A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…….You used to be able to pick up any gaming mag or go to any site and see real objectivity. Multi-year delays would bring calls of vaporware instead of calls of "be patient". A mediocre title would be given a review score of 5 not 8. Titles, such as Haze, would have had the stamp of mediocrity before launch, instead of being hyped right up to the point of release. At some point in the past 8 years gaming journalists stopped objectively covering the gaming industry and started becoming it's advertising arm
Companies, particularly public companies like Microsoft, need to grow.
i mean its pretty simple, they spent close to 30 billion in acquiring activision, they thought they'd make it bk no problem, and that didnt happen.
its just shit that because of MS's miscalculation alot of people lost their jobs.
They are going to use AI for a large portion of the game development process. Upper management need bonuses and the shareholders need more money. So, people will lose their jobs.
They shouldn't have bought any studios. Some is okay...but they went on a shopping spree...stupid
The better question is why did Microsoft buy publishers for a service they were subsidizing they knew couldn't support.
And why are so many websites trying to make people feel sorry for Microsoft instead of truly criticizing the fact they are closing studios and killing jobs that would have been fine if Microsoft themselves hadn't gotten involved.
Quit feeling sorry for Microsoft and start feeling sorry for the industry and the all the gamers who are actually losing out.
THIS IS MICROSOFTS FAULT.
The first thing that happens after any major acquisition or merger is a consolidation of the whole new portfolio, which includes cutting any excess, bloat or portfolios that don't fit the larger MO of the big boy. So far, it's been par for the course with Microsoft and that's why gamers have been so against this acquisition. Tango Gameworks is the beginning. You think Microsoft wants to pay to keep small timers like Ninja Theory in business?
There is absolutely zero evidence to suggest that Microsoft will improve any of these studios, but plenty to suggest that they will get rid of what they don't need and hold onto the IP. The real agenda of the acquisition was always to acquire The Elder Scrolls, Diablo, Fallout, Call of Duty, Candy Crush etc. that will create millions in passive revenue stream for Microsoft regardless of where the games release. Microsoft simply wants their cut.
Because of Games Pass Microsoft has no interest in investing in new IP which is risky and requires creative talent they can neither nurture nor manage. Game Pass has also not grown in the way Microsoft expected it to, even post acquisitions. Therefore the logical thing to do, without serious money makers to release, is to cut as much cost as possible.
Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.
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I tell it at is it is XD
thank god 1up is gone.
smaller site reviewing games they are even worse then some of the big sites their bias is own whole another level like bitbag they call out fanboys but they are fanboys them self wtf
Gamong journalism is in the toilet. It suffers from all the problems of mainstream media and manages to shoehorn in extra little foinles of it's own. When 9 out of 10 sites appear untrustworthy it's time to start over.
Many sites just seem to look at what the others are saying and then repeat it so we're denied any variety of opinion. That's with out getting into why some mags/sites seem to have a favourite platform(which could be down to anything from stylebook poligy, who ads the most on their publication, which country they're from to the worry that a certain company owns/co owns their site or writers are fanboys with qualifications-it all happens))or a bias against another to the point of spinning story after story and unfairly belittling the efforts of devs that dare to support a platform other than the one they cherish.
If we, as readers and gamers dopn't get the truth everyone loses out. We don't ever lnow , really, whats best and the sites/mags lose credibility. Also as a prtty young media subculture we tend to have some writers not big enough(but full of their own importance)to fess up to errors and publications not brave enougn to stand up when the big publishers demand scores/reviews of a certain level.