I don't see how killing your own studios 'squashes competition,' or results in profit. I mean, your own studios are not the competition, and laying those people off literally frees them to go work for the competition (or start new ones), at insane cost to you.
@@Christobanistan Expand your mind man. Before Microsoft bought them they were a competitor. After Microsoft bought them they’re out of a company and a job. The IP still belongs to Microsoft. It’s not my idea of a good strategy. But besides bad press Microsoft has lost very little and their ‘EX-competitors’ are fucked.
@@joalnith WHAT? That makes no sense at all. They're 'out' billions dollars, just to put a few people out of a job for about a second? And how valuable is an IP you now can't develop? Expand your mind, man.
@@TrivedijiGames Yeah, cuz they have unlimited development resources. I used to work there as a dev; they are stretched thin. Also, you don't switch IP to a new studio easily after the original team is gone. No, this is just how Microsoft handles ALL its acquisitions. They fail because they have no integration strategy.
@@Adam-pi8qv Except for the 'overqualified' and '5 different degrees' parts. I worked at MS several years ago and while there are a lot of smart people working there (and a crazy number of attractive women), none of them were executives. Those people were all bean counters, and they had far too much clout.
@@jordanhelton2409 You mean when they pumped billions in to buy the company?? Also, these companies are not "something with no return," they functioning, profitable companies.
It’s because they are greedy and don’t care about gamers anymore. I remember when games just had about four dlcs, at fifteen bucks a pop-now look at it
@@JG-jq9nfthe flow of capitalism is supposed to be driven by competition through giving the customer the best value for their dollar. What we instead have is is mindless consumerism where gamers will complain that big corporate publishers make horrible games yet keep mindlessly giving these same publishers their money.
after skype, linked in, RARE, mixer, to name a few companies micrtosoft mismanaged and ruined, xbox did best when they were more seperated, then xbox one introduced more integration with MS and they havent been good since
@@sarahjessicafarter7383 Jake is way too milktoast with even serious topics. Whereas Falcon is capable of being strongly worded *if* and *when* the situation calls for it.
I told everyone these mergers wasn’t good for gamers but all those Xbox people called me a hater, but in the words of our good friend Todd Howard “who’s laughing now”
More like "I told you so". Mergers now a days for the most part are bad for any industry. They do not make anything better, and only make things worse.
Don’t worry. It’s not like the actual enthusiastic developers and creators and designers and writers have disappeared. They will likely continue to create. Let’s hope at least
I think the biggest issue is that people that don't make games are making decisions about how to make games. That is a huge problem almost every where. I used to work stocking shelves at a grocery store. I was told by someone who has never stocked shelves on how to stock shelves and how long it should take me. I was told to run 150 items in an hour and it should take me no more than 6 hours to run my truck. I averaged about 250 items an hour but it took me 10 hours to run my truck. See the person that told me how to run the truck was expecting the truck size to be about 600-800 items. My average truck size was around 2000 items. I got into trouble because "You should be able to do the truck in 6 hours" even though my truck was about 3 times bigger then the average. When I adjusted my truck to fit the schedule I got in trouble again because "You shouldn't have to adjust your truck. The computer knows best. Also you can't adjust the computer numbers because someone who doesn't know the actual traffic of your store made the program.". I ended up quitting, I was there for 10 years. Heard that the store struggled for a few years to keep someone in that position. That is what happens when people that don't know the job makes decisions about that job.
I had an admin job that became far too much work for me alone to do, and the manager was this is what your job description says you do, so why can't you do the (impossible) amount of work?
I'd like to note that you don't even have to have ever actually done the job yourself to know it or know what the reasonable expectations are, you can literally just watch your guys do the job for awhile and figure it out. Execs at companies are so fucking detached from gaming that they can't actually learn from mistakes because they're not actually looking at the job they're bossing people around about
I was working at a job at the airport and they were looking for managers. They always hire people that came from Best Buy and other stores who don’t have no airport experience. They show up with a power trip thinking they know more than us and usually they get either fired due to power trips or messing up the operation. We were protected by the union.
@@skrumbobumbo3279 Talk to people doing the job, talk to their managers, watch people working, hell you can hire people to watch them work and report to you to get ideas of things. The complete detachment from the actual workers is what makes front office types problematic, as well as a complete disregard for asking "Why?" If Jett's front office person saw it was taking them so long, instead of going "That's unacceptable" they could have asked "Why is it taking that long?" And then they would've noticed "Oh shit, they're working even more efficiently than we expected, carry on" Which is also an example of not using all the data at your disposal when making decisions.
Hi Fi Rush was shadow dropped on a subscription service with ZERO marketing and Xbox still has the gall to say it underperformed. Like what the hell did you expect?!
Sounds like what's happening with Hellblade 2. Had no idea that was coming out so soon. Thought that was gonna be in like September. It's absolutely joever for them.
I even bought a series s just for hifi rush! Granted I would've bought it on PS if it was there day one but still, they got my money and it didn't even matter lolol 😂😭
Unsubscribe to Game Pass now! It's at the core of this problem. Buy AA games you love and support. Vote with your wallet. It's the only way to stop it.
Needs pinned tbh. Gamepass is a worse concept the best buy or red box. Both already dead. Let MS rot, they are killing the CIVILIAN POPULATION, by removing people's jobs, a multi BILLION dollar company actively just removing its workers for more profit less spend. They need to be removed from making, ANYTHING. MS needs to go.
Been saying this for years. Reason why I never got the game pass. What for? It's just renting the games u don't get to keep. I rather pay for the games I really do play. R.i.p xbox
I don’t pay for gamepass but have it and I only buy from certain devs. They’re also not the only ones with problems. I also didn’t play most of those games either
This is exactly why Larian is a beloved studio. Their CEO is a gamer, and he is not allowing the corporations to get to him. We need new dev studios that hold their own, and don’t sell out, they’ll still make hundreds of millions of dollars if they make good games, but they have to resist the temptation of billions.
Bad corporate people: force single player studios to make live service game Game studio: makes it (not so great cuz its not their thing and they don't even like it) Game: fails(what did they even expect?) Bad corporate people: studio bad>close it ... .....
It's like buying a taxi company, telling them they're bus drivers now with no training then acting like it's their fault when they hit a lamp post going round a corner
Maybe Microsoft is thinking, if they don’t belong to us, and they’re doing well, buy them out, and then destroy their studio because we don’t like people who are doing better than us on a lower budget.
Xbox are the most clueless though. For example they went ahead with the slim and pro before the standard console. Completely risking it all, ruining their chances of being up with Sony...I think they've given up.
@@laurenedney7 They propably gave up with their console sales but end of 2023 (after the activision-blizzard deal was done in october 2023) Microsoft's gaming division overtook Sony as #2 most valued gaming company by revenue (#1 is tencent). Sony has to fight apple now for #3 (apple is close behind sony). So it's not surprising that Microsoft lost the console wars but they still winning over all right now.
