ProtoByte
Weeb Underling
That's letting the people at the studios off the hook. The truth is that Spencer and Booty have been petrified of being victim to a Schreier/Kotaku 2010s style exposé. Rightfully so, perhaps, since they've never had a clue how to set up pipelines that facilitate good games. Wah wah crunch, wah wah meddling management. They probably thought that pissing off the activist media and burgeoning infiltrator cell in the game dev sphere was really going to be the last nail in the coffin. If their long time propaganda vector had turned against them, Nadella would've shut down the division years ago.I'm not blaming the studio, i'm blaming phil spencer and matt booty for not doing their jobs and managing these studios properly. How many studios need to be mismanged before the finger is pointed at the people directly responsible for it.
The devs took advantage of that fear and rode the gravy train all the way off a cliff. Yes, Phil should've intervened 3 years in with nothing to show for it, let alone 5. But supposed professionals shouldn't have to be told that not having more than fake footage after 6 years from an "all star team" with support from a studio like Crystal Dynamics isn't acceptable.
It's not even just Xbox devs, who have taken the warchest meme as literally as fanboys. Sony's been scared from demanding cutting edge standards from their devs as well. Practically every studio in the west refuses to enforce standards for efficiency, let alone excellence.
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