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[bitbydeath]

Rumour is now marked as confirmed.
Microsoft should have sold them, someone would have bought.

 

[reinking]

 

[zaga]

136 wtf

 

[squallbr]

Doom is now on Activision

 

[LectureMaster]

Right after they ship a great expansion. Disgusting.

 

[Arsic]

Seems pointless to keep a small chunk lol.

Just kick em out and let them keep the IP like you did with the others.

That's the main reason they probably didn't - one bad doom game isn't enough to fully gut them.

 

[amigastar]

Don't remind me OP this makes me so angry!!

 

[Sticks]

#FuckKonami

 

[Karamina]

The Majors are definitely all dead.

 

[Quantum253]

And this is just the beginning

 

[LectureMaster]

My man's Xbox be like:

 

[Skifi28]

Would have been better off selling it like the others instead of whatever this is.

 

[jm89]

Support studio size.

 

[f~N_CH_1:3:3:3_SushiBoat]

And those that remain are responsible for managing IDtech as its adopted throughout the first party studios.....right?.......right??!!!

 

[simpatico]

The only reason they didn't sell them is because they want the IP to send us a never ending stream on contractor-made Doom and Quake games. I'm quite sure Asha think she can minmax and optimize a studio capable of producing classics on a regular basics. Think about it.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

It doesn't sting any less every time it gets reposted.

 

[damidu]

wow what a legacy xbox, just fuck off and die already

 

[Viruz]

75% gone? Sure, id's output will now be phenomenal.

 

[Hohenheim]

If this is true, it must be the most insane decision in the world of gaming since.. Yeah, I don't even know.

 

[Topher]

What a week

 

[CrustyBritches]

The only reason they didn't sell them is because they want the IP to send us a never ending stream on contractor-made Doom and Quake games. I'm quite sure Asha think she can minmax and optimize a studio capable of producing classics on a regular basics. Think about it.

Yep. MS is an AI company and Asha is an AI exec. They are planning on using call center workers and AI to generate a bunch of Unreal slop games.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Microslop wants their IP's or otherwise they'd sell them like Undead Labs and Ninja Theory. One of the worst outcomes imaginable.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

I fought for this?

Am I the baddie?

 

[neocycle]

It's really strange they can't put them to use. Are they really so bad? What about next gen games?

 

[simpatico]

Yep. MS is an AI company and Asha is an AI exec. They are planning on using call center workers and AI to generate a bunch of Unreal slop games.

Yes. She will try to use the same tools they use in other tech sectors, and I'm sure you guys can imagine how that's gonna go.

We don't have time for lazy people in America to spend 8 years making a game. The quest for one billion gamers demands it.

 

[Magic Carpet]

 

[Fbh]

They could have at least tried to sell them or let them go independent like the other studios.

This sucks, ID is one of the only MS devs I gave a shit about, and an absolutely legendary studio.

Dark Ages was underwhelming, but still pretty good IMO.

 

[mckmas8808]

I thought it was only 100. Where the other 36 come from?

 

[Atrus]

This is what happens when you get someone with no industry background leading a change initiative.

They take a look at the high performers like King and Mojang and wonder why everyone else isn't on the same train.

"We spent X hundred mill for Y? Candy Crush had a better ROI per dollar invested!"

Now we'll get Candy Crush Doom Edition.

 

[Mr1999]

Do more with less is the "new" trend. It would appear like they were closing down with that many people being laid off, but imo they are keeping the key people and laying off everyone else, the "survivors" as they call it and probably under a new name, that's what they did where I work anyways.

 

[neocycle]

Candy Crush Doom Edition

 

[riko]

The classic Microsoft "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" now applied to the greatest FPS dev of all time.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Now you know why the "careers" tab was nuked.

 

[DarkLordOtaku]

Turns out Doom: The Dark Ages was more prophetic naming for the studio than the franchise...

 

[JohnnyFootball]

This news legit PISSED me off. id is up there with Nintendo in terms of their importance to gaming.

 

[Dice]

Bye Microsoft. I will never forgive you.

 

[Stuart360]

This really sucks. I mean thank fuck they didnt close them but still this is a Legendary studio, responsible for the birth of FPS games.

I know The Dark Ages underperformed but you would think any studio would get a couple of strikes before they are out (so to speak).

All this is making me think Satya basically told Xbox that they need to bring in significant profits or Xbox is done, and basically some 'hard decisions' are having to be made.

 

[Viruz]

I thought it was only 100. Where the other 36 come from?

Asha found them hiding in the chambers.

 

[DarkLordOtaku]

This really sucks. I mean thank fuck they didnt close them but still this is a Legendary studio, responsible for the birth of FPS games.

I know The Dark Ages underperformed but you would think any studio would get a couple of strikes before they are out (so to speak).

All this is making me think Satya basically told Xbox that they need to bring in significant profits or Xbox is done, and basically some 'hard decisions' are having to be made.

If you've laid off over 70% of the developers, they're not the same studio anymore. This news is shutting them down in all but name.

 

[violence]

 

[Stitch]

thank fuck they didnt close them

They cut their legs and arms off and gouged their eyes out, but yeah they're still alive

 

[Cumulus]

Asha hasn`t got the slightest clue what she`s doing. She`s literally just halving excel balance sheets.....
Just for that I´ll never buy anything with an Xbox logo on it ever again...well, not that I would have anyways, but now I´ll not do it with more conviction.

 

[Trogdor1123]

This is what happens when you get someone with no industry background leading a change initiative.

They take a look at the high performers like King and Mojang and wonder why everyone else isn't on the same train.

"We spent X hundred mill for Y? Candy Crush had a better ROI per dollar invested!"

Now we'll get Candy Crush Doom Edition.

I'm part of the problem, I want that.

 

[Stuart360]

If you've laid off over 70% of the developers, they're not the same studio anymore. This news is shutting them down in all but name.

Well it depends doesnt it. If the layoffs are just low level artists or new comers (as in last in, first out), and most of the longer more important ID people are being kept, then its still ID.
Obviously as a new game starts getting in deeper development, staff will be hired, or staff from other studios help out etc.

As long as the 'backbone' of ID is still there then long term this COULD not have a major effect.

I'm assuming obviously and trying to look positively.

 

[JORMBO]

Asha has probably never heard of Doom before.

 

[clarky]

Seems pointless to keep a small chunk lol.

Just kick em out and let them keep the IP like you did with the others.

That's the main reason they probably didn't - one bad doom game isn't enough to fully gut them.

They been fully gutted. Management and a few stragglers left.

They aint making another game.

 

[Arsic]

They been fully gutted. Management and a few stragglers left.

They aint making another game.

End of an era.

 

[Wildebeest]

With cuts this deep how do they even decide who to keep rather than just shutting the studio down? Is this just a PR thing to avoid the headline that the closed them?

 

[clarky]

Bye Microsoft. I will never forgive you.

Yeah i really don't give a shit about all the has been studios xbox bought then underperformed but this one smarts a bit to say the least.

 

[clarky]

With cuts this deep how do they even decide who to keep rather than just shutting the studio down? Is this just a PR thing to avoid the headline that the closed them?

More than likely.