Tl;dr, Skip it! Got carried away :) I feel you and all but, Business, not charity. Netflix does the same. If a show isn't popular enough, abandon. No love or anything. I can be a little sympathetic to this though. They are on the top of the world. It's not like they are small fish and just trying to get by. I think there's a huge difference when you are a whale. More options are open to you and things can take unexpected turns. Let's be fair, you bought a service, say someone is to fix your balcony with a new roof and it was done poorly, it holds and all but ugly and shamefully done. Will you hire that company again or recommend it to anyone? Wouldn't you rather go and try some other company next time? Red Fall, would you really like to support it? Give the developers another chance? Imagine you have the money, you're not some small fish required to stick and try to make it work. You can move forward just fine without them. Would you still go for a Redfall 2, but a singleplayer game this time? Think about it. It could end up even worse than the first game. It could become a smash hit. Anyway, not here to start a fight or such, this is just my take on it. I can be plain off wrong too. I'm no expert. I think Microsoft regrets the purchase of Zenimax. Not worth the time and energy and the continuation of bad press. Which I think isn't good for the gaming industry either. Makes people more concerned about which games to buy.
It goes even deeper than that. Xbox has struggled to gain a foothold in Japan and Tango Gameworks was their only Japanese studio after the Bethesda acquisition. They've effectively killed their only way into the Japanese market for seemingly no reason.
@user-bu7vb5tg6b what are you talking about? Xbox has made many attempts to the Japanese market, gaming exclusives, Dlc you name it. What was Tango gonna do for them?
@@radagast7200Mainly because of Corporatism and DEI/wokeness, and this is coming from a center left Filipino minority that voted for Obama. I'm no MAGA Trump supporter.
@@JAF2991 I'm not sure how corporatism factors in. Games were just fine before under a corporate structure. But it is definitely DEI. That is for certain.
@JAF2991 it's not dei, not saying it's a good thing but it's not actually a massive problem. The biggest problem is companies outsourcing work to contract workers, only to fire them 18 months later and then starting over again
Eh falcon was disingenuous. It’s more like buying a landscaping company where the previous owners had made them do aqua culture until 70% of the staff quit
That’s the frustrating thing. I never thought Xbox was dumb enough to do a EA and interfere in their purchases to the point that they destroy everything that was good. Once Todd Howard retires Bethesda are screwed
@@ironized how? Sure the shooting mechanics they use is decent but they were never considered good for them. The reason why Arkane was a good studio is because of their stories, to force them to make a game with little to no story is stupid. Sure live service games can have a story, but it always takes a backseat and Arkane only have decent gaming mechanics at best which 100% led to the fall of red fall.
@@eliteheadhunter830 yes and if they lost 70% of their staff that probably includes the writers. When a company loses staff it loses the best staff. The shit staff have nowhere else to go. It’s like a “skill distillation”. So after losing the 70% of staff that made good games, it’s effectively a new company.
@@j0nnyism if they lost 70% of their staff whilst working on red fall, the company you miss was already gone. You can blame Bethesda for this, not Microsoft.
It's mind numbing how short sighted execs are in most, if not all, industries! Employee: "So what's our incentive to do a good job and put any effort in when making games?" Exec: "Oh. Uh....there is none. We may or may not choose to fire you and all your coworkers at our discretion at any time for any reason regardless of the quality of your product." ...........🤦♂️
I mean any corporation that's public and beholden to shareholders are basically forced to do whatever it takes to increase share values for the next quarter cause the business is secondary, please investors first...
@@saakersnah bruh Become a billionaire and shareholder Do it for the gamers And future of games. You’re basically the top dog and can do whatever you want since they’ll answer to u from my understanding.
It's less shortsighted and more just what is for them personally most profitable. Which is anything that rises the stockprice. Buying IPs does that. Cutting costs also does it. So thats what they do. Sure for the corporation long term, for the consumers and for the industry all of this is terrible. But none of that matters to a modern corporate structure.
Companies who aggressively acquire companies usually don't do well in the long run. Too much quick expenditure in a short period of time with not much return in the end.
You're absolutely right in general, but a clarification: the guy who praised Hi-fi Rush did so in April of 2023 (you can see the date on the tweet), not 2024. So it wasn't just a month ago.
@@arianoooamari6949 He literally did though. Re-listen to the timestamp you highlighted. He said “Just last month an executive said publicly that they consider that game a breakout hit by all conceivable metrics”.
@@arianoooamari6949 He literally did though. Re-listen to the timestamp you highlighted. He said “Just last month an executive said publicly that they consider that game a breakout hit by all conceivable metrics.”
He literally did though. Re-listen to the timestamp you highlighted. He said “Just last month an executive said publicly that they consider that game a breakout hit by all conceivable metrics.”
Rare, Lionhead, pretty sure other acquired studios have been shut down prior to this, the cancelled Platinum collab of Scalebound, and now this. Just another day at Microsoft.
I feel like that's the normal story for a lot of game devs. It's a similar story in software dev too, for a lot of folks. Anything remotely related to tech is suffering under the care of unreasonable people who don't understand what they're working on.
Happened to me, two months ago and having finished the job and had the customer complain I got blamed for "sabotage" (even though I'm a perfectionist) and let go for that reason it really hurts you deeply and ruins the industry for you as a whole.
So, I usually watch videos on TH-cam without logging in. And I do not subscribe to anything and I do not comment, consequently. Now, after watching this, I logged in and subscribed. And here's my comment: thanks for saying all this out loud.
Capitalism is actually the most effective and efficient way to get the best product to market for the least amount of money. Do you really think if someone could open an amazing studio, with top talent, a comfortable work environment for less money and release games quickly they wouldn't? They'd make a fortune and monopolize talent. Of course they would. You have zero... zero understanding of market pressures and what that means. Obviously if someone could do it better for less they would. There is no profit motive to do otherwise. Take an economics and business class ffs. But go ahead, tell me I'm wrong.
We've all seen this happen one too many times Falcon and we're all worried about the future of the gaming industry with these massive layoffs and studio closures.
Last year, many of my colleagues and I had a pay rise, but after 2 months we were asked to leave. We were not fired because the company does not intend to lower its ranking related to layoffs, therefore, no one is fired. The people who left with mutual agreement (including me) didn't understand why this happened if we were involved in important projects in the company, we were making money, we were good professionals and they still sent us out into the street. I’m a Frontend Web Developer and I see this a lot after COVID.
I was part of a company that was bought by google once, they just wanted specific individuals behind or inside the company and make sure they'd stay within google to work on other projects. Once that was done we got all absorbed into different departments all within a few years.
Well the first problem is obviously Sarah Bond. The second problem is dei. Which is actually the first problem. And then it snowballs from there. I don't know why it's so hard for people to figure this out....
Playstation is no better. It's all of gaming right now.
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I think the problem with those corpo execs is that they don't actually know what games are - I think they don't play them, they don't watch others play them, and they don't consider them important. I think they only see the numbers at the bottom of a sheet. That saddens me.
The goal of a public company is to make money for it's shareholders. Not to deliver a product, or look after it's staff. It's to make the bottom line as big as possible. The execs are there to achieve that goal. You're right, they don't know what games are. Nor do they actually care. They only care about that share price. There will never be a publicly traded publisher that cares about the games they are publishing. Thank god for publishers like Devolver Digital who remain private. We need more of them.
That President of XBox is in the mid-40s now and she's lacking professionalism. She couldn't answer those questions professionally. 95% of the time she averted most of those questions from fans, she lost the confidence and comfort. Does MS pays her well? If MS doesn't pay her good enough, then she shouldn't be in that job.
