"If Sony could they would!"
But they aren't, the only ones that are are MS. You can make up hypotheticals until the end of time, it won't change the fact that MS is a negative on the gaming industry. MS is the one at fault
@Darth
Yes they are all in it for the money but MS is an outlier. Competing platforms to Xbox have add to the industry, MS just takes from it. All MS acquisitions have done is limit gamers access to multiplatform publishers and got workers fired. No new games are coming to Xbox from MS's industry consolidation but we know because of it games are being cancelled.
Corporations are not our friends but lets support the ones that make the industry better, ...
MS had the money to make games too but they decided on spending £80 billion to lock publishers away. From these publisher acquisitions we have no new games that weren't already coming, a big middle finger to gamers and the workers being fired.
So they should be.
MS has purchased two publishers stopped them selling games on their most profitable console platform and is now firing staff at those companies... but hey the right extremely wealthy people got even more wealthy, so screw gamers and the devs.
Every platform holder has managed to make the gaming world better by adding to it, MS is the only one I can think of that has made the industry worse for gamers and devs. Things are only going to g...
Wow I'm surprised this article got through as a certain mod has been taken down related news.
Isn't it good to know that while huge chunks of the workforce is being destroyed because of MS's industry consolidation, games being cancelled