the actual news.
>>742701196Because they are rpg devs from the 80/90s mostly from interplay and troika
>>742701189Is that why korea is censoring it's games and catering more and more to the woke? oh no wait that's japan, you're just talking out of your ass.
don’t care, still not buying a Switch 2 or Steam Machine. oh also, fuck Sony and fuck Valve/Steam. Edit. I’m also trans btw, if that matters.
>>742700820At least H1B’s fucking work. These California trannies sat around for EIGHT FUCKING YEARS and did nothing.
>>742700635>Bharat bitch going full schorched earth>going to replace the void with members of the lower castes for a fraction of the costLoleLmao
>>742701087It won't. Microsoft may have given them some form of severance pay which will just keep the lights on for a little while before they inevitability shut down or do massive layoffs.
>>742701230Turns out giving devs unlimited money, 10 years to make games and unlimited freedom to make whatever they want results in shit games.
>>742700635Ninja Theory will never make money, they are too woke. They can create visually stunning games but when it comes to gameplay, story and characters they are just too woke for their own good. All their games will forever be flops. Their only successful game to this date was Heavenly Blade, which is so funny because you could argue this is one of their worst game and it aged like shit too.
>>742700925ty
>>742701306yes saar we should bring even more in
>>742701230>>Release Zero(0) gamesXbox has put out at least 15 games since 2021, it's just that no one cares because they were all dogshit.
>>742700895>Worst Korea>not a vassal stateKek
>>742700635How much money has DEI cost the world now and that’s not counting the investments in it.
>>742701087Now it's not Microsoft's problem anymore they have to actually make games that sell now.
From the Bloomberg article, they also want to get rid of Arkane, but can't due to French employment laws.
>>742701214Wow.
>>742700741Westoids coping over gacha games while absolutely nothing in the west compares to Nintendo or Capcom.
>>742701189ah but Korea have this antiwar randomfag, you see and this deep and profound "worker history". does japan have those? checkmate.
>>742700741Japan is already embracing globohomo and also admitted to South Korea eclipsing them(Mikami's new studio is owned by Shift Up). They too, will undergo a decline in the coming years.
>>742700809Probably won't be for long, but Tim has managed to fleece for decades so who knows. They were literally going bankrupt trying to finish Psychonauts 2, and selling to Xbox gave them 7 years of life they otherwise wouldn't have. They get to go independent now because they have zero value with no one interested in buying them, so it's only a matter of time. They'll probably pull another Kickstarter/fig just to keep the lights on for a few more years without releasing whatever they promise.
>>742701172I am a fan of quite a few double fine games but this will just delay the inevitable closure because holy shit they can't make a game that sells and not be way over budget.
>>742700635This is literally nothing. None of the important studios were affected.
>microsoft welfare for slop endinggood.
>>742701087Mr Fink will give him a top up providing he tows the line like a good boy
>>742700741>japan remains strong>gacha gacha gacha gacha because japs refuse to play anything elsecool
Imagine if they took all the talented visual effects devs and had them work on a real game with cute girls in it instead of nothing or >>742701320Ninja Theory with guidance could make the best Prisma Illya game ever that gets banned in 17 countries or whatever the fuck instead of flop after flop.
>>742700635The roastiecaust
>>742700856>narrator: there wasn't
>>742700741It gets me fucking erect knowing how hard these retards wanted to infect the gaming industry with their bullshit agendas and they fucking lost and they lost bigly. Once all of these retards are out of the gaming industry they'll never be able to pull this shit again.
>Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management....We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3
>I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goalWHAT THE FUCK IS ASHA SMOKING, LMAO, 1 BILLION XBOX PLAYERS!
>>742701314Needs a carrot and a stick, not just a happy bouncy daycare center.
>>742701069Here's your pity (you), sport.
>>742700635Xbox niggers are already coping>G-Guys no studios getting shut down is good news!!!!!Yeah they'll just get shut down next year instead
>>742701501if you want vfx slop go play wuthering waves
>>742701397Ralphchads can't stop winning
>>742701417Metroid Dread is the only good game Nintendo has made in like 10 years
>>742701230To be fair the jeeta is just cleaning up after Spencer. Yeah, it was dumb for them to gobble so many studios but so is keeping them around if they don't produce results.
>>742701440>Japan is already embracing globohomoSo much for that Toyota Celica driving foid making Japan great again.
>>742701518FREE LIFETIME GAMEPASS TO EVERY INDIAN
>No studio gets shut down>the games are still being developed and they're still coming out>1500 Xbox jobs that arent developers goneHonestly for a layoff thing, this is probably the best way of handling it and people will continue bullying Sony for their no more physical games than care about Xbox firing people now.
>>742701314Another downside of 10 year development cycles means games are dated at launch. I can't wait to see how many 2001 era memes are in GTA VI.
>>742701564This.
>>742701440>and also admitted toFuck, off retard. >no you don't get it, one guy is getting funded by a SK company that means the entirety of Japan is kneeling Pinching emoji.
>>742700635Hoping bethesda gets closed down that would be glorious
>>742701516The ideal amount of manager layers is 0. It is a direct negative to both the quality and the cost of game.
>>742701230Phil thought buying studios and paying for in-house development was the cheapest way to get gamepass slop. He was wrong.
>>742700947>Xbox studio >Not being closed at a moments noticeAnon…
>>742701562You'd have to be a real sad sack of shit to be simping for this absolute skeleton of a company. Anyone with half a brain moved on 15 years ago.
>>742701594Hello saarThis isn't Twitter, this isn't going to work here.
>>742701625Not possible, everything they release is massively successful and TESVI is only behind GTA6 in terms of hype.
>>7427015161 billion jeets will be gaming on Xbox in the future, rejoice!
>>742701516FOURTEEN FUCKING LAYERS?Holy shit bless this woman actually cleaning up the shack instead of adding more free daycare bloat.
>>742700820Microsoft hiring jeets won't make us buy their games. If they replace the they/thems with Rajeets, they'll be forced to do an other round of layoffs in a few years - and lose even more money.
>>742700809double fine games so good you have to buy them twice
>>742701023Watch American companies burn money on capeshit in 2026 is amusing.
>>742700741This. The market correction is finally happening. The forest fire is burning all the weeds and parasites and fertilizes the soil with their ashes.
Hopefully those affected end up starving
what's next for Xbox?
>>742701012okay but nobody at microsoft's higher ups are getting fired, these rich cunts are getting off scot-free or golden parachutes
What about my adult daycare queen, is she safe?Please I need to know if she may continue getting paychecks for being a #WomanInTech.
>>742701230The endgame was to teach you that it's extremely hard to actually do things and that the people who think you can just throw money at a problem are naive fools. I hope you learned that lesson well, because MS spent $70b to teach you that.
>>742701646He also was too nice and told them to make good games for gamepass, which resulted in games that took 6 years for forgotten garbage.
>>742701440>Gookfags unironically believe thisKEKAROOOOOO nobody even remembers CD
>>742701620>Appeal to emotion fallacy
>>742701679You are an ugly jew and look like a bald rat, jason.
>>742701625>shut down a Fallout game in production >drag Todd and co out the back >take Skyrim off the storefronts permanently Nuclear timeline
>>742701189they're also the only country in east asia that has circumcisions thanks to christcuck missionaries and american cultural pressure
>>742701516>14 layers of management14 circles of hell more like I had like 3 layers of management once and two of those layers couldn't even agree with each other which made my job fucking suck
>>742701692They've been planning this in advance and are using her as a scapegoat for change. It's a common company tactic whereas to departmentalise responsibility.>Plan out a change>Promote/hire someone to 'do it'>Appearance of clean slate, if it fails, it's not your beeswax, if it succeeds, company does well.Leads are always just figureheads.
>>742701717The market correction is happening, but the cultural damage is permanent.
>>742700895Why do you think the Korean peninsula is divided, namefag retard?
>>742700635>double fine>going independentI'm sure with making games like this, they'll do just fine. lol
>>742700741>while japan remains stronghuh?
