Microsoft & Xbox reports reveal reckless Activision Blizzard acquisition & failing Game Pass gamble
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Microsoft and Xbox's reckless spending spree combined with their misjudgment of Game Pass growth led to cherished Bethesda studios such as Tango & Arkane Austin paying the price and may very well screw over other smaller beloved and creative studios that Phil Spencer promised would be nurtured. This is such a travesty.
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Pretty sure at this point the wider internet is just looking at Microsoft like that fish from spongebob and going:
"Hey pal, you just blow in from stupid town?"
TH-cam keeps deleting my comments :(
Thank you Chong Yue for the awesome news.
CEOs are paid massive salaries to "captain" their companies, yet when they steer them into a storm it's everyone working under them who drowns while they sail away in a golden lifeboat.
Yep, that's for the whole stock market as a whole. CEOs and the rest of the corporate executives get to get away with their massive mistakes and still make their bonuses, while anyone at the lower levels of a company should only be lucky to keep their jobs.
When the system is kinda built by them, ofc they give themselves the most ridiculously extravagant pay and golden parachute
All publicly traded companies too. The same CEO's just go from one company to another.
@@urazz7739this is why I think there should be laws in place that makes these bozos accountable. We all know they only care about shareholders and short-term profits. Why are we even allowing them to make decisions on things they have 0 knowledge about other than “oh this existing thing has market potential. Let me bleed it dry and then move on to the next cash cow.” If your fucking company isn’t doing well because of your dumbass decisions, your paycheck should take the hit. Not employee livelihood. So sick and tired of corporate greed.
It pays to be part of a Satanic network.
These corporate clowns thought game pass would just infinitely grow, forgetting that humanity has a finite population.
It's the Facebook access problem at a smaller scale. The stock market wanted to see that user growth every quarter. At some point you run out of people with access to the Internet. Zuckerberg even pushed getting more folks Internet access to meet expectations, launching satellites and drones to beam the Internet to remote regions. All those projects were canned and I believe game pass is headed down the same road.
Finite population, finite people interested in game, and finite people interested in specific games.
As well as finite funds, and yet there's talks they want to increase game pass prices AGAIN
Yeah and in general the subscription model doesn't work for everything. Not sure it's even working for video any more...
Yep even windows Microsoft has hit as wall, same for Meta Facebook. They've ran the well dry.
Microsoft saw one of the worst trainwrecks in history and went “I can do one better”
Xbox saw*
@@TheRedRaven_This is all Microsoft.
Microsoft to Microsoft: “Hold my beer”
Remember Xbox one ? Who needs games when you have a media center. They were showing movies, shows, entertainment center, and people are like does it play games? 😂 😂
@@budkin You need to direct your anger over at Xbox, Microsoft is chilling at a stable 3 trillion in market cap because of Windows, “Xbox Studios” or whatever their brand name is, needs to be addressed accordingly, it’s a subsidiary brand.
Edit: Since y’all don’t get it, Phil Spencer is CEO of “Microsoft gaming”(Xbox), Satya Narayana Nadella is CEO of Microsoft. Crazy I have to explain something so obvious 😂
The more I see things like this, the more I appreciate the genius of Gabe who kept Valve private and safe from these shenanigans.
Indeed. Steam is not perfect but it certainly is doing a lot better than Microsoft and Sony
steam is winning by doing nothing
Microsoft is looking to buy steam.
@@chaosdirge4906 A bit late. But there's no way Gabe will ever sell the rights to the same company he left to create Valve for.
Blizzard: You've saved us from bobby kotick, you have freed us!
Phil:Oh i wouldn't say freed, more like under new management.👌
Or lack of management. A lot of Xbox's problems is a result of them not really keeping an eye on their studios, especially the troubled ones that they bought. I mean, if it was me buying these studios, I'd be evaluating them first and then firing the idiots that got those studios into trouble in the first place.
@@urazz7739 Yes, thank you. Phill needs a new job, dude couldn't manage to take the trash out let a lone manage a company. And that indian dude (can't remember his name) that is Head of Microsoft now needs to go too, guys a jag. He's more concerned about sending jobs to the middle east and turning Microsoft software into malware. Had to get a new comp twice now from the updates bricking my laptop. The most recent wiped my drive after updating.
More like no management if this shit keeps up
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMThe Xbox 360 era was their peak (Not taking into account their RROD issue). It's been downhill since.
Blizzard? really? after many of the golden veterans left, i'm not sure if we should call them Blizzard anymore, they are just stringing/hooking us along with nostalgia at this point.
Not to mention Tango was basically the ONLY Xbox studio that released a smaller critically acclaimed game in recent history. What’s the alternative? Starfield?
What critically acclaimed game? Hi-Rush was a 7/10 game to me. Metacritic has it at an average score of 8/10, which I think is a bit generous. The game was fine, but "critically acclaimed"? no
@@sophieedel6324 firstly, the metacritc is at 87/100 and 8.9/10 averages, which is much closer to a 9/10 average on both counts.
The game won several awards, got several 10/10 ratings from journalists, has a 97% positive rating from users on Steam, and is the best received Xbox Published game in over a decade.
If that’s not critical acclaim then what is?
@natmarelnam4871 ok fanboy
@@sophieedel6324 87 on xbox, 90 on PC, 89 on PS5 to be precise. and user reviews is 8.9.
Were does you 8/10 figure comes from? Looks closer to a 9/10 to me
@@sophieedel6324I’ve seen your other comments you didn’t like it that’s fine but the rest of us did I don’t even own an Xbox or pc but I watched someone play the game and I thought it was one of the best games I’ve seen.
Microsoft wants every game to sell millions of copies, but they also want Game Pass subscriptions to increase every quarter. You can't have both and expect unlimited profit.
I don’t think they thought it through sure game pass is good value but your right they can’t have both
microsoft makes more than enough profit
@@sammiesmith3454 Microsoft probably does, Xbox doesn't.
Yeah they don't understand gaming at all, let alone are paying attention to what their customers are living through, like we've seen cost of living increase pretty much globally, it's harder for ppl to afford food let alone a full priced game, so obviously with game pass existing ppl are going to opt for the thing that, depending on country to country, only costs like 2 full games for an entire year access to potentially hundreds of new games each year.
Personally until like a year or two ago I've never used the wishlist feature or focused on only buying when games go on sale, I've had no choice but to start using them bcos money is such much more precious to survival. Practically tho even if things get easier I'll still be doing this, I've played more games than before bcos I'm finding all these little gems or just able to try something I'd never buy before. But yeah we're poor out here Microsoft, you can't have it both ways.
Well last year there was an article about Phil Spencer spending 23 weeks doing nothing but playing video games he earned 180 some achievements and put himself within the top 5% of the Xbox players not 23 days now 23 weeks
I think we need to keep saying this and keep repeating: a videogame crash is coming.
The way that shareholders are CEO are handling AAA gaming is unsustainable. Please be aware of this. Also there's a lot of disgruntled devs who are starting to change industries altogether because it's NOT worth the hassle. It's RIDICULOUS that you get fired and lose you job because you SUCCEED but you didn't succeed to the level that the CEOs/shareholders wants.
