Microsoft is laying off 1900 people across its Xbox, Activision and Zenimax teams

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

what's happening there?

A bunch of white people with blue hair highlights and septum rings are getting emotional about a bunch of video game companies that they care entirely too much about because they are absent the love and respect of other human beings.

Basically what's always happening there. I don't have to look at the site to tell that.

 

[The Mad Titan]

@The Mad Titan said he wants microsoft to buy 6 more publishers. He loves this type of shyt.

Make stupid post breh, you and the clown crew who dapped the post trying to play both sides of the fence.

 

[Diondon]

Microsoft need to be content with windows/ windows software/ cloud and AI.

Nothing else has worked out for them

They're swagless lames

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

This the part where gamers fake caring about company layoffs?

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Resetera bout to fukk around and ban more people than MS laid off

Some real mutiny going on in that thread lol

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I think there's a niche for them with subscription games, but it'll be a loss-leader that they package with the subscription services they want to push that actually make them money.

They should get out of hardware, though. I love the OG Xbox and the 360, but those are by far the best hardware successes they've had, and no other current console producer would consider either of them a success on their terms.

Yeah, essentially the same thing amazon does wiht prime/prime music/prime video

Or what netflix is doing with gaming

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

That dude's name is Booty?

 

[5n0man]

Make stupid post breh, you and the clown crew who dapped the post trying to play both sides of the fence.

You literally said exactly what I posted.




L

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

That dude's name is Booty?

Its like how Doug Bowser knew one day he would be president of Nintendo.

Sometimes the names spell out your destiny

 

[Rekkapryde]

This is one of those, "Until you work in a office, you don't understand." deals for Gamers.

Anytime a big purchase happens, there is going to be re-organization... 'fat' will be trimmed... teams will be lost, and new teams will expected to fill the void; with some of them not even familiar with what they need to do, and the people they need to talk to are gone.

Shareholders need to feel confident that this move will synergize and all the fancy shyt to keep them invested, else the stock drops.

For these young folks, who thought their jobs were safe after this, this a sudden wakeup call to show how expendable you are.

The only good thing I can say, was that this wasn't a... "Come to the Auditorium for a Special 15minute Musical Chairs" edition in which you see HR, and they point to a door telling you, "When I call your name, go through that door and we will escort you off campus as we are terminating your employment now." as that shyt is fukking awkward and stressful.

My current employer is a smaller supply chain company but is private. I love it here because I'm not a number working for a huge or bigger corporation as I did in the past. No shareholders to adhere to and I can walk in the company owner's office anytime I feel like it. Only 2 levels below him.

I'll never work for a large corporation again. Rather do a smaller joint with lesser corporate overhead/bs to deal with.

A corporations first and really only priority is satisfying their shareholders. That is it. Don't believe all these goody bullshyt stories and PR they tell. Especially American Corporations. Everything in our country is about a dollar, damn how you get it.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Some real mutiny going on in that thread lol

ResetEra became everything people hated about NeoGaf but 100x worse.

Site is an embarrassment.

 

[Instant Classic]

My current employer is a smaller supply chain company but is private. I love it here because I'm not a number working for a huge or bigger corporation as I did in the past. No shareholders to adhere to and I can walk in the company owner's office anytime I feel like it. Only 2 levels below him.

I'll never work for a large corporation again. Rather do a smaller joint with lesser corporate overhead/bs to deal with.

A corporations first and really only priority is satisfying their shareholders. That is it. Don't believe all these goody bullshyt stories and PR they tell. Especially American Corporations. Everything in our country is about a dollar, damn how you get it.

Working corporate for most of life and everybody is just a number. I've seen it all where they'll legit on the same die let go of a whole department, tap on shoulder after a meeting that they're getting laid off, letting go of people after a leave, managers that were bootlickers getting sacked when performance wasn't as high as it should be. The corporate world is cold and heartless

 

[ItWasWritten]

Coming soon from PS new multiplayer AAA studio, The Duty to Call

 

[ORDER_66]

is anyone here so surprised MS was gonna can these guys anyways after they bought these companies...