@@joshbarker4953 I was particularly worried about Arkane and Obsidian. And as I type this I remember that they just ported two Obsidian games along with Hi-fi Rush.
Nope you gotta have 30 awards and 5 billion in sales with 40 Different awards for each individual employee who worked on the game and also have 3,000,000 in in game trophy’s from each console played by a employee then and only then will it be enough
It's corporate greed plain and simple and how quick they can make a buck, not focusing on a long term investment just a short term return and run by people who don't even play these games. The Standard Operating Procedures of a business ran by people who don't know what's going on at the lower levels or even the customers they are suppose to support
I'm confused. If they had 7 out of 10 og team members leave during Redfall, doesn't it make sense to close the studio and move the team to other studios? Or did they just fire everyone with no offer to move studios? I think this is all awful and yeah they are being ridiculously stupid - I'm honestly just learning about all of this right now. Yes I live under a rock.
Look at what the UFC did when they bought up their competition. They added the fights to their subscription service and closed the promotions down. When no competition was left, they increased their PPV and subscription prices.
Exactly. They bought up the competition and let those newly acquired promotions die or just shut them down. It's monopoly shit and it can only happen with political corruption and a lack of industry regulation.
I miss the Microsoft and Xbox of the early to mid 2000’s. Was legitimately good and put out some of the best games ever made…how the mighty have fallen.
I feel like more and more this is happening in all industries and it's a sign of the times. I worked at Tesla, and our shop was turning a profit. One of the top 3 every quarter. But we were the small shop compared to the second larger one in our area. My shop was shut down and my manager along with 4 of us including me were let go. This year is probably gonna get worse...
Even if they get fired, they get to deploy their golden parachute. It's not like when people like us (or their developers) get fired. For them, it's like, "Hey. Here's a ton of money as your reward for failing at your job. Would you like a top level position at this other company so you can run it into the ground too?"
That's what I was thinking too. Like the sentiment is still true, the massive praise to shuttering the dev in the span of a year is still insane, but it was 1 year vs 1 month
@@joshw1565 haha I'm not judging the corporate decision, maybe there are things like deadlines, targets or working environment troubles there I don't know. I'm just pointing the mistake Gameranx did.
This is a good opportunity for Sony to come along and build new studios with the ex arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks staff. I don’t think they’d miss this sort of opportunity, especially as Sony prefer single player experiences and encourage creativity
I think that says everything there needs to be said; it's been 11 years since the Xbox One controversies and they *still* haven't righted the ship. How much longer can the brand survive this, especially when GamePass is so successful and costs them a fraction of the operating costs?
crazy how 11 years has passed, and the ghost of Don Mattrick still lingers around the Xbox brand, they have never been able to shake off the damage since that dreadful reveal conference..
I noticed that too. The point he’s making still stands. On this topic, I think all gamers are generally in agreeance, so it’s probably not an issue. I trust Gameranx and I typically agree with all of Falcon and Jake’s takes, but for those who don’t there’s a risk of the content creator’s credibility to come into question when there are oversights on information like this.
I kept running out of memory on my Xbox 1 with nonstop updates for my games, so now I've disconnected the Internet from my Xbox and only buy games that can be played offline. I will own something and be happy or I will do without!
What?? Sony makes little dumb type decisions like the require PC players to have a psn account....that is nothing compared to shutting down studios after buying them in a blatant way to just acquire their IP's to put on their gamepass....its disgusting and honestly they should be investigated for these practices
@@Zalkova hell no it’s not. Have you ever played FIFA? EA is the greediest company in the world, Xbox is consumer friendly and GamePass is the best option for your wallet
Gameranx has a part to play in this story as well. Use your platform to keep your viewers informed on which game studios are the ones that are a result of this fallout. Thanks for the video 💛
I'm a PlayStation guy... And yet this broke my heart. Does this mean we'll never see another Dishonored, Evil Within or Prey sequel? I'm unsure how it works...
Regarding Redfall , a friend summed it up perfectly. It was the equivalent of a 5 star Italian chef trying to make fried rice because everyone is eating it, with nothing but the recipe. It'll always be "missing something " .
Maybe I missed it, but you should 100% bring some light to what is happening with Ubisoft and The Crew as well. I’m a software engineer who is much more passionate about game development than commercial software, but moving to that industry sounds terrifying and disappointing.
Who would have thought consolidating the industry would have negative repercussions? Also something that nobody's bringing up is a lot of tech companies are closing offices in Texas for various reasons. That could have something to do with some of it.
I had heard that Tango was aslo a shell of itself as Arkane Austin was, the lead developer, Shinji Mikami, retired, but then came out of retirement and most of the veteran talent left to join his new studio, Kamuy Inc. Hopefully he decides to stay Indie this time, since the whole reason he left Tango was the same as why he left Capcom and founded Tango in the first place.
Oh yeah, the guys who are trying to force their PSN on us and banning half of the planet from playing certain games are definitely the best example for a good future of gaming. I'm sticking to my PC.
@OliverAnderson266 lmao, there's no comparison to wanting people to sign up for their psn (not saying its a good decision) to Microsoft buying companies for their IP's to be on their game pass only to literally dispose of these studios like they were nothing and ruining people's lives and careers...big big difference there fella
I'm in the same camp. Sony isn't great either but at least I can play the new FF7 and Helldivers. The JRPG scene is next to nonexistent. They did put the new tales of arise on there... one year after I bought it.
This one minecraft youtuber I watched was a dev in the games industry and anytime its brought up he has mostly negative things to say about incompetent managers wasting money, burning people out and making people lose their jobs, with some corporate greed layered on top it just seems game dev is more toxic than an outsider can ever understand unfortunately
I have a PS5 but it's not like Sony is the answer I mean you're welcome to get a PS5 but this year, after Stellar Blade... we've got nothing dude. I'm just waiting for the showcase for some clarity on where the games are.
Sony is worst. Sttop supporting aony or microsoft. Buy a PC. Buy the game directly from the owner. Indy. Or steam. Force them to go on steam. Will keep them in check. The industry dont like steam. Sony trying to grt pc player to pay for multiplayer service. Only thing protecting us right now is steam. I left sony. And i didnt joined Xbox. Fuck both of them. They are leeches. Giving nothing good. And syphoning what good there is ledt.
I've been getting my mobile gaming fix from Mighty DOOM since last July. What a fun time passer and fulfilling leveling system. Sad to see it's getting axed. They literally were giving new environment updates each month with new themed levels and unlocks to play and get each month. Definitely would've never thought it'd be on chopping block in any way.
it hasn’t been about the games for a long time. as a former destiny player with 120+ days on titan, i’ve seen corporate greed destroy something so many people love and i really don’t play anything but modded minecraft anymore and modded mindustry. i was extremely into helldivers and i did hit level 50 already but i haven’t bought the new battle passes cause like damn bro i might want 1 or 2 things out of the whole pass but i gotta put a shit ton of hours in. it wouldn’t be as bad but the game like is like stagnant, they teased the illuminate and even the other mechs like a WHILE ago. The game is awesome and i love it but its like grinding cod zombies after you unlock all the stratagems at level 20-30. i can still play cod zombies to this day and have fun and ill be able to go back to helldivers, but its just not enough for me to sink money into for the return. I’m no stranger to sinking money (destiny player obviously) and i’ve definitely had an addiction in the past, but that’s cause i played the FUCK out of those dlcs, then lightfall dropped and i played the fuck out of it and then it went to the seasonal live service shit and the game just died to me. i’m not gonna lie id probably put my hands on the people making the decisions that led to this (even if i’d lose and get sued to dust😂) shit pisses me off i’m just a dollar sign and they are capitalizing off art that i love, that’s a deep feeling right there and that’s why they keep fucking failing cause i’m not the only one offended
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People making gaming decisions that don't actually play and enjoy gaming.
