Yup, when a big company grab you, they would like... "We are family, we are match in the heaven!"... and then the minute the bonus check is too small... "Sorry, turns out I was wrong, but since we own you now, we cannot release you, we will just wipe you off from the earth."

Just another way so the weirdos can pocket money from the devs I bet

Yet another reason not to sell yourselves to a major corporation. But what did these people expect when the game flopped so hard? They should have seen it coming.
Expect more studios to close in the not-too-distance future.

Well, they bought Bethesda because it was drowning. And whoever thought they bought them to save the people or teams, was wrong. They just wanted the IPs. That was the real deal.

Microsoft doesn't care about the studios it absorbs, or the people for that matter. It's the IPs they want, nothing else.

So Bethesda gets bought out and the developers at the studio are forced to publish a half-baked game. The game does horribly so now they are being shut down? The devs that made Deathloop, Prey, and Dishonored make one bad game and just like that...

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau