Xbox to lay off 650 employees

Zzero

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More redundancy being removed. That's pretty sad that this happens. I assume MS knew they would do this when acquiring Activision/Bethesda. Is there anyone left? They just laid off 1900 earlier.

Isn't this part of that?

Anyways, I've long said that MGS would get a cut this year to mirror the A-B and BGS cuts. If anything I was expecting two studio/ team closures, and maybe that still happens. But how do you have 650 non developer jobs to cut in a gaming division anyway? What do all of these people even fucking do?
 

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Damn, the town i live in don't even have that many people. They just fired like 2 whole towns.
 
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More redundancy being removed. That's pretty sad that this happens. I assume MS knew they would do this when acquiring Activision/Bethesda. Is there anyone left? They just laid off 1900 earlier.

Again 🤣 find it hard to feel sorry for Devs that cheerleadered this acquisition
 

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Time to announce the Concord 2nd launch tonight at midnight, no one will know and so no bad PR 😎

The longer i go without it, the more I remember how great the game truly was. sigh......

Loved it for the outsmarting gunfights. What a shame. Unless its brought back looking different, then hell yes.

Lets take it to the Concord thread before we get jumped lol…


 

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Microsoft is on a roll:
  • January 2023 - 10000 in the whole MS, part of it affecting gaming in studios like 343 or Zenimax/Bethesda
  • July 2023 - 276 (customer service, support, sales, maybe not in gaming)
  • January 2024 - 1900 in gaming
  • September 2024 - 650 in gaming

I remember that when announced the January 2023 layoffs the MS execs were getting a private Sting concert in Davos (World Economic Forum)



"Feel the burn"

As a joke is fun, but whoever had the idea of posting the 'feel the burn' post back then deserved to be fired. They have to be empathetic with their coworkers.
 
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Microsoft has the media by the "pussy" so no one made a big deal out of it when it was released. All the fake outrage will vanish and PS5 Pro will be hard to get. I'm preordering as soon as it's available to preorder here.
same deal with the PS Portal tbh, most people were skeptical but the media was absolutely going ham trashing it. Someone needs to talk about how the media's own stand is sold separately cause they certainly act crooked by themselves