Generally how big business works. That's capitalism, baby!
@@LabGoatsmore like corporatism
This whole situation with not just Microsoft but also Sony is giving me serious Outer Worlds vibes. :/
This is how I feel. It’s people putting profit over art, profit over enjoyment and profit over the hobby. It’s sad
@@MrSpartan993 Sorry, to disappoint you, but that is capitalism.
It’s insane how these studios closed when 343 is still active and has yet to make a good halo game.
I was thinking the same thing
I didn’t even think of that but that’s the real take away here. That’s pretty messed up
What are you talking about Halo 5 was great the campaign should of been longer with MC though
It's because Halo is the company's presentation image, even if it's mistreated it's still worth it
@@pointvector1951 Not really, TES is not what makes Microsoft support Bethesda, but Fallout, which has already garnered a fairly large number of fans
Step 1: Observe success in an indie dev. Step 2: Buy indie dev. Step 3: Meddle with "indie dev's" games. Step 4: Close studio effectively squashing competition. Step 5: Profit.
I don't see how killing your own studios 'squashes competition,' or results in profit. I mean, your own studios are not the competition, and laying those people off literally frees them to go work for the competition (or start new ones), at insane cost to you.
@@Christobanistan Expand your mind man. Before Microsoft bought them they were a competitor. After Microsoft bought them they’re out of a company and a job. The IP still belongs to Microsoft. It’s not my idea of a good strategy. But besides bad press Microsoft has lost very little and their ‘EX-competitors’ are fucked.
@@joalnith WHAT? That makes no sense at all. They're 'out' billions dollars, just to put a few people out of a job for about a second?
And how valuable is an IP you now can't develop?
Expand your mind, man.
@@Christobanistan Microsoft can always make sequels or remakes of those games whenever they want. The IP now belongs to Microsoft.
@@TrivedijiGames Yeah, cuz they have unlimited development resources. I used to work there as a dev; they are stretched thin.
Also, you don't switch IP to a new studio easily after the original team is gone.
No, this is just how Microsoft handles ALL its acquisitions. They fail because they have no integration strategy.
This is the result of overqualified executives that have 5 different degrees but have no idea what they are doing and only see numbers
You have no idea how spot on you are.
@@Adam-pi8qv Except for the 'overqualified' and '5 different degrees' parts. I worked at MS several years ago and while there are a lot of smart people working there (and a crazy number of attractive women), none of them were executives. Those people were all bean counters, and they had far too much clout.
shit I got 3 degrees and have to agree with you on this one.
exactly they see numbers. and these things were not making money. Why continue to pump millions into something with no return
@@jordanhelton2409 You mean when they pumped billions in to buy the company??
Also, these companies are not "something with no return," they functioning, profitable companies.
The corporitization of gaming makes me sick to my stomach.
greedy jerks
It’s because they are greedy and don’t care about gamers anymore. I remember when games just had about four dlcs, at fifteen bucks a pop-now look at it
thats just the flow of capitalism my friend
dont worry indies and aa studios will pick it up and gaming will return to its niche it once was it will just be different studios at the front line.
@@JG-jq9nfthe flow of capitalism is supposed to be driven by competition through giving the customer the best value for their dollar. What we instead have is is mindless consumerism where gamers will complain that big corporate publishers make horrible games yet keep mindlessly giving these same publishers their money.
I love these rants by Falcon. He ranges from "disappointed dad" to "You are just embarrassing".
Right, imagine “Baldino” discussing this probably a dozen unfunny jokes among other cringe
just like my dad
after skype, linked in, RARE, mixer, to name a few companies micrtosoft mismanaged and ruined, xbox did best when they were more seperated, then xbox one introduced more integration with MS and they havent been good since
@@WhackedoutCookie Jake Baldeagle is great leave him alone
@@sarahjessicafarter7383 Jake is way too milktoast with even serious topics. Whereas Falcon is capable of being strongly worded *if* and *when* the situation calls for it.
As soon as these entities start talking about "investors" and "stock market", don't buy anything they make
I told everyone these mergers wasn’t good for gamers but all those Xbox people called me a hater, but in the words of our good friend Todd Howard “who’s laughing now”
More like "I told you so". Mergers now a days for the most part are bad for any industry. They do not make anything better, and only make things worse.
One of the flaws of capitalism.
Don’t worry. It’s not like the actual enthusiastic developers and creators and designers and writers have disappeared.
They will likely continue to create. Let’s hope at least
That's why people call them xbots, because they are braindead just like robots xD
I love this
I think the biggest issue is that people that don't make games are making decisions about how to make games. That is a huge problem almost every where. I used to work stocking shelves at a grocery store. I was told by someone who has never stocked shelves on how to stock shelves and how long it should take me. I was told to run 150 items in an hour and it should take me no more than 6 hours to run my truck. I averaged about 250 items an hour but it took me 10 hours to run my truck. See the person that told me how to run the truck was expecting the truck size to be about 600-800 items. My average truck size was around 2000 items. I got into trouble because "You should be able to do the truck in 6 hours" even though my truck was about 3 times bigger then the average. When I adjusted my truck to fit the schedule I got in trouble again because "You shouldn't have to adjust your truck. The computer knows best. Also you can't adjust the computer numbers because someone who doesn't know the actual traffic of your store made the program.". I ended up quitting, I was there for 10 years. Heard that the store struggled for a few years to keep someone in that position. That is what happens when people that don't know the job makes decisions about that job.
I had an admin job that became far too much work for me alone to do, and the manager was this is what your job description says you do, so why can't you do the (impossible) amount of work?
I'd like to note that you don't even have to have ever actually done the job yourself to know it or know what the reasonable expectations are, you can literally just watch your guys do the job for awhile and figure it out. Execs at companies are so fucking detached from gaming that they can't actually learn from mistakes because they're not actually looking at the job they're bossing people around about
I was working at a job at the airport and they were looking for managers. They always hire people that came from Best Buy and other stores who don’t have no airport experience. They show up with a power trip thinking they know more than us and usually they get either fired due to power trips or messing up the operation. We were protected by the union.
@@skrumbobumbo3279 Talk to people doing the job, talk to their managers, watch people working, hell you can hire people to watch them work and report to you to get ideas of things. The complete detachment from the actual workers is what makes front office types problematic, as well as a complete disregard for asking "Why?" If Jett's front office person saw it was taking them so long, instead of going "That's unacceptable" they could have asked "Why is it taking that long?" And then they would've noticed "Oh shit, they're working even more efficiently than we expected, carry on" Which is also an example of not using all the data at your disposal when making decisions.
Almost like serious intentions to ruin things
Hi Fi Rush was shadow dropped on a subscription service with ZERO marketing and Xbox still has the gall to say it underperformed. Like what the hell did you expect?!
