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curl-6 on 07 July 2025
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smroadkill15 said:
curl-6 said:

Many of the layoffs were at Xbox; the Initiative shut down, half of Turn 10 gone, Blizzard, High Moon, Compulsion, Undead Labs, etc.

If Gamepass were really so amazing and successful, there wouldn't be so many devs on the chopping block, they would have cut jobs elsewhere.

Most of these layoffs weren't on the gaming side. I believe 2000 or so of the 9000. Even King and Blizzard mobile devs, which has nothing to do with Game Pass, had layoffs. You are giving Game Pass way too much credit. 

You're reacting to an opinion of a dev who said it's unsustainable and now jumping to the conclusion Game Pass is to blame for these layoffs. 

Does Turn 10 (Forza) have nothing to do with Gamepass? How about Compulsion? (South of Midnight)

Nothing about this situation suggests a healthy business model. Even one of the biggest megacorps in the world can only dump billions of dollars into something for so long, as we're seeing now with all the cuts.