Xbox Reportedly Plots Second Layoff Wave This Week, with Blizzard and Halo Studios both in the Firing Line

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No chips, no ram, no SSDs. The industry found it’s foot and shot it.

  This is going to be like the housing crisis but more permanent.

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  • corruptrix@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s truly a sad state of affairs

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Got banned from reddit? You’re like the tenth new account I noticed today.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The war continues. XBOX under surprise attack by their enemy Microsoft again.

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They want Xbox to make a resounding comeback while also removing all of the talent from the studios. Cat’s out of the bag, we already know it’s not “14 layers of management” being fired, it’s everyone. They aren’t making the latest awesome Halo for the next Xbox, they want some sloppy sad corporate approved vibe coded cheap thing that they can ship with the limited number of new consoles.

  and people will still go buy it in droves.

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Feels like blizzard is actually doing really good with WoW right now, so this seems weird. Beta basically broke records

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• orenj@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Workers should just quit the AAA game industry. there’s no reason to work at a big corporation in this climate.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    let them eat cake!

    I’m sure all those workers own their homes freehold and don’t have any other financial obligations at all.

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    • orenj@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All the more reason to find an stable job that doesnt fire them after every release.

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  • DrCake@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And go where? The industry isn’t exactly booming. Plus you’d be competing with everyone that just got laid off.

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• tuckerm@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  While I’m glad that Hideo Kojima’s projects were picked up by Microsoft, and therefore the people at his studio will have paychecks because of that, it has to make these layoffs so much harder to take. MS just willingly picked up two projects from a guy who is chronically over budget, but they’re still doing layoffs for their existing employees.

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• TAG@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if the timing is affected by multiple Xbox studios unionizing.

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• ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yet somehow wow has retail, classic, progressive classic and now forever. Who the hell is still playing that game?

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  • DillDough@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Millions of people all paying a sub with many buying dlc and mtx.

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    • ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I don’t know why I said that. I’m just surprised that it’s still has a cultural impact after 20 years

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• RambleMuffin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gotta ome up with all that money burned on the AI clusterfuk somehow… why not fire people that actually make something to keep funding investor pipe dream going for another months! 🤦‍♂️

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