For five minutes, Microsoft. Could you not be yourself?
*FOR FIVE MINUTES?!*
"ehhhh.... best I can give u is 3"
2 minutos... Tómalo o déjalo.
Lol nice
Even wesker is more generous.
@@NeocrimsonX”7 minutes. 7 minutes is all I can spare to play with you.”
They should be banned from buying another studio. They seriously wanted to buy Nintendo. They are a menace!
Didn't they literally get laughed out of the room when they tried?
Yea that was 25 years ago…
@@zordoneltar5571 I thought so.
If they try again, you can bet there'll be a massive outcry from gamers/consumers demanding the justice department shut that shit down.
They should be forced to divest the ones they already own.
No one who owns a marketplace should be able to sell products on that same marketplace. That goes for Microsoft/Xbox, Apple, Amazon and your local supermarket equally. It creates absolutely perverse incentives.
The disgusting salary of CEO's have to go. They're practically paid an entire dev studio's salary worth of money and they just sit around and make stupid decisions.
It should really be law that your salary cannot be more than 10x the salary of your lowest paid full-time employee.
If you wanna earn those millions, you gotta raise the floor too.
@@HasekuraIsunaThis needs to happen.
You can be a genius, but without your team, most if not all of your dreams stay in the drawer.
Thing is that those insane salaries would be tolerable if they reflected actual contributions to building up these corporations' developmental capabilities - mass layoffs are the exact opposite of that though
@@cezarstefanseghjucanthey did a study that compared a $1 million CEO salary and a $20 million CEO salary and found that higher salary does not equate to higher productivity. It’s absurd.
CEOs' combined salaries + bonuses must be tied directly to the lowest paid employees.
I am so freaking mad. Tango deserved better.
It's completely stupid that despite making insane profits, they still shut down a studio that had a *success.*
There is no such thing as enough profit
@@eddiefraser4373 Yup. :( The Investor Economy is never satisfied. It always demands more.
To be fair. We all told Microsoft that we didn't want them to continue with the same work place harassment as Activision-Blizzard and they listened. You can't be harassed at work, if you no longer work there. Real Monkey Paw of you Microsoft.
Be careful what you wish for! 😅
LOL
Truly monkey paw situation
If you told me Microsoft made a deal with the devil or a jinn, I would believe you.
Microsoft: We need a foot in the door to get into the Japanese market.
Also Microsoft: Shoots said foot.
Proceeds to slam said door against it's own foot until it's nice new shoes were ruined and it's foot was severed from it's leg.
More like blew it off with a shotgun, without Tango, they have absolutely zero ways to enter the Japanese market again, no Japanese studio is gonna want to join up with Microsoft after this fiasco, not like there were any that were willing to before they pulled this, Tango was all they had (And it was a really good in as well, Tango was a super talented studio), corporate decision making absolutely blows my mind, its like their entire job is to make terrible nonsensical decisions
They didn't just shoot it, they blew the dang thing off. With 'hopefully' no chance of reattaching it. Be sadly, we all know it will be...
I kinda saw it coming when Shinji Mikami left the company last year to be honest. We don't know what was going on internally, but I can see a loss of leadership especially when he was the founder and the visionary for the company just causing a downwards spiral.
Gaming in Japan is almost strictly Mobile. Xbox/PC gaming barely exists in Japan.
I only just beat Hi-Fi Rush 2 weeks ago and was doing the after game gates. They had one of the best new ips in years, and despite having over 3 million players, they thanked the team and fans by shutting Tango down and guaranteeing there won't be a sequel. Thanks for nothing Microsoft.
Now, just imagine if they would’ve sold that game at 30 bucks to 3 million people day one. Instead, they put it on game pass people sign up for nine bucks and then cancel month later. If Gamepass was a great idea. You would see Nintendo and Sony doing it. Because they have way better exclusives. But they don’t because putting your games on their day one is a terrible terrible idea. I always said they should sell their games physically and digitally then put it on game pass several months later. But what did Microsoft do? They stopped selling physical games entirely and put their games on gamepass day one 😂 I don’t know who making these stupid decisions over there. But I know they were stupid when they decided to release the Xbox series X side-by-side by the series S and then said we need parity mandates between the two. That’s when I knew Microsoft makes terrible decisions.
I was going to buy the game on Steam after my friends told me it was there, as I can't afford an Xbox system right now, but now I can't justify getting it knowing the dev team who made it what it is won't get their cut and the CEO's will take home the profit.
I had got a refund when I saw the woman on a man's body
@@kirara2516developers don't get a cut, they have salaries
Salaries & staying employed, rn they're fired and whether their salaries are actually paid in full is also a different matter@@chiquita683
Having Johnny Silverhand in the background for a story on how corporate stooges have yet again screwed over many, many people is sooooo fitting.
I canceled my Game Pass today. I actually really like the service, but my morals won't let me support the company anymore.
I canceled 4 weeks ago it’s downhill from here
Facts I canceled mines today too
I cancelled over a month ago. The catalog has been stale as of late. Plus i tend to purchase games I enjoy, regardless of it.
saw ur comment so i just had to as well. i didnt even use that much anyways. it was more for small dev support
Damn, if more people could be like y’all, we’d probably have a decent gaming industry 😂
You know things in the gaming industry are nuts when EA is not the most hated publisher. How have we gotten here?
Greed.
And it's not like EA has gotten any better or anything, they've just quietly maintained their usual level of evil while others are running around lighting puppies on fire.
It does feel like every month comes into a new story that puts another publisher at the bottom of the list.
Activision with the Sexual Allegations, Ubisoft with Star Wars Outlaws Prices, Sony with HellDivers, Gamefreak with Dexit, it just never ever ends.
They pretty much shut down the Dead Space 2 Remake so people are still pretty pissed lol
because we dun get enough of helldiver player fighting back situation and letting all hell loose in console area
So basically they bought Activision/Blizzard but they couldn’t afford them.
Got it 🤦🏾♂️
Nah, it’s the fact that they can, chose not to do so
they're a multitrillion dollar company, they could afford all of it
Heaven forbid any chairmen take any pay cuts from their dozens of millions of dollars...
They rival amazon in size they can buy out like 20 Blizzards and it would barely make a dent in their profits.
Looks like Microsoft spent all of their gaming budget on these acquisitions and now they have no budget to make games.
Remember when the internet was cheering Microsoft for buying all these Devs?
Some of us tried to warn them...
I thought I was going crazy. Everyone was sick riding Phil and Xbox like crazy. I thought I was crazy because I just seen very obvious problems that would come from this
man anerican mcgee alice were the days…
Tbh we were all expecting someone to buy out EA and essentially save half the industry (primarily sports titles and sims). Everyone thought these were just the initial moves to start a games development cold war arms race but somehow ea survived. Ultimately acquiring Cod from blizzard, Elder scrolls and Fallout with the buyout of Bethesda is a good move just a bit ambitious. Bethesda has seen the benefits of Microsoft connections with the tv series. Cod was on a good path a few months ago but its obvious Microsoft doesn't give af about game developers. Mtx and lootboxes are too strong keeping Ea alive and leading to the destruction of indie or small devs.
