Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all

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• callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  They’re really good at killing them though. I’ll never forgive the death of Ensemble.

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• mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But that is the whole point. You don’t buy studio to make games, you buy them to get rid of competitors.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And for Microsoft, to get a back catalogue to ensure your subscription service remains attractive.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    not always true, they clearly bought zenimax to make exclusive xbox games.

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    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Has Zenimax even released any xbox exclusives? As far as I know they’ve all been cross platform.

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• BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I'm not really all that bothered. Unlike movies, new start ups for making games happen a lot. When the greedy giants topple, like a forest something grows in the new patch of sunlight.

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  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I wish that was true, but funding has dried up across the entire sector and that affects the viability of smaller studios more than it does the mega corps with bottomless warchests.

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Still bugs me that Microsoft owns the rights to the King’s Quest series, though.

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  • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We probably wouldn’t have expedition 33 if Ubisoft gave people a reason to stay

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  • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i don’t believe the next video game collapse is going to be very pretty for anyone. also, most independent studios and developers make little to no money at all

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    • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      its only the big publishers that are going to crash, so nothing of value will be lost.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Personally I agree. I’ve seen way more startups kicking off with these waves of layoffs. It’s a silver lining, not much more, but I’m happy to see people finally realizing they don’t want the big tech solutions anymore.

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  • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean sure but just like with movies, the rights dont change hands very often, even if they’re not being actively used or the rights holder goes out of business. This means a ton of promising franchises either suffer by getting terrible sequels or no sequels at all.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Honestly no sequel is better. Dishonored is great, but i don’t want any sequel under the current Arkane.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All this to feed 545 insatiable hunger for another halo slop.

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• cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “You’ll have GaaS and you’ll like it.”

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Microsoft owns taco bell?

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• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why cancel Freelancer 2, Microsoft? Why?

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    From Crosspoint I heard that they even cancelled and shut down the studio making a game that Phil Spencer himself was said to have liked so much, they had to force him to quit playing their demo in a meeting about it. Not to mention the absolute waste of time and money on nearly finished projects that were probably going to sell well.

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  • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Quarterly profits.

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• who@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I look forward to the small new game studios that will surely appear as the big old ones are consolidated and/or dismantled.

  It’s disappointing to see things we like fade away, but as the sun sets in one place, it rises in another.

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Smaller studios have been consistently putting out good games as of late anyway. Indy and AA studios have the freedom to make fun things instead of having to check every box on a spreadsheet.

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