Well Phil's speech about them having a momentum now is a joke worthy a stand-up show.
But seriously, if you like games then don't joke about this. There is a big risk that we'll just have COD, Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon and Candy Crush in the future. This day signals that they're abandoning everything that isn't already a successful multi million seller IP. More studios will go. More games will be cancelled. They even cut Turn 10 in half. I assume they'll spread out the cuts between the earnings reports, to show the stock market that they're in control.
I am going to be honest. MS has been releasing so many games recently since they became so big, but in reality, The only game I enjoyed was Forza Horizon 5 ( not affected ), and believe it or not, Halo which is not affected as well ( I love the Halo lore, and I liked the single-player part of the game ). The other game that I actually loved was ,Killer Instinct but that is an Xbox One game ( that old )
MS studios AAA games are B tier at best. The newest Forza M from Turn 10 is a complete lie and a joke. they flat out lied about everything from complete new engine to missing stuff that was even available in Forza 7. if they updated the graphics of 7 would have been a miles better game than the shit we got.
7 to 8 years for Perfect Dark
7 to 8 years since Rare announced its game
South of Midnight is barely a 7 out of 10 game.
Avowed is garbage ( with the audacity of an idiot art director fighting people on the net because he is so woke )
Grounded is garbage
Sorry, but sometimes incompetent people need to get fired. These people ( whatever devs or publishers ) need to understand that when you want money from your customers, you design a game that they actually want. Do not design a game that YOU as a dev/publisher want. I know it's selfish, but that's reality. You spend money on food YOU want. You spend money on clothes YOU want. Movies you want. You don't go to a restaurant and they bring you whatever they want and then ask for your money ( and be greedy about it. 80$ ? Sure Jane)
I know that is something sounds way unreasonable. but seriously, who at the management looked at grounded or avowed and said to himself self yup this is a multi-million dollar seller right there? Some games shouldn't even enter the production stage, and yet here we are. reminds me of MS approving any shit as long as they can get a game out like Azurik on the original xbox.
Thats not to say all people that ae fired are incompetent. but common sense I wouldn't fire an employee that is someone actually hard working and know what he/ she is doing. even if I to shut down the whole team for financial reasons ( which is not the case with MS, but more of devs playing with their balls for 8 years and have nothing to show for it ). they would place these people in a different projects.
I am in front-end and back-end development projects. When the project I am working on is done ( for whatever reason, end of contract, short project, timed project, etc ), I get moved to a new project. I don't get fired ( unless I did a shit job ).
Still. I hope competent people who got fired land on their feet in different projects/companies. and the rest to work on themselves to be better. Nothing else can be said really about this.