I was one of them
@@johncrowley3322 I thought the Fallout TV series was planned before the MS buyout?
no consequences, no accountability, no punishment.
Punish with your wallet and your data. Don't buy from them, don't use their platforms.
@@ThePlayerOfGamesB-But COD! But Diablo!
Corporations never get held accountable. No wonder they dont care about the little people.
What boggles my mind by the strategy of “we gotta focus on the more bigger franchises” if you dont let studios create new IPs there wont be any new big franchises. This is like a company firing a new hungry worker cause they want to give the jaded uncaring senior worker a raise
The strategy is to cannibalize other companies to inflate the stock price. It's the private equity playbook. I guess Microsoft sees less value in making games, kinda like how McDonalds is technically a real estate company.
I remember when Larian Studios refused to be bought out by Microsoft. It was the right call to make. Stay independent because if you aren't at the level of... Say rockstar your livelihood isn't guaranteed.
Thank Godness. Imagine bg3 if Microsoft had control.
Who said Rockstar is special? They'll shut it down same as any other studios. These decisions are clearly not being made on any creative, financial, or logical basis.
BG3 would have been converted into a Diablo-ish multiplayer extraction hack and slash and Larian would be closed right after the flop.
Lol Microsoft disrespected Larian by offering 10 mil for the whole studio. No sane person would take that deal. They probably made hundreds of millions of $ from bg3 alone
Moon Studio also refused a Microsoft buyout. FYI they are the ones behind both Ori games
I remember the first time I heard Sony say that this was not sustainable, and it made me wonder if we would ever see the outcome of that statement and here we are
American companies tend to be extremely shortsighted compared to non-American companies (except for Chinese companies, they have the same tendencies as American companies, but for a very different reason).
Yeah. They were right all along.
@@relaxedleisure4766 The top % of American companies are global conglomerates, and parent companies, and shareholders to many corporate subsidiaries around the world... The global elite aren't somehow different in other parts of the world, they're practically colleagues. Lets go ask Dubai and Japan how their working class are doing? How about consumer exploitation? This isn't a nationalist issue.
@@MonkeGeorge It’s not a nationalist issue (I’m a right leaning American, I’m a pro-money capitalist), but it is unfortunately a cultural one. American public companies tend to be more shortsighted because Americans tend to have low attention spans.
In a nutshell, the problem is mostly with American investors…
@@relaxedleisure4766 Who or what you identify as has no bearing on your take not being an objective truth.
Kind of hilarious that game pass is hurting sales when we’ve been told by publishers, console owners , and developers for years that selling games the old fashioned way is no longer sustainable.
Both are true. So many game are make. That it's hard to get all the eye on you at the same time to buy that new game at the same time.
But putting on gamepass mean it cheap. So everyone that is remotely interested in it. Will get the pass. But as it lower the amount they gain. The players will dip after. Never buying it at all. Cuz they have played it and move on.
Microsoft’s problem is they can’t have Both and that’s what they want Their is companies that do gamepass type subscriptions but that’s their main focus so it works but Microsoft’s focus is wanting both high rate of subscribers but also high sales of the very games on game pass.
Funnily enough Sony got this right. They said outright that they're not putting first-party games on PSPlus day one *specifically* because it would hurt sales if everything was just a subscription.
Windowing is a good release strategy. Dumping everything on Game Pass isn't. But a lot of companies want bigger numbers (look at how many gamers we got paying for Game Pass) to engineer stock price hype.
This is a NEEDED wake up call for all workers and consumers.
F*** all the corporate shareholder greed and go independent studios.
The rest *UNIONIZE* against these corporate giants.
Keep spreading the message. But careful, youll start getting your messages auto-deleted too
@@russianFB7442 been noticing for several years the moment I was old enough to recognize corporate greed and workers fighting for better pay and power.
Yeah but without this company and shareholder, where do you think they will get money to build their game ?
Exactly. Unions and regulations ✊🏼
[old lady yells at cloud] Companies used to make a product and sell it to customers. Customers got a good/service, and the company made some money from it. Win/win. Public companies are still providing a good/service; WE are the goods and the investors are the customers. The actual 'product' no longer matters in the slightest. We let other industries do this to us, and the digital goods companies realized they could leverage it to the sky without actually having to produce any physical items. They are minting money off pixels, selling our attention spans. Thank God for the indie companies.
Swen Vincke's speech from the GDC was never more true than now.
How did Swen say it?
"Greed has been fucking this whole thing up for so long, since I started I've been fighting publishers my entire life and I keep on seeing the same, same, same mistakes over, and over and over.
It's always the quarterly profits. The only thing that matters are the numbers, and then you fire everybody and then next year you say 'shit I'm out of developers' and then you start hiring people again, and then you do acquisitions, and then you put them in the same loop again, and it's just broken...
You don't have to. You can make reserves. Just slow down a bit. Slow down on the greed. Be resilient, take care of the people, don't lose the institutional knowledge that's been built up in the people you lose every single time, so you have to go through the same cycle over and over and over. It really pisses me off."
First, the Tarkov situation. Next - Sony's huge blunder with Helldivers. Now this Xbox B S. Always the greed, always the quarterly numbers.
The difference is that Swen Vincke is a human, the rest don’t deserve human treatment.
Sven is a beacon light. Rather go the longer slower route and start small and stay independent. Cannot trust any single one of these money bag danglers, they all come with a blade in their sleeves.
The problem is that investors and shareholders are lost in the fallqcy that "infinite growth with finite resources is possible" and have CEO's at gunpoint.
Shutting down Tango Gameworks makes ABSOLUTELY no sense, from any point of view.
Unless Microsoft lied about how successful Hi-Fi rush really was.
What I mean was Hi-Fi rush was great for game pass but not for direct profit.
@@almalone3282it was successful but why buy anything with gamepass
It may have been a great game but thanks to multiple reasons, nr1 probably being gamepass, it made no money.
If your job is to make money, and you don't make money, you get fired.
Microsoft is setting up everybody to fail thanks to gamepass, because they take away a huge revenue source, and expect the devs to make money anyhow.
The game didn't make a profit because it was on game pass.
Really not that complicated
Well, Microsoft is obviously expecting games to make profits despite being on Gamepass. Gotta start those microtransactions or be axed.@@dominick951
I told people that they should not celebrate Microsoft buying ABK, not only Microsoft has a bad track record, but it doesn't need to be Microsoft, companies buying each other is terrible for customers.
They called me a crybaby envious Sony fanboy, even though I don't even play on PlayStation.
I was an Xbox gamer for the longest time and the same happened to me, I literally had a Spartan from Halo as my pic at the time...
The moment Microsoft bought Blizzard, they basically sold their souls to the devil.
