| Ryuu96 said: Phil needs to fire Matt Booty. Promote Feargus Urquhart to Matt's position. Then resign. At this rate, I'm seriously wondering if Xbox would be better off as an independent company. Might be better for everyone if Microsoft just spun Xbox out as an independent company. Shit I'm even wondering to myself if Apple would be a better owner than Microsoft and I dislike Apple a lot, Lol. Microsoft just seems totally clueless. I will concede that I do understand fully the reasons for PD and TI being shutdown now, but I still cannot agree with Everwild and losing Gregg Mayles/Louise O'Connor or cancelling Project Kestrel and losing Matt Firor. Nor do I agree with many of the other layoffs across other studios and divisions and uprooting peoples lives all to save a few $ which is what this clearly was considering the timing and it impacting all of Microsoft. It's just a coincidence that The Initiative and Perfect Dark ended up being a disaster worthy of closing, Imo. Microsoft will do these layoffs on a yearly basis anytime they need to end a quarter strong or start a fiscal year strong, I still stand by that Microsoft doesn't understand the creative medium and is it any surprise? 90% of Microsoft is business focused with a current goal of replacing their employees with AI. Yes, other companies are having mass layoffs too and they are shit too but I do feel like Microsoft is one of the worst right now in just pure greed and uncaring attitude towards the creative medium. |
Multiple things can be true.
MS was gonna do some amount of layoffs regardless.
The cancelled projects probably all had good reason to be cancelled. Perfect Dark I wouldn't have guessed, but the reporting on it now make a lot of sense. And let's be real, the only reason we're getting those reports, is because with all the links in the chain caused by the massive outsourcing of the project, there's gonna be a lot more people to talk about the state of things. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some potential animosity between the idea team at The Initiative and the guys at CD that are supposed to be doing the bulk of the work. People are gonna talk when there's clashing going on.
When it comes to Everwild, or the Zenimax MMO, those projects being all inhouse is gonna lead to far fewer people in the know and talking openly about what's going on. The only comments you're gonna get is from people on or around those teams who wanna be optimistic about their work, cus they're invested in it. But they've had enough time to present something viable. If not to us as consumers, then certainly internally within the company. Especially the MMO. You think MS wouldn't LOVE to know they've got another money printing live service game on the way if they just gave that team another couple years maybe? You really think that if there was something there that just needed a bit more time to cook, they wouldn't jump at the chance to see if they got another decade long running MMO on their hands? Yea right. If they had some great internal demos or pre-alphas or something and development was going well, MS would be thrilled. That was probably ages behind schedule at best, and in development hell at worst. If it was coming along even remotely well, MS would have gladly found other places to make cuts.
