Micro$oft is like the new EA. This is the exact same shit EA did 10 years back when they bought up dozens of studios, milked the shit out of them, and then closed the studio so the executives could get bonuses. Now EA has like, 5 studios that make games while the rest got gutted for the IP and then taken out back with a gun.

Of course they wouldn't mention it, to Microsoft they were just numbers on a spreadsheet, not people.

I get a feeling MS doesn't want to be in the game production/publishing space anymore. They see bigger growth opportunities elsewhere. I personally believe that it's a big mistake and the ai bubble will cost them dearly, but chasing very short term profitability has never hurt an executive.

Microsoft‘s fuckery continues. Glad I ditched them.

Truth is they have increased their yearly evil quotas, so now they have to find new ways to fulfill then

The Mafia shit continues with no repercussions because governments nowadays are by the corporations and for the corporations.

I feel a bit of shame that back in the Win7, Xbox Series S era of Microsoft I was sort of cheering them on as an underdog in several markets.

But it does seem like every large company is driving these zero sum efforts now. Anyone that high up is chomping for workforce reduction.

If larger-scale changes don’t prove possible, I still want Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism act as a way for majority workforce in a company to declare “No, this way is insane, fire whoever suggested it” earlier rather than later.

Microsoft probably were thinking "He's just making another Daikatana, anyway."

Tell em when they get back to their offices this way the issue takes care of it self! Scumbags