I'm an Xbox and PC gamer and was saying the same. Getting absorbed into the gelatinous cube is never a good thing. Luckily at least my friends agreed. We tried to be hopeful we were wrong, but looks like we were right sadly.
Creativity is dead. Long live Creativity...
Gamers are very fickle individuals and don't really critically think at all. They wanted Microsoft to buy up Sega, Capcom and Square Enix. I was cringing extremely hard when I saw people wanting one of the big 3 to buy studios. There are too many ignorant gamers that have no idea how bad monopolies are. It's really quite fascinating how ignorant gamers are really.
Only Xbots celebrated that nonsense lol
If paying for a game means i don't own it, piracy isn't stealing.
I'm for piracy for preservation's sake. The removal of "The Crew" didn't kickstart any movement like YongYea boasts. It just made piracy more appealing to a wider audience and added more wood to the fire. Now it's really gonna move.
That's why I download my movies and TV shows
That Matt Booty quote is literally that Eric Andre meme;
*Shoots the guy multiple times (Closes down Tango Gameworks)
*Reloads gun
*Shoots the guy multiple times again (Shuts down Arkane Austin and two other game studios)
Xbox: "We need more small and prestigious games."
They’re not acquiring the studios to nurture and build talent and support them. They’re buying to build their IP catalogue. “Let’s make a sequel to blank. Good idea, we’ll hire contractors to build that team that way when they’re done we can let them go” They just want a piece of the pie of all the “big titles” EVERY TIME they’re made.
Screw em, we are at the cusp of an era of blossoming Indy titles/studios and I’m all for it!
Only problem is not everyone likes these indie games how many indie games are like fallout, halo, helldivers, doom, etc and are good? As of right now indies are just flavor of the month games like amog us or lethal company and palworld. These games start good but die off within like 2 months.
@@zulerisgaming8523 terraria and stardew valley are both in the top 50 and top 10 most played games respectively on steam right now what do you mean indie is just flavor of the month?
THE ONE PIECE! THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!!!!
@zulerisgaming8523 Stardew Valley, Minecraft (which was independently made back in the day), or Terraria? Hollow Knight, Undertale, Cuphead and Hades? There are heaps of indie games that are well worth playing, and that people have found enjoyable long past their first year.
I'm not going to say every indie game is excellent, but I don't think I could say every AAA game is either.
And I certainly can say some of the games you listed have had absolute shit entries that would have killed off their studio if they weren't held up on a pedestal by their past greatness and more money than common sense.
I'd also say yes, there ARE plenty of shovelware indie games that were made to be streamed for a month, fall off everyone's radar and fade into obscurity. But that doesn't invalidate that indie games can be as good/fun or straight up more so than any AAA franchise, and are worth investing in.
I've been a skeptic of Microsoft's spending spree for years. Clearly they are buying a catalog to fill a service and IPS to milk. Anyone who thought they were benevolent overseers that would nurture their purchases was deluding themselves.
Sony be like. Ohh we thought Microsoft buying Activision-Blizzard will break us, but it broke them instead.
You are right 👍
Sony is also failing right now.
Sony having their own problems right now.
@@ca_kaynot even a remotely close comparison . Controversy over a singular game PSN account implementation vs. a company shuttering various studios , some of which provided great titles very recently. Not even remotely comparable.
@@ca_kaynot even close
“Games on GamePass badly miss their sales goals”…
Well, no sh*t Sherlock! Who would’ve thought ?
The biggest insult, 343 survived.
Yes lol meanwhile 343 is still in charge of Halo after 4 giant fuckups and a shitty tv show.
343 is barely even the same company it was two years ago. They fired almost all of the upper-level staff. The guy running Infinite's live service (which has been doing way better than it was prior, even if it was a low bar to surpass) is the guy that led bringing MCC to PC and fixing it. Given MCC was pretty solid after it was fixed, hopefully 343 will go in a better direction from now on.
@@ShadowWolfQc
The tv-series is actually unrelated to 343i, so they are not related to that specific failure.
Yeah yeah number company bad brainlet halo take as usual we get it go back to tearing each other apart will you? At least that’s a tad more entertaining despite you factions having genuine common grounds a third of the time
The only reason is because they started with the Bethesda side first
To be fair Redfall and Starfield are great examples of why you should NOT pay for gamepass.
Sony: Gets trashed on for Helldivers 2 PSN account link.
Phil foaming at the mouth: "We can top that. Guys!! Pack your bags!!! We are shutting down your studios!! There's the door!!! And make sure everyone knows!!! HA!! Beat that, Sony!!"
*Phil passes out*
Sony this Sony that. Bru the decision was reversed. It's over. An account link and the closure of 4 studios are nowhere near even remotely comparable.
@@christopherlewis6915 It MAY be reversed, but the many countless of players that got booted can NEVER get back into to the game.
Soon the Auto-matrons WILL take over Super-Earth! 🦾🤖🗣️🗣️🔥🔥 Thank you Boss Sony! 🕺
He tried to defend ms by another way😂@@christopherlewis6915
@christopherlewis6915 I get what you're saying. But the point of the joke is the sudden and abrupt business decisions of these corporate maniacs. No one expected Microsoft to suddenly shut down one of the few recognized studios, such as Tango Framework, then a division of Arkane Studios, because Microsoft couldn't admit they screwed up and decided as a "business decision" to shut down and leave those employed and now unemployed to scramble to the next available job. And with the Sony scenario, it has passed, but it just happened the past weekend, not last year. They almost just screwed tons of players, and with them having a 3rd party access leaves those vulnerable to data breaches with the track record Sony has. So there are a lot of factors with current and past events that gamers are fed up with. History tends to repeat itself. And Sony limited just access to Helldivers 2 still delisted in 177 countries despite Sony's PSN U-turn. Sony's PSN requirement is gone, but Helldivers 2 is still unavailable to buy in non-PSN regions
This comment made me laugh so hard. I love imagining Phil Spencer foaming at the mouth while screaming this. Like he just full on sprints as fast as he can into Arkane Studios and screams this at them.
This is what happens when instead of selling games, you put them on a subscription. Who knew that Gamepass was going to be unsustainable? Oh yeah, everyone
Microsoft saw the "big success" of MoviePass and jumped all in on its idea.
Everyone I know jumped in on it. I saw it for what it was very early on. I have never and will never sub to Gamepass.
It relied on shortchanging developers and now it's an excuse to cannibalize them in order to boost the stock price.
It’s mostly been journalists who propped up GamePass as being the next best thing. If it was truly as awesome as they say it is, then the subscription numbers would be higher. Majority of gamers don’t have time to play most games that release every year
Streaming games is awful because you have no control over what you play and how long you can play it. I will always seek out to buy and own physical games as long as it's an option. It baffles me that more people don't see the problem with not owning your games.
It’s only about control now, not creativity or community. None of the industry leaders actually care about games anymore, and the burden to save the hobby we love and cherish is on the devs and players who still care and won’t give up the only thing that makes us happy.