>>742701741and yet some people still have the gall to say women don't live life on easy mode
>>742700741This isn’t a bad thing though, everyone knows that Microsoft was becoming a bloated mess of studios
>>742701087they'll just sell to a new parent company who will make them into a slop factory
>>742700741Crashing this industry with no survivors
>>742701230Globohomo Notice how every faggot is faggy now, and how every game is nigger faggotry suited for women or faggy fags
>>742700741it's not strong, they're just not pricing in the fact that humans are not going to be competitive buyers of hardware for the near future
>>742700947One of the few more promising studios that emerged during the whole kickstarter CRPG revival era. Promising as in they've turned profit and managed to grow in size. Meanwhile you have studios (like the one behind Perfect Dark) that have nothing to show after 7 years of development.
>>742700635>selling ninja theory and undead labsWho is going to buy them?
>>742701516FOURTEENFOURTEEEEEEEEEEEEEN???????????????
>The woman who ruined Minecraft got a promotionBold.>>742701782Xbox nigger coping.
>>742700741why are weebs so goddamn retarded?
>>742701663They have the console exclusive buff for their upcoming game for now
>>742701925(You) are, congratulations!
>>742701850Keeper was awesome but is also a 2 hour game and it's hard to talk about why it is so awesome without spoiling it all.AND IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A 6 MONTHS PROJECT NOT A 5 FUCKING YEARS WTF
>>742701732Nepos gonna nepo
>>742701741Imagine being a dude who just loves vidya and has dreamed of making games, you get a job and have to deal with this whore and hundreds more like her who get paid more than you to turn up at the office late, eat, gossip with their whore colleagues, maybe send an email then fuck off home early. Absolute humiliation ritual.
>>742700635Less "apocalyptic" than I originally expected.Two studios going independent, two others for sale and a fifth one in limbo.
>>742701925frank's closeout emporium that fires everyone and sells the furniture
>>742701925Arabs
>>742701516>Jew Daycare is a sexist and anti-semitic conspiracy theory
>>742701925I wanna say saudis but they've been scaling back on entertainment. So probably koreans or chinese.
>>742701752their problem was they want to sell hardware but also be a subscription service. They needed to choose a lane. i think they should have fully pivoted to subscription service with Gamepass and sunset Xbox hardware but apparently they made too much revenue to do that. But also couldn't grow in HW because no one had any reason to buy Xbox over PS or PC. so they were stuck.
>>742701849lmao I still had the name on from shitposting in TESVI threads, anyway korea makes better games without stank of american "culture" unlike japan.
>>742701732Phil and Sarah arent there any more.
>>742702023Chinese are doing that tool anon they invest domestically now only. I wont be suprised if its Paramount tho mark my words lmao at least with Ninja Theory.
>>742700635And nothing of value was lost
>>742700947Inexile seems to be the only studio that was happy to be acquired by xbox. I would have been sad if they were axed. >>742701518Hey that's better than hearing Phil Spencer speech about giving up. She knows that she can't say shit like that at least
>>742700706shrier said they refuse to develop fallout gamesthey are gone next round of layoffs
>>742701741bitch will just make an OF account should she ever be fired, but I get the feeling she has sucked her way too deep into the company by now.
>>742701516>14 different managers all demanding more niggers, femoids and trannies
>>742701230>release 0 gamesWasn't part of the plan. They expected the devs to work instead of doing vidrel
>>742702015never trust the vaginal jew
>>742702090they got golden parachutes
>>742700635good
>>742701518Maybe they'll start counting up the windows users to bloat up the numbers.
>>742700809Microsoft money obviously. But without that, they're either going to have to make a game that actually sells or go running back to kickstarter
>>742700635State of Decay is actually a zombie series at this point, fucking epic
What happens if no one wants to buy NT and Undead Labs? Although I'm not worried about Undead Labs, they have an alpha version of SoD3 playable and a sucker is born every minute.
>>742702157Why would one record themselves crying
>>742701741this webm contains extremely evil energy
What will be their fate?This is just the first swing of the axe
>>742700635I was hoping to dance on Tim Schafers grave. But he always manages to float back up to the surface since he gets protected by an industry racket.That's where being a progressive ally of Anita Sarkeesian and co gets you. Total life immunity. I was once again being unrealistic.
>>742700635>[AMAZING NEWS]
>>742701516kinda sounds like they are slashing dei trannyism but i doubt it'll be gone for good, since later in the memo they promote a woman who replaces a white guy
>>742702240gets sold to some liquidating company that fires everyone and sells all assets
>buying everything>lose money>sell everything (at loss)What is this strategy called?
>>742701010Nintendo barely makes any gacha and they just gave their whole workforce a raise while everyone else is laying people off.The real reality is many of these American devs are tied up in American big tech money and they all took out loans during covid and now they're all trying to save money by chasing ther AI bubble. That's why Microsoft is suddenly dropping all attempts at making Xbox a big brand when just 3-4 years ago they were spending so much to make that happen its crazy. Daddy MS came through, looked at their spending and said "Ummmm we could be gambling this on AI, duh!"
>>742702157hopium
>>742701516>14 layers of managementJesus Christmas. Why?That's just excessive and sounds like a nightmare to work with.
>>742701516lots of women are getting fired I see KEK
Look with the shit those axed studios were saying and how they laughed at gamers we should be happy over this news. Double Fine devs were literally saying how "microsoft is stuck with us so we can pitch whatever trash we want" Watch at 30 seconds mark. https://x.com/Durrtydoesit/status/2072799035375624593 Phil Spencer almost killed the industry with giving those woke activists unlimited money
>>742701741vapid whore
Surprised Rare didn’t get canned.
>>742701518>1 BILLION XBOX PLAYERS!
>>742700809the little grease ball in charge of double fine has been entrenched with pol shit to stick forever producing dog shit unprofitable slop for 10+ years
>>742701516>14 layers of managementHoly shit
>>742702314ye olde /biz/ strat of buy high sell lowprofound, i know
>>742702251That depends entirely on how well Sea of Thieves is still doing. Them adding whatever the fuck creative mode doesn't exactly inspire confidence
>>742701516Interesting, I'd probably kill myself if I had to deal with 14 levels of Indians micromanaging me and couldn't leave.
>make woke slop games>make no money>lay everyone offyou get what you fucking deserve.
>>742700635>4800 layoffsGod damn they weren't kidding. This was a big one.
Eat shit xcucks
>>742702157Thank you. I didn't know this was the source of the owari da face.
>>742701645You want to leave the devs to their own devices again Spencer?
>ZeniMax will face a significant overhaul and will pivot to focus on its biggest franchises: Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein.quake is considered bigger than starfield
REMINDER THAT THEY WILL HIRE INDIANS ON VISAS LMAO
>Bethesda getting cuts
>>742702247Women don't think about things same way men do.
We won Sonysisters! Now everyone will forget about Sony’s wrongdoings
>>742700947>>742701095pajeeta just keeping the white studiosbased
>>742701113Ninja Theory had tons of good games though. Senua 3 would've been a masterpiece
>>742702479Is it?
>>742701230They wished to push everybody else out of the market by buying every AAA developer on the planet. But the problem was that all AAA devs went woke and worthless at the same time and that this doesn't affect Nintendo because they make their own games.
>343 still aliveI really hope the halo remake bombs, but 100% sure will carry that shit.
>>742701625I agree but that won't happen: Tod actually makes good money by re-releasing Skyrim periodically.
>>742702520Starfield is already a main franchise Bethesda is focusing on, it's still getting DLCs every year.
>>742702314Phil Spencer was a snoy double agent.
>>742700741You’re honestly retarded anon Xbox was being retarded and buying a ton of studios because of game pass, it was over bloated and this needed to happen years ago. AA and indie games are still fine
Good. FUCK MICROSOFT
>>742700809Tim Schafer is a genuine creative talent. It sucks he got a case of politics brain.
