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what closed?your mind?



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The 360 project that was cancelled was a Kinect children's game. So the people here bashing Microsoft for cancelling the project and laying off some team members would have bashed the game they made anyways.



D-Joe said:
DirtyP2002 said:
What is up with journalism these days?

I mean, they posted 2 new job ads for MS Vancouver just 2 days ago!

http://www.microsoft-careers.com/go/MGS-Vancouver/277328/

Crazy.

they kicked out MS Vancouver's Kinect staff i guess

More than likely.

Kinect Support was probably making the game progress slower as it may be difficult to put it in the game...

I mean Kinect for CoRe games is cool like in Forza but to be our primary controller no way.



Turkish said:
Slimebeast said:

A dick company without any continuity in its game development business. If they repeatedly switch strategies and constantly open and shut studios why would a talented passionate game developer want to be employed by Microsoft?

Mostly I am bitter that they closed Ensemble studios but also because they refuse to gain respect among gamers by making genuine hardcore games.


+1. Could this mean the other newly formed studios be closed at any time? Man that sucks for those employees. Hope they find a new job soon.


I guess you hear what you wanna hear.



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Vancouver Studio not Dead (Now just focusing on CoRe), just one small team wich was based on Kinect, most probably transfered to new London Studio :

From Gaf :

I have a friend that works for one of the MS Vancouver studios, and here's what she said last night:

Quote:
Yikes! To address the rumours, MGS Vancouver not closed. Just Kids/Family project (1 of 3 teams). Super sad news... Sad for some of my friends. That being said, BigPark and Undisclosed Core Game are still going strong. Not good for people to message that MS is pulling out of Van when they still have hundreds of employees here.



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no clue where the problem is, they just decided that one studio shouldn't work on totally different projects from kinect kids games to hardcore games so they let one studio make one kind of games now and open a new studio which can concentrate on exactly the other kind of games (or let a studio work on that which already has only that as task)



DirtyP2002 said:
Turkish said:
Slimebeast said:

A dick company without any continuity in its game development business. If they repeatedly switch strategies and constantly open and shut studios why would a talented passionate game developer want to be employed by Microsoft?

Mostly I am bitter that they closed Ensemble studios but also because they refuse to gain respect among gamers by making genuine hardcore games.


+1. Could this mean the other newly formed studios be closed at any time? Man that sucks for those employees. Hope they find a new job soon.


I guess you hear what you wanna hear.

Yeah, you can always depend on those 2 to be in every ms thread bashing and trolling.



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Kotaku should be banned for giving such bad idea of not as bad news...



So the headline "MS shuts down studio" results in "MS opens a new studio in London with some staff from Vancouver"

Hahaha well done Kotaku.



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