Just making one mega thread for all this stuff. Since there is so much to it and it is impacting both Xbox and PS, as well as multiple studios.
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The Roach King is right. Like how can any of these studios or Xbox/PS be shocked by all these layoffs and all this wasted money? What did you think would happen when you spent millions of dollars on video games fewer than 30k people ended up playing? There or dozens of titles like this, many of them not even reaching 5k players.
You don't need to understand the economy to understand that this is not sustainable. And I know a lot of these people will say "This is cause gamers are racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. etc."... Well no, actually. DOOM The Dark Ages had none of this crap in it. No female lead, no forced non-white characters, no modern audience signaling... And yet it's studio is laying off half of their staff.
www.engadget.com
These studios take YEARS to release new titles. They try to play into trends that are working at the time of production but by the time the games are released, people are sick of these trends. Both Sony and Microslop are still chasing the Fortnite dragon too when it comes to live service BS. We have ENOUGH LIVE SERVICE GAMES. Just STOP!
CAPCOM is a good example of mostly avoiding all this crap and they are making bank. So much so, they aren't laying people off at their studios, they are getting raises.
Uggg... I could probably rant on this crap for an hour but I will leave it at that for now.
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The Roach King is right. Like how can any of these studios or Xbox/PS be shocked by all these layoffs and all this wasted money? What did you think would happen when you spent millions of dollars on video games fewer than 30k people ended up playing? There or dozens of titles like this, many of them not even reaching 5k players.
You don't need to understand the economy to understand that this is not sustainable. And I know a lot of these people will say "This is cause gamers are racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. etc."... Well no, actually. DOOM The Dark Ages had none of this crap in it. No female lead, no forced non-white characters, no modern audience signaling... And yet it's studio is laying off half of their staff.
Doom developer id Software is reportedly losing half its staff - Engadget
Amid shakeups at Xbox, Doom developer id Software is reportedly losing half its staff.
www.engadget.com
These studios take YEARS to release new titles. They try to play into trends that are working at the time of production but by the time the games are released, people are sick of these trends. Both Sony and Microslop are still chasing the Fortnite dragon too when it comes to live service BS. We have ENOUGH LIVE SERVICE GAMES. Just STOP!
CAPCOM is a good example of mostly avoiding all this crap and they are making bank. So much so, they aren't laying people off at their studios, they are getting raises.
Uggg... I could probably rant on this crap for an hour but I will leave it at that for now.
