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Zippy6 said:
So that brings the total this year for Xbox up to 2,550 I believe. How many weeks until we hear from the next publisher/studio about a few hundred more. 2,550 jobs is the price paid by workers when a $70 Billion acquisition takes place. They were never going to not cut the fat, but without the Activision acquisition there likely would have still been some layoffs judging by the rest of the industry. |
I've no doubt that Activision would be having layoffs as an independent entity, likely even worse, same with Zenimax, Bobby Kotick was a peak scumbag and Activision laid off hundreds of employees even in some of their best years. The dude would have gone nuts, especially since ABK stock was plummeting and they had hired like 5000+ employees across the pandemic.
Doesn't justify Microsoft's layoffs of course, they all fucking suck. My mood is fucking sour once again, Lol.
There's not much I can say which I haven't said about the other 50 layoffs in 2023 across tech. Fuck Corporations. Fuck Executives. Fuck Billion $ Corps. Fuck Billionaires. Unionise the entire industry, I know it won't stop layoffs but it will ensure employees are treated better and receive better severances from these blood sucking leeches, they don't care about you, they don't care about their employees, they only care about the pursuit of infinite growth. FTC can block every future big merger for all I care, well, once the laws are actually changed to support that.