>>742701087Double Fine turned into an adult daycare because of Microsoft
>>742701230They released games, but they were all flops; they deserved to be shut down—this is Microsoft being generous.
Next cancel Blizzard please.
>>742701852Sony is a Japanese company btw
>>742702520So is Arkane kill?
Lol lmao based Asha didn't even give a damn about Compulsion ips. Phil Spencer is seething for sure
>>742701230They released like 25 games what are you smoking?
>>742702404Plus its their most recent game, and it came out in 2018It averages like 10k players a day on Steam, don't know how far that stretches for them
>>742700741I love seeing western DEI garbage die while Asian studios thrive. They need to learn.
>>742702630Games like Forza and... They are as bad as Sony in the not releasing games department. Heck even Nintendo has only put out a couple of games in the past few years, dev is taking way too long.
>>742702568>this doesn't affect Nintendo because they make their own games.They outsource their IPs quite often but they tend to work with studios that don't deliver complete stinkers.
>>742702627wouldn't want to keep any of them either tbqh>we happy fewstill mad
>>742702113Inxile is soulful for a AAA studio. Also I have yet to see a single black person working at their studio lmao https://youtu.be/ETxe96xjcD0?is=3VuEiB9jubiG8u3S
The whole Xbox thing is a good lesson that giving mid tier developers more time and money does not result in better games. Just about every low-mid tier developer that Xbox bought just made more low-mid tier trash nobody cares about.
>>742702610>because of MicrosoftHolly revisionism mr. DJ Fish Sticks.
>>742700635They just going to use it to hire 10,000,000 jeets,That what they do, you get 1 jeet and he will bring in all the jeets he knows
>>742702562>Not a single good game since 2011How the fuck is this shit company still in business?
>>742702251Sea of Thieves is doing well enough to keep them in the black, plus they only have 200 employees. Sea of Thieves definitely makes like around 50 mil a year.On the flip side, keep in mind that Doublefine has 100 employees and hasn't made a top tier game in over a decade (psychonauts 2 was OKAY but it was not a great game). They're basically bleeding money. This was basically a series of "rip off the bandaid" layoffs for studios that are either not producing good games (doublefine) or are years from their next good game releasing (state of decay 3 is 2027, could end up 2028).
SAD NEWS THEY ARE NOT STOPPING WITH THE NIGGERSTHEY WILL CONTINUE TO CHASE THE NIGGER AND FOID AUDIENCE
bros why did he do it
>>742701283japan barely has any gachas
Mommy Asha is saving Xbox
>>742700925>We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions.Todd is getting some cash and a piece of paper with the words ELDER SCROLLS and FALLOUT written on it, and a deadline underneath.
>>742702571Who the fuck wants to buy the second or third remaster of a 25 year old game? I like Halo (1-3) and I wouldn't even consider thinking about playing this shit.
>>742702660>successful asian game>*look inside*>gambling machine for goonersThe future of gaming is bleak if this is all there will be left
>>742701230Trying to stop other games being made on different platforms but they are so fucking stupid they couldn’t do the basic of making fucking video game people wanted to play and even when they got good games they killed the studios
>>742700809he ran a kickstarted clone that stole a ton of money for incomplete projects and has a board that throws money at it. they are not indie by any means and they constantly secure funding before making anything. mr shitface is crafty as hell
Double Fine retains their ips too. Not like anyone would want psychonauts 3 after that woke "Russian" segment in 2
>>742702738CINNAMON MILKIES
>>742702747No he's not. He already used his maxed out charisma and luck build in asha last month. He's Gucci
>>742702627South of Midnight, man what a banger of a title. I can't name anything else they've made.
>>742702747It's absolutely insane that Fallout and Elder Scrolls are the biggest IPs today and because Bethesda is absolutely tiny for an AAA dev they can only work on one game at a time and they're selfish enough to keep their IPs locked up because they wanted only themselves to work on them.
>>742700809Tim is TERRIBLE with moneyThis is like releasing a liger in the wild
>>742702314>>742702402
>>742702751This remake was made for Snoys.
>>742702773it's not gamba, the point is Asia dont make slop with fat black lesbians for an audience that doesnt exist.these western studios deserve to be bankrupt.
>>742702357Enemies of gamers. The enemy within
>>742702796>can't even sell DF because they dont have any IPssad
>>742702157>0:32
>>74270151614??FOURTEEN???I think it is time for you to leave.
>>742702314The Joker school of economics. It was never about the money.
>>742702624Arkane are protected for a while by French labour laws, so it will take Microsoft longer to sell them.
>>742701516>work passes through as many as 14 layers of management
>>742702751Remakes are good for building new fans, Capcom said RE's popularity is thanks to doing remakes. Turns out a lot of young gamers would never ever download an emulator but they'd happily cough up $70 for a remake.
>make good games>stop making woke slop>stop making shit like black people Fable for a non existent audienceis it really that hard?
>>742701516lol no fucking wonder they can’t make shit this is fucking insane
>>742702885i think that era of western character design is done and had its swansong with Concord
>>742702796rev up those kickstarters
>>742700741>while japan remains strong
>>742700635oh wow how comes nintendo isn't doing this
>Obsidian completely safe/v/ BTFO again. The good guys always win.>Other Xbox studios will also be impacted by layoffs across the board, and I understand there are larger cuts to Bethesda studios in particular. As part of the studio changesShould have given the bonus Todd, karma is a bitch.
>>742702240That china company uhh netease?SaudisEmbracer GroupThese are the big ones that buy apart from MS but not sure any of these are interested.
>>742702853Same logic behind Pokemon, and the same quality issues too
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLGet fucked
>americans losing jobs so everything can be outsourced to jeets using llmsUSA, USA, USA
>>742701752To be fair, the things they have that are even keeping them afloat are things they just bought. If they were in the same position now but didn't have ABK, Bethesda, and Mojang they'd probably just be straight up dead with no hope of even attempting to cling on for another generation. ABK actually has the 25-30% profit margin that Microsoft wants all of Xbox to have.
>>742703002Because Grounded made shitloads. Rare is also safe.
Ever since Bullfrog was bought by EA and shut down, it's followed the exact same pattern every time.Do people delude themselves into thinking it will somehow play out differently?
>>742701010>for decadesHell no, Japanese game industry still has good games in every decade.
Damn was really looking forward to SoD3 ah well
Undead labs, Ninja theory, Arkane twitters are silent btw
>>742701516anyone have that webm of the day in the life chick at microsoft arriving in her Porsche and doing fuck all work?
>>742703002Josh sawyer can make good shit xbox just needs to get someone to tard wrangle his libtatd ass
>>742703031and for the exact same reasons too, the developers are just too old.
>>742701516>14 layers worth of nepoid fuckwits trying to justify their continued existenceGrim
>>742702842He gave her the Todd special.
>>742701518Honestly they could if they had Roblox/ Fortnite/ Minecraft all on Xbox but PlayStation has Fortnite on lock down
>>742703002Bethesdabros... not like this... not to Obsidian...
>>742702624Arkane hasn't been "alive" in a decade. It's all Dindu Barakobama and other "French" leeches. Anyone with talent already left.
>>742702404I have never seen so many retarded takes about a big creative mode update.At the very least it finally adds fucking pvp all the annoying cunts had been begging for years. Lets see if anyone actually wants to play pvp modes.
>>742703061It's still coming, part of the deal is making sure it gets released
>>742703071Arkane is technically in a legal battle now so they probably won't say a thing because it relates to the case.
>>742702786>mr shitfacedidnt he get legitimately pissed about this. lmao.
>>742700635>devs getting sold off/going independentGood for them, getting out of Microsoft with their head still intact.
>>742701925Undead Labs has Tencent written all over itif Sony wasn't such a dumpster fire right now, i'd consider Ninja Theory or even Arkane to be a candidate to be bought by them.
