>>743304781
>*waits a month*
>hires 5000 jeets for 10% of the salary
Microslop standard practice

>>743304781
>of a new CEO to immediately assert dominance

No, she could have raped the poor indian employee with her canons.
Firing people is the femcel way of being an intimidating ceo.

>>743304781
>fire long term tenured employees
>contract short term jeets

Why do you people act like firing people is inherently bad?
Especially from companies that have consistently produced only garbage.
Extra especially when the company doubled in size every couple of years.
Stop thinking like communists and actually use your brain for once.

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>>743304781
here's what i think happened
>asha is named new ceo
>approaches studios
>asks what were they working on for the last 4 years
>many studios have been working on some wokeslop
>haven't finish anything yet despise spending 4+ years of development
>asha rightly stops the game production, cancels all the unfinished wokeslop products and fires that people
this feels awesome

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>>743305287
>According to id they're down all the way to how many employees they had when Doom 2016 released
>A game with an 8 minute long credit roll
We need to layoff far more to start getting good games again.

Its insane how badly the tech sector is being raped by India. I remember going to high school in the 2010s and it was the upcoming industry that guaranteed a solid salary and easy work life with job security. Now its a shitshow with a bunch of jeets and contracts and your 100% going to get laid off once the contract expires unless Rajeesh fires you for his sister in laws brother with 0 computer experience.

Spamming intentionally misleading clickbait headlines won't make sony bring back physical games.

i just know her big plan is to wrangle all her jeet peons to shit out games every 1-3 years.

>>743304915
Why is Herman Hulst a femcel now?

>>743304781
fire the white
hire the brown
buy the sexbox bhenchod sar

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>>743305487
should've betted on the ol' reliables

>>743304781
That's usually why CEO changes happen, they need that chainsaw to cut down the rot at best positive developments happen they can take credit for at worse they get paid for being the villain that cleaned out everything they wanted gone.

>>743305287
id is a 1-trick zombie studio, idk why people are so attached to their modern version.

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>>743305131
White leftists are shitty people but at least can code unlike pajeets with fraudulent credentials who will only embezzle money

>>743305131
>Why do you people act like firing people is inherently bad?
>Especially from companies that have consistently produced only garbage.
because the firings always happen to the workers who make $50k a year and at least does some actual fucking WORK, whereas the people WHO MAKE ALL OF THE DECISIONS THAT THE DEVS FOLLOW all keep their $5 million a year jobs of sitting at a business lunch (charged back to the company, because HEAVEN FORBID that a fucking rich person pays for their own food and drink!)

the devs were following orders from retards, and now you are saying "why are you angry that the retards weren't fired, and only the people forced to adhere to their shitty ideas were?"

I don;t know how the USA became such absolute fucking cucks to rich people who take advantage of them; can someone explain? do the poor people think they will be rich one day and so they want to defend shitty behaviour? Do they think that every rich person earned their way there instead of getting the job through nepotism (which is like 99% of CEOs now)?
Someone please explain why Americans worship people who treat them like shit and constantly lie and steal from them?

Since covid these companies just kept hiring more and more people, but the sales didn't increase with them. She said they were only getting back 64 cents out of every dollar invested.

>>743304781
Phil made a mess. Microsoft wasnt going to continue to pay studios for a decade to produce one shitty game with no replay value.

>>743307465
The companies with the dumbest management are getting their independence back. If the people still employed there don't want to work for a dumb boss, they'll have to go elsewhere on their own.

>>743304781
kali was hired to lower cost.

>>743304781
you're assuming she cares enough to assert dominance
she's there to take a hatchet to the entire department before they sell it for scrap

>>743307465
In reality these devs who make 50k a year are the ones going to twitter preaching about how they need to put woke shit into games, not the made up obese billionaire you imagine pulling all the strings. Stopped reading your nonsense once you started going on about lunches btw

>>743307465
>because the firings always happen to the workers who make $50k a year and at least does some actual fucking WORK
this is your imagination. you have a preconception that youre projecting onto the story. the output of those studios was abysmal over a period of years. theres no way for people on the outside to know the specifics but its reasonable to think most of the people fired were wastes of space. if their they/them profiles are any indication they're also the same people that emphatically support the open borders and massive h1b programs that drive down the value of their own work.

>>743307390
>White leftists are shitty people but at least can code
Concord and marathon were made by leftists lol.
>unlike pajeets with fraudulent credentials who will only embezzle money
Take the latino pill

>>743304781
Studios failed to prove their value to Xbox. A lot of them turned into adult daycare.

>>743307465
Phil and Sarah are gone. There are probably other higher ups that either left or are gone as well.

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>>743304781
>assert dominance
This is textbook generic ceo behavior when they don't know how to properly solve something.

