If you want "facts" in the form of "what percentage of acquired studios have been shut down", I'm not starting a statistics fetch quest. For one thing stats are meaningless because they can be spun to say anything anyway. Like imagine saying MS "doesn't change anything" and then using the "fact" that "only" 15% of their studios disappeared to "support" this notion. Because 15 sounds like a low number out of 100. Seriously, who gives a shit coming up with that anyway? It proves nothing and is a pointless exercise for everyone involved. (I pulled these numbers out of my ass)
I posted a video of an actual Microsoft executive interacting with actual staff in a real studio. Your response? "So you have no proof of changes". Your idea of proof is stats bullshit. Your idea of real life put right in front of you is that it doesn't exist.
I'm impressed you didn't have to drag Windows and Office into the conversation to prove they can do anything right. Only Office, nice. It's also nice that you think Teams is a successful product because people like it and not because their company told them to use it.
The truth is usually more in the middle. In MS's case it's skewed heavily towards a massive pile of shit. Of course by spewing shit everywhere some of it sticks once in a while, but the company culture is generally conducive to failure.
Edit: Wanted to respond to your point that they could make the best games for $20 and best console for $99 and I'd still say they suck. In other words, you are saying that I am biased. FYI I don't have a PS5, had an X but sold it just before the wheels completely flew off Xbox late last year. Still using a used el cheapo Series S and PS4 Pro as my TV boxes but PC and Switch are my main platforms.
I think I have a right to speak for myself instead of have you stuffing words in my mouth every post, so I'll just say that if Xbox had the best games and the best console, I'd say they are great. They wouldn't even have to be $20 and 99. It's almost as if my opinion is a reaction to the way things actually are, and not some hypothetical way I wish they were or expect them to be.
So you don't wan't to argue numbers because it doesn't support your position?
Instead you would rather deal in anecodatal evidence (your video) instead of hard numbers?
I never said Teams was successful becuase people were forced to use it, I said it was a good product, because it is.
I love the fact that you refuse to support your position because "it proves nothing", super conveinient.
Truth in the middle to you is as close to 1% as your position as possible, is irrational.
I don't care what you own, it's clear you have it out for MS, some sort of personal mission. PC and switch are your go to, owning an xbox doesn't make you somehow unbiased, as people constantly point out to me when I say I am multiplatform. I spend most of my time these days on the PS5 and steam deck. But the second I say anything good about MS I'm somehow biased. So lets use that both ways I guess.
You sure do have the right to speak for yourself, and every word that comes out of you sounds like a bitter fanboy, just out to hate MS. No reason, just they poison everything. Talk to you about what MS changes with for real, you say numbers don't matter. Doesn't matter that for the most part, they have left alone the studios they purchased. And you say that MS is skewed towards a massive pile of shit, and that the culture is conductive to failure. So don't blame me for casting you with a brush that predicts what you would do, it's based on what you have said.
What is I was to tell you that they are in fact, one of the most succesful companies in the world? #4 most profitable in the world last year. It's the number 2 company in the world by net worth. Their market cap is bigger than Intel, Comcast, Disney, Cisco, Oracle, Samsung and Walmart and Nvidia combined. These things don't happen by accident. They clearly aren't conductive to failure as a whole. Shocking, right, but you can't even see it through your decision that they suck. I don't own MS stock, I have no large vested interest in thier success or failure (other than my game library). I know they aren't perfect, and have made mistakes. But at least I can see that they aren't incompetent at every level through the whole organization.
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