>>742701516>14 layers of managementYOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP
>>742702842>only a smidge shorter than Toddwtf she's a giant?!
is part of these layoffs downstream of nearly all american studios being in major west coast cities where a personal income of 120k is "low income"
>>742702978sadly not, California based studios insist on making ugly designs for people that dont even play games. We're still getting it. Look at Fable and other shit. Western studios are filled with retards who only care about politics and minority garbage. Asia thankfully only care about making hot girls and gameplay.
>>742703071The few clickwhoring youtubers were running damage control for Undead Labs after they got access to that rather subpar alpha for SoD3. I doubt they will be singing the same tune now.
>>742701230Embrace, extend deadlines, extinguish.
>>742701518She's counting Candy Crush and mobile shit there
>>742702314The 5 studios were never the big meat. Literally 5 peas at the side of a massive pig roast that the bug studio acquisitions were.Could have been good for the artful portfolio but even with unlimited time these studios got 2 games max out in 5 years so they are just useless wage to pay.
>>742701069the blizzdrone is overdosing on soileint
>>742702157DEI companies are a literal daycare for retards like this btw.
I only play chinese games
>>742703174Yes. If you arent making games that sell, you're gone. Bungie is located in the most expensive city in america so they're getting gutted hard.
>>742700635>No studios actually shutting downYOU PROMISED ME A DEAD BODY
>>742703178gacha games where you gamble for PNGs is doing the heavy lifting for the asian gaming industry, absolutely not healthycapcom and nintendo are carrying the torch over there
>>742703179Oh state of decay community have always sucked. They've been buying everyone since 2, how else all the prominent youtubers played that slop
what hit game will double fine produce for its big indie come back?
>>742702453>>4800 layoffsRead the fine print and that is 2% of the total workforce at MS(not even counting contractors and such of course)Holy shit Microsoft is massive.
>>742702247Cuz foid
>>742703206nta but its weird that they're shedding undead games right before state of decay 3 releases in 2027like are they that desperate to drive down operating costs after the activision sale put them in the doghouse with microsoft?
>Xbox will see their announced games to completion even if they cannot find a buyerThat's actually very nice of them
>>742701518She has a dream
>>742702157can't believe she was laid off after doing zero actual work for the last four months
>>742702978>i think that era of western character design is doneI think you're in denial.
>all the faggots just failed upwards againwhy does this keep happening?
>>742701518Chyna will deliver
>>742702562>Senua 3 would've been a masterpieceSenua 3 and State of Decay 3 are still releasing.No announced game got canceled because that was just wishful Jason Schreier rumor shitting.
>>742703308Internally Microsoft must have seen that SoD3 wasn't worth it so they are letting them go. The whole conference was weird in general because they were letting Ninja Theory announce their new "game" knowing that they would be letting the company go soon.
>>742700635I did this.
>>742703291It's a rougelike deckbuiilder about households appliances given life. I call it "White Goods"
>>742702536*Women don't think about things
>>742703347Stop noticing the patterns bro
>>742703084why would you ever follow a developer on social media? like what are you even expecting
>>742702571343 already had layoffs including leader change.It's funny how people will cry for things to happen and then don't care when they happened.
>>742703371Both games are still being released
Here's her run from the previous GDQ:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQLS-ud6gmsYour next move, transphobes? She is clearly a cis princess.
>>742703347Not all of them. Surely some of the faggots were part of the 3,200 layoffs.
>>742703326Its the fault of mysoginistic incel chuds!
Seriously why do Blizzard and sony shills wants to see Bethesda and is dead? is this because todd, julian and altman told their shitty companies to fuck off?
I only play chinese games too
>Double Fine survives againHow the FUCK does he keep getting away with it?
>>742700809Honestly who fucking knows at this point. Both documentaries he's produced for Broken Age and Psychonaughts 2 are some of the most aggravating things to watch over how arrogant and obliviously narcissistic Tim is. Psychonaughts 2 doc specifically goes in to how Tim begged people for literal money with no strings attached and people literally gave him millions. Fucking Will Write gave him like, 5 million or something insane to stay afloat and that was just purely a gift. I mean I have friends that gave me over 2k to help me stay afloat that they said I never have to pay back but I got my shit together, meanwhile Tim refuses to do ANYTHING to make a profitable company while still making the bold claim that it's society's fault, while also telling people to go to therapy.
>>742701568Nintendo's other games also sell very well. >But they're not good! That's subjectiveThey are successful
>>742703308>drive down operating costs after the activision sale put them in the doghouse with microsoft?activision is probably the only profitable purchase they've made. i'm pretty sure this was all mandated due to microsofts focus on ai
>>742701516>14 layers of managementHow does one come to implement such corporate hubris?
>double fine had a game come out this yearWhat the fuck lol
>>742703276You dont have to roll for gacha units at all. The difference between Asia and the west is Asia care about making units/content gamers like, while the west is stuck making DEI slop with black characters no one asked for.or "im non binary" dialogue.
>>742702689>redditspacing snoygger malding at actual games releasing
>>742703459oops, wrong tab
>>742703420I looked up his blue sky when the story of obsidian being closed down started going around and saw that on his page lol
I hope Arkane gets nuked because their games since Prey have been complete and utter shit
>>742701485Nintendo is also Japanese, retard. So is Capcom and fromsoft.
>>742703482God I hate the slop artstyle of the "new" monkey island
>>742703276At least gacha devs take that money and invest it into shit that people want, like full console/PC games, anime, publishing, etc. etc.
>Bethesda is getting overhauledCan't wait for the CoPilot AI TES6 shitpost to become reality
>>742703495they just kept growing and spending assuming Phil's acquired studios were going to produce system sellers instead of flaming garbage
Ummm so how would journo spin this? No one is getting closed and no game is being cancelled. They needed a buffer for bad playstation news
I can see someone buying Ninja Theory for mocap, cutscene creation and UE5 experience. The Senua games look amazing, they just barely have any gameplay but there's plenty of demand for non-gaming uses of UE5 in the film and advertising industries.Undead Labs though? State of Decay 2 was their last game and released before MS bought them, and State of Decay 3 is at least a year if not more out. I can't imagine anyone being interested.
>>742700741Korea and China > Japan and the U.S.
>>742700635I wonder if those guys expecting this to lead to obsidian and inxile getting completed axed are crying and shitting themselves right now?Like its just the studios that cant make a game or have nonstop massive failures for the little bit they actually release. Good to see them clearing out the obvious leeches.
>>742703590The writing might actually improve.
I did nothing and i won
>>742703501>What the fuck lolNobody gives a fuck about Double Fine, besides 40-50yo idiots who don't even play their games now.Nobody plays or gives a fuck about their pottery PvP MOBA or walking lightous artsy fart.Even remnants of the old press establishment don't encourage people to spend time or pay for that 'cool stuff'.Go back to rimming Tim's hairy asshole.
>>742703482Double Fine going independent again in this economy after they had two duds is like taking your mentally retarded single digit cousin and dropping them off in a slum in IndiaThey're not gonna survive long but hey, at least they kept their IP
>>742703625Yeah but they'll make it always online
>>742703627Only sensible post iit
>>742701087Kickstarters I guess
>>742703590And that's a good thing! Compared to Emil at least.
>>742700895worst korea is infamous for being one of the clearest american colonies, not on the level of israel but right next to taiwan and ukraine
>>742703590Good new anon they been started to not use ai/copilot because they seen how pointless and wasteful it was
>>742701516and most of these "management" positions don't actually do anythingbut DEI hiring can't ever say no to a woman or brown so now you just throw them on the payroll and blindly hope they might contribute something to the companythey don't and instead they have some meaningless title like>product integrity managerwhile they sit around in their adult daycare eating sweets all day and no one can actually get them to do anything without being written up for "workplace harassment"
>Gooks and chinks absolutely malding no one cares about their png gambling machinesKWABOTY
>>742703479I wonder how these men feel.
>>742703493>i'm pretty sure this was all mandated due to microsofts focus on aiMr Neutella took those Microslop memes to heart. Not to mention he's trying to rally the inhouse bharats for one last push before those rats behind Claude and OpenAI decide to tie themselves to the US like parasites. If they position themselves just right they'll get a free bailout while the rest of the country burns in real time.
