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[Dysun]

What is going on with Microsoft studios?

Spoiler

dont hate me

 

[hydrophilic attack]

The hell is going on with Microsoft game studios?????

e: Damnit

 

[Iacobellis]

Yeah I get ya. Maybe next time put a little "!!!1!!1!" or something to show you aren't being serious.

Cuz yeah, Poe's Law and all that.

Don't worry, I also thought Carl was being serious.

 

[hohoXD123]

A joke, which according to his twitter comments on the famousmortimer debacle, he probably doesn't enjoy.

In fact, after the rectification of famousmortimer's nonsense by the developer in question, I saw lots of gaffers comment on the fact that using Druckmann's name like this is kind of unwarranted and could do more damage than it's worth.
Naming and shaming people for perceived incompetence or them being involved in something without us knowing any of the circumstances, even in jest, is something I think we could do without.
The entire meme started because of his perceived involvement in the ND layoffs based on a poorly written IGN article.

I just thought we were done with this meme since the famousmortimer thing. That's all.

Where has he indicated that? He simply posted a link to the driveclub shitstorm as an example of how these speculative accusations, especially by news sites, can hurt people. This was more in reference to IGN's stupid story which essentially amounted to slander than these joke posts which no one takes seriously.

 

[Violater]

I just can't stand his fake mannerisms. It really riles me when people behave in a way that's not their own in order to get attention.

The fuck?
So you really are an angry insufferable person in real life?

Which reminds me I need to go watch yesterdays episode.
On topic: Godspeed to all those laid off.

 

[EmeraldSwords]

AAA gaming is a dying breed. It's all about Indies this gen.

 

[TalonJH]

AAA gaming is a dying breed. It's all about Indies this gen.

I wouldn't be completely devastated with a mix of (few a year)AAA's and (tons a year)indies.

 

[Dragonborn]

AAA gaming is a dying breed. It's all about Indies this gen.

I wouldn't even mind too much to be honest. Have a few big AAA games and tons of smaller scale and indie games to fill in the gap

 

[Ominym]

The Druckmann bullshit continues to be unfunny.

 

[Silky]

AAA gaming is a dying breed. It's all about Indies this gen.

and as usual the mid-tier remain ignored

gaming!

 

[prwxv3]

sorry but layoffs dont mean they don't care about games. Can we please cut this shit out ounce and for all?

 

[SystemBug]

Microsoft just shot themselves in the foot.

I don't know how much the rest of you know about American culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in Japan where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in America, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the american public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase any MS game studios game for the Xbox One, nor will they purchase any of the 3rd party games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Microsoft has alienated an entire market with this move.

Microsoft, publicly apologize and cancel Titanfall for 360 or you can kiss your business goodbye.

this is something that never gets old

 

[GoofsterStud]

The only issue I have is laying off people that worked on Killer Instinct when your already changing external developers as it is.... Makes KI part 2 questionable. Perhaps the are going to build from scratch with a new engine.