No it wouldn’t matter it wouldn’t bring in enough profit to offset their 100 billion dollar acquisition. It would maybe delay the inevitable by some months.
This absolutely does NOT happen all the time. Let me know the last time 1 company with a terrible product track record spent 100 billion onto acquire MULTIPLE successful companies in under a year only to shut them down and stop making their products regardless of how successful they were. Not merge them, completely shut them down.
And you can’t use Microsoft in your example.
Not true when it comes to mass layoff do your research.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
“Your game has won some pretty significant awards and is a show piece for where we want to go in the future.”
1 hour later.
“We’re gonna have to let you go. You can’t cover our 100 billion dollar acquisition. Oh and take your awards too 👍🏾”
Yessss put COD on gamepass and destroy its worth. Keep being dumb Microsoft we love it!!
This means no matter how successful a game is and sells it will go into the black hole of debt gamepass and acquisitions have created. Fucking insane they didn’t see this happening. Even COD money would be a drop in the ocean of massive debt they’ve just incurred.
All they’re doing is paying Microsoft. Nothing positive comes from this.
We need a class action lawsuit for these layoffs.
Lies. Phil said gamepass is profitable. He never lies.
he just clarified that game pass is a fucking Ponzi scheme.
I’d like to see your reaction to being growing pained out of your job after the launch of a successful product.
How f*cking small do you want’em?? U just got rid of HiFi Rush, you gonna put Jumping Sandwich turbo on the next E3???????
That’s essentially the same thing. Look at rare.
“Shut it down.”
What was the point of these mergers to take the ips and destroy them?
Yea ok.. Microsoft is no different than the 360 era eh… what in tarnation have u been smoking to not only come to that conclusion but to consciously post it publicly.
Fired??? Lmfao yea ok, he got a raise for “Figuring out” a way to raise “profits”.
If you want to change you have to speak with your wallet. It’s as simple as that.
First few hours??? How about the first 130 hours according to the developers. Need to get past 130hrs to start enjoying the game.
11th best selling game doesn’t mean much without raw numbers. It’s actually quite terrible given the game was in development for 25 years. 11 place doesn’t sound like it’s getting them out of the red for 25 years of dev costs, just an overall underperforming title.
“ In addition, Square Enix will also pursue a shift from “quantity to quality” as its medium- to long-term philosophy.”
I got downvotes for saying this was the reason. Apologize to the masta.