Sony must be wiping their brow in relief so hard right now with all this Microsoft news taking heat off them
😂
Unlike Sony, there's no way for Microsoft to make up for this.
You guys really have to keep bringing up playstation for a decision they reversed. It's done and over with, Xbox just closed 4 studios, these two things aren't comparable at all. Yall gotta stop wuth the whataboutisms
@@christopherlewis6915k Sony fanboy. That wasn’t a whataboutism.
@@christopherlewis6915k Sony fanboy. That wasn’t a whataboutism.
*Microsoft Game Pass was NEVER going to be sustainable on the long term.* It's impossible to sustain hundreds of (AAA and indie) games budgets with just a global $15 subscription which will be split between them (especially when studios struggle when they sell DIRECTLY their games for $60-70). It can be viable for a back catalog, but not for brand new games.
Game Pass was only created by Microsoft because they massively lost market shares with Xbox One: it was a (desparate?) gamble to (re)gain traction on the gaming market.
Well said......err....written.
Exactly. Game Pass was always going to be a failure. It only works for older games, like how PlayStation Now used to be.
Gamepass isn't supposed to stay profitable on the sub, it's supposed to get people into games to be milked with Microtransactions. It's the same f2p scheme mobile games have been running forever, cept you also pay for it.
@@tehSunBro exactly, games like starfield were meant to be incentive to get more signups who would then stick around to pump cash into their other games. problem was failures across the board. Red Fall tanked so no money from that, Halo Tanked so only a fraction of what they could earn from hardcore halo fans and minecraft which makes money but most kids either play the free educational version or buy the base game and nothing else cause they spend all their money on fortnite and roblox. And that's it cause xbox has no needle movers coming out anytime soon. No matter how good HellBlade 2 turns out to be it'll be nothing more than a rounding error in the grand scheme of things like HI-FI Rush was.
Actually I also believe putting COD on game pass is good idea. The reason warzone is massive is cause its free so there's no high upfront cost and players can just put their money into season passes. Now that same group would also play regular COD MP if they had "free" access to it and it would be the same, pay for season pass. Microsoft could even sweeten the pot by saying "hey buy both passes while being a game pass member and you'll save 15-20% on the passes. They'll be hooked and all you got to do is load the money in the truck.
I mean they were arguing internally if putting CoD on Gamepass is a good idea or not, considering CoD allready is a massive revenuestream despite the boxprice. People buy CoD and the seasonpasses, no need to make it free, it'll sell, just because it's CoD.
Reality is Gamepass is no longer growing like it used to, because gamers are different then Netflix subscribers. It's just not feasable to have games release like Netflix does shows. It is significantly more common for people to sub to Gamepass, play the new game, then cancel the sub, and basically just play the new full price game for a months sub.
Sure it is significantly more common that people play and try out smaller games thanks to Gamepass, but they wouldn'tve played it if it cost them money. Meaning at the end of the day, Gamepass isn't sustainable. Just like so many people have said before@@DelfinGames
This is like when I worked at Rite Aid's warehouse for fifteen years. About two to three years prior to their announcement of declaring bankruptcy they were on a kick of finding any way to get rid of veterans so they could hire new people and pay them less. Eventually they did it to me. They kicked out a power producer who knew how to do every job in the building, who could drive every lift in the building, so they could hire some kid who not only doesn't want to work and actively fucks around all night ... but someone who has nowhere near the level of experience to do what I could. Which in turn cost them even more money because productivity goals weren't being met. Gaps couldn't be filled in other departments when there's call outs so they suffered. That building was a gigantic shit show anyway. The outbound manager got fired because he allowed an entire Christmas season shipment to stores to rot in the hallways AND in a ton of trailers in the lot. I'm talking come summer time the shit was still at the warehouse. Transportation ( who handles things going to stores ) was a utter fucking mess. They had one guy who knew how to work the system and never had him train others so when he retired they were thoroughly fucked. Companies are ran like dog shit but it's the low level workers who end up getting pushed out, not the suits who made the terrible calls to begin with.
"Studio closures will continue until the Halo and Starfield player base improves! Slop for the slop God! IP's for the IP throne"
Halo and Starfield player bases will improve when the games release finished and not shitty... Seems we're at an impasse.
Meanwhile all the CEOs' pockets get heavier with each lay off
There are no console wars anymore. Everyone sucks now.
Oh there are console wars alright... in who sucks the most.
Yeah...no I'm pretty sure Xbox is still the worst.
Nah, Nintendo treats its employees quite well.
There was only ever a console “war” in the minds of Xbox fans.
Is there really a console war even though none of these "next gen" consoles consistently play at over 60 fps?
Netflix and Disney+ and other subscription services don’t understand that there is a ceiling when it comes to subscription growth!
Especially with all the drama in the gaming and movie industry. The censorship, the politics, the lack of good story, 💩 filled battlepasses, $70 games that are not complete at release… the suits do not get this!!!! Thus the game and movie industry WILL fall!
Controversial statement: Gamepass sucks if you actually want to own your games
Yes, something sucks if it's not used for its intended purpose...the gamepass is used to discover games that would struggle to reach an audience.
Meanwhile Epic Games out here literally giving games away for free lol
@@llewliet4021
Sure, because I want to discover crappy Indie games x.x
@@vugolol What will happen to your games when EGS will cease to exist?
What do you mean by "controversial"?
You do not own them. You never were.
It's funny that Ubisoft gets flag for saying something that you're already used to with GP.
Sources indicate that gamers are not comfortable with not owning their favorite games.
Is there some kind of “Who's dumber"-challenge going on between all massive game studios for the past 2 years? You can't make money if you don't make good games from time to time - seems like braindead suits can't comprehend such concepts.
This is just the consequence of chasing short term quarterly gains instead of being able to plan out the long term. Its infected most of all of corporate America and its an absolute plague of a business strategy.
The suits probably never heard of pac-man
From a corporate standpoint, they want to spend the least amount of money and put the least amount of effort into a their products/games… BUT l, sell the most amount of copies of that game that they can and make as much money as they can!
This rarely/never works in the real world. And even if it does, it’s always short lived
What you end up with is akin to “cheap plastic trinkets” Instead of something “handmade out of steel”.
It’s infuriating and extremely frustrating being in our shoes as consumers. Not to mention, developers who have a passion for making amazing games and art!
That’s why IMO no matter how much money or how many promises a company or a person can offer you, if they don’t share your same level of passion, same level of quality, etc…
Then it often best to just to say “thank you” and never ever get involved …
Saw a graph of the explosive growth that Microsoft had during the Pandemic that sprung an epiphany - the fiduciary obligation says that have to try and make more money year over year. But you can't maintain that kind of growth, lockdown's ended and we're not gonna be getting any more stimulus checks.
So what's the easiest way to make it look like you're not drowning in debt? Freeing up your personnel liabilities.
This whole thing is just the audience getting a look behind the smoke and mirrors thatlarge companies use to obscure their fuck ups and slavish responsibility to the shareholder.
I know a talented artist who has worked on tango games since Evil Within.