>>743305131
>Why do you people act like firing people is inherently bad?
In this instance? Beyond just people losing their jobs and the industry seeing fewer more interesting games, just to put all their eggs in a few baskets like Halo, Gears and Fallout?
It's the textbook example of not taking responsibility and not knowing how to solve an issue. It is "easy" just to fire people at the ground floor and shut studios down, literally anyone can do it. It is almost always the worst way to go about it since you're often losing a lot of the talent you'd need.
The smart move would be to make targeted lower budget games that could make a huge return, not overinvest in a few things or to try and milk what you already have even more.
Not to mention with their current move they are lowering the value of Game pass even more.
>Especially from companies that have consistently produced only garbage.
They literally do not care about quality here. They only care about something making a shitload of money regardless of quality. They gutted studios like id Software which is one of their more consistent studios in terms of quality, just to name one example.
>use your brain for once
Take your own advice, if you can. Because you are utterly clueless and put zero thought in that post.

>>743308685
>They gutted studios like id Software which is one of their more consistent studios in terms of quality
nu-doom was trash and alredy a tired formula

>>743307465
>do the poor people think they will be rich one day and so they want to defend shitty behaviour?
This is unironically what most americans believe. Many of them defended that tax writeoff for billionaires while cutting down on the healthcare of normal people and putting the US even deeper in debt as a nation. They are conditioned to worship billionaires because they are delusional enough to think they will one day be one or that the riches trickle down they don't

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>>743308450
Any competent company man who was looking at the RoR on some of these studios would've been pulling the fire alarm and screaming 3 years ago. People are going to have to accept the glory days of creating negative value for an entire division and have the rest of the org just eat it are done. I don't see why this is a bad thing.

>>743308825
>nu-doom
And Fallout 4, Fallout 76 and Starfield were amazing games? Avowed, Outer Worlds 1&2 were much better than nu-Doom? The most recent Halo games have been shit. The most recent Gears games have been shit. Do we need to keep this list going? If you actually had a point they would've gutted the ones making the worst games, not the better ones.

>>743306820
STEM this meme doesn’t speak for me and I do not have your back.

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>>743304781
GET THIS
WE NAME HER
AFTER FOOD

Phil Spencer's strategy was retarded and seeing people try defend it here all of a sudden is bizarre

>>743304781
She realises she is competing with too much media compared to 10 years ago, and it keeps compounding. It’s field that you can’t dominate for long. We have people playing gatcha mobile games, watching porn, TikTok, streaming, anime, twitch, chatting on discord, going outside and oldfags playing morrowind who all could all be instead playing the latest Microsoft game but are not. The only solution is to make great games but they don’t know how.

>>743308943
>Any competent company man who was looking at the RoR on some of these studios would've been pulling the fire alarm and screaming 3 years ago.
They were literally there to give value to game pass. That is why those studios were bought.
Asha is so insanely delusional she says her goal is to massively grow game pass while closing down a lot of the studios giving game pass value. So now when you remove value and the prices aren't exactly good, while also removing games like Call of Duty, how in the fuck do you plan to grow game pass by those insane numbers? Asha is just a fucking clueless idiot

>>743309121
We follow our boy Jason.

>>743309121
>Phil Spencer's strategy was retarded
It was a gamble and in hindsight not a good one, but what Asha is doing is actively killing Xbox by a thousand cuts. It is possible for one idiot to be dumber than another idiot, anon.

>>743309081
Lol Asha Pita is such a dumb name too

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>>743308685
>studios like id Software which is one of their more consistent studios in terms of quality, just to name one example.

>>743309031
They gutted the studios relative to their return on investment. Obsidian didn't do nearly as bad as the others so they lost 25% and they're still larger than when they were when they were acquired. id did worse so they got cut in half back to their 2016 size. TESO has been bringing in even less so they were cut by 60%.

>>743304781
>Go all in on a strategy that demanded more people to get xboxes than actually did, AND every single one of them to get a reverse engineered shareholder friendly subscription service, to be a success
How absolutely retarded
Of course it was going to fail
My only hope is that Microsoft decides to stay in the console market, but (at least pretend to) have physical, and Sony gets btfo
But considering the trend of this timeline, they'll just double down in some fashion that's the same, but marketed differently, and the next xb will be only digital as well because
>lol, fuck these paypig consoomers

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>>743304781
"She" is doing jack shit
She is just a puppet chosen by the majority of shareholders to execute an order. She said yes to all the "responsibilities", and the "blame", for cutting jobs left and right. The second this misery porn ends, "She" will be let go, blamed to kingdom come, and the real mastermind beyond all these shananigans will rain over the ashes of the Xbox division. She is doing for the money, you morons.

>>743308358
We know you are retarded as you can't read.
>Latino
Retard and brown

>>743309202
Phil bought studios for slop but forgot to over see them. Taking a decade to make one game didnt help gamepass. It ended up being cheaper for them to license games than buy studios and pay for studios to produce shit that no one played. How is paying Double Fine to make Keeper and Klin helpful to gamepass? How was paying for South of Midnight helpful?

