You can't fire me, I quit!
The downfall of Microsoft games division will be studied for years.
Don't think so, it's not like it wasn't obvious from the start.
"We're struggling with our sales, what should we do ?"
"Make more appealing games ?"
"No we're gonna release everything on PC day one"
"No that's, stupid, what else ?"
"We're gonna put our games in a subscription service with a refundable 1$ trial"
"Well that doesn't sound to be a good idea, but if it's only old games that would let people buy them afterwards, why not"
"No, we're gonna put day one games in it"
"Are you insane ? That's the worst decision you could possibly come up with"
"We need more day one games, let's buy studios, or even publishers like Zenimax"
"Stop it, you're burining too much money for no return"
"We need even more day one games, let's buy Activision for 70 billion dollars"
"Gosh, just don't put CoD day one there"
"Let's put CoD day one there"
"Okay I'm done"
"Oh noes, it doesn't work, let's put our games on PS5 then"
"..."
"Well, let's just lay off everybody"