Industry and Video game layoff thread |OT| Any future layoff info please place in here.

[Gamernyc78]

Sounds like some massive news is being prepped from the Xbox side

cause this last 24 hours has been insane

COD seems will be outsourced and contracted to others from now on or at least some of them smh.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Sounds like a you problem.

How many times did you read the Microsoft Hacked thread or the friends thread

The criteria to make a sticky is very random.

 

[Gamernyc78]

Let's move on from this and not derail the thread. Everyone has their opinions. Mods and upper management will continue to do their jobs as they see fit.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Yes, older games should be elegible. But Ubisoft is negotiating with other subs to include them elsewhere too, so may need time.

It would make sense to include 2 years old and older games, that would avoid issues with Sony deals and also wouldn't almost cannibalize sales of old games because they already don't sell almost.

And yes, it would make sense to include them in premium only, similar to EA games. That would reduce even more the cannibalization because less gamers would have access to them, and the ones doing so would pay more for them.

Holding them would reduce the cannibalation, too, but also would mean there would be less time for Sony deals blocking them. Maybe if they way some months more they can launch there last year CoD the same day they start including ABK titles to GP.

MS will continue raising the GP price, and that would be a good excuse to raise it for Ultimate at the same time they add a first big chunk of ABK titles.

As I remember GP Ultimate is now $180/year, they could raise it at something like $16.99/month ($203.88/year).

GP Ultimate is already $204 per year now. They had increased it to $17 per month a few months ago.

My guess is that if they want to increase it further and time it with the ABK batch, they want to put a few months gap between the two price hikes.

Also, there are no Ultimate exclusive games (apart from EA's catalog) in Game Pass. If they make ABK games exclusive to GP Ultimate, that'll be a first.

 

[Eggman]

Florian Mueller blocked me on twitter but what is that crazy piece of garbage aahing these days?

 

[Jim Ryan]

 

[Darth Vader]

Multiple Overwatch Senior Devs were fired

As some people say here, I'm sure these were all redundant / low performing / useless, right?

 

[Deleted member 223]

Partner of Hardware at Xbox. Developer of the Series X and S, and Elite Controlled 1 & 2 has left Xbox. On his own terms.

Most interesting thing out of all this. As fucked up as everything is....

If the hardware is a sinking ship and you suspect your services may no longer be required in the future, or is in shaky footing, if you're smart, and not willing to take chances, you do the work early and haul ass.

The demolition continues.

 

[Fenton]

 

[anonpuffs]

Apparently this person is a COD leaker:

Oh my god they're really going to actually do it, they're going to ruin call of duty

End of an era folks, pour one out.

 

[Zzero]

Destin is right. Well, for some of them. A lot of Embracer is mismanagement. Same for the 343 cuts last year. Possibly so with Bungie too.

 

[Yurinka]

GP Ultimate is already $204 per year now. They had increased it to $17 per month a few months ago.

My guess is that if they want to increase it further and time it with the ABK batch, they want to put a few months gap between the two price hikes.

Also, there are no Ultimate exclusive games (apart from EA's catalog) in Game Pass. If they make ABK games exclusive to GP Ultimate, that'll be a first.

In that case they can increase it to $19.99 ($239.88/year). And to lock the ABK games to Ultime, even if needed putting them inside a "ABK Play" service that would also be the one that Ubisoft would include in other services.

I remember MS also had a deal with Riot to include Riot stuff on GP, did they already included this? Is it locked to the medium tier or is it also Ultimate only? I'd bet this one was included in the normal one.

 

[Gamernyc78]

Now these morons want to say something.

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Yeah bcus it's mostly talking about layoffs. Xbox is indeed an avarice company tht will do anything to get a huge overhead, enrich it's management and doesn't care about anything else.

 

[Dabaus]

Partner of Hardware at Xbox. Developer of the Series X and S, and Elite Controlled 1 & 2 has left Xbox. On his own terms.

I thought Jason Ronald, the dude with the long beard made the xbox series consoles?

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

I thought Jason Ronald, the dude with the long beard made the xbox series consoles?

I think he had help from other members of the team.

 

[Zzero]

The software company I work for ended up cutting the jobs in India (the CEO is actually from there, so I was surprised in a way)... They were not that good, so it's understandable that they got cut even if they are cheaper.

But yeah, the forecast is not that good, that showed in the Christmas speech of the CEO, he did not talk for long... Maybe I should start looking elsewhere.

My company also says it will be a tough year. And we're not tech, I think its just common wisdom everywhere that things will be bad. But that was the common wisdom this time last year too and yet the on paper economy still did fine.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Went out like a champ. And I bet Bdubs does have shares in MS/ABK; so too probably Transistor, Judge, Jawmuncher and most of the other mods and admins. That site was compromised a LONG time ago.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Another is that MS no longer will manage the rights of ABK games for gamesubs that include cloud gaming, but instead Ubisoft: for the whole ABK back catalog plus their games to be released in the next 15 years. So Ubisoft should be negotiating now with the different subsbriptions.

That seems so messy, do you know why Ubisoft ended up with this responsibility? that seems like the kind of mess a lawyer would make tons and tons of money with!

 

[Gamernyc78]

My company also says it will be a tough year. And we're not tech, I think its just common wisdom everywhere that things will be bad. But that was the common wisdom this time last year too and yet the on paper economy still did fine.

My company downsized from like 80 to 40 ppl two years ago because we rely on city contracts and there's been a real tightening up and money taken away from those housing initiatives in NYC, however we just signed a new multi million dollar contract and are now on a hiring spree for like 20 positions. This is the way of life, things are very dynamic and can change at any moment especially concerning money.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

That's a lot of right sizing in one day!