Double Fine and Compulsion Games will be indipendent, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will have new owners, Arkane future is still unknown. 3200 people will be fired.Full statement from the jeeta herehttps://x.com/asha_shar/status/2074124008795369482
>>742700864surprised acti/blizz made through this without anything happening. I guess the CoD normie moneymaker money is good
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>>742700864https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHbS3L2isl0
>>742700864>Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will have new ownersWho the fuck is gonna buy them?
>>742701175me
>>742700959stop advertising your faggy channel here you vile shlomo
>>742701613What for?
>>742701658to shut them down personally
>>742700864>https://x.com/asha_shar/status/2074124008795369482Fuck mommy is so hot whe she asserts dominance
>>742701175Tencent
It's almost like people want asha to win rather than xbox
>>742702303cause shes shot
>>74270086464cents lost for every dollar invested, it needed to be done
This is weirdly a best case scenario. I was expecting Microsoft to make the EA graveyard look like a joke.
>>742700864this just confirms Phil was too soft even for microsoft
>>742703810Isn't like the majority of that investment loss from dumping into Activision?Also>the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combinedThere is probably some proper way to interpret that statement but there is zero way that can be true
>>742704416all i know is for every 100 million dollars invested they loss 64 million dollars if this was anyone but Microsoft it would have been shut down after the first investment in the first month
>>742704416maybe if you count ai slop games too
>>742704416I don't get what that statement means either. Surely it can't mean that the number of games created in June 2026 is more than in June 2016-May 2026?There's probably some nuance with "outpaces" I'm not understanding.
>>742705031The nuance is probably with the definition of "game". You can just slap something together nowadays and digitally release it now with minimal oversight and cost of entry. Endless trash.
>>742700864South of Midnight killed it's studio dang
>>742700864>Double Fine and Compulsion Games will be indipendent, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will have new ownersSurprisingly generous.
Y’know what’s even more of a kick in the teeth? Microsoft put out 2000+ H-1B visa applications this year. HEY AMERICANS, YOU ARE BEING REPLACED! WAKE UP, RETARD.
>>742705586Yeah, no one's dying here except maybe Arkane, and they're the most lost of the lot anyways.
>>742705586yes, but who knows if they'll manage to get their shit together without Microsoft money
>>742700912>I guess the CoD normie moneymaker money is goodWell, yes: That's why Phil Spencer bought them in the first place. Congrats on figuring that out after the Poojeeta, Anon-san!>>742700864>Shoe finally drops on a Monday after a FULL WEEK of RUMORED™: LAY OFFS FRIDAY!'d.Grim.
>>742700864How much did Double Fine pay to keep their IP?
>>742705596>americansalcoholics in reservations don't care about videogames
>>742705696Their both being given runway funding by Microsoft for their next projects as they get kicked out.
>>742700864if you read between the lines, she's basically saying they're going to shut down gamepass as well. it was a HUGE money sink that didn't go anywhere and also drew people away towards PC.
>>742706097this is for Ninja Theory and Undead Labs, not for Double Fine and Compulsion Games
>>742706117GamePass is here to stay but they will pivot into third party deals only. They will probably also stop doing deals for shitty ass indie shovelwares who no one plays even on GP and will go for year+ old third party AAA and AA titles which makes sense. GamePass is bloated as fuck with dogshit indie slop no one touches and they know that. Its better to get a deal for one bigger third party title than 5 shitty indies.
>>742700864I know we are supposed to hate everything Microsoft does, but this all seems very reasonable.
>>742706396Obviously. These studios wont survive anyways unless bought out and looking how Chinese and Saudis are backing off their investments in overseas companies its looking grim. I think Ninja Theory might get bought by Paramount since they opened gaming division recently so it might be good idea to expand but thats it unless State of Decay 3 is big success that studios dead.
>>742706260Rogueslop is popular on gamepass and good for them to keep wasting time on hamsterwheels.
Mattrick destroyed Xbox's marketshare and Spencer destroyed Xbox financially. Almost 100 fucking billion dollars spent on just ONE generation, only to still be last place among the Big Three by a wide margin.
>>742706396It is, imagine having 20+ game studios all working in ""something"" yet taking years to release anything, i wouldn't be surprised if most of them were just freeloading on MS and Phill support, they got my respect for that but comeon now we all knew the charade had to be over once someone wasn't dumb enough to check on them.
>>742706234It is for double fine and complusion games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will have new ownership once a deal to be confirmed but it's not known who yet.
>>742706396It's the first move they've made in years that I somewhat approve of, given that you have to squint past the company-wide absolute purging that comes with it.
>>742700864>today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management.damn, that's even worse than CCP.
>>742706942For me, it's less about active approval and more "I won't begrudge you because this was the logical course of action", like a 127 Hours type deal. Too bad it'll likely stop being logical when it turns out that this vacuum was just made to be refilled by H-1Bs.
>>742700864How the fuck do they keep making it out alive
>>742700864That whole press statement is just this image.
>>742700864Oh no! But those companies have made such amazing games like uhhh and uhhhhhhh
>>742707202Sea of Thieves was remarkably very successful. Otherwise they'd been gone a long ass time ago.
>>742707202There's definitely always been some weird shit with Rare, or at least since Microsoft bought them out.Also how did I know some anon would actually say LE SEE OF FEEVES to justify it
>>742707320What's funny is that, in this case, this figure is actually wildly understating how much money their asses done wasted
>>742707575Rare getting a sea of thieves movie greenlit probably helped them stay around.
