| VersusEvil said: Unfortunately that’s the reality of ABK buying Xbox and going all in on a sub service. I mean when you have COD in Game Pass releasing yearly you don’t really need the Compulsions and the Ninja Theory’s or the Double Fines when their games likely don’t bring in any subs (compared to ABK) and the top boss is probably looking at that and wondering why they even need most of those studios. You either move the sub count up or you’re out. |
You do, because CoD only releases once a year. These studios were acquired precisely because of Game Pass, it keeps people engaged all year round. The issue is typical American capitalism bullshit, they need the line to go up faster, only bigger games can do that, without Game Pass they never would have acquired these studios in the first place and they'd probably have shut down everything already aside from the mega hits. But it's clear now that Game Pass original purpose can no longer save these studios/games because it "only" reached ~40m (so far) instead of some ridiculous number like 100m-200m but even if it reached that we'd eventually come to a point where Microsoft would say "Hmm. We have 100m subs now. Bringing in massive amount of money...Buuuuuut....THE LINE ISN'T INCREASING FAST ENOUGH. WE NEED MORE" and we'd be back to square one with mass layoffs and cancellations. Why? American Capitalism, Lol.
Plus the entire tech industry right now is laying off a massive amount, the tech industry laid off 264k employees in 2023, 152k employees in 2024 and so far have laid off 63k employees in 2025. It's disgusting. The gaming industry in particular is being slammed. The only companies not being complete dickheads right now are Valve, Nintendo and a few Japanese companies. The American market in particular is shitting itself hard but Canada and UK are also suffering badly, the UK videogame industry right now for the UK is awful, but then again, pretty much everything is awful in the UK right now economically. None of this justifies their layoffs though, cause these fuckwits still make record profits, but if some bullshit line doesn't go up fast enough to please their fellow millionaire investors then it's time to punish your workers and treat them like disposable trash.
