Joseph Staten, head of creative on Halo Infinite and cinematic director on the first three Halo games, is leaving Microsoft
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Who is even left? Pentiment guy, Todd and Tim Schafer?
The big CoD and Bliizard names already left ABK long ago.
If there's enough a trend of talent leaving all these same studios Microsoft are acquiring, I think that could be argued as a form of employee displacement driven by lack of confidence/satisfaction in their new owners, and could be used as a point in justifying blocking a M&A.
I mean think about it; if you're buying up these IP but the key talent behind those IP are leaving, then those IP are effectively devalued and dramatically increase their chance of losing revenue. Whereas the talent would have likely stayed without the M&A, those IP retaining their market value.
Now seriously: it's normal that from time to time some people leave, or some project always go wrong even in the best studios.
But in recent times many key top talent from Halo, Forza and Tango. There have been also hints that things at Fable or Perfect Dark let's say aren't progressing as expected. Seems there's some serious shitfest with their management.
Regarding CoD the big names don't need to leave, because they already left years before Phil Spencer decided to 'reevaluate their relationship with Acquisition due to the controversies' (a day or two after that mail he contacted Kotick and started conversations to acquire them).
Take this with a pinch of salt, serrano is the guy who would probably get his own name wrong.
As you said, I wouldn't trust Serrano to get his own name right.
That’s because, even after buying Zenax, Xbox just offers the same old shit, over and over.
Tim Schafer deserves better than this. Free him, Sony
If he said it it's probably wrong. A broken clock can get the time more accurately than that guy can leak something.
Well he is not going to leave xbox and then suddenly go back to xbox so either EA, Respawn will get good work out of him on BF even more so now since they are committed once again to a story campaign. Or one of SIE 1st party studios, and finally ofc independent.
No, he doesn’t. He’s been slurping green cock for many years at this point. Almost half of Double Fine’s releases were Xbox exclusives and the studio was founded with MS money.
That dude is a burnout his last game on PSN that i played had me jumping in and out of shit and i cant even remember the name of the game
StackingThat dude is a burnout his last game on PSN that i played had me jumping in and out of shit and i cant even remember the name of the game
Do you have a link about the seed funding?
The first Psychonauts was the first Double Fine project, as an exclusive for the original Xbox and the team was bullion after the concept was greenlit by MS. He built the studio based on the green light, so clearly it was on Microsoft’s dime. It only became multiplat after MS fucked him over and cancelled the game before Majesco stepped in to publish it on the condition it be ported to PS2 as well.
The fact he remained so cozy with MS even after that just shows how stupid Tim Schafer is.
You must be incredibly easy to beat at chess, with your absolute absence of foresight.
