What the HELL is Going on With XBOX?

So...Microsoft has done something quite rash.

[illWillienumber]

People making gaming decisions that don't actually play and enjoy gaming.

[zacharron]

The corporitization of gaming makes me sick to my stomach.

[joalnith]

Step 1: Observe success in an indie dev. Step 2: Buy indie dev. Step 3: Meddle with "indie dev's" games. Step 4: Close studio effectively squashing competition. Step 5: Profit.

[Good_Username]

This is the result of overqualified executives that have 5 different degrees but have no idea what they are doing and only see numbers

[ThatBlackGuyGuru]

It’s insane how these studios closed when 343 is still active and has yet to make a good halo game.

[nimblesloth]

I love these rants by Falcon. He ranges from "disappointed dad" to "You are just embarrassing".

[SupraSav]

As soon as these entities start talking about "investors" and "stock market", don't buy anything they make

[eazyevangamer]

I told everyone these mergers wasn’t good for gamers but all those Xbox people called me a hater, but in the words of our good friend Todd Howard “who’s laughing now”

[Azrael]

They've lost their guiding light. They are not the same company from the 360 era.

[jettblade]

I think the biggest issue is that people that don't make games are making decisions about how to make games. That is a huge problem almost every where. I used to work stocking shelves at a grocery store. I was told by someone who has never stocked shelves on how to stock shelves and how long it should take me. I was told to run 150 items in an hour and it should take me no more than 6 hours to run my truck. I averaged about 250 items an hour but it took me 10 hours to run my truck. See the person that told me how to run the truck was expecting the truck size to be about 600-800 items. My average truck size was around 2000 items. I got into trouble because "You should be able to do the truck in 6 hours" even though my truck was about 3 times bigger then the average. When I adjusted my truck to fit the schedule I got in trouble again because "You shouldn't have to adjust your truck. The computer knows best. Also you can't adjust the computer numbers because someone who doesn't know the actual traffic of your store made the program.". I ended up quitting, I was there for 10 years. Heard that the store struggled for a few years to keep someone in that position. That is what happens when people that don't know the job makes decisions about that job.

[testoftimegaming]

They dropped out of the console war without making it official

[iamskyfall]

Hi Fi Rush was shadow dropped on a subscription service with ZERO marketing and Xbox still has the gall to say it underperformed. Like what the hell did you expect?!

[thebigbarbosa]

Unsubscribe to Game Pass now! It's at the core of this problem. Buy AA games you love and support. Vote with your wallet. It's the only way to stop it.

[yammybobo]

there is a special place in Hell for Suits...

[schyracollbrande]

I still remember Electronic Art (EA) bought Westwood and shut the studio to the depths of hell. In memories of Red Alert.

[shivamkhichar]

Bad corporate people: force single player studios to make live service game
Game studio: makes it (not so great cuz its not their thing and they don't even like it)
Game: fails(what did they even expect?)
Bad corporate people: studio bad>close it
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[TheAkbobby]

The pictures of developers you showed look like they’ve never played a video game.

[kiriuxeosa]

They made a new controller for the new games you'll never get to play!

[ThePhysicalReaction]

they'll try everything they can to make money, except make good games

[Zhaineification]

It actually blows my fucking mind. "So yeah we made a successful product, we made profit, but yeah nah fuck it shut it down"