Industry and Video game layoff thread |OT| Any future layoff info please place in here.
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Player first, what is this nonsense? Blizzard is player last.
lmaoooo the only way anyone can describe Blizzard as 'player-first' is if they've never played a single blizzard game, they are NOTORIOUS for being extremely condescending towards the playerbase and ignoring player feedback for years on end
No, it may go a while on inertia alone, but we have seen that Halo didn't survive indefinitely after it went down the drain... Even overwatch got passed by other games.
A well known IP is not enough to succeed.
But the quality will go down for sure.
I wonder if some of these 190 people that were let go by Sony ended up being let go by Xbox yours time around as well.
Disgusting company, disgusting fanboys. I wish them all the worse
Xbox fans still trying to spread the lie that there were layoffs at Naughty Dog
I hope the people who refused to RTO properly were at the top of the layoff list.
I know this article was posted somewhere but I didn't click on it because it's Kotaku (lol). It's actually a very good article. I hope it's making the rounds.
www.kotaku.com.au
The journalist describes GAF/Era/Twitter/Reddit perfectly here:
Blue Check accounts obfuscated concerns over such an aggressive consolidation of workers and IP by espousing recycled Xbox talking points and stitched-together notions of community, as understood by its relationship to explicit and unwavering support for Xbox. “But Xbox needs a way to regain a share of the console market!” “This will actually lead to more job security and creative freedom!” “IMAGINE THE HEXEN REBOOT!”. A world was created in which the very idea of being opposed to the deal was to be effectively opposed to fun, too economically left-leaning, or just a hater. It’s the kind of hearts and minds campaign that would deserve to be dissected for its effectiveness if it weren’t so existentially terrifying.
Xbox Is Not Your Friend
After laying off almost 2,000 people, Xbox finds itself in a position at odds with the community-first image it has cultivated for itself.
www.kotaku.com.au
The journalist describes GAF/Era/Twitter/Reddit perfectly here:
Blue Check accounts obfuscated concerns over such an aggressive consolidation of workers and IP by espousing recycled Xbox talking points and stitched-together notions of community, as understood by its relationship to explicit and unwavering support for Xbox. “But Xbox needs a way to regain a share of the console market!” “This will actually lead to more job security and creative freedom!” “IMAGINE THE HEXEN REBOOT!”. A world was created in which the very idea of being opposed to the deal was to be effectively opposed to fun, too economically left-leaning, or just a hater. It’s the kind of hearts and minds campaign that would deserve to be dissected for its effectiveness if it weren’t so existentially terrifying.
Too bad for Microsoft it never translated into console sales.I know this article was posted somewhere but I didn't click on it because it's Kotaku (lol). It's actually a very good article. I hope it's making the rounds.
Xbox Is Not Your Friend
After laying off almost 2,000 people, Xbox finds itself in a position at odds with the community-first image it has cultivated for itself.
The journalist describes GAF/Era/Twitter/Reddit perfectly here:
Blue Check accounts obfuscated concerns over such an aggressive consolidation of workers and IP by espousing recycled Xbox talking points and stitched-together notions of community, as understood by its relationship to explicit and unwavering support for Xbox. “But Xbox needs a way to regain a share of the console market!” “This will actually lead to more job security and creative freedom!” “IMAGINE THE HEXEN REBOOT!”. A world was created in which the very idea of being opposed to the deal was to be effectively opposed to fun, too economically left-leaning, or just a hater. It’s the kind of hearts and minds campaign that would deserve to be dissected for its effectiveness if it weren’t so existentially terrifying.
The whole campaign pushing for that acquisition was extremely unsettling in how aggressive and omnipresent it was.I know this article was posted somewhere but I didn't click on it because it's Kotaku (lol). It's actually a very good article. I hope it's making the rounds.
Xbox Is Not Your Friend
After laying off almost 2,000 people, Xbox finds itself in a position at odds with the community-first image it has cultivated for itself.
The journalist describes GAF/Era/Twitter/Reddit perfectly here:
Blue Check accounts obfuscated concerns over such an aggressive consolidation of workers and IP by espousing recycled Xbox talking points and stitched-together notions of community, as understood by its relationship to explicit and unwavering support for Xbox. “But Xbox needs a way to regain a share of the console market!” “This will actually lead to more job security and creative freedom!” “IMAGINE THE HEXEN REBOOT!”. A world was created in which the very idea of being opposed to the deal was to be effectively opposed to fun, too economically left-leaning, or just a hater. It’s the kind of hearts and minds campaign that would deserve to be dissected for its effectiveness if it weren’t so existentially terrifying.
I'll try find a screen grab of the whole tweet but this was all I could find.
Basically. This guy was a wanker and ruined people's lives.