Sounds like what's happening with Hellblade 2. Had no idea that was coming out so soon. Thought that was gonna be in like September.
It's absolutely joever for them.
The Xbox marketing department is also staffed on the DEI principles. The math solves itself here.
That was tangos idea buddy lmao
@@georgejones5019 "everything is DEI fault when I have a smooth brain incapable of critical thought."
I even bought a series s just for hifi rush! Granted I would've bought it on PS if it was there day one but still, they got my money and it didn't even matter lolol 😂😭
The “who’s next” in the thumbnail is crazy work 😂
I still remember Electronic Art (EA) bought Westwood and shut the studio to the depths of hell. In memories of Red Alert.
Rip fr
R.I.P. EA Big
Kane lives 🦉
Unsubscribe to Game Pass now! It's at the core of this problem. Buy AA games you love and support. Vote with your wallet. It's the only way to stop it.
Needs pinned tbh. Gamepass is a worse concept the best buy or red box. Both already dead. Let MS rot, they are killing the CIVILIAN POPULATION, by removing people's jobs, a multi BILLION dollar company actively just removing its workers for more profit less spend. They need to be removed from making, ANYTHING. MS needs to go.
I can't even play Minecraft with my kids without gamepass. Its a con
Xbox is too tied to Gamepass. It's too late at this point.
Been saying this for years. Reason why I never got the game pass. What for? It's just renting the games u don't get to keep. I rather pay for the games I really do play. R.i.p xbox
I don’t pay for gamepass but have it and I only buy from certain devs. They’re also not the only ones with problems. I also didn’t play most of those games either
They've lost their guiding light. They are not the same company from the 360 era.
That and they've let their 'golden egg' halo rot.
They replaced merit with 'diversity'.
I would’ve never imagined the failures of the one in 2013 would be remembered as the downfall that they could never recover from
Yea man, the 360, the biggest failure of all gaming platforms in the last 20 years or so. Imagine that..
@radagast7200 please explain because outside of two women, the rest of the executive staff is white guys.
This is exactly why Larian is a beloved studio. Their CEO is a gamer, and he is not allowing the corporations to get to him.
We need new dev studios that hold their own, and don’t sell out, they’ll still make hundreds of millions of dollars if they make good games, but they have to resist the temptation of billions.
This will end sooner or later, all succesful american studios will fail
there is a special place in Hell for Suits...
And for you. You and this channel doesn’t get business. Y’all just idiots. You play games
Bad corporate people: force single player studios to make live service game
Game studio: makes it (not so great cuz its not their thing and they don't even like it)
Game: fails(what did they even expect?)
Bad corporate people: studio bad>close it
... .....
It's like buying a taxi company, telling them they're bus drivers now with no training then acting like it's their fault when they hit a lamp post going round a corner
the worse part is that the core of arkane austin quit the company over red fall. The company was dead man walking after that.
That one guy name is Matt Booty. He booty for real
@@nexusvideohas anyone ever considered that maybe that's why they had to close the studio down? There was no core talent left.
Maybe Microsoft is thinking, if they don’t belong to us, and they’re doing well, buy them out, and then destroy their studio because we don’t like people who are doing better than us on a lower budget.
It actually blows my fucking mind. "So yeah we made a successful product, we made profit, but yeah nah fuck it shut it down"
Xbox are the most clueless though. For example they went ahead with the slim and pro before the standard console. Completely risking it all, ruining their chances of being up with Sony...I think they've given up.
@@laurenedney7 They propably gave up with their console sales but end of 2023 (after the activision-blizzard deal was done in october 2023) Microsoft's gaming division overtook Sony as #2 most valued gaming company by revenue (#1 is tencent).
Sony has to fight apple now for #3 (apple is close behind sony).
So it's not surprising that Microsoft lost the console wars but they still winning over all right now.
Tl;dr, Skip it! Got carried away :)
I feel you and all but,
Business, not charity. Netflix does the same. If a show isn't popular enough, abandon. No love or anything. I can be a little sympathetic to this though. They are on the top of the world. It's not like they are small fish and just trying to get by. I think there's a huge difference when you are a whale. More options are open to you and things can take unexpected turns.
Let's be fair, you bought a service, say someone is to fix your balcony with a new roof and it was done poorly, it holds and all but ugly and shamefully done. Will you hire that company again or recommend it to anyone? Wouldn't you rather go and try some other company next time?
Red Fall, would you really like to support it? Give the developers another chance? Imagine you have the money, you're not some small fish required to stick and try to make it work. You can move forward just fine without them. Would you still go for a Redfall 2, but a singleplayer game this time? Think about it. It could end up even worse than the first game. It could become a smash hit.
Anyway, not here to start a fight or such, this is just my take on it. I can be plain off wrong too. I'm no expert. I think Microsoft regrets the purchase of Zenimax. Not worth the time and energy and the continuation of bad press. Which I think isn't good for the gaming industry either. Makes people more concerned about which games to buy.
It goes even deeper than that.
Xbox has struggled to gain a foothold in Japan and Tango Gameworks was their only Japanese studio after the Bethesda acquisition.
They've effectively killed their only way into the Japanese market for seemingly no reason.
@user-bu7vb5tg6b what are you talking about? Xbox has made many attempts to the Japanese market, gaming exclusives, Dlc you name it. What was Tango gonna do for them?
They dropped out of the console war without making it official
They made a new controller for the new games you'll never get to play!
exactly like who needed a dual sense edge when the only game you can use it to take advantage is cod lmao
they'll try everything they can to make money, except make good games
I went back to MGS5... and I'm blown away by how much better games were just a few years ago.
@@radagast7200Mainly because of Corporatism and DEI/wokeness, and this is coming from a center left Filipino minority that voted for Obama.
I'm no MAGA Trump supporter.
@@JAF2991 I'm not sure how corporatism factors in. Games were just fine before under a corporate structure. But it is definitely DEI. That is for certain.
@JAF2991 it's not dei, not saying it's a good thing but it's not actually a massive problem. The biggest problem is companies outsourcing work to contract workers, only to fire them 18 months later and then starting over again
@rewpertcone8243 it's definitely DEI. You can either have meritocracy or mediocrity.
The Arkane situation is like buying a landscaping company and telling them to get busy with your aquaculture farms.
Eh falcon was disingenuous.
It’s more like buying a landscaping company where the previous owners had made them do aqua culture until 70% of the staff quit
That’s the frustrating thing. I never thought Xbox was dumb enough to do a EA and interfere in their purchases to the point that they destroy everything that was good. Once Todd Howard retires Bethesda are screwed
@@ironized how? Sure the shooting mechanics they use is decent but they were never considered good for them. The reason why Arkane was a good studio is because of their stories, to force them to make a game with little to no story is stupid. Sure live service games can have a story, but it always takes a backseat and Arkane only have decent gaming mechanics at best which 100% led to the fall of red fall.
@@eliteheadhunter830 yes and if they lost 70% of their staff that probably includes the writers.
When a company loses staff it loses the best staff. The shit staff have nowhere else to go. It’s like a “skill distillation”.
So after losing the 70% of staff that made good games, it’s effectively a new company.
@@j0nnyism if they lost 70% of their staff whilst working on red fall, the company you miss was already gone.
You can blame Bethesda for this, not Microsoft.