He really liked working with the studio, but a few days ago I saw his message and only knew that Tango had been shut down.
He is unemployed now and sad to hear that. :'(
7:40
Small Game Studio: I thought you said you weren't going to kill me!
Big Brother Mega Game company/'Terminator': "I lied."
This is literally like the first time I could actually FEEL the disappointment in your sign off. As a game designer who was laid off last year at Scopely right at the beginning of when the mass layoffs began, I have become incredibly disillusioned by the industry. THREE studios I had interviews with last year have since had mass layoffs or have closed. It was insane to think if I got any of those roles, I would have been laid off again less than a year later. One of them was Arkane as a combat designer!
The bubble bursted. Now only untalented dei hires keeping their Jobs.
Sorry to hear about your job troubles. It's honestly insane to me how many layoffs are happening.
I'd blame the activists that have co-opted the industry and hate gamers
cheap foreign labor can take 1/3 the pay you would have and still have enough $ left over to live comfortably in their countries of origin. Employers dont want to pay people their worth when undercutting is aloud. Remote working is allowing employers to care less about local economy.
Not even comparable. Developing a game requires a lot of resources and a lot of know-how's that, sorry if this sounds offensive, less developed countries just don't have. Companies might be able to outsource menial tasks like accounting, customer service, or some tech support, but the actual meat of developing a game cant be outsourced there. At least for any big games. @@JubiTheVille
Do you know what's saddest about all of this?
Time passes and people forget. As soon as Bethesda releases Elder Scrolls 6, no one will remember this and everything will return to normal.
To be fair, 20 years is a long time to remember.
ES6 may be a dumpster fire and the end of Bethesda
Yeah, I forget stuff over the course of 10 years as well
Hmm not sure, people are kinda fed up with Creative Engine
When you mention Elder Scrolls 6, it makes me wonder how much of all this is happening due to Starfield not reaching internal milestones set by Microsoft, because that was probably their biggest budget game, yet it didn't make the splash they expected to, resulting in layoffs outside of Bethesda Game Studios but instead still under the Bethesda umbrella, since they can't afford to layoff people who are working on Elder Scrolls as that is the biggest cashcow Bethesda has... It's also interesting when you consider what they are doing to Zenimax.
All that money they spent on game studios could have been put to new franchises that it desperately needs.
Where is:
-Conker 2
-Blinx 3
-Recore 2
-Lost Odyssey 2
-Iron Brigade 2
-Banjo-Threeie
-Blast Corps 2
-Crimson Skies 2
Sony owns Sunset Overdrive after the acquisition of Insomniac Games
@@dandrelowery3714 Actually i believe xbox DOES own sunset overdrive. Just that the IP would have to be delivered to another studio.
@@SekaiDreaming Not anymore according to the previous news, Sony has full rights to the IP. Xbox no longer has it at their hands so it's up to Insomniac on whether they want to do a re-release, a sequel, or not. If anything, they're out of luck on that one unfortunately. Yes, the game is still playable on Xbox and steam, however, there are no plans for its future use atm.
@dandrelowery3714 Damn. Microsoft are even bigger idiots than I thought.
@@dandrelowery3714 absolutely unfortunate. One of my favorite games on the last generation. Absolutely slept on
"We're understaffed, so we had to fire people"
???
This is literally what my job is going through, only replace fire with less hours.
They want to push a specific product and our lack of hours has made it difficult to push that product. Their solution? LESS HOURS, SO WE PUSH THE PRODUCT EVEN FUCKING LESS.
If they only wanted COD, WoW, Candy Crush, Fallout & Skyrim. Why tf did they purchase the entire fuckin' publishers instead of just the rights to these titles?!
Probably wasn't willing to sell. So they bought the company.
Okay real talk - what in the actual fuck is happening to the video game industry?
It went from being about games and building a customer base, to quick cash.
Simple, people are drinking the stupid juice
a big old crash!
Corporate greed
Corporate mismanagement born of shortsightedness, and lots of it. Exactly what's been happening for the last 15-20 years, basically. It's only now, that these practices are catching up with these conglomerates. Before Microsoft, Embracer Group's deal fell through with the Saudi Arabian government, costing tens of thousands their jobs as the company tried to pay off its loans by selling studios and IPs, while also shutting down expendable studios. Then, before that, EA bled its senior talent from the studios it acquired, over the years, leading to games like Anthem, Battlefield 2042, and so on. I could continue, but I'd be here all day. No need to belabor the point.
GamePass was destined to fail. People saw this coming but somehow the high paid executives didn't. Sony and Nintendo saw it. People were making comparisons to Netflix but games and movies are different. Movies are available to all who pay, GamePass for 1 was only available on Xbox (&PC), but not Playstation and Nintendo which means they were cutting off the largest player bases. There's literally graphs of subscriber growth x price and when you get to that saturation point, to still be profitable you either need to drastically increase prices or expand market. As you see now Xbox has no other choice but to go 3rd party and that's partly bc of the acquisitions. Xbox made their own grave.
But Phil wears gaming t-shirts, he's a real one, amirite?
His personal PR team is the only thing stopping him from being fired after a year. What a disaster for Xbox.
No, he's real. No doubt Spencer gives a damn. The problem is he's just a figurehead. He's a pretty face. He doesn't really make the decisions. MS has been sending other executives in his place for big shows and shareholder conferences for years now.
I don't understand why Starfield on gamepass day 1 was considered a good idea.
Yep. This is an issue I saw with our company "giving away" our ancillary products with flagship purchases. The number crunchers up top said we were underperforming. During one of our company meetings where all the big wigs get to talk forever then they open the floor to the peons to complain for 2 minutes at a time, I explained to the CEO and suits that our B-teams were being cut for underperforming but that it was THEIR fault that it was. I told them to give away the older editions for free (the ones that don't sell well anyway) but do a per-sale for all first editions. We were already being undercut by your sales team who hated a subscription model because their ability to make a commission relied heavily on their ability to sell custom bundles to clients.
It isn't just the money-grubbing executive suite. Everyone has their own selfish reason for having particular business model to keep their job. We were selling alot of standalone sales to smaller firms but the Sales were bundling our product with other sells to larger firms so we ended up spending more support time and dev resources on people who were underpaying for our product. Of course the suits didn't see it that way on their one-line spreadsheets and bar graphs. They eventually reached a grand bargain that handcuffed Sales to only give away so many copies but the rest had to be standalone. This only encouraged more piracy by our clients that we finally attacked with a universal licensing manager but that's a different story.
What I'm saying of sorts Microsoft shot their own selves in the foot. They've got two competing purchase models - three if you count MTS. My personal-professional opinion is that older titles should on Gameplay. People who can't "afford" games aren't going to join your sub-service and they are going to pirate it or only buy one/two games a year. They are also the ones most likely not to buy a game when it first drops at the highest price. They'll wait for it to go on sale or given away. The goal ultimately is the get the most money out the user/players when it initially drops. Alternatively the sub-service could only offer the base game of new releases but again why open that door.
*Organise, Unionize, Socialize* the games industry.
