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• CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And what goal you suppose one could achieve by laying off a studio which latest release was both financially successful and praised by the community, despite the fact that microsoft haven’t even bothered to promote the title beforehand?

  What goals might be achieved by breaking your flagship product (Windows 11) by making AI write its code, despite the problems with hallucinations and unreliability of the latter, obvious to anyone, who ever used it for any task more complicated than writing an email?

  You’re greatly overestimating corporate ability to strategize, while seaking for some hidden meaning where it simply absent.

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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    laying off a studio

    I am not informed enough about the market to make an informed guess. The game may take away mindshare from another game that is strategically more important.

    breaking your flagship product

    MS has embedded internet explorer into their os to justify bundling it. The quality of their OS is not their primary goal.

    With AI they have justified the need to record more data. That alone could be reason enough.

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    • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “idk, i’m uninformed, i have nothing to prove my thesis with, but all of that obviously can’t be a set of mistakes” — is basically what you’re saying. Why are you so sure, and why are you so keen on shielding Microsoft — one of the most bs corpos out there?

      The game may take away mindshare from another game that is strategically more important.

      Not only your guess is incorrect, it doesn’t even align with what i described.

      Let me try to explin it again: the last game of Tang Gameworks studio was Hi-Fi Rush. Its release couldn’t have possibly interfered with any other franchise Microsoft owns due to the simple fact, that it was released right after the very first announcement on the Xbox Game Show. Games that are presented on such shows, usually come out a month later at the very least. In other words, release window during any game show is always as free as it can possibly be.

      Your suggestion doesn’t align even if it was the other way around, as they released the game anyway. That was in january. The decision to close the studio was published in May. Again, despite the commercial success, which was achieved despite Microsoft’s genious PR tactic (aka radiosilence until the game release).

      The quality of their OS is not their primary goal.

      Their current strategy is to sell user data. If their OS lacks in quality so much, that it becomes buggy and unusable, like in latest update release, not only they won’t be able to collect the data because because the OS simply no longer works for users that had updated, but they’d also start losing their audience even faster than they did before, which means less data to collect and sell in the first place.

      To be a successfull databroker, you have to be able to not only capture a aarge quantity of people, but also withhold them. The longer hou’re able to do so, the better.

      With AI they have justified the need to record more data. That alone could be reason enough.

      *With microsoft copilot, their product.

      I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the fect that they force their coders to use ai, and this practice introduced so many bugs in production code, that now they reccomend their users to not update to the latest version of Windows, while hurriedly working on patches.

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      • plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Why are you so sure, and why are you so keen on shielding Microsoft

        I am not sure. That’s why I told you that I am uninformed.

        The question is if all billionaires are lazy ticks. MS and Ubisoft seem to be run like that. But even for them, we can’t be sure. The billionaires don’t reveal the real motives. Maybe the closing of the studio bancrupted a millionaire that Bill Gates did as a favor for another billionaire. It’s impossible to know.

        But some billionaires can be stupid. We need proof that all of them are to believe that Trump tricked them. Otherwise it’s more likely that they are tricking us with Trump.

        I’m talking about the fect that they force their coders to use ai, and this practice introduced so many bugs in production code,

        China will run circles around the US if the US doesn’t get AI running soon. To me it doesn’t seem to be a business decision but a service for the entire elite to create training data.

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