We can make use of your studios resources to prop up the Xbox sales via game pass aaaand it’s gone.
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Whats gone? We just released a game
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Not anymore, poof! Studio’s gone.
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They could form a new studio- IDiotFree
Microsoft is complete scum.
FYI, Bazzite works just fine for gaming, I can run Cyberpunk 2077 on it with no problems.
Game plan:
- Buy as many game-makers at exorbitant prices to monopolise the industry.
- Dissolve the game-makers immediately, when they do not perform to absurd sales targets.
- ???
- Profit.
This is what I think when I read the “support the developers, buy their games” when the publishers are big corpos…
I mean really, what does id software know about gaming? It’s not like they single handedly created the FPS genre and one of the most recognized IP in all of gaming history. /s
John Carmack, Adrian Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall. These were the founders of ID software. None of them are there now. It’s a different company.
That’s not to say that Microsoft isn’t stupid and evil for this and many other things, but they didn’t lay off the people who revolutionized the game industry.
Of course not, and Henry Ford for some reason doesn’t run Ford anymore. It’s still the company that invented the assembly line, and id software created the FPS.
There is institutional knowledge that makes id software unique, and MS is making a big mistake firing so many.
I watched a few videos about this situation last night and have a better idea what’s going on.
The shift in focus to the core IPs, which at this point appear to be Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Wolfenstein, could be a great idea, if it means we get one of them every 18 months or so, as vs the decades between main releases the current model is heading towards.
What I really hope is that all this talent being released into the wild gather together to form some new developers.
But the devs at ID are still very above average, likely due to that legacy. Their engine runs so well even with all the modern rendering turned on. If microsoft just turns whatever is left of them into another unreal engine slophouse, thats when it will truly be a different company.
Microsoft is a dysfunctional organization. It is too big to be competent or efficient and yet because of its size it is allowed to continue thriving for all the wrong reasons.
Part of it wants to acquire talent. Another part of it wants to cut costs. They don’t talk to each other, they don’t understand the big picture.
The result is the waste of money and destruction of potential. They buy bottles in which lightning had been caught and promptly smash them on the concrete.
Shit like that is holding back all of humanity.
Humanity wants ChatGPT, TikTok and plastic straws, maybe it shouldn’t be advancing.
Microsoft doesn’t but these companies to make better games.
Insane. Xbox’ new leadership seems completely clueless when it comes to gaming. They’re destroying their most valuable assets.
id? the very same id that have us the glorious masterpiece DOOM? USELESS?! FUCKING WINDOWS is useless 😠