The pictures of developers you showed look like they’ve never played a video game.
I thought the same thing. Not even pong.
Booty ran Midway games into the ground
They/Them 😂
Y’all don’t get it, they’re monopolizing one Studio, that’s why they’re closing studios.
Someone sees
So Microsoft followed EA’s lead. Acquiring Dev Studios, then shutting down studios under the same umbrella.
If Microsoft and EA swapped names I couldn't distinguish between the two.
They all did it. Even sony. Sony just screwed over gamers in 170 countries.
Ea sucks
And here I am on ps5 and a Sony fan boy going 🙄🙄
@craigsampson3386 well, i mean, most corporations are essentially owned by the same handful of people so, that's not surprising
It's mind numbing how short sighted execs are in most, if not all, industries!
Employee: "So what's our incentive to do a good job and put any effort in when making games?"
Exec: "Oh. Uh....there is none. We may or may not choose to fire you and all your coworkers at our discretion at any time for any reason regardless of the quality of your product."
...........🤦♂️
I want to launch my own studio for this reason alone
I mean any corporation that's public and beholden to shareholders are basically forced to do whatever it takes to increase share values for the next quarter cause the business is secondary, please investors first...
@@myclamish Thus will be the down fall of capitalism
@@saakersnah bruh
Become a billionaire and shareholder
Do it for the gamers
And future of games.
You’re basically the top dog and can do whatever you want since they’ll answer to u from my understanding.
It's less shortsighted and more just what is for them personally most profitable. Which is anything that rises the stockprice.
Buying IPs does that. Cutting costs also does it. So thats what they do. Sure for the corporation long term, for the consumers and for the industry all of this is terrible. But none of that matters to a modern corporate structure.
It looks like they’re just consolidating their talent into one large group the ubiquitous Microsoft umbrella.
Companies who aggressively acquire companies usually don't do well in the long run. Too much quick expenditure in a short period of time with not much return in the end.
I worked in the game industry for many years.
What's going on now is absolutely horrendous and I'm glad I'm gone.
Jc, around what years did u work in the industry?
What’s wrong with it
@@alwaysgaming000didn't earn it's hired for some arbitrary characteristic instead of merit.
Don't believe it.
You misspelled terwilliger lol
You're absolutely right in general, but a clarification: the guy who praised Hi-fi Rush did so in April of 2023 (you can see the date on the tweet), not 2024. So it wasn't just a month ago.
But he didnt say "it was a month ago" 10:45 - he clearly say "and this month...." So, what is actually your point?
@@arianoooamari6949 He literally did though. Re-listen to the timestamp you highlighted. He said “Just last month an executive said publicly that they consider that game a breakout hit by all conceivable metrics”.
@@arianoooamari6949 He literally did though. Re-listen to the timestamp you highlighted. He said “Just last month an executive said publicly that they consider that game a breakout hit by all conceivable metrics.”
He literally did though. Re-listen to the timestamp you highlighted. He said “Just last month an executive said publicly that they consider that game a breakout hit by all conceivable metrics.”
@@arianoooamari6949 He said just last month.
They use PRONOUNS in their org chart… WHAT DID U EXPECT
Did everyone just forget what they did with Rare? Or rather what they haven't done
Rare, Lionhead, pretty sure other acquired studios have been shut down prior to this, the cancelled Platinum collab of Scalebound, and now this. Just another day at Microsoft.
"But how many Starfields gonna have to come out to start looking at Todd Howards sideways..." -Falcon COOKED
They’ve got a gold mine with FO76. Started playing 2 weeks ago now it’s all I think about
Imagine going to work, being forced to do something you don't want to do, and then being punished for doing it.
Modern day corporate America unfortunately
I feel like that's the normal story for a lot of game devs. It's a similar story in software dev too, for a lot of folks. Anything remotely related to tech is suffering under the care of unreasonable people who don't understand what they're working on.
IT in general
That just sucks.
Happened to me, two months ago and having finished the job and had the customer complain I got blamed for "sabotage" (even though I'm a perfectionist) and let go for that reason it really hurts you deeply and ruins the industry for you as a whole.
She/her and He/him??
Well that explains a lot about the type of direction the gaming industry is going
So, I usually watch videos on TH-cam without logging in. And I do not subscribe to anything and I do not comment, consequently. Now, after watching this, I logged in and subscribed. And here's my comment: thanks for saying all this out loud.
I guess they're taking a business page out of the Disney playbook.
Suspicious amount of female executives and all list their pronouns. The issue is obvious. Hiring based on diversity metrics.
You beat me to it.
Buying all the competition and burying them to create a monopoly is peak capitalism tbh
As Bob Iger recently said. IP mining.
Can’t really call it the Disney playbook when this has been happening long before Disney made any moves like that.
🤷🏽♂️
Corporate greed ruins everything.
Capitalism in progress, carry on, nothing to see here
@@BdR76 Do you even know what capitalism is?
@@nadeauno he does not lol
@@nadeau How is this not 100% capitalism in action?
Capitalism is actually the most effective and efficient way to get the best product to market for the least amount of money. Do you really think if someone could open an amazing studio, with top talent, a comfortable work environment for less money and release games quickly they wouldn't? They'd make a fortune and monopolize talent. Of course they would. You have zero... zero understanding of market pressures and what that means. Obviously if someone could do it better for less they would. There is no profit motive to do otherwise. Take an economics and business class ffs. But go ahead, tell me I'm wrong.
We've all seen this happen one too many times Falcon and we're all worried about the future of the gaming industry with these massive layoffs and studio closures.
It feels really good to be a Playstation player rate now.
"If at first you don't succeed close the doors and take everyone down to the gravel pit."
That what I was expecting 😂
Last year, many of my colleagues and I had a pay rise, but after 2 months we were asked to leave. We were not fired because the company does not intend to lower its ranking related to layoffs, therefore, no one is fired. The people who left with mutual agreement (including me) didn't understand why this happened if we were involved in important projects in the company, we were making money, we were good professionals and they still sent us out into the street.
I’m a Frontend Web Developer and I see this a lot after COVID.
If you're "asked to leave," you don't have to. The incentive to leave like that needs to be big before you should consider quitting.
@@woofspider330 Unfortunately it’s not that simple.
They have big lawyers to support.
@@ovigilante2k5Did you at least get a good chunk of money for compensation?
@@anabang1251 Yes
As a person who was waiting for a evil within 3 this had me pissed
Same, though I'd have given anything from them a shot now since they've only turned out bangers. EW1&2, Ghostwire, Hi-Fi.
In convinced our only hope is indie developers coming together to make bigger games and to keep making them.
I was part of a company that was bought by google once, they just wanted specific individuals behind or inside the company and make sure they'd stay within google to work on other projects. Once that was done we got all absorbed into different departments all within a few years.
Microsoft became activision after buying activision
Two worst company’s ever it’s so sad to see state of gaming
They pulled a McDonnell Douglas - Boeing?
What games are we currently playing at this moment of time besides call of duty
@@willwilkinson8014 An exaggeration, but I get your point.
It's a virus, Activision is like T-1000
I always thought the name of this channel was pronounced “gamer angst” 🤣
Well the first problem is obviously Sarah Bond. The second problem is dei. Which is actually the first problem. And then it snowballs from there. I don't know why it's so hard for people to figure this out....