>>742703667Who do you think is making the prompts that generate these characters and quests, anon?
they have learned NOTHING.they are still giving Double Slop money despite Tim being a political hack retard.
What would compel anyone to want to work in Triple A gaming?>Get paid like shit compared to actual programmers>Zero job security >Zero creative freedom>No sense of camaraderie because half the game is outsourced to Indians and Eastern Europeans
>>742701104SOMEONE needs to make a party-based Warcraft RPG already.
>>742703702That was before Xbox started to reorganize and remove studio autonomy, dumb nigger
>>742703002The fact that they are somehow getting off completely scott free has convinced me Asha is having them work on a Fallout game. There is literally no other explanation.
>>742701516Can't tell if quote or shitpost
>>742703614Jornos already changed sides.Notice how right after the end of discs announcement, everyone at the same time started posting "rumors" of microsoft "disc to digital" strategy.
Alright alright how much did the studios pay to keep their IP?Asha doesn't have a dick so it's not like Mr. Shitface could have sucked her off
>>742703308SoD3 should have released years ago. Even if it is a giant hit on the level of fortnite it is not worth keeping such a slow ass snail of a studio around that makes 1 game per 10 years maybe.The game is still coming out so it's gg whatever.
>>742703718We're seething? It's Western game devs that are shutting down.
>>742703475Blizzard would had cancelled morrowind and bethesda would become another shitty wow team, and get shut by Bobby to save costs.id Software would also be sent to the CoD mines like raven, and blizzard would had told id to shut down too.Sony HATES Bethesda in general, mainly for not buying them.
this microsoft globohomo has bred so many retards that the average dogshit game hovers over 80% of steam, sometimes even overwhelmingly positivei fucking hate kikes, and the fucking brits too while at it
>>742701741Took them years to reach to the conclusion that jewish daycare for women doesn't give any benefits or competitivity
>>742703798https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-confirms-plans-to-cut-5-studios-and-thousands-of-jobs/israel
>>742703057>tfw no Theme Hospital 2k26
So.....is the bloodbath over?
>>742703291PEGGLE 3!
It's insane just how irresponsible these studios were. Did Double Fine really think they were going to live a life of party endlessly with nothing to show for it? And even after all that they still get their golden parachute. Microsoft was way too kind to them.
>>742702367You say the dumbest shit.
>>742703887the ride never ends
>>742703909Phil was a big fan of Grim Fandango
>>742703887Yeah, for this month.
>>742703861Did the globohomo layer get axed?
>>742703482Keeper is pure ludokino and the best Scornlike but LOL LMAO there is no way Double Fine can survive on their own in this economy with their slow and extreme niche output.>a fucking craft your own pottery online brawlerWHAT WHERE THEY THINKING???
>>742703960Dangerously based.
>>742703836Morrowind's astronomic success probably haunts morhaine
>>742702853>>742703087They are probably the best example that keeping all the same people around who made the first few good games of a studio is not always a great idea, because these fags just dont have the magic anymore or the knowledge of modern anything (modern as in 2005 to present) to develop, are stubborn and rigid when it comes to discussing ideas and concepts regarding game design and think they can do the exact same stuff they always do and everyone wont mind the 1990s issues they are still dragging along with them.If it wasnt for Todd i genuinely think Bethesda would have gone bankrupt, the dude is a liar seller but its those lies that kept people thinking Bethesda is worth putting money on despite their lackluster games.
>>742703994Microsoft is a publicly traded company.
>>742701189japan had multiple 4th of july celebrationsi dont know if korea had any but i do know vietnam also did
>>742703808and that fake rumor of how next xbox would be fully digital at the same time. How can these two rumors coincide? You can't turn your physical games into licenses with no disk drive
>>742703861Holy shit and I thought I knew something about corpobloat
>>742703719They probably feel like it's just another job.
>>742702247why not
>>742700635BLRLRRRRGURGURUGRUGRGGGG
>>742703637>Nobody gives a fuck about Double Fine, besides 40-50yo idiots who don't even play their games now.I did notice this on socials when the rumours came out.All the people REALLY upset at the prospect of Double Fine closing all added to the post that they only cared about Grim Fandango they played 2 decades ago.Stacking is actually a really good puzzle adventure game btw. Worth a play.
>>742703887No, the "reset" is planned on continuing through 2027
>>742703719>"I guess it's better than working in the Guangdong Xi Billing Shubangding battery factory"
What was the original turning point that normalized companies hiring hundreds of employees to sit around and drain resources in pointless middle-manager positions?
>>742703029I don't imagine it would cost a lot to buy Undead Labs, the question is would be willing to buy the "people" working there. The behind the scenes aren't pretty. Basically for an investor it would need to be a pump and dump once SoD3 releases.
>>742704162>talented people are leaving because there's no growth in our company>uhhh make up some position and promote them into that to keep them happy>guy retires, we need to fill his position even though it only existed because we wanted to keep Jim's expertise in house>repeat
>>742701516This is basically what led to the downfall of Bethesda>pre Xbox buyout, some guy has an idea, he works on it on his own time, puts in the game and Todd evaluates it and approves it or denies it within a few days, that's how we got werewolves and customizable houses, in Skyrim, just a side project a random dev made>Post Xbox, guy has to clear it with his manager, then his manager has to clear it with his senior manager, then his senior manager has to clear it with his director, then the director has to clear it with his fellow directors, then they all have to clear it with Todd, then Todd has to clear it with a random xbox exec, then random xbox exec has to clear it with Phil, then Phil pretends to care and approves it anyways
>>742703614Very easy, watch this:*ahem*How DARE microSLOP fire these valuable EMPLOYEES?Do they not know that the profession of videogame developer(manager, rock designer) is a holier than the pope profession and no one shall darest to touch upon it?This is why we, as cosnoomers, need to support the Sony PlayStation 5 as the last bastion of physical games media and art.
>>742703764>>Zero creative freedomAll the studios that microsoft closed/let go were allowed to make whatever trash they wanted.
>Asha can be negotiated to let studios go free AND keep IPWould that apply to Rare?
>new gears of war has a troon with a buzz cut>Fable still has ugly minorities instead of fantasy style characters>Tim still has a jobMicrosoft has learned nothing.
>>742703624Jason Schreier is 100% grinding his teeth today because this is overall a very good outcome for everyone.
>>742701485>gacha>japanbro is trapped in 2016. all the gachas are chinese now.
>>742704280how are they going to make something that looks better than a PS3 game
>>742704280[Great News]
>>742704316Those were before she came in I presume.
>>742700741THIS. Total Nippon Victory
>>742704329Schreier unironically loves layoff season because it means a lot of clicks for his articles and videos
>>742703482Tim is the master of the swindle.What i can't wrap my head around is that journos didn't go for his head on both Broken Age and Space Base DF9. Specifically regarding their massive censorship and culling of reviews on the steam store for SBDF9.What i've learned post 2021 well after the backlash had truly blown over from their original censorship spree is that they culled 1000 more reviews from where they previously were at that time if you look at the store now. They resorted to even more censorship and damage control.Tim is legitimately a scumbag.
>>742704340given the choice i think most people wouldn't mind being trapped in 2016
>>742704280I wish, it will be outsourced to jeets instead
>>742700635So... What was the point of buying those companies in the first place?
>>742702751Ask Skyrim fans
reminder Microsoft to this day is still making DEI slop that will fail, and more layoffs will be needed.
>>742704297lol lmao. Rare ips are actually valuable, even if they don't make banjo and conker games they still sell merch with them. Double Fine and compulsion slop is woke. Even microsoft knows it's not worth anything
>>742704069Both companies will probably follow the ps5 pro, where there's no drive but you can buy an extremely overpriced addon just to read your old discs. They're just not going to be putting new games on discs going forward.
