I agree with @MeachtheMonster

[Gizmo_Duck]

I’ve talked about this on here for over a decade now.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Spider-man is not trash and Insomniac still had to get rid of a whole dev team worth of people to make the budget for their next game make sense.

No one has been laid off yet.


edit: @Gizmo_Duck already said so

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Why do you keep repeating this when no one has even been laid off?

I can tell you and titan stay in those nasty xbox twitter spaces

Hey man, you can read.

By insomniacs own plans Wolverine needs 50-70 less devs than spider-man 2 to make sense.

That’s reality. I didn’t make it up.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

No one has been laid off yet.


edit: @Gizmo_Duck already said so

You dont know that.

You hope so, but it’s clear their budget doesn’t work unless they stop the out of control spending.

Why do y’all fight against reality with every topic??

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

No one has been laid off yet.


edit: @Gizmo_Duck already said so

these nikkas stan layoffs like microsoft the trillion dollar mega corp didn’t just lay off 16k people this year alone

Seems like gamepass aint the solution either

 

[MeachTheMonster]

these nikkas stan layoffs like microsoft the trillion dollar mega company didn’t just lay off 16k people this year alone

Nobody stannin anything.

I say “even the most successful studios are being pressured heavy to cut costs”


You say

“yeah Microsoft laying people off”

Yeah dummy, that’s my fukkin point. Costs are too high and people are getting the boot.

fukk wrong with y’all

 

[winb83]

pretty much every AAA studio is one flop away from death.

If you read some of the story’s from devs on these games, the human toll it takes to bring these games to fruition is crazy.

Entire industry gone have to do some soul searching. shyts gotten way outa hand.

Remember we all laughed at square for complaining about tomb raider being a “failure” cause it “only” sold 5 million copies. Some AAA games in 2023 need to sell 7+ mill just to break even.

It doesn't have to be this way. This is a decision the industry made. Nintendo has proven you can sell games and they don't have to have top end specs.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Nobody stannin anything

 

[MeachTheMonster]

No one disagrees with this

As you can see, some people disagree, even the nikkas that dapped you.

“It’s trash devs and suits that are the problem, as long as you make a good game the spending is just fine”

 

[Bryan Danielson]

No one has been laid off yet.


edit: @Gizmo_Duck already said so

This isn’t true


Mark Stanten who was a Jr Project Manager was let go


Same for Carl Leslie who was a Lighting Artist

And Corrie Ashken who was Designer


That’s just a few people.


@Gizmo_Duck is incorrect

 

[MeachTheMonster]

It doesn't have to be this way. This is a decision the industry made. Nintendo has proven you can sell games and they don't have to have top end specs.

It isn’t even just the specs.

Good graphics aren’t even that expensive these days. Lots of smaller indies are achieving amazing graphics on lower budgets.

It’s the hollywood production of everything. Need expensive voice actors, thousands of voice lines, dozens of hours of cinematics, long bloated stories in huge worlds. And each game needs to be bigger and better than the last.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Every game needs to be bigger and better.

I think microsoft jumped off this train a while ago

Forthcoming Microsoft Game Could Be In Development For A Decade

Documents made public due to the FTC investigation have suggested a ten-year dev time for a particular game.

www.thegamer.com

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Random cac tweet may or may not be true.

I know they majority of their games are not Starfiled in scope.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

It’s the hollywood production of everything. Need expensive voice actors, thousands of voice lines, dozens of hours of cinematics, long bloated stories in huge worlds. And each game needs to be bigger and better than the last.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Random cac tweet may or may not be true.

I know they majority of their games are not Starfiled in scope.

You don’t know shyt, microsoft doesn’t share any kind of financials about how much they spend on anything

As a result of the FTC's investigation into Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, certain details have been made public. Despite the specificities being redacted in order to safeguard Microsoft's business interests, we could guess at what some of them were. For instance, the wording of a particular line in the FTCs report suggested that a Microsoft studio is working on a game that may take a decade to develop (thanks TheEternalGazed on Reddit).

And the article is 100% true since it came directly from Microsofts own documentation