Being a Dev or director under Microsoft reminds me of Game of Thrones when Tyrion realizes what kind of King Joffrey was going to be.
Playstation is no better. It's all of gaming right now.
I think the problem with those corpo execs is that they don't actually know what games are - I think they don't play them, they don't watch others play them, and they don't consider them important. I think they only see the numbers at the bottom of a sheet. That saddens me.
The goal of a public company is to make money for it's shareholders. Not to deliver a product, or look after it's staff. It's to make the bottom line as big as possible. The execs are there to achieve that goal. You're right, they don't know what games are. Nor do they actually care. They only care about that share price. There will never be a publicly traded publisher that cares about the games they are publishing. Thank god for publishers like Devolver Digital who remain private. We need more of them.
It's like that in every industry. All that matters is the zeros at the end of your paycheck... But what can you buy when everything gets shut down?
But but but Phil Spencer wears a G@MER t-shirt so he must be a gamer!!!
That President of XBox is in the mid-40s now and she's lacking professionalism. She couldn't answer those questions professionally. 95% of the time she averted most of those questions from fans, she lost the confidence and comfort. Does MS pays her well? If MS doesn't pay her good enough, then she shouldn't be in that job.
4:53 this is my concern with the new Fable, studio behind Forza Horizon is working on it…
Oh no... well, that just dashed my hopes.
This is why it was so devastating when Microsoft bought Bethesda. It’s not a matter of if they destroy the studio, it’s a when.
And everyone who cheered on the buyouts can thank themselves.
@@gavinhillick I used to work for MS this is par for course
@@joshbarker4953 I was particularly worried about Arkane and Obsidian. And as I type this I remember that they just ported two Obsidian games along with Hi-fi Rush.
And next will be Activision and COD
@@matthewcarter9790 Skyrim? listen, i hate that game but I'm also aware that I'm in an extreme minority when it comes to Skyrim.
When the project manager tweeted Tango's awards and trophies and tagged it with "Not enough?" I was laughing my butt off.
Nope you gotta have 30 awards and 5 billion in sales with 40
Different awards for each individual employee who worked on the game and also have 3,000,000 in in game trophy’s from each console played by a employee then and only then will it be enough
It's corporate greed plain and simple and how quick they can make a buck, not focusing on a long term investment just a short term return and run by people who don't even play these games. The Standard Operating Procedures of a business ran by people who don't know what's going on at the lower levels or even the customers they are suppose to support
I'm confused. If they had 7 out of 10 og team members leave during Redfall, doesn't it make sense to close the studio and move the team to other studios? Or did they just fire everyone with no offer to move studios? I think this is all awful and yeah they are being ridiculously stupid - I'm honestly just learning about all of this right now. Yes I live under a rock.
Look at what the UFC did when they bought up their competition. They added the fights to their subscription service and closed the promotions down. When no competition was left, they increased their PPV and subscription prices.
My thoughts exactly. Hence why I kept shaking my head while everyone else was celebrating the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
same with uber and netflix
Exactly. They bought up the competition and let those newly acquired promotions die or just shut them down. It's monopoly shit and it can only happen with political corruption and a lack of industry regulation.
Funimation and crunchyroll
100% agree. Can’t compete, buy your competitor. Close them down. Jack up the price. Rip the kids off.
I miss the Microsoft and Xbox of the early to mid 2000’s. Was legitimately good and put out some of the best games ever made…how the mighty have fallen.
That was the golden age for sure
Ya Xbox Live Arcade was the SHEIT!! 💯🔥
343 making halo has been the equivalent of watching the corpse of my childhood get skull-fucked by microsoft for ten years
I feel like more and more this is happening in all industries and it's a sign of the times. I worked at Tesla, and our shop was turning a profit. One of the top 3 every quarter. But we were the small shop compared to the second larger one in our area. My shop was shut down and my manager along with 4 of us including me were let go. This year is probably gonna get worse...
Follow my logic: Booty, Bond and Phil have read the market wrong, leading to terrible management. They should resign or be fired, right?
Thats sadly not how it works. Its the same at my job. The ones causing the mess are not the ones paying for it
They call it failing upwards.
@@zeb3050this right here!
@@zeb3050 can i learn that kind of power?
Even if they get fired, they get to deploy their golden parachute. It's not like when people like us (or their developers) get fired. For them, it's like, "Hey. Here's a ton of money as your reward for failing at your job. Would you like a top level position at this other company so you can run it into the ground too?"
last year man. that tweet was 2023.
That's what I was thinking too. Like the sentiment is still true, the massive praise to shuttering the dev in the span of a year is still insane, but it was 1 year vs 1 month
@@joshw1565 haha I'm not judging the corporate decision, maybe there are things like deadlines, targets or working environment troubles there I don't know. I'm just pointing the mistake Gameranx did.
i also noticed it
This is a good opportunity for Sony to come along and build new studios with the ex arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks staff. I don’t think they’d miss this sort of opportunity, especially as Sony prefer single player experiences and encourage creativity
The writing was on the wall with Halo: Infinite. Now my beloved Blizzard IPs look even more in jeopardy than when Activision acquired them.
They still haven't recovered from that disastrous launch for XB One. Who can trust XB execs at anything they say at this point?
I think that says everything there needs to be said; it's been 11 years since the Xbox One controversies and they *still* haven't righted the ship. How much longer can the brand survive this, especially when GamePass is so successful and costs them a fraction of the operating costs?
@@BAMFsheedude game pass IS NOT successful
@@KingJohnMichael How do you know? All of the reports say it was the hardware business that was bad, not the other stuff. Show evidence.
crazy how 11 years has passed, and the ghost of Don Mattrick still lingers around the Xbox brand, they have never been able to shake off the damage since that dreadful reveal conference..
You kidding? You still blaming Don for phills mishandling?
10:41
Just FYI, that post was not last month. That was 13 months ago, soon after it launched on Xbox.
I noticed that too. The point he’s making still stands.
On this topic, I think all gamers are generally in agreeance, so it’s probably not an issue.
I trust Gameranx and I typically agree with all of Falcon and Jake’s takes, but for those who don’t there’s a risk of the content creator’s credibility to come into question when there are oversights on information like this.
@@valdezjonesmedia lies to you, but it's ok the point is good?? Wow
@@JeovahLovesYouAt the end of the day, they keep ruining AAA companies so yeah his point still stands.
I kept running out of memory on my Xbox 1 with nonstop updates for my games, so now I've disconnected the Internet from my Xbox and only buy games that can be played offline. I will own something and be happy or I will do without!
Sony and microsoft are really competing with each other to show everyone who's worse .
Xbox is clearly winning that contest.
Uh I think Xbox has been winning that for the last several years.
@@drenks07 idk honestly. Once Xbox is dead and Sony is an Monopoly, we are back at the PS3 or worse days
@@drenks07Well it's not like Sony closed all its studios in Japan, right.
What?? Sony makes little dumb type decisions like the require PC players to have a psn account....that is nothing compared to shutting down studios after buying them in a blatant way to just acquire their IP's to put on their gamepass....its disgusting and honestly they should be investigated for these practices
12:47 Don’t worry Falcon, I’m an old bird that yells at cloud too.
Honestly it's more like yelling at a brick wall. They hear us they just aren't doing anything.