>>742704297Rare isn't going to get disbanded/ejected/sold because somehow there's enough people playing a live service pirate game to keep them afloat, but even if they did they'd need to make a Banjo game to pay the bills if that happened.
Also that ad was pretty good.
>>742704425you will never be white, btw.
>>742704316>>new gears of war has a troon with a buzz cutIt's a modern company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzaMs5iaX7w
>>742700741thisdeath to america
>>742700635>Our studios with the largest number of active players >are Mojang and KingSo buying Activision/Blizzard was a distraction all along, King was the real prize?
>>742701172They'll either die or get swallowed in a week
>>742704069I can see them just selling a digital xbox but also offer an optional disc drive like sony does for the pis5. Saves costs and keeps the option up.
>>742700947White?
it's funny how nintendo is winning by doing nothing, even though they have fucked up STILL not releasing a mario or zelda title.
>>742704409Because Phil Spencer has a bad taste in gaming, that's pretty much it. You don't want a gamer with bad taste as CEO, I would rather have someone larping that they beat Chrono Trigger than someone who actually 100% hellblade and thinks it's a good game.
>>742704426>they still sell merch with them.If you're talking about Fangamer they also licensed Psychonauts
>>742701095God bless Todd
>>742701516lol fucking lmao, imagine having more bureaucracy in your company than the european government
Can she please give the evil within IP back to tango/their new studio
>>742700741Japan already got mogged by china. Love and deepspace, Genshin, HSR, Wuwa are all chinese.
>>742704280back to the golden age then?
>>742700635>After careful consideration, I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale.She just made the easy cuts today. She'll spend the next year rooting out the deeper rot.
>>742704483WoW isnt drawing a Dime and Diablo IV was a massive failure.
>>742704562>Fangamerno idea who that is, I just saw conker and banjo merch in the wild
>>742700635>DROPS THE AXE>nobody gets laid off>no studio closes down>they all just split and going back indie or sold off to someone elseoh yeah what a bloodbath, a true massacre.
>>742704162It really took off around 2011-12 when Feminist Frequency & co appeared. Compliance to that progressive ideological mission required a whole new layer of jobs.
What do you mean king and mojang did not directly report to Phil Spencer before?????
>>742704530Definitely part of Phil's and Matt's xbox crew. I haven't seen a single colored person at their studio lmao https://youtu.be/ETxe96xjcD0?is=3VuEiB9jubiG8u3S
>>742704531Stay in your lane, tendie
>>742701850Kiln is fun though surprisingly enough.
>>742704610That was all decided by bethesda man. Phil Spencer cuck just nodded to the Todd god like the pussy he is
>>742704736is inXile still alive?
>>742704616Those are slot machines, anon. Not video games. But yeah, China makes the best slot machines.
>>742704683>We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested.Lmao. Imagine having such good studios that you give them a dollar.and they turn it into 36 cents. I can't believe they're laying all these retards off.
>>742701095Why do pajeets post like this?
>>742704531why do you need to bring up nintendo unprompted everywhere? Get help
>>742704772sorry sister, daddy trump said no more anti-trust enforcement :)
>>742703002Because Obsidian ships games. They didn't have huge commercial success but that can be remedied by putting them on more popular IP.Also Sawyer is like the one creative to manage his passion project well>13 devs>3 years>genuine 10/10s from the criticsCompare that to Compulsion or Ninja Theory blowing 7 years of full studio dev time and $100 million on games that got a resounding "meh" from the critics.
>>742700741Kek look at all the asspain
Why does it feel like every single AAA company is laying off 2000+ employees each every quarter?How is it physically possible for these companies to even have this many employees? What were they doing? What were they working on?1600 people is a fucking lot.
>>742700635
>>742704765Of course. Their next game is a xbox console exclusive.
>>742700741Anon just time travelled here from 2017
>>742702126Obsidian? Really? A new Fallout could probably mend their reputation, no matter how shit the game ends up being
>>742700635who the hells buyin ninja theory
>>742704162Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was what directly led to the creation of HR departments.
>>742700635>Spend billions buying up dev studios>Just fire/sell them all a few years later
>>742700741>while japan remains strongDelusional weeb retard
>>742704220>januaryMan and we thought it was bad back then.>orange tard starts a war and loses to geography first class
>>742701732Dave is "retiring."
>>742704846The old infinite money printer + covid was a helluva drug.
>>742704846they were riding waves of "bigger is better, we are growing, stock price go up" and it ended up costing them more than it made them.
>>742704297SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT BANJO ALREADY HOLY FUCK
>>742704846bloat during pandemic, these companies thought it would last longer or it will be just as easy to get people hooked on slopturns out niether happened and their gazillion dollar investments fell through with a lot of these studios just churning out stinkers and filled up with talentless, passionless retards
>>742704162Covidbux
>>742704821nintendos main fuckup is key cards. still, of the 3 consoles they are fucking up the least. I think they are the last console to survive.
>>742704925USA won tho
>>742704780>I can't believe they're laying all these retards off.BUT THATS THE PROBLEM! NOBODY IS GETTING LAID OFF! THERE IS NO RECKONING! THOSE DEVS WERE GIVEN A TEN YEAR FREE RIDE AND NOW THAT XBOX IS PULLING THE PLUG THEY ARE GOING BACK INDIE! WORST CASE THEY GET THEIR SEVERANCE PACKAGE AND SOME OTHER AAA STUDIO HIRES THEM!!! NO LESSONS WERE LEARNED AND THE CYCLE CONTINUES!!!!!
>>742704458>Techincal Director
>>742704875After Avowed and TOW1 & 2? It absolutely would not. It'd just tank the IP even further.
>>742704892didn't they make an exclusive game for playstation we all made fun of? The one with redhead girl. Then again Hellblade was timed exclusive for ps4 too, so they will buy it for more movie slop
>>742702926>it was about sending a messageThis answer actually tracks
>>742704969>>742704972>>742705004But literally what were they doing?If it takes 100 people to make a AAA game, then 1600 people should make 16 games in that time, no? Instead we got 0. What happened? How is this possible?
>>742704664Chances are those were done by Fangamer
>>74270484614 layers of management apparently. And that's the number from today after many previous rounds of layoffs, just imagine how many more layers there were at the peak of pandemic era hiring back in 2021
>>742704702You are an actual retarded zoomer that has probably never had a job before.
>>742702729A demonetized gacha is basically an RPG therefore they have the most.
>>742704280Even better, they'll be Chinese.
>>742705064Scope creep maybe?
>>742704892>>742705054They're already apparently a popular motion capture studio for people to hireI remember people thinking they were safe for that
Fallout 3 and 4 producer and Fallout 76 project lead says that 25 Bethesda employees and 95 Id employees have been fired today. Number is expected to rise.
>>742700741*Korea
>>742705054Ninja Theory's games are shit but their mocap tech and expertise is quite valuable. I can see someone buying them, gutting the game dev part of the studio, and just turning them into a support group for more profitable teams.
>>742704846the past 10 years of corporate growth and not producing anything of value is due to free interest rates, which is no longer free so now they have to actually make things that sell.
>>742705064800 indians each 3d modelling unique 10billion poly rocks individually for each new game.
>>742704483A and B are still massive but nothing beats an established mobile giant like K when it comes to money spend to money gained.
The only one of these that even has gameplay is State of Decay.
>>742704846
>>742704616>Japan already got mogged>look inside>All gacha shitlmao
>>742705001I was thinking about Perfect Dark
>>742705137*35
>>742700741dont know whats funnier, the westoid shill posts or the gook and chink bots malding at this fact
>>742701741>Experience>Microsoft>4 yrs 9 mos>Technical Program Manager II - Microsoft Finance>Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr>AI & Data Technical Program Manager specializing in end-to-end solution development with Python, PyTorch, SQL, and Azure Synapse. Driving the design and implementation of agentic systems, prompt engineering for LLM applications, and enterprise data pipeline architecture. Expertise in establishing SOPs, orchestrating data transformation workflows with Pandas, and integrating Model Context Protocols (MCPs) to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions.shes safe
>>742700635What's up with all these companies reporting hundreds of billions in profits, yet simultaneously have mass layoffs on an annual basis all on the grounds of struggling financially?