>>743309317
>They gutted the studios relative to their return on investment.
i.e. it's not about quality at all. It's not even actually about return on investment at all, it's about making massive profits.
They don't want to invest 1 million to make 20 million, they want to invest 500 million to make 1 billion. That's how large companies work. They want to see the line noticeably go up every year so the investors are happy and the ceo's can give themselves huge bonuses. That's it.

>>743309529
explains why sony is still trying to gamble away at the live service game of all time
and itll take exactly one guy to tell them "just include anime titties like every gacha" for them to finally get an actual chance at that golden goose
but instead, well...
You've seen how it goes

>>743309287
Give devs infinite creative freedom, money, and time
>Get nothing but terrible games
Phil was retarded, but he did exactly what gamers and developers said would work.... how did this happen....?
>Firing incompetents and forcing devs to get shit done is killing Xbox as if it was ever alive
Good, only Japs should make games anyway,

>>743305487
>Its insane how badly the tech sector is being raped by India.
And it's not slowing down. Given how tech-reliant modern society is, handing the entire industry over to jeets is a good way to not only completely destroy our modern infrastructure, but also breed so much fucking contempt that there actually will be widespread violence against Indians soon.

>>743309392
>How is paying Double Fine to make Keeper and Klin helpful to gamepass? How was paying for South of Midnight helpful?
Because it gives value. It's games people might not have bought, but will now play and keep being subbed to game pass.
If all you have is 1-2 big games per year that won't keep people subbed. Many external studios do not want their games to be put on game pass either, since it has proven again and again to not be profitable at all so it's even harder to get other studios to put their games on game pass.

So when you're cutting the studios making game pass games for you and more and more studios do not want their games on game pass, how the fuck are you planning to grow it to 100 million subs from about 40 million. Asha is just a fucking idiot with no actual plan.

>>743305131
Its because she's Indian, thats why. They think she's firing people to bring Indians in and thats not what is happening. She cut developers for literally not doing anything and wasting time and money. Why would you keep forking over money to people that aren't doing anything? They acquired all these developers that haven't done anything or produced failed slop, its actually a good business decision.

>>743309529
In this case the Spencer and Bond Xbox was investing 1 million and getting back 640,000. They were risking insolvency trying to make Game Pass happen.

>>743309736
>how did this happen?
Making normies (and their insufferable off shoots, immersion fags, which includes many spec fags), the target demographic every time
>only Japs should make games anyway
A moot point when japan has been brainwashed into making western style movie games
Nobody knows how to make good games anymore, shit's fucked, and as usual, normies and smooth brained corpos are to blame

>>743309927
It's not giving value when you're losing money.

>>743304781
xbox lost to nortubel

>>743306820
Computer Science is a STEM field

>>743309927
>kiln
>Steam charts
>12 players right now
>21 24-hour peak

Yep. Massive value there.

>>743309927
But there wasn't value. People only bought game pass when it was a dollar and cancelled because in no way is the actual MSRP of gamepass worth being able to play shit like south of midnight, whatever slop double fine shits out, or HRT Rush.

>>743304781
What race is her bf

>>743309736
>>Firing incompetents and forcing devs to get shit done
Except that is not what is happening at Xbox, anon. If you believe this you're ignorant or are naive enough to believe in Asha. This is what happened
>uh, how do we cut down on costs? i know, the go to ceo strat of firing the people at the bottom doing all the work
>next, let's.... uh.... what are the big names we have? halo, right? .... gears of war...? gears is a microsoft franchise, right? oh, i've heard of fallout from the tv show... do we own that? we do? ok awesome, let's pour all of our money into those franchises only, that's sure to work
>..... oh yeah, we own minecraft right? can we monetize that game even harder somehow?
>this is my plan to grow game pass by 70 million and seeing our profits soar
That is her plan and it's the most clueless out of touch plan you could've made.

>>743310126
>>743310224
>>743310252
Ok, so how do you give value to game pass and make people sub to it? Go on.

>>743305487
I seroulsy feel bad for all the young americans that actually thought their country had an opportunity for them in a growing industry, only for it to be given away to Indians while at the exact same time forcing you to go through DEI training where they tell you to feel bad for being white. You zoomers honestly don't hate these people enough.

>>743310119
Normies have always been the target demographic, and when you say "good game" i know exactly what that is and its far from a good game.

>>743305484
This pic is so fucking 90s man
Fucking take me back

>>743304781
Obviously they're failing. Game pass didn't work out, they can't justify paying American salaries when people in China, Korea, Poland, India will all do it cheaper. They can't pull back on PS5 releases because they need money out of those users so that will continue to undermine Xbox as platform. They can't make Project Helix cheap, AI has driven up prices and it's a PC so they can't sell it subsidised as then business would buy it up and not get game pass or any games. They will just plod along for the next 4 years hoping things improve whilst releasing games everywhere

>>743310403
You say that like millennials can afford to purchase a home lol. Bunch of broke niggas, the lot of yah

>>743310379
License third party games and produce games that people want to play.

