I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs.
My “Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand” statement isn’t aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month.
I’m saddened, but I can’t muster anger or outrage over it. I don’t have access to the books, but I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft’s perspective. I believe the reports that Minecraft revenues have been carrying several other studios.
To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved.
Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal.
You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games.
Could they have gotten more with a different pricing strategy?
Could they have created more things for fans to buy?
Could they have cost effectively marketed in a way that reached more players that would have loved and bought the games?
Could they have changed the game designs and broadened the appeal to more players without alienating existing ones?
Could they have produced the games at a lower cost, faster or cheaper?
I really don’t know.
The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through.
Jon Bernthal reveals he will say “Let me tell you something” in ‘THE ODYSSEY’.
“You could watch hours of me just saying that [online] but it is in every script!”
(Source: @CBR)
Dear @FA, can we invite Mexico for a Wembley friendly, please? Outside Azteca, England fans swapping shirts with Mexicans, England fans and Mexicans drinking and singing together. Mexico been wonderful hosts. Be great to see them and their fans at Wembley. Not been since 2010.
Lo mejor que pudo haber pasado en este mundial es haber presenciado el karma cayendo sobre Ecuador, y lo mejor es ver las excusas que están poniendo todos post-partido, como si hubieran estado en cancha jajajajaja
En Inglaterra ves a medios, aficionados y ex jugadores decir lo difícil que será México, la altura y lo que pesa el estadio Azteca.
Tuchel y Harry Kane diciendo que será una de las pruebas más grandes que enfrentarán
Y hace tres días tenias a ecuatorianos, sacando chapa de CONMEBOL donde son la segunda peor selección de la historia; minimizando todo eso por tener tres jugadores en la élite por primera vez en su vida y decir que iban a ganar fácil cuando jamás le han ganado un duelo importante a México 😭