Transition the games industry to *Independent Studios* already.
Worker/Dev OWNED and controlled so we don't have to deal with all this greedy corporate shareholder bullshit any more.
Its the only way.
Exactly.
This needs to spread to every field known to mankind.
People cannot be chewed & spit out in the dirt forever.
Microsoft: "Oops I shot myself in the foot."
Also Microsoft: "Let's shoot the other one so we can get a tax write-off."
The dumbest thing about all these layoffs is that the companies and investors can't comprehend that the biggest sales come from GOOD GAMES. Helldivers 2, Vampire Survivors, Lethal Company and even something like Roblox are extremely successful without all the baggage of AAA games or DLC or season pass bullshit. It's literally just about making good games that get good word of mouth and having reasonable budgets.
Iirc Roblox is still losing money. It's successful in revenue, but not in profits.
Well yeah, but... Their mind is focused on having a Fortnite. Or a CoD. They're going to keep pushing and pushing for a new live service from their studios to try and dip into that bucket a bit.
This is incorrect. Hi-Fi Rush was a "good game" and the studio got shut down. The studio behind Prey and Dishonored series also got shut down, again, excellent games. None of these games had MTX, they just didn't sell enough. If the "good game" you made doesn't sell in this industry anymore, you're done, you don't get a second chance, according to Microsoft. Blame capitalism for constant growth, not the developers who are just making games.
@kamurotetsu4860 hi fi rush was successful according to Microsoft. They just received a massive pay bump from acquiring Activision and the investors want more growth. It's just easier to fire people to make that happen.
It's funny Sony fought tooth and nails against MS buying Activision and that very same acquisition seems that's gonna be the the end for Xbox consoles, I see them in around 5 years following on Sega steps
People told me I was crazy when I said that Gamepass was a bad idea for new games years ago, but they never did come up with a response to “so what happens when I pay 15 bucks once to play the new 70 dollar game for a month that released straight onto Gamepass instead of 70 dollars?”
What happens? You save a bit of money.
If it happens that you want to own it after playing it, you spend the extra money knowing what you're purchasing.
@@TOOTKSUnless it's funimation stuff get deleted anyways even if full purchased.
Even some games on the cd requires you to download files to play the base game, not update - base game
But yeah I agree with owning the game after the game been out for a couple of months
the problem is they bring big games day 1. GP is indeed a really good idea, but not with high profile games showing up day 1. It should be on GP 1-3 months after release not day 1.
@@TOOTKS
“I” save money, yes.
The developers lose out on 55 dollars.
If 100 people do what I do, the devs basically lose 5,500 bucks, getting only 1,500 bucks where they should have gotten 7,000.
“I” like saving money, but for a studio, that’s tantamount to financial ruin depending on how much it cost to make.
@@jhnyjoejoe69 If Game Pass didn't include Microsoft published games day 1, I wouldn't be paying for Game Pass Ultimate.
It would probably mean that I would not have played Forza Horizon 4 & 5 and certainly would not have purchased the season passes day 1, like I did for 5 due to having Game Pass. So, Microsoft received more money from me with game pass than they would have done, without.
An easy fix to this is to not pay the higher ups millions per year
"The idiocy of this self-contradiction, I will never comprehend"
Quote of the Year
From all the cuts throughout the industry you have to wonder if the ceos and executives are expecting a recession Q3-Q4 this year
Triple A game companies these days just aren't what theyre cracked up to be...
My theory as to why they pulled that BS with the "town hall" esque meeting by saying what they did and why they got rid of the studio who made Hi FI Rush boils down to possible stances in principle. The CEO's may have been thinking of ways to implement more greedy, shady practices into their games and the studio may have fought against it, wanting to respect it player base and make good, honest games.
So the CEO's got rid of them and shut them down. Now they turn to other studios they still own and wants the same results in quality, but with people that might be more willing to bend the knee and comply with greedier money scheme tactics. such as always online connections and microtransactions, prize paywalls and other slimy plots.
It’s not the studio it’s game pass that crushed the Studio. Hi-fi rush is a pure example of why game pass doesn’t work. Because if it worked, the studio would be making their new game right now to put on game pass. It’s not that a lot of people didn’t play it. It’s just most people signed up for game pass 9 bucks played for a month and canceled. You do the math 3 million players for nine bucks or 3 million players could’ve bought the game for 30 bucks. Which one is more ? I said years ago game pass model is not smart. Releasing $30 - $70 games day one for nine bucks is not smart. You know you’re not running things right when you actually have a successful game, and you shut down that successful Studio.
Game pass is a decent idea... but it was totaly not an idea you should've put all your eggs in. You keep it filled with nice 20 to 40$ title and make it give you gold and that was it.
Stuff like remnant 2, roboquest and whatnot to make more hidden gems game be in the spotlight while remaining a cheap good idea but not the atrocity it has become with the ceo doubling down on his gamble until it either pay off or crash n burn.
@@davidchaput5484 exactly. I understand if you want to put your games on there a several months or year after you charge gamers full price. But day one? People just pay nine bucks play their $70 game and then cancel. Unless it’s like a multiplayer game where you have to stay subscribed to keep playing. Then that discourages single player games. It’s just a whole idea of game pass is not very good. At least not putting your games on their day one. This is why you don’t see steam, Nintendo or Sony doing it. If a Sega channel or game pass was a great idea Nintendo and Sony would be doing it. Because Sony and Nintendo releases great exclusives.
@@davidchaput5484its a good idea but def should be reserved for old games.
@@npcimknot958 Phil Spencer is the worst executive I have ever seen in any gaming company in history. He is so full of crap and makes terrible decisions.
Yeah exactly. Why would I purchase a $70 game when I can just get game pass. Too good to be true for customers
This is why governments need to block sales of smaller studios to large greedy ass corporations
Something has to change. I'm sick of seeing companies being driven into the dirt by idiots and thieves.
Studios need to stay independent and not allow themselves to be bought out by these big corporate vampires.
It feels like they're doing this on purpose, how do they say " we need more games like HI-FI rush" after shutting down the studio that made it.
It’s almost like these companies forgot we went through a worldwide pandemic and never recovered because our government is trash. The normal before COVID is not the normal now. Everything keeps getting more expensive but our pay remains the same.
Microsoft is just adding to an overall massive problem that we’ll see the repercussions of real soon
Making number go up for the illusion of profit is not sustainable…
The games industry has to make a massive change if it wants to survive
And companies like Xbox will get a major wake up call…
The end of this video was very touching.Thank you Yong for your great content
i feel like an industry crash is imminent
Just a brand-crash
Maybe not immanent, but inevitable.
And Tencent is here waiting , CCP gaming is coming
good too much big out-of-touch dinosaurs in the pond anyways, the big wig need to get axed
They skipped the crash and are just burning.
So, people are realizing that Phil Spencer isn't this pro gamer dude that looks out for his employees, and are seeing what he actually is: just another CEO.
There is one person that is above Phil. His name is Satya Nadella, who is the current ceo of Microsoft.