>>743310403
No one tells you to feel bad for being white.

No one.

>>743310307
The gaming division was losing money. Their most profitable releases weren't enough to cover their total expenses.

>>743310474
Now that mandatory DEI training has stopped, yes they do no tell you that anymore.

>>743310467
>License third party games
Which said third party studios do not want to do, which you would if anything have to overpay them for, which is not what you'd want.
>produce games that people want to play
They have downsized across entire Xbox and focusing on just a few games, so that's not happening.

>>743310564
They never did

>>743310403
There has been a directed, intentional demoralization campaign in the US for the past 30 years. Indians are only part of it. The US cannot be allowed to exist in the global future the elites want. Such, the US is being and will be destroyed

>>743310307
Ok? So either way people I hate have been fired. Hopefully they'll never work in video games again. Maybe they'll even kill themselves if they can't find another job, wouldn't that be lovely.

>>743310513
>The gaming division was losing money
So is their AI division.

>>743310620
Yes they did. When I worked at Red Storm they did.

>>743310638
What's being destroyed?

>>743310379
I'd say you don't. Being the Netflix of gaming was always a terrible idea. Netflix was propped up by investors and a lot of people in tv and film have talked about how it's destroyed their revenue.

>>743310670
No they didnt.

>>743310379
>Ok, so how do you give value to game pass and make people sub to it? Go on.
By cancelling it and accepting that it was a bad idea from the start. Im not going to defend goypass, the Netflix model is stupid for gaming.

>>743310412
Not always
Sure, it would've been nice for developers to strike normie gold, but do you really think old school tomb raider, leisure suit larry, mortal kombat, katamari damaci, or doa were for normies?
I'm glad games are clear cut objective good or bad products, and more importantly, you have the judgement to know which is which, with no bias
btw, how much shares do you have tied up in gaming?

>>743310645
>So either way people I hate have been fired
You're clueless, you read a headline that South of Midnight studio was forced to go independent that that is the limit of what you know. Every single studio was affected apart from very few ones like Mojang. So unless you're a hardcore Minecraft player that only plays Minecraft or didn't like a single Microsoft owned studio, studios you liked were affected.
But I'm talking to a clueless troll, so I'll stop wasting my time because nothing intelligent will come from you.

>>743310457
Yeah they are having a problem too. It's sad for both of them. This isn't a millienial vs zoomer thing, this is young people (even those in their 30s) got rug pulled on a growing industry. Don't ever forget that Indians only want to hire Indians.
>>743310620
>I will just pretend DEI never happened
It was a real thing that Coca Cola told their employees to be "less white" in DEI training. You need to first get google and other search engines to scrub that, then you can try to lie that it never happened.

>>743310725
I like game pass.

>>743305484
Why do americans only have like 3 outfit options?

>>743310474
They don't outright tell you, but the subtext is there. Every workplace training video has the white male being an asshole to an innocent woman of color.
>Now, can you tell me what Todd did wrong?
>That's right. He asked to touch Laquisha's hair. That is a microaggression!

>>743304781
>Asha Sharma wants Xbox to go back to singleplayer games and exclusives
how exactly does firing thousands of veteran developers and gutting idtech engine help with this new xbox strategy?

Asha can't just fucking talk shit about phil spencer and gamepass and immediately pull off this stupid move.

>>743310725
Destroyed hollywood along with the union strikes. Oldest studio lot in LA right now is probably going to be converted in "luxury" apartments. Yeah. The film industry in California was completely killed off by the same dumbasses who claimed netflix was their godsend lol

>>743310594
The first statement is false. They often have games from Square and Sega. They have deals with ubisoft and EA. They often have indie games. Fucking palworld and e33 were on gamepass.

>>743304781
CEO sexo!

>>743310781
>Sure, it would've been nice for developers to strike normie gold, but do you really think old school tomb raider, leisure suit larry, mortal kombat, katamari damaci, or doa were for normies?
Yeah, video games are products.

>>743310725
>>743310770
But Asha's plan is to make Game Pass grow by over 200%, not shut it down. She's doubling down on what Phil Spencer tried to do while giving players even less of a reason to sub.

>>743310762
They did, stop coping.

>>743310664
There's going to be a reckoning there too eventually.

>>743310841
Veteran devs who are good will have no issues getting a new job. The bad ones and all the worthless layers of management are going to struggle though.

>>743310762
Don't you have a bluesky post to make? Why lie?

>>743310807
I'm not saying dei wasnt real and didnt happen, im saying that I dont believe they told you to be less white..whatever the fuck that means.

