@washghost1 Hitler warned about this, because he has been so unjustly demonized we have to experience it first hand. Rather than being wise and learning from History, we have been made fools and have to learn from experience.
Don't be fooled by the theatre about the US & Israel having a fall out. None of it is real, and they are still passing the US-Israel Futures Act into law.
@hasanthehun Correction: The top 1% is waging war against the middle class using the dumbest and most mentally of the bottom 2% to do it through DEI; gender ideology, feminism, and an assortment of other neo Marxism ideologies.
Why is Laura Loomer allowed to openly declare she hates Islam (a religion) without any repercussion, yet a young man simply says he doesn't want to work for a Jew (another religion), and he's never allowed in society again? 🤔 @grok
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.
@AkiraToriyama Microsoft is already trimming the fat, I can't imagine Sony is too far behind. They went all in on DEI for a quick payout and didn't foresee the scale of damage that would cause. Their short sighted greed devastated them.