Quick! More Indians! It’s jobs that citizens don’t want to do! (entry or junior level jobs)
I was defending her because I seriously thought that Xbox was rotting under Phil Spencer, but finding out that she okayed 3,200 layoffs the day that her request for 2,100 H1-B applications was accepted was just so obvious and crass.
I think the the problem with the gaming industry is more structural instead of trapped to one company. The public won’t pay for what they say, so the gaming industry has become focused on gambling addicts since they’re the only ones who pay.
The public won’t pay for what they say
Steam is wildly profitable, and so are numerous gaming companies.
The industry is focused on gambling addicts and micro-transactions because it’s MOST profitable; not because the alternative isn’t profitable or sustainable.
Microsoft facilitates genocide because it’s profitable. They would literally enslave you and everyone you care about in a matrix if it were MOST profitable, too. If you don’t believe that, you’re just an idiot.
The industry is focused on gambling addicts and micro-transactions because it’s MOST profitable; not because the alternative isn’t profitable or sustainable.
The gaming industry is in crisis. It isn’t just Microsoft laying off staff. If you want to use Valve as an example, they became the app store for PC gaming; which puts them more in line with Apple or Google in their control of their own app stores.
Oh no no no. Its just that the safe floor to always have a consistent minimum revenue source, is to focus on the addicts. You have to have a method for the addict to spend and stay with you. Maybe they also then work on a side project of something bland and “broad market appealing” to see if you can’t scrape enough money from around the whole world to make a good chunk of change. But you always know that what the real purpose is, keep the addicts and see if you can optimize to either take more from them or get more addicts.
Its just safe and easy.
People will pay, though they sure have less to try and spend outside their addictions than before. Thats just also happening.
a reorganization that remaining developers are reportedly convinced will cause irreparable damage to some of the company’s most valuable brands.
if by “damage” they mean reduced quality: LOL
how many years has it been since microsoft prioritized quality? ever?
Late 90s into the mid 2000s MS studios produced a lot of great and/or ambitious games, some groundbreaking like Halo, others genre defining like age of Empires 1/2/3/mythology.
Other ones you had out of left field like Impossible Creatures or crazy ambitious Ones like JP Trespasser, an open world survival sandbox in the late 90s.
Lets also not forget the Microsoft Gaming Zone, the free predecessor to Xbox Live.
Yeah it sounds like they want to take a fallout-like that was half finished, and slap the fallout themes on it and call it fallout 5.
Good!