>>743310907
I always thought she wanted do that by moving CoD and the games people actually want to play to the more premium pass. Basically make the cheap pass useless and force everyone to pay more is her current gambit I thought.

>>743305131
why is it that the developers/rank-in-file are the ones who gets punished for the fuck-ups by management and other leaders?
the developers and other employees did what they were told and got fired for doing their jobs.

the studios and devs were told to make games for gamepass and they did, and now they're the ones getting punished and not management.
why not fire the jeet CEO?

>>743310880
>The first statement is false
No it's not. More and more studios do not want their games on Game Pass, even more so AA and indie studios because it has actively made them lose money.
The few relevant ones they have Microsoft had to severely overspend on just to have something on Game Pass. Too bad their goal is to make money, not overspend it.

>>743310942
yep, a lot of the ex ubisoft folks who got fired last year are already working at new studios. Legacy studios are done. It's all kids and people who can barely speak english.

>>743310980
Linkedin literally withdrew the course from the catalog due to the backlash from the Coca Cola whistleblower. This wasn't a made up thing, you fucking ostrich your god damn head in the ground.

>>743308172
management greenlighted those games btw because it fits the xbox gamepass strategy back then.

so blame management for it.

>>743311101
He's just going to lie and keep saying it never happened. These people are straight up evil dude.

>>743311006
The management of Double Fine, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, and Arkane are getting shown the door.

>>743310806
There are zero studios under Microsoft that have made a good video game in the past ten years.

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>>743304781
>"Asha Sharma admits that Xbox's game pass strategy failed"

Oh... the absolute horror of people happily paying $15 a month to play lots of games, and Microsoft making billions of dollars in profit! We can't have that! SHUT IT ALL DOWN! RAISE THE PRICES TO $30 A MONTH! THE CEOs NEED THEIR 10TH YACHT! WE MUST MAKE 50 BILLION DOLLARS IN PROFIT EACH YEAR!

>>743311006
>why is it that the developers/rank-in-file are the ones who gets punished for the fuck-ups by management and other leaders?

Because that's the way it works in the capitalist world. The people in power don't take responsibility and have the power to fire everyone they want below them to pretend to do somethign about their fuckups.

im amazed they give like billion dollar company control to random 30 year old whores
like who the fuck is this bitch and why do they legit believe she won't take the money and run the second her contract is up lol

>>743304781
DO NOT REDEEM THE GAME PASS

don't you hate it when you do everything your boss tells you to do and you successfully carry out that order only to get fired and blamed for your boss' fuck ups?

>>743310702
ESL moment

>>743311246
After 16 years of it, I'm getting used to it.

>>743311182
It's pretty obvious she's just a fall girl. Standard play where a CEO comes in to clean house, she takes the heat, they "let her go" as well afterwards, and bring in someone who all the goldfish memory employess don't associate with the layoff axe

>>743311101
Well, maybe I was wrong because I had a hard time believing they'd say that.

>>743311182
Microsoft's Jeet CEO is slowly replacing all the executives with Jeets. That's how it is everywhere. Your local corner store will get an Indian manager. Six weeks later the whole store will be staffed with Indians who refuse to speak English. That's what makes them a bioweapon.

>>743311173
Revenue is not profit. They were making a loss.

>>743304781
does anyone seriously believes that there are 14 layers of management at xbox?

I seriously doubt that Asha fired 4000 managers, fucking bullshit.
bitch didn't want to pay senior level dev/engineer salaries and fired those guys instead to replace them with jeets.

what a fucking liar, and not even a good one.

>>743308172
You're literally trying to say some loudmouthed idiot on social media represents all devs. Do you think if a loudmouthed idiot plumber goes on social media and saying they need more tranny plumbers, do you think all or even half of all plumbers give a shit about that and aren't just some fat guys doing their jobs.

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>>743311006
Because 5 years ago having a high headcount was treated by the market as a good thing. Now that it's 2026 the market has decided that having a bunch of low value human capital making things that burn more money than they get out of it is bad and they're making changes. Its nothing personnel it's just business.
Management is also getting axed like crazy too btw, not sure why you're crying.

>>743311341
Did you just wake up from a 15 year long coma or something? I understand near the beginning of all this not believing this because yes it all sounds fucking nuts. It's fine too if you want to keep being an ostrich with your head in the sand, just don't come here trying to convince people about the reality you refuse to look at.

>>743311414
Burning money is what investors do. VR, 3D tech, AR, NFTs didn't exactly pan out, now did it? Now AI is the next pyre investors are throwing money at. Investors are all about burning money on bad bets.

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>>743304781
never understood gamepass, gamers are fucking pigs and devour content at an unsustainable rate.

no fucking way studios could churn out enough content that's good enough at a cost effective rate for gamepass.