>>742705186crystal dynamics already wanted to buy perfect dark and microsoft said no
>>742704297They are never buying Rare back and it has nothing to do with how much they'll cost. Even at 10% of the original deal they would still not repurchase them.
>>742705025>Nobody is getting laid offAlready in the thousands and they're now elimating 14 layers of management>BUT THEY MILKED THEM FOR 10 YEARSgood for them, but that's over.>THEYLL GO INDIEthat was always allowed. I don't know how they'll feed their kids with another vampire survivors clone, but best of luck to them>ANOTHER AAA STUDIO WILL BUY THEMlmao. Which one? I don't think Sony is going to want thousands of middle managers who were financial magicians that managed to light 2/3 of the money given to them on fire.
>>742703002sawyer is the only person with a brain at obsidianalso you clearly have todd and bethesda derangement syndrome
>>742700635This means that i can finally play Psychonauts on a decent console?
>>742704925>loses
>>742700741Gooks and Chinks seething hard at this TRVTHNUKE
so... that's it? the apocalypse? the meteor that wiped out dinosaur? the mass extinction event? the big crash?it's just 3000 layoffs?holy shit i am never trusting /v/ ever again.
>>742705181Is State of Decay 3 being axed? It's one of the few interesting games Microsoft had potentially going for them. I don't get Dead Risings anymore so this is the closest i get. Or i guess playing Dying Light or something.
>>742705298Yes, the meteor hit your axe wound, tranny.kys x kys
>>742704846Layoffs are always big news but rehirings you will never hear of unless you follow very specific accounts that track when studios are hiring.
>>742705298see>>742704653
>>742701837It seems a lot of companies are putting pajeets in position of powers as a company face and scapegoat. I wonder why specifically pajeets though? Whatever she's cute.
>>742703002>has literally released 7 games in the last 9 years>/v/ shocked that they are not on the chopping blockAre people here retarded or something? Grounded 1 and 2 have already recouped any potential losses that Avowed and Outer Worlds 2 had, if they even had any since they had small budgets.
>>742705064The developers of Highguard of all things had a pretty good write up on this on Twitter.Back in the day you'd have one guy designing a character. They'd draw the concept, 3D model it, texture it, animate it, and make sure it actually worked in the game. Really fancy high-budget games could afford to outsource their concept art to some famous comic book artist.These days you have a Character Outsourcing Manager. Their job is to sit in Character Design Meetings with like six other people discussing what the character should be like. After the discussion the Outsourcing Manager then contacts their overseas team at their global support studio (aka a sweatshop in Vietnam or India) and instructs them on how to make the character. Eventually they'll get sent back a finished product, which then goes through god knows how many layers of QA and Diversity Officers until it ends back at the Character Design Meeting Committee. If they don't like what they see, the entire process starts all over again. And because the team doing the actual work is in a different continent and barely speaks english, this means the entire process takes 6 weeks each time any revisions are needed.
>>742701692The Microsoft Board of Directors have been looking to clean house with Xbox since they asked for money to buy Activision-Blizzard. When they found out that Xbox has been hemorrhaging money they sent Asha as an executioner. That is her role. She is a nice pretty face to execute the ruthless demands of the Board. Make no mistake, she herself has no soul. She is basically a bot.
>>742705247>they're now elimating 14 layers of management9-11 layers*
>>742705280what are you talking about? Psychonauts is already available everywhere. Unless you mean switch 2, and if they didn't care to port back when phil allowed that they would not do it now. Expect one game max from them and then closure. They deserve it anyway
>>742705370With women specifically it's called the glass cliff.
>>742705237Shhhhhh you’re nooooticing too much
>>742703297How much of that 98% is vidya though
>>742705391Grounded is getting a tv show on Netflix as well. Obsidian just needs to wrangle in the libshit and get better writers.
>>7427051867 FUCKING YEARSUNLIMITED BUDGETSHUNDREDS OF WORKERSEVEN FUCKING IOI WAS HELPINGWHAT DID THEY PRODUCE???A fucking bullshot cgi trailer not representative of gameplay.
>>742705237Because Microsoft's money isn't coming from Xbox, it's coming from AI and Xbox uses the same components AI does and guess which one is getting the axe.
>Xbox niggers desperately trying to pretend the cuts aren't as bad as we all thought they would beSaars, please.
>>742705298>and the thousands a few months ago>and the hundreds leading up to that point a year agoHow the fuck do you lose so badly to a company remastering games they already made 30 years ago? Why does it take a fucking poo to realize Bethesda doesn't need their own personal chef?
>>742705391>Are people here retarded or something?uhh, yeshow long did it take you to realize this?
>>742700895>korea >not a vassal state of usaTop kek
>>742705247>lmao. Which one?Some narrative designer lands at santa monica, some other in vancouver at the thousand studios there, maybe someone at a rockstar, ubisoft or larian studio. Getting laid off like that should be a scarlet letter. That turns them persona non grata. Toxic and untouchable. But it doesn't.
>>742705515As an xbot I was waiting for this. I was actually expecting total death of compulsion, ninja theory, double fine and obsidian. So I'm disappointed
>>742703696America is a vassal of Israel, retard
>>742705064Oblivion was made by like 70 people, and the remake was made by like 400. That's not even making a new thing from scratch, either. It's hard to even know the full extent of the bloat these days because so much is done by support studios that have thousands of employees and that's not even including the thousands of contractors.
>>742705310It's been ages since we've had an original Dead Rising game, Microsoft should do something about that.
>>742704865Oh yeah, that Clockwork game looked like it could be decent.
>>742700947>>742702113>Inexile seems to be the only studio that was happy to be acquired by xbox. I would have been sad if they were axed.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>742705310No it will still get made just like Senua 3.
>>742705606this is an american cope refusing to blame their country for anything
>>742705653Why didn't you include their latest game which was absolutely kino.
>>742702067>emil derangement syndrome victim has delusional ideas about and worships south goyreacan't make this shit up
>>742705653>metacritic>for non woke rpgsYou don't even play any games, why do you need to console war over things you don't know?
>>742705469The brought back the Fallout New Vegas lead writer a year ago and tried to get Avellone back but failed. Also brought in Tim Cain. Not sure if any of them will help at all, but at least they're aware that their writers are garbage outside of Sawyer and are trying to fix it. That's step one to recovery.
>>742705417We had plenty of soul with Phil. He was a rare dude in charge who actually played and liked videogames. Now is the time for robotic precision cutting work.
>>742705763It was good, but I wouldn't say it was kino tier.
>>742703960but manlets don't look like that
>>742705454>The cuts won’t end today though, as Microsoft is planning to eliminate a total of around 20 percent of Xbox jobs by the end of the financial year in July 2027.Less than 20% as of now.
>>742701516>many as 14 layers of managementWhat are the odds they all bitched about white privilege?
>>742705789Tim Cain actually gay though.
>id Software & ZeniMax Online Studios are not shutting down but are cutting a significant number of staff Guess Doom flopped a bit too hard.
>>742705064It sure as shit doesnt "take 100 people" anymore.
>>742705410You know, there's still a Garment District holding on in midtown Manhattan, despite the soaring rents, gentrification, and consolidation. The reason some companies are willing to pay a real estate premium to have their clothing manufactured in Manhattan is because that way if the execs want to see what's happening on the shop floor, it's a subway ride away, instead of an intercontinental flight.You'd think with instant digital transmission that wouldn't be such a big deal with software, but at the results, it clearly is.
>>742705816A good modern rpg with no globohomo gay shit in it automatically puts it in kino tier.
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>>742705917No, sorry but it isn't.Trve kino status belongs to the classics. A game being good in the modern day does not make it kino, it just makes it 'good'.
