I honestly wonder sometimes if you guys just want communism. Zenimax was struggling and wanted to sell, and MS bought. MS is really only obligated to employee people as needed. We know their sales are declining rapidly, so there's pretty obvious motivation to cutback. This isn't the 1st place Switch or Playstation division, this is a hardware developer bombing, off store shelves and transitioning to a 3rd party publisher. Literally.
If people want to support some kind of mandatory employment, that's usually done through government jobs that aren't strictly profit driven. You tax the top corporations making a windfall, reinvest it into government areas that can benefit society and employee people. I'm cool with that, but it seems pretty popular these days to cut as many government jobs as possible in the US. Or you invest in things like government supported retraining, or a robust social safety net possibly even including UBI so you can use the agility of capitalism without the brutality. It just is nonsensical whining to act like MS is obligated to employee a hardware team when their sales have cratered. It literally makes no sense to me, so I can't muster any fake outrage for it. Most of this board cheers on cutting government jobs as much as possible, but then wants MS to be obligated to employee people? It's literally illogical.
I hear all the time how much of a huge flaw it is that MS has infinite money and can support their gaming division unfairly. But they prove time and time again that they don't operate this way, and the gaming division has to make their own money to stay afloat. But people then flip right back and say it's horrible that evil MS isn't funding them. It's literally mad if they do, mad if they don't. Just crying.
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