>>743311462
It think you're just deluded by your own personal biases and you aren't willing to challenge them, which is why you jump straight to denial.

whoever is responsible for mandating gamepass for xbox should get fired.

>>743311562
Because someone saw Netflix and thought they could do that for games.

>>743311362
>does anyone seriously believes that there are 14 layers of management at xbox?
Jew daycare theory. A woman with a useless email job but a fancy title like "Senior intake coordinator" is not going to want children. So I do believe money was being injected into these companies to open these nonsense positions. Just 14 women in a circle, sipping lattes and sending approval requests back and forth.

>>743310892
>gives business level response
>ignores stonk question
I can only assume you're a bloodless shareholder fuck, who actually doesn't care about what gaming is, or at least used to be
Have you considered consuming toxic waste? If not, you should

>>743311309
yup i see that being the case, but still, how and why is this random 30 year old whore suddenly in charge. what fucking school did she go to and what the fuck did she study to just randomly become a CEO of microsoft gaming division

>>743305131
You can bet your ass the last shred of talent from those studios went away in this wave.
Vidya isn't burger flipping, you need skill and experience.

>>743311620
why does it work for tv but not games?

>>743311667
>yup i see that being the case, but still, how and why is this random 30 year old whore suddenly in charge. what fucking school did she go to and what the fuck did she study to just randomly become a CEO of microsoft gaming division
She problably got along with whoever had pull with replacing Phil Spencer. At that level it's rarely about competence, but who you know.

>>743311764
Because you can drip feed a show for months with weekly episode releases.

>>743311804
yeah its like a political position more than one based on merit but god damn thats a leap

>>743305131
Because they are replacing them with pajeets who don't know how to make a game and only know how to use UE5 slop and when they get outsourced they have 0 knowledge of optimization. Western companies hiring a bunch of troons didn't make things better but replacing troons with jeeets is just more of the same but now instead of keep a few of the actual devs around, you are replacing everybody with those retards

>>743311667
She's indian so she's a """minority""" (read: over couple billion on them) while being a woman.

>>743311764
nta, but I would guess that even though most games offer nothing but filler, they still technically provide more entertainment hours, so people don't want to be restricted to a infrastructure that only allows consistently smooth gameplay if you have god tier internet in one of however many double digit cities worldwide

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>>743311709
If they're so talented by can't they make good video games by themselves? The same way many indie developers with zero past experience do?
Why can't they even surpass the inexperienced devs from 40, 50 years ago when everyone in the industry was new??

>>743311362
They didn't just fire xbox people, they fired a bunch of IT people as well, including managers.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/06/the-latest-in-our-company-transformation/

>>743312018
>Why can't they even surpass the inexperienced devs from 40, 50 years ago when everyone in the industry was new??
I can't believe this massively ignorant idea is still going around to this day. Are you some clueless +40 y old neckbeard wageslave? How many years from retirement are you. gramps?

>>743304781
I hope they fire more

>>743311667
jeet ceo hires jeeta vp. the resume isn't important. have you been living under a rock the past decade?

>>743311764
And ova or bonus episodes are dlc?

>>743307465
>>743311006
so all the diversity hires should stay?

>>743312087
Not the IT people! Whose going to fix the fax machine? What happens if the printer stops working? What if my monitor doesn't work!?!

>>743308358
>Concord and marathon were made by leftists lol.
And from a pure coding perspective where workable, relatively bug free games that ran relatively well.

Coding and character designs are two completely separate things!

>>743312104
Tetris was made by one guy in a few weeks who never made a game before lol imagine your entire industry being mogged so hard ahahahah

>>743311359
Quiet, Microsoft employee. The adults are talking.

>>743304781

Yeah, when my department got a new director he fired our manager after a few months and tried to make a lot of changes very suddenly. The managers who are ass kisses were safe. He can't fire any of the staff cause we are union though.

here's what i don't get, if everyone is using AI and jeets to make games because it's cheaper,
then doesn't that mean the floor for making games has been lowered and you need something else to stand above the crowd?
doesn't that mean you need experts/specialists/veterans to make your game special?

I can completely understand Asha's decision to fire and kill studios if she's keeping the specialists and secret sauce bespoke engines, but she's not.
so... what the hell?

>>743312169
Don't worry anon, soon you will have a jeet helping you with that too.

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>>743304781
Yes. All hail the Queen.

>>743308358
>Concord and marathon were made by leftists lol.
Pretending like its not the fact theyre wokeslop that they failed.

>>743312160
The diversity hires weren't fired. The long term employees were.

>>743312374
>secret sauce bespoke engines

what other good in-house engines Xbox has besides idtech?

>>743304781
Most of the people she fired were just garbage.
Removing them is a net positive. However, if she replaces them with Indians then it will be even worse than now.

