Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Xbox: ‘We have to turn this into a sustainable business’
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Fuck off. Microsoft’s entire gaming business model is:
- buy a profitable studio close to a new release
- round of layoffs
- brag about profits from the new release
- another round of layoffs
- force increasingly lower quality games to be released with more player exploitation
- allow a high quality game to be released
- celebrate profits
- layoff and close the studio
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
Its like they think we don’t see all of this. Why would we trust Microsoft at all? I’m saying this as a long-time Xbox fanboy, I was on board, I have shirts, I bought all the Xboxes, I defended them during the xbone era, and they still burned me. Your list is exactly right.
Why would I ever trust anything they made?
My spouse is playing Outer Worlds 2. They enjoyed the first, so playing the second. It is a fun game. It’s not amazing or groundbreaking, but fun. A solid sequel. Not everyone will like it but there’s a good following. How did Microsoft respond? They raised the price before it released to 80 fucking dollars (for what is solidly a 40 dollar game), they then backtracked to 60, still people refused to buy it at that price, they blamed the studio (obsidian) for lack of sales, and now told them they won’t make a third one because they just don’t see the demand.