Pleasing share holders and the constant need to improve stock shares is hurting all in the long run. The needs of the few…
So sad to see xbox fall been on xbox since 2001 to 2018 saw this coming just very sad it was so good back in the day they changed online gaming.
At this point Microsoft has become EA
Microsoft is worst than EA.
@@Zalkova hell no it’s not. Have you ever played FIFA? EA is the greediest company in the world, Xbox is consumer friendly and GamePass is the best option for your wallet
Nah, not even close.
Think of the bar like this in terms of scumminess:
Microsoft < Ubisoft < EA
EA's the final boss
Microsoft tried devouring Activision Blizzard, but became Actiblizz.
@@ZalkovaHow? EA wants us to watch ada in the games we own. They want us to spend money. THEN watch ads. To please their shareholders.
Falcon, I could be wrong, but I thought that tweet from Moody was sent April 21st, 2023 - and not 2024...in other words, weeks after it was released
*Aaron Greenberg
But yes, it was 2023, not 2024.
The date is on the screen as he says the wrong date. Kinda funny. But still 1 month or 13 pretty shitty
Gameranx has a part to play in this story as well. Use your platform to keep your viewers informed on which game studios are the ones that are a result of this fallout. Thanks for the video 💛
Roundhouse studio is Human head studio right? Which mean there might be a chance for them to make the original Prey 2 if Bethesda them
The needle that bursts most bubbles is made of hubris.
Wrong Wtf even is that the reason for bubbles is bc the govt printe too much money
Was that Confucius?
An ancient truth, well said
If redfall was a single player offline game, it would’ve succeeded, the setting is cool
Can it not even be played by yourself offline?
I'm a PlayStation guy... And yet this broke my heart. Does this mean we'll never see another Dishonored, Evil Within or Prey sequel? I'm unsure how it works...
Regarding Redfall , a friend summed it up perfectly. It was the equivalent of a 5 star Italian chef trying to make fried rice because everyone is eating it, with nothing but the recipe. It'll always be "missing something " .
It only goes up to 3 stars lol but I think even an Italian street sweeper could make a better game
Man, I’m glad I grew up in the 360 era.
Maybe I missed it, but you should 100% bring some light to what is happening with Ubisoft and The Crew as well. I’m a software engineer who is much more passionate about game development than commercial software, but moving to that industry sounds terrifying and disappointing.
Who would have thought consolidating the industry would have negative repercussions?
Also something that nobody's bringing up is a lot of tech companies are closing offices in Texas for various reasons. That could have something to do with some of it.
Wait, you mean a giant corporation doesn't want competition and doesn't care about the consumer?
No way. I'm shocked
Capitalists gonna capitalism 💸 Would be nice if the people who actually make the games had more to say, instead of the owner class
"Meet the new Boss.... …same as the Old Boss"
At 9:36 looking at Cynthia Per-Lee HR (Karen looking) makes my soul tremble 😂😂😂😂
Good thing she’s only Human Resources usually that’s the type of person who gets into HR
Unfortunately this is what happens in big business. If your company gets acquired, update your resume because your clock is ticking
I'm still not sure why Aaron Greenberg still has a job. Xbox barely has marketing. Wtf does he do all day?
I had heard that Tango was aslo a shell of itself as Arkane Austin was, the lead developer, Shinji Mikami, retired, but then came out of retirement and most of the veteran talent left to join his new studio, Kamuy Inc. Hopefully he decides to stay Indie this time, since the whole reason he left Tango was the same as why he left Capcom and founded Tango in the first place.
Nope
We need zombie master back. It would ignite an entire genre.
Nothing is going on . Every single publisher is closing down studios now
Microsoft is pushing me back to playstation so fast.
Wtf are you waiting for?
Oh yeah, the guys who are trying to force their PSN on us and banning half of the planet from playing certain games are definitely the best example for a good future of gaming. I'm sticking to my PC.
Did you switch to Xbox when Sony closed all their Japanese studios.
@OliverAnderson266 lmao, there's no comparison to wanting people to sign up for their psn (not saying its a good decision) to Microsoft buying companies for their IP's to be on their game pass only to literally dispose of these studios like they were nothing and ruining people's lives and careers...big big difference there fella
I'm in the same camp. Sony isn't great either but at least I can play the new FF7 and Helldivers. The JRPG scene is next to nonexistent. They did put the new tales of arise on there... one year after I bought it.
I feel your frustration and burning passion on this topic.
The best way to vote with your wallet would be to cancel your GAMEPASS subscription
Absolutely nothing, and I'm on the verge of canceling game pass
This one minecraft youtuber I watched was a dev in the games industry and anytime its brought up he has mostly negative things to say about incompetent managers wasting money, burning people out and making people lose their jobs, with some corporate greed layered on top it just seems game dev is more toxic than an outsider can ever understand unfortunately
I have used xbox for almost 20 years and this crap is pushing me to Sony
I have a PS5 but it's not like Sony is the answer I mean you're welcome to get a PS5 but this year, after Stellar Blade... we've got nothing dude. I'm just waiting for the showcase for some clarity on where the games are.
Sony is worst. Sttop supporting aony or microsoft. Buy a PC. Buy the game directly from the owner. Indy. Or steam.
Force them to go on steam. Will keep them in check.
The industry dont like steam.
Sony trying to grt pc player to pay for multiplayer service.
Only thing protecting us right now is steam.
I left sony. And i didnt joined Xbox. Fuck both of them. They are leeches. Giving nothing good. And syphoning what good there is ledt.
you'll complain with sony too
Sounds like you're in for a treat.
@@zaltmanbleroze we also got 4 other exclusives this year before stellar blade
I've been getting my mobile gaming fix from Mighty DOOM since last July. What a fun time passer and fulfilling leveling system. Sad to see it's getting axed. They literally were giving new environment updates each month with new themed levels and unlocks to play and get each month. Definitely would've never thought it'd be on chopping block in any way.
it hasn’t been about the games for a long time. as a former destiny player with 120+ days on titan, i’ve seen corporate greed destroy something so many people love and i really don’t play anything but modded minecraft anymore and modded mindustry. i was extremely into helldivers and i did hit level 50 already but i haven’t bought the new battle passes cause like damn bro i might want 1 or 2 things out of the whole pass but i gotta put a shit ton of hours in. it wouldn’t be as bad but the game like is like stagnant, they teased the illuminate and even the other mechs like a WHILE ago. The game is awesome and i love it but its like grinding cod zombies after you unlock all the stratagems at level 20-30. i can still play cod zombies to this day and have fun and ill be able to go back to helldivers, but its just not enough for me to sink money into for the return. I’m no stranger to sinking money (destiny player obviously) and i’ve definitely had an addiction in the past, but that’s cause i played the FUCK out of those dlcs, then lightfall dropped and i played the fuck out of it and then it went to the seasonal live service shit and the game just died to me. i’m not gonna lie id probably put my hands on the people making the decisions that led to this (even if i’d lose and get sued to dust😂) shit pisses me off i’m just a dollar sign and they are capitalizing off art that i love, that’s a deep feeling right there and that’s why they keep fucking failing cause i’m not the only one offended
I'm getting worried because all this reminds me of the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish era
Good thing Sony, Nintendo and PC gaming are still around.
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