>>743307465
Hah yeah, when we got our new director he demanded a bunch of network cables and stuff for his own home office, so we asked how he was paying for it. He gave us a weird look then sent the kiss ass manager down to raid the inventory, when asked we were told he "made too much money" to have to pay.

>>743312536
Source?

>>743312374
Their plan is to stop making original games and to focus only on the IPs they already have that are or were successful, so basically just Fable, Halo, Forza and Gears, maybe Diablo? Since those are already established IPs, the jeets can just ask AI to make a new sequel and then vibe code in UE5 the new game. Why keep studios if you don't want to make new games anyway?

>>743309031
Fallout 4 was a massive commercial success that still sees 10s of thousands of players daily.
Stop parroting every stupid contrarian opinion you see here.

>>743312282
If you're an adult, why do you have a childish understanding of how a business work?

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>>743312536
>The diversity hires weren't fired.
They literally just dumped the entirety Compulsion Games Studio, which was a DEI slop factory. Sorry buddy, but your wokeslop is done.

>>743304781
Is she actually meant to be CEO long term or just a fallgirl for these layoffs?

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>>743312606
"Diversity" in this instance means jeets.

>>743312606
id losing all their programmers and engine experts, the guy who made back compat work being fired. these are long term employees who basically got told "go retire so we can replace you with jeets who know unreal".

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>>743312606
>>743312734
>>743312536
They offered the most senior members money to leave. The ones that refused to leave were kicked out.

>>743304781
They are going to try to make a roblox clone
dont ask me how I know :^)

>>743312785
>>743312791
>The diversity hires weren't fired

Source ?

>>743312791
That's nice of them to give their 50 year olds a bonus for leaving with dignity.

>>743305131
It doesnt really mean much when you fire 3k people to hire 5k indians.

>>743312713
Fallout 4 plays well and was successful.
a shame that it's barely a RPG.

>>743304891
>X-box continues to lose money
>Jeets wonder why
Anyone that has seen how Jeets implode a (formerly) white company know it's only a matter of time before MicroSlop sinks.

>>743312970
>If I just keep repeating disbunked leftypol talking points eventually people will agree with me
Lmao. Maybe if more of you wokies actually bought these games your discord buddies would still have jobs.

>>743313046
I'm honestly so tired of you people just making shit up to get outraged over. They didn't hire 5k Indians after firing 3k people. Please stop inventing scenarios to get triggered over.

>>743307465
>do the poor people think they will be rich one day and so they want to defend shitty behaviour?
>Do they think that every rich person earned their way there instead of getting the job through nepotism (which is like 99% of CEOs now)?
Yes. They legitimately think that all CEOs worked hard to get to the top and that they deserve it. They all also think that millionaires and billionaires are paying 90% of the taxes. As long as the rich person identifies with the same color (red or blue), the American will defend them.
>Someone please explain why Americans worship people who treat them like shit and constantly lie and steal from them?
They think it's okay because even if they are poor and getting raped by the rich they can own a gun

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>>743313163
>They didn't hire 5k Indians after firing 3k people
You're right, they first filed and got approved the H1Bs and then fired the 3k people.

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>>743304781
Firing people is based.
People act like developers are super special and unique guys that can't be easily replaced, and everytime they get fired they go out, make their own game, and it's a complete piece of shit nobody likes.
Fire overpaid devs and studios, and replace them.

>>743305268
based Asha sympathizer

>>743304781
that's what successful companies usually do

>>743312374
You're assuming that the average consumer has the same level of standards as yourself, they don't. They'll eat Indian slop right out of the trough.

>>743305131
It's not that we think it's bad. It's more like were laughing because all the people who actually work and make the games will be fired meanwhile all the useless management who do nothing will somehow still have jobs

>>743313347
>Americans literally voted for this
>now they are crying when it happens
lmao

>>743313359
>People act like developers are super special and unique guys that can't be easily replaced, and everytime they get fired they go out, make their own game, and it's a complete piece of shit nobody likes.
The most embarrasing shit was that former Blizzard creating some obviously dogshit called "tales of california" or whatever. It reeked of shit from a mile away, completely boring premise, graphics looked like shit, gameplay looked shit, completely uninteresting game. And this is the guy everyone is glazing the shit out of and hyping him up as this sort of game developer mastermind who's gonna strike out on his own now that he's left Blizzard.

>>743313741
>it didn't happen
>here's proof
>LMAO YOU VOTED FOR THIS
kill yourself nigger

>>743305131
>fire 1000 white men and hire 2000 indians
>this is somehow good actually

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>>743313862
>14 layers of management
>White men

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>>743313862
white men make even worse games than indians, only Japanese developers deserve respect.
Webm related, a demake by an all white studio.

>>743305131
I’m thinking 10 years from now; you’re thinking in the moment. We are not the same.

