You don’t have to take your employers money but yet you still do. Same with companies who get bought out.
Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all
sampao@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Would be nice if the studios would stop selling themselves too… They don’t have to take Microsoft money
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Regrettably…they kinda do. At least for studios like Obsidian and Double Fine, the landscape has become very grim. They are studios of a size that is very difficult to keep afloat in this environment. Investor funding in the gaming segment has dried up post-COVID, and these kinds of mid-level (or higher) devs were very reliant on that kind of funding. In light of that, these studios may have seen Microsoft as something of a safe harbor. They knew these layoffs were always a possibility, but I think it was better for them than the alternative. Or at least, it was the best choice for the people leading these studios prior to their respective Microsoft acquisitions. The devs that are being laid off are not the same people that signed off on the acquisition.