one-armed dwarf Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 FTC may file an anti trust to block MS's takeover of activision Maf said he likes turbulence, I guess he's loving this? 🤷♂️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 They'll just have to buy a shit load of small devs instead....🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Good on 'em, one of the biggest companies in the world shouldn't be allowed to buy one of the biggest gaming publishers, simple as, it's anti-consumer.. It does make me laugh how Microsoft continually try to sell themselves as the plucky underdog 😂 If they just knew how to market games, how to manage their (many) studios and how to make exclusivity deals with Publishers they wouldn't have to go after someone like ABK in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 11 hours ago, Nag said: shit load of small devs instead. I would much prefer this. Give me loads of small games on GP not just CoD & whatever shit else they make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 I think with Bethesda they've got enough developers, by this time next year they should have a packed release schedule 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmark Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 10 hours ago, DisturbedSwan said: Microsoft continually try to sell themselves as the plucky underdog 😂 They do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmark Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 I blame Sony. Spoiler 😘 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Bad times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 27 minutes ago, spatular said: Bad times Unless you've stacked Game Pass... in which case it makes no difference whatsoever.😉 I am thinking this is the precursor to a Game Pass price rise though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 They'll need to get some new flashy AAA stuff on GP before they do that Like when starfield comes out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Maybe when the Acti/Bliz deal goes through...😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 If the ABK deal goes through 😂 But yeah, Xbox has few AAA exclusives 2 years into the generation so it's not something I'll be particularly worried about lol, with GP you don't have to worry anyway really though, will just push more folks to GP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmark Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Nintendo lands Call of Duty in 10-year Microsoft deal I thought there was news on bbc about Nintendo Land when I was still sleepy and saw this half blind 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 FTC seeking to block the MS Acti Blizz acquisition https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/ftc-seeks-block-microsoft-corps-acquisition-activision-blizzard-inc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Ruh roh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 As Microsoft haven't done an official 2022 wrap up it's fallen to True Achievements to sort it... You'll need a True Achievements profile for this though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Thanks for the heads up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 After having pretty much zero interest in Redfall I'm actually looking forward to hearing more now it's been said it's more Far Cry than Left 4 Dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 There's more news on layoffs the other day, Microsoft laying off 10000 workers. Bethesda and 343 impacted. https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-job-cuts-18fe0c9b8c9ff856e932e075161b1f43 This has been the general trend across tech as the covid19 tech bubble rapidly deflates. Lots of companies made overly optimistic assumptions about the growth potential they had (Meta), or if you look at it more cynically they just wanted to make hay while the sun shined, and not consider the impact to individuals (this is what I think) What's uniquely interesting to the MS story from a gaming perspective is the reliance on contractors to get through Halo Infinite's development, and the tech debt cost caused by the amount of churn that went on at 343. These tenures were short, 18 months on average, you're not even operating at peak velocity in a lot of that time due to having to figure out the tech stack you're working with. (this is an old tweet, I took it from this resetera thread) https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-to-lay-off-10-000-employees-between-now-and-march-31st-343i-bethesda-game-studios-and-the-coalition-among-impacted.676924/page-15#post-99924304 Contractors don't get the same amount of benefits as permanent employees either. Whoever the decision makers are in that situation, they seem pretty stupid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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