>>742705880Apparently Id is getting reduced by a third. That's kinda insane, how much did the new Doom even cost that it undid all the profits they made with 2016 and Eternal?
>>742701010This nigga pretends Bloodborne and Elden ring never happened
>>742705789Tim Cain? Yikes, his gaming ideas, how level up mechanics don't matter and how we don't need romance in games suck. If you don't want to make romance options, bake in one right into the story. All your games would fail otherwise
>>742704829Pentiment was so good. Can't wait for Sawyer's next ludokino
>>742705880They had a good idea with Doom 2016 but then they shat the bed completely with Eternal and Dark Ages.
>>742705880>I just saw a post on Bluesky from an ESO dev claiming half the team was laid off and now the team is so small they're questioning what they could possibly do moving forward.
Asha buy exclusivity for kotor remake and ftor. We need to have the og xbox pillar back. And greenlight that republic commando sequel.
>>742706034Maybe another support studio for bgs?
>>742705986That's why I said that I'm not sure it will help. I think Tim Cain has good ideas, but also completely shit ones. He isn't stubborn though, he wanted to add time travel to Fallout 1's story and his entire team told him it was retarded and he dropped it. He just needs someone to wrangle his retarded ideas.
>>742701010>Japs printing money with gacha gamesthey don't do that
>>742705780absolute maggot copelmao
>>742706034I guess ESO is dead. Hopefully FO76 follows soon after.
>>742704160the workforce got replaced by unitree robots there
>>742701010Japanese Gacha don't print anymore. The Japanese side of gacha is really struggling because their games are still stuck a decade or two in the past. It's China and Korea who dominate the gacha sphere now.
>>742700741>western games industryOxymoron.To have a games industry you first have to make games.
>>742706034going from 2000 do nothings to 1000
>>742703696Neck yourself DSA faggot
> This year, we’ll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we’ll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates.It might be a bit soulless but honestly why didn't Phil slap Bethesda to slop out more Fallout and TES games in all these years? Especially with a netflix show coming and succeeding.
>>742706034That's good news. All mmo games are now just tranny hugbox servers. What those creatures did to Phantasy Star Online I swear
>>742706275>2000 for a mmoHow? Even if you release new rpslut outfits every day you don't need even half of that.
>>742702623the gayming division is in commiefornia though
>>742706286Phil was a retard that thought the best way to manage his billion dollar studios was to not manage them. Any competent CEO would have told Todd to stop being retarded and make a new Bethesda division exclusively for Fallout single player games immediately.
The sad part is that none of the people that were let go will ever fuck off out of the industry. They'll just be hired by leftoid HR women.
>>742706228FGO and granblue are still doing okay (for how shit those games are) also they're making some bank on porn gacha games because china and korea can't do actual porn and even their softcore gacha games get shut down, real shame that japan can't make good gacha games and china and korea are not allowed to make porn gacha games, I wish we had good porn gacha games
>>742706286The answer is here. >>742702357 Phil Spencer is just a cuck chair personified. Letting those idiots do whatever they want
>>742702623>Sony is a Japanese company btw
>>742706405I would have gone a step further and told obsidian drop everything their doing and start working on a new fallout the moment the zenimax deal went through.
>Xbox trying to turn itself around>Xbox is trimming the fat and the new exec is trying to fix the absolute dog shit decisions Phil Spencer made>Ermagherd guyz worst gaming news ever think of all the heckin employeez who lost their jerbzI swear almost every fucking tweet I’ve seen about this has been like that. Its been “oh no the heckin poor companirinos” or “fuck microsoft and fuck xbox, btw [insert company] here going indie/being sold off is good and better than being shut down thank god but sucks for those other guyz”I’m not even a fucking microslop dicksucking xbot but jesus even I can see this is a good thing. Like come the fuck on did you REALLY expect the new ceo to suddenly NOT restructure the company and trim fat.
>>742706545Ideally, Bethesda's hypothetical new Fallout division and Obsidian should have started a new Fallout game immediately after the deal went through.
>>742706286Phil Spencer was too nice and thought listening to gamers and devs about having no crunch, lots of money and time would result in good games. As it turns out, game devs work a lot better when they're pressured.
>>742700635"GOOD NEWS!"My nigga how is any of this bullshit good news? How the fuck is laying off more 4800 Microsoft employees icluding game devs is good news? All of this they can import more shitjeets. These dumbass greedy motherfuckers make Valve look good and yall give Valve and Gabe Newell shit. Whatever
>>742706545Inexile is way better choice for fallout. They already have wastleland engine for that, and their stories don't suck like nu-obsidian. I guess we will see how Clockwork would perform, maybe 3d fallout from them would be even better
>>742706779An honest mistake to make when you have a good heart. A shame i turned out this way but hey now I am never trusting a studio begging for a free daycare ever again.
>>742706779I imagine it depends on the devs, in 2000 that would probably work when it was nerds that wanted to make a game but modern devs are just going to post on social media all day instead of doing actual work because they don't really care about games and think gamers are icky.
Anyone got link to a non-paywalled version of the verge article?
>>742706579Uh oh, Jason Schreier melty.Sorry that your prophesied GAMING APOCALYPSE turned out to be a good and long overdue move all around.
>>742706970There is a paywall? Just use noscript and ublock origin.
>>742703371Seems like they were doing NT a solid in giving them an opportunity to build up some hype and interest buyers.
>>742706970https://web.archive.org/web/20260706133248/https://www.theverge.com/news/961546/xbox-layoffs-studio-sales-2026
>>742706860Oh shut up about Valve, they don't make or fund enough games to be called a platform. Even Epic Games give more good to the world because they actually fund games. If you ain't a cultist and depend on steam you would see that steam is not needed in gaming
>>742706579you're so close to realizing that the leftists getting fired are having their leftist friends freak out because their ability to exert control on the industry is diminishing.
>>742706860>How the fuck is laying off more 4800 Microsoft employees icluding game devs is good news?When you realize the ones they are laying off are the ones who make TikToks about just eating and lounging around all day. They're just trimming the fat.
>>742706867Inxile has been working on Clockwork revolution for like 7 years. Even if they would have been a better choice, they weren't available when Xbox bought Bethesda.
>>742706779Keep telling yourself that not listening to your core audience is a good business strategy.
>still wants to keep 5 management layersMore than 0-2 is asking for trouble and here these retards are arguin they can't do with less than 5.Nuts
>>742707093I honestly do not get the praise that company gets for not making any games and only have gaas mtx gambling cancer running.Like at least keep a game dev engine up to date like they had with source years ago and epic has with unreal engine now.
>>742707337They're rightGamers of 2010 would have not bought god of slop or Zelda Roblox edition
>>742706346HR DEI hires from the coof are getting fired aka the lazy it fags who were working at home
>>742707232I bet you get very angry at women.
>>742707137They'll just be hired by the other leftoid infested companies. Only way for this industry to be fixed is for people who don't need to be on the right, just anit-left, to rise and starting steering the ship into its proper way.
>>742701306If you have ever used software "updated" by these mongrels in the past three years you wouldn't be saying this
>>742702796>that woke "Russian" segment in 2Lmao you got triggered by the "politics" of It's a Small World
>>742707507Delusional
>>742707517>Women are key figures in ruining nerd hobbies and the culture around it.>JEEZ ANON I BET YOU'RE A MISOGYNIST
>>742707436gamers bought cube world and tlou, of course they'd buy those games.
>>742707662Those TikToks aren't real, you dummy. They are PR.
>>742705972I hope that Sponge gets fired
>>742706407So? they won't make a profit there either
>>742704846>What were they doing?Having meetings about engineering the ugliest characters possible.Managing managers who manage other managers that manage an Indian man that vibe codes.Grooming children on discord.The list goes on
>>742707614Sure journo, suuuuure
>>742707757It's not about making a profit, It's about pushing an ideology.
How can we tell xbox to properly invest in japan again. Imagine them showing gal gun in E3 like they did before
>>742703861Hory shieeet!
>>742707872I'm not a journalist. I have a job.