>>742706869oh, i didnt even know they had projects, especially DF since they released that shit of Kiln like 2 months ago and in october/november that lighthouse game
>>742707672How much money did they give Sega to showcase Persona on Xbox? I bet 80% of their sales are on Playstation.
>>742705596Based. DEImericans getting replaced by hard working, creative and top notch Indians. Brahmin Satya and Asha helping fellow brahmins rise up in the world
>>742707575>Also how did I know some anon would actually say LE SEE OF FEEVES to justify itBecause it doesIt already sold millions on the PS5
>>742707942Lol
>>742707575It's one of Xbox's more profitable titles. They aren't getting rid of the teams that are actually bringing in revenue.
>>742700864after reading all this it honestly seems reasonable and just looks bad for spencerfucking idiot did literally nothing except acquire studios, mismanage them and forgot to tell them to make games
>>742708249Yeah, It just seems like phil was too much of a pussy to run studios. He should have put his boot to his studios necks and put them in line.
>>742708349I don't think Phil was a pussy at all, he was just very selfish. Phil made acquisitions and decisions that made him look good at the expense of the longterm health of the company. Then when shit hit the fan he rode off on his golden parachute and left Microsoft with the bill.
>>742707942might want to update that
>>742709059Toddsisters...
>>742709059Asha's mail didn't talk about these first party MS studios, so I can't wait to see what the bloodbath looks like once people start leaking shit.We're getting spoiled this summer, layoffbros.
>>742709059those faggot journalists said that obsidian, id, machinegames, Rare, and 4 announced today would all close down. Where the fuck are the closures? Did they lie on purpose?
>>742701658squid game but irl
>>742709059>blueskygo back
>>742704592>Saying this while Sony lost god knows how much money buying Bungie
>>742704416Steam has 10000 releases per year. PlayStation 2 had like 4000 games released over 14 years.
>>742700864Where is obisidian? sad.
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>>742709780would probably expect an announcement from the respective studios first before leaks. no way anyone who was fired is stupid enough to go "yea me and these guys got fired" if they want to keep finding jobs in this industry
>>742711362Unless a company forces you to sign some kind of confidentiality clause when they fire you (which almost always means 'We will give you more severance if you don't post for a few months'), companies can't stop people from saying 'I was laid off from my job,' or posting on LinkedIn or wherever else.But yeah, if someone goes on an autistic rant on social media about 'I lost my job, it's because of the capitalist systems/racist managers/AI/whatever', that could hurt your job prospects.
>>742709948Of course they lied. That's a journalists job, they exist to create outrage for ad revenue.
>>742700864>compulsion gameshow long until they're dead for real?
>>742709948>journos lying about Microsoft wow, who would've thought?
Who the fuck would genuinely go into AAA game development in the modern day? It seems like every week there's new layoffs.
>>742709059id software getting gutted is pretty bad considering it has a relatively small number of employees and mostly technical peoplenot surprising the Microsoft buyout would finally lead them toward the inevitable death spiraldoom on ue5 let's go
>>742703810they were fine with losing that money as they had more money coming in from other business units. But Microslop is shitting the bed everywhere else now, so they cannot keep subsidizing it.
>>742710589remind me what did sony do to bungie?
>>742709059ESO lost half its active team.
>>742700864Arkane is likely gone. Strict French laws makes it take a longer process in getting rid of them.
>>742715376the concept of "the next doom expansion releases tomorrow but first you have to lose your job" must suck so hard
>>742700864they just fired the quake champions dev
>>742715061I seriously doubt that any of these companies will shut down within the next decade. Compulsion is one of those studios that continues to release games despite everything. I wouldn't be shocked if they just went back to Kickstarting and small publishing deals.
>>742707420that doesn't mean much though, the Fallout 76 and ESO teams at Bethesda got gutted. Only a matter of time until Rare gets got as well
>>742706869>Both studios have been given runway funding by Microsoft to help being their next projects while they seek additional financing.Generous already but then >These studios will retain all their IP and their back catalogueThat's crazy to me. Say what you will about DoubleFine's catalogue since getting bought out or South of Midnight, it's really strange that the games Microsoft funded are being given in their entirety to them. You'd think they'd keep the them around for Game Pass fodder.
>>742700864Wait, if Double Fine and Compulsion are keeping their IPs does that mean Ninja Theory and Undead are being sold with theirs'?
>>742721386We don't know yet but I think that they won't because they were larger budget titles
>>742700864why would you shut down arcane lol redfall is the only bad game
>>742721216They still stay on gamepass.
Obsidian got hit as well, veteran employees let goso next time some jackoff tells you Bethesda should give them the next Fallout just remind them absolutely none of the New Vegas team is there
>>742705596Yeah I know, what the fuck do you expect me to do about it?
>>742700864Surprisingly generous of Microsoft to untether those studios instead of just cannibalizing them like they did with Tango Gameworks
>>742723495>kill tango gameworks>sell or let cancer studios like double fine/ninja theory go>gut half the talent from id, the one consistently decent xbox studio>"also please do not redeem the 2K h1b applications saaarrrrrrr"everyday when I think I can't hate this industry more
>>742707942jesus christI don't think there's a single good developer there
>>742721124>FO76Good. Shit and failed ass game.
