Former XBOX management coddled game dev teams.
It was daycare for developers. There was basically no accountability to turn a profit. The bar was low: just break even, don't worry about profits, "try to win some awards." Game Pass subscribers numbers mattered more.
Jason Schrier reveals all this on his latest video.
His video confirms everything I've been talking about for years on Xbox. The unsustainability of the model, the folly of trying to be Netflix for games. The huge cost of the studio acquisition spree.
It should all go. This sort of softball game development is what created art games instead of gamer games. It's the same problem that plagues Hollywood.
They forgot that making a game for gamers was what it was all about.
They won't admit this. They will talk about a lack of demand, and changing attention spans and rising dev budgets. But all of this, it's just lies. Pretty lies designed to protect them from real introspection. If it were true, Asian, AA and Indie studios would not have taken their lunch money for the past 2 years. These studios are growing, profitable, launching IPO and hiring. Funny how these "market conditions" don't seem to affect them.
Instead we got endless contempt for gamers, DEI ridden games, and lectures about how we were not the audience anymore.
AAA can't admit what went wrong, and therefore has to go. There is no fixing things when you refuse to be honest about why things fell apart.
Bungie supported BLM.
Bungie supported Pride.
Bungie even released a statement on Roe v. Wade.
Bungie was more interested in becoming a political platform than a game studio.
It never listened to players.
And now, layoffs are reportedly hitting the studio.
@Grummz Total chud victory
Send every single one of these failed Hollywood writers and theater kids back to McDonalds where they belong
This is only the beginning, soon many of the other woke slop studios will be closed as well
Don't let activists and "artists" colonize our community
@GameCharacterAI GoW fans don't want to play as a perimenopausal woman who wields a purple ribbon and has sparkle powers. It's not what made GoW great. Millennial writing and talking cubes won't convince them either.
Woke studio Double Fine has addressed reports of its shutdown with simple emoji
Double Fine worked with Anita Sarkeesian on Psychonauts 2 and said her feedback helped the team “spot things they hadn’t considered and avoid unintended messages.” He said this helped them make the game better while keeping it just as fun and enjoyable for more people.
I hope Asha keeps shutting all these studios full of DEI.
Imagine how many millions and how much time they spent on this garbage. Xbox could have created so many good games with the DEI money.
@longislandviper No. Let it burn. AAA will soon be irrelevant with indie devs having access to better tech like Unreal 5 and newer AI tools. The same quality without the capex and overhead for the studios. Cheaper to make and cheaper to buy.
@DCFilmNews@homeofdcu It's a good thing. It will hopefully drive the gay woke rainbow slop fags out of business and we can get back to being entertained and not lectured to.