>>743313860
why are you so mad? you got what you voted for. we're bringing jobs to america! celebrate!
lmao

>>743313983
>only Japanese developers deserve respect.
You probably can't name any good Japanese games made in the last five years.
Pretty much every Japanese developer is a hack carried by a cult of personality.

>>743313116
US government is never gonna let it sink, just like Intel can't ever sink. It's not the 80s anymore they can't afford to let them go down.

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>>743314065
Keep projecting, Gaylotard.

>>743313983
white men are only a problem when it's cali men, other than that it's white women/trannies fucking everything up
also jews

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i'd believe in Asha if she didn't completely gut id Software.
id games have been very profitable for the last 10 years, with only Dark Ages being mediocre.
not only that but they've pumped out at least 4 games plus DLC in just 10 years, that's crazy fast for a western game studio.
Did i mention that idtech is amazing sorcery? They got fucking Eternal to play buttery smooth on the fucking Switch of all things.

And how does Asha reward id Software? By firing 75% of the entire studio especially the idtech specialists.
Holy fucking shit, if id Software isn't safe then no other studio is safe.

if wer'e using id Software as a baseline for punishment, then logically 90% of all Xbox game studios needs to be shutdown with only Turn 10 being spared.

>>743314147
>has to post a game that completely abandoned its franchise's genre, characters, and tone to make something completely different
>was already forgotten only a year after a release and is already over four years old
ahuh

>>743314245
Eternal sucked, there hasn't been a good doom game in a decade.
Maybe idtech should've let other studios get access to their "god tier" engine of they didn't want to get laid off. You can count the number of idtech 8 games on 1 finger, it makes no sense to support an engine that only is being used to make dog shit nudoom games.

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>>743304781
It was apparently good enough for the managers of America's money.

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>>743314278
Exploring different styles of gameplay in spinoffs is bad?
Normalfags not making video essays about a game is relevant somehow??

>>743314245
only reason doom games run so well is because there's hardly fucking anything going on. All the maps are either small corridors or small arenas connecting to said corridors with maximum of 10 or so enemies at any given time.
The second id engine was put to do any work in Indiana Jones it fucking choked.

Also calling eternal "mediocre" is understatement of century. That shit was so rancid it actively damaged doom brand retroactively.

>>743314164
House of the Demake was made by Europeans in Europe. Stop making these delusional excuses over everything all the time.

>>743304781
>set price to 9.99 a month for lots of games
>slowly raise the price every 6months
gee why did people stop subbing?

>>743309391
Not even your companies want to hire Russian and CIS region Guys for gaming. Saber entretainment dev team has some Russian guys on Space Marine II.

>>743312251
>Thinking just the gameplay can save shitty visuals and UI/UX interface
The cover is the first message to the public, if it's not good, customers just don't buy it, also marketing and art design.

>>743312506
Gameplay alone is not enough to carry a game, level design also matters.

>>743304781
>Xbox chugging along
>Not making money, hiring more and more people
>everyone keeps making terrible decisions and the brand is going nowhere
>Acquire studios for ridiculous sums
>do nothing with them
What is she supposed to do? The people there are coasting on fat paychecks while destroying what little the Xbox brand had left. (So far, it's that they own the word "XBOX" and its a game console. They have fucking NOTHING ELSE.)
Firing a bunch of incompetent people is the least she can do. I am sure that some of them actually have ideas and values worth a damn, but how do you fix that when they've been part of the problem and happy to accept a paycheck while nothing changes?

>>743307390
The most embarrassing thing about the Sands of Time remake is that they had already four sets of pre-order skins ready to advertise along their slop. We still don't hate Ubisoft enough.

>>743304781
She literally just got the job to fire people and get dogpiled for it. As soon as it's time to make games again they'll appoint another white dude and the cattle will cheer for it.

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>>743304781
Jeets will dominated the entire world

>>743304781
If you're unfortunate enough to actually own the shitstack paperweight that is the xbox X, you will immediately notice that 99.9% of the store is already AI slop. There was no point in keeping most of their developers around anyways because the AI slop probably makes way more money total than a single modern "AAA" release. They're pivoting hard to quantity over anything else to get that sweet 'dad forgot to remove his payment info so little timmy bought a dozen AI scam games on the living room xbox' money.

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>>743315174
Nooo you're supposed to have empathy for all the studios that had ten years and put out nothing.

>>743314245
>id games have been very profitable for the last 10 years
Is this your gut feeling or do you have numbers to back that up? They doubled in size since 2016. The Dark Ages flopped, so they were cut back to a size where making games they do will result in a decent return.

>>743314004
Nta but you say they voted for this when its clear neither color of the US corporate uniparty would've ever placed labor protections against such a thing.

>>743315456
Vance will get a rude awakening for the next term.

>>743315659
>we happy few
only thing i knew about this game was jim sterling was obsessed with it and then it became a aaa title with the monetization to match and felt super undercooked and he dropped it hard
then never heard anything about it again