Just a reminder of Phil not actually being a pro gamer dude.
He didn't even play Hi-Fi Rush for an hour.
I hope these creative studios can break away from these greedy, heartless big publishers. I hope they are able to stop giving them these beloved games. If possible, indie is the way to go. The big publishers don't want art. They only want money and they want it now
Bob Kotik being rewarded like that is insane. Go to hell, that "guy" (to not type what I really want to type), screwed over Actvision/Blizzard, "it" was a blight to the devs and "it" was paid many times the cost of opperanting a whole dev team? That is infuriating, Kotik should have being sued for "its" idiotic desicions, not rewarded.
Phil Wanted to buy Nintendo in 99 too. Can you imagine?
Microsoft would have shut them down in under 3 years flat 😐
Imagine every Nintendo franchise that sold under 10 mio would not be made anymore. And Splatoon would be filled with MTX.
The duality of gaming:
Nintendo: Announces they'll reveal the successor of the switch
Playstation: Announced pc players they'll require PSN account to play Helldivers 2, walks back statement after backlash
Xbox: Shuts down 4 of their studios while slowly killing their brand
No your almost right.
Nintendo: DMCA the year the video game 2024. (Nuking gmod was really stupid and not cool)
@@isaiahkern9434 That's not nearly as bad as what Sony and Microsoft did.
Stupid yes (even though I personally don't care), but not awful.
@@MarioMasterProductionsWhat Sony and Microsoft did are to completely different things. One is a free account link that was reversed. The other is the revelation that gamepass is failing and the closure of 4 studios. Stop trying to compare things that are on completely opposite sides of the scale
@christopherlewis6915 What I was trying to say is Nintendo taking down Garry's Mod was harmless comparing Sony forcing everyone to use a PSN account for Helldivers 2 and Microsoft closing down 4 studios.
@@MarioMasterProductions it is not harmless. It removed neay 20 years of thing people had created. 20 years Nintendo sat idly by and did not touch it.
I can understand *a little* more if it was 2-3 years after it was uploaded. But fucking 20 is unreasonable. It posed no harm to Nintendo.
It's about money not rewards, it's clear a game like Hi-fi didn't cut it for MS. Talented devs will always have a place in the gaming world.
Man, Nintendo must be really rubbing their hands right now, getting ready to release a new console while everyone else in the industry gets into major controversies.
As much as I enjoy my Switch and the first-party titles...Just give Nintendo some time to step on their own rake. They're just as invested (heh) in Arbitrary Number Goes Up Arbitrarily as any other corporation.
They make all kinds of anti-consumer, anti-good-PR, anti-preservation decisions all the time. They just got done killing yuzu over pocket change. The yuzu settlement was $2.4 million US. Nintendo made $3 BILLION US profit last year, and it was a higher profit than the previous year. They did this over concerns of piracy, something they literally cannot stop no matter how hard they try, and they know it...But said piracy was already possible, already happening, and wasn't really harming their business because *it grew*.
People think CEOs are paid to lead companies, but their real job is crashing them into the dirt while they escape with millions on their golden parachutes.
Everyone wants to be enron now big or small
No, CEOs get paid because they know how to blind people into paying their greed and they know how to lie into their companies face to make them believe and live out these lies. Their job is to lie believingly enough to get paid these huge amounts of money. Nothing else. No other skill is needed.
Look at Disney, look at the never ending madness and quality of material they fart out over and over again...
RIP to Arkane Austin, they made some of my favorite games ever. Prey was an absolute masterpiece.
Microsoft really looked at the helldivers fiasco and said "We can helldive better!"
Sooo many developers dream of game development as kids just to grow up and discover corporate greed has made it a f****** nightmare!
Could say the same for many industries. Its a cultural issue really. People that care about money rise to the top (where the money is) and don't give a shut about integrity or expression.
Exactly my career route. I was interested and made games since I was 11, but I saw how cutthroat the industry is with canning projects and whole studios and just thought NOPE!
Now I work in business application development. Its boring AF but at least it's steady. I would have been an enthusiastic game developer, it's really sad
and when they go indie, they make shit that is alike all other games, pixelart shit, souls-shit, 0 imagination
I don't remember the full reason why one of the UK watch dogs flagged the original acquisition of blizzard by Microsoft but they deserve an apology at the very least. They tried to warn that it would be too big and monopolistic, people argued that it would be too big but not monopolistic. Now it's too big and it's a blight on the industry.
The CMA's original concerns was about cloud gaming, which seems a quaint reason for concern given what we're now seeing
I had concern when I heard about Bethesda, and even bigger concerns when acti-blizz was being bought, but i and others like me was laughed at and told we're idiots and that MS would make everything better.
Looking at where we are now, I wish the CMA had stuck to its guns and other countries had backed us up, cause this buyout has done nothing but hurt this industry and it's already up s**t creek to begin with
Sony: "We're gearing up to be the worst publisher of 2024!"
Microsoft: "Hold my beer."
Nintendo: "I'm just here vibing."
Sony has released multiple high-quality games this year why would they be the worst publisher of the year?
@@ScarletDream21 It's because of what happened with Helldivers 2
@@ScarletDream21 Did you miss the Helldivers II debacle?
You do know they Published games like Helldivers 2 and Stellar blade this year right? Maybe understand what the word publish means before talking out of your ass?
Mircosoft fans: Look at Sony being anti consumer they're so shit
Mircosoft literally days later: ....
PC gamers are not Microsoft fans. Very few of us even touch the Xbox game pass. Nobody likes Windows 11 and the shit Microsoft stuffs it with. We're all waiting for Linux gaming to catch up so that we can remove Microsoft's software from our devices.
@@Corey_Mckilling this applies to me at least personally.
I just want my rig to play games, that’s the main reason I built one
@@Corey_Mckillingwell the new coming update for Windows 11 is gonna force em to Linux... Bitlocking all drives and files causing the SSD speeds to plummet
Wait and youll see how they will try to turn it around blaming people for not buying their poor company products.
Closing ID would be absolutely insane. A tragedy for the industry as a whole
Acquire the competition then shut them down.
That's how Microsoft regulate the quality bar on games for easy low effort development too bring in the big profits.
Still amazing how both sony and microsoft both have dumb controversial stuff happening within the same week...we still have a weekend to go, who knows what nonsense might pop out from nintendo at this point :/
I'm betting 20 monopoly dollars right now. Nintendo is itching to be next. And I'll bet an additional 20 that it's related to the upcoming Switch.
Nintendo and DEI for example. We are getting there son.
Sony reversed a decision that was 1 free and 2 an attempt at growing PSN beyond the playstation platform. Can't compare that to the microsoft shit show mate lol
Nintendo announces the new Switch is just a gamepad...
@@dudebruh8534Probably, I'll bet 5 monopoly dollars and a frozen chicken nugget that it'll be because of outdated hardware, and awful launch price
Xbox promises games, Xbox delivers mediocre exclusive experiences and studio closures....*sigh* this is exhausting. It's almost like the gaming industry wants to seppuku themselves