I legit laughed out loud at that. That is hilarious. Of course it'll bite them in the ass, but in the short term it's literally more important that AI look like it's cutting job than actually cutting jobs

"Perceived opportunity presented"

Shareholders keep saying AI at me, so now I gotta do something. Sorry guys.

That’s almost as bad as Doug Herrington, head of Retail, saying they needed to fire people to keep costs low for customers.

Mostly they bought or founded studios that didn't produce a product. They bought the Killer Instinct devs, Double Helix, who mostly have now left and formed Quarter Up Games, working on the new Invincible Vs game. They put out a hero shooter called Crucible that launched and was quickly shut down. Their biggest success has been New World, which is a moderately successful MMO. They also forked CryEngine into Lumberyard, which found some favor in the market. Other than that, they've got some co-publishing deals, including for an upcoming Tomb Raider game, which may now be in jeopardy.

Yep, frankly I am amazed Twitch still exists at this point, given how server demanding it is, and how it is s constsnt clusterfuck of incompetent messaging that regularly produces quite bad PR.

I very much would not be surprised if they went to some kind of 'yeah you have to pay a monthly subscription to watch more than 5ish hours of streams in a month, and you also watch ads' kind of model.

i still dont get why people are so upset about shock collars on dogs. fuck hasan cuz he supports terrorists, but the shock collar thing aint somthing id hate him for

Dont think this has anything to do with how their game was going. Either that or this was already planned since a couple of months ago. New world recently gained a lot more players according to steam stats so it makes no sense to quit it now. Feel sorry for the devs even if the game wasn't for me (never played it).

Nowhere near it.

The "corporate roles" are likely a case of downsizing after building out infrastructure and policies/protocols. A LOT of companies are doing it these days. They staffed up for a project, finished (or pivoted) the project, and now have full time staff that they don't actually need. And rather than work on new efforts they just look for an excuse to purge the because they know they can rehire for the next big push. Ironically, that is a model that had a LOT of use in video games in the days before DLC.

And the warehouse jobs (what this is to "distract" from) are about attempts at automation. Which... okay, it is really hard to do worse than the grossly incompetent, and yet STILL horrifically underpaid, staff they already have so that will probably actually be a net positive to consumers. Which will, in turn, result in rapidly hiring back that staff when the warehouses all collapse because they got an extra shipment of SD cards and had nowhere to store them.

As it relates to gaming, no. This is a large company who thought they could muscle their way into a very competitive market and then found that they very much could not.