Call of Duty: Microsoft aims to have outside contractors for future Call of Duty games (like Halo: Infinite). Rumor.

[Nhomnhom]

The opening to replace CoD is now. Sony or some other publisher should clone it and adopt a better business model than anual releases.

 

[Shadow2027]

Itll be good to see cod fall. New ideas emerge and new games can take the limelight and top sales for the year

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

COD dead dead :/

 

[Zzero]

Depending on how many off the 1900 were non-AB employees this could be over 10 percent and includes some big scalps, especially at Blizzard. Its not small, this forum is full of gleeful doomers but you shouldn't minimize it either.

This isn't the case at all, it would be retarded. CoD and Blizzard make a ton of money. ABK always had contractors and outsourcing, and will continue having them. They only fired a small percent of the company, pretty likely redundant positions and some underperforming people.

 

[Danja]

Well Microsoft plan is to stop yearly iterations of COD so, I guess in their eyes this is the way to go.

 

[Say1nMan]

TheGhostofHope also stated that it wouldn't be a shock to anyone if Microsoft merges the COD studios. For example, Raven and Treyarch would be combined into one and vice versa with Sledgehammer and Infinity Ward. COD development currently operate at a full 2 years cycle in which the 3 studios rotate every year for a new COD release and with this possible change and larger focus on contract workers (hi, Halo Infinite), Call of Duty under Microsoft will be developed in 18 months. Xbox really is the McDonald/fast food of the game industry.

 

[Gamernyc78]

TheGhostofHope also stated that it wouldn't be a shock to anyone if Microsoft merges the COD studios. For example, Raven and Treyarch would be combined into one and vice versa with Sledgehammer and Infinity Ward. COD development currently operate at a full 2 years cycle in which the 3 studios rotate every year for a new COD release and with this possible change and larger focus on contract workers (hi, Halo Infinite), Call of Duty under Microsoft will be developed in 18 months. Xbox really is the McDonald/fast food of the game industry.

I mean thts how COD was until Activision branded them off years ago.

 

[Say1nMan]

I mean thts how COD was until Activision branded them off years ago.

Imagine 343 getting rope in to help make COD moving forward.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Maybe the post was deleted because someone told him the fact that ABK already has been using external contractors/outsourcing studios since forever, making him look dumb.

As an example here in Spain there was Elite 3D (now 2K Valencia) who did work in many CoD games, Crash Bandicoot 4 or Diablo series to name a few of them.

To have contractors / external outsourcing studios is super common for AAA gaming, also for AA or even some indies.

In the context of an acquisition is common to fire people due to redundant positions and also underperforming people (and pretty likely later replace a portion of them) to reduce costs.


This isn't the case at all, it would be retarded. CoD and Blizzard make a ton of money. ABK always had contractors and outsourcing, and will continue having them. They only fired a small percent of the company, pretty likely redundant positions and some underperforming people.

Tell me why an entire game was cancelled then, from Blizzard no less, if it was only redundancy positions? And that's just one of the cancelled games; chances are there are others we haven't heard of yet.

It's like saying all the 100 people let go from Bungie were just redundancies in non-development departments, when we know that wasn't the case either. And qualifying it as being "underperforming staff" if not in non-development positions, doesn't really absolve that dev roles were impacted regardless. Same here with ABK and magnitudes more in this case across ABK and the Xbox gaming division.

 

[Gamernyc78]

Imagine 343 getting rope in to help make COD moving forward.

OH hell nooo!

 

[Hezekiah]

Nearly spat out my coffee reading this on that other site...slimysnake actually said something sensible (and concise):

 

[Gamernyc78]

Nearly spat out my coffee reading this on that other site...slimysnake actually said something sensible (and concise):

Very true. Words of wisdom.

 

[xollowsob]

If this is the plan then if anything the layoffs were too small. Maybe they really did just want King? But then why fight so hard and give up so much for the rest of it?

Because owning access to mobile devices is worth more than console games. Think of the mobile games market Vs console market.

 

[Zzero]

Because owning access to mobile devices is worth more than console games. Think of the mobile games market Vs console market.

They could have had that two years ago for less money with no strings attached if they had agreed to sell off the CoD portion of ABK (so basically if they had just brought Blizzard and King.)

 

[Dabaus]

Few choice quotes from 4chan

“
>ABK gets acquired by MS, and all their employees with smiles on their faces happily jump into the web, unaware of the spider (Phil) about to eat them all alive
Savage”

“
Microsoft cannot win or even compete on equal grounds
>so they pointlessly sabotage the competition on their way out
What is this bussiness strategy called?
Embrace
Extend
Extinguish “

 

[Kokoloko]

There are enough COD games already, like 20 of them and 10 of them probably still got servers online generating money, i'm sure nobody will miss it if 1 of them is not out this year at all

After the Black Ops remakes COD will be a shell of what it once was. Ms gonna kill this like they did with Halo

 

[Kx11]

After the Black Ops remakes COD will be a shell of what it once was. Ms gonna kill this like they did with Halo

That's good, i'd like Battlefield to take the top spot

 

[laynelane]

If this happens, I wouldn't find it surprising in the least. Cod will get the MS treatment, just like Halo has. All that remains to be seen is just how poor the results will be.

 

[Batzy]

I think Yearly COD is dead. This year will come out and start more outrage with it being either in or not in gamepass.

 

[Maverick]

Looool

Remember when Xbots were supporting the acquisition?