Niggas was making all them Connor McGregor edits with clips from a decade ago just for that nigga leg to get turnt into fish filet 3 seconds into the fight I’m crying son
I’ve lost followers over this take, but it’s the truth
People deserve jobs based on merit and results—not ideology
While it’s sad whenever anyone loses their job, and I’m sure some talented people got caught up in the Xbox cuts, many of those let go were part of teams that helped drive billions in losses
If you’re consistently underperforming, delivering poor products, and costing the company massive amounts of money, you shouldn’t be surprised when they make changes
Microsoft isn’t a daycare.
It’s unfortunate to see people lose their jobs and I hope they land on their feet. But can we stop pretending years of weak results and failed projects were acceptable?
“Oh it’s fine, your performance only would have bankrupted most other publishers and cost every single employee their job. You still deserve to keep yours.”
Making bad games, ignoring the audience, destroy reputations, and destroying value are valid reasons to be let go. Xbox’s real mistake was moving away from merit-based hiring toward race, gender, and ideology-driven practices. We’re now just unfortunately seeing the very predictable and predicted results