Xbox is offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative
  • Doof@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I embarrassingly bought into the gamepass fantasy. I thought that we would start seeing more smaller and experimental experiences, better quality control for bigger titles. I thought that it would allow developers to have a piece of mind, a steady income and job security. When a few of my favourite developers were bought up I was happy for them, that they could feel a sense of stability. Now if a dev gets bought by Microsoft I now worry for their future and I can’t imagine being employed by them. I just hope the one who have been played off can find their footing.

  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I bet they’ll send their ceos to another sting concert though… don’t worry about their mental health guys.

    Didn’t Microsoft just buy out a huge game studio? And then they’re doing layoffs?

    Quit from these fucking companies already before we make them self sufficient enough to leave us behind on this rock ffs

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Noooope

      Everyone knew last year these acquisitions weren’t about making huge amounts of games, it was to kill off competition and monopolize game pass.

    • systemglitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I do own some of th games by these studios. Not all of them obviously, but enough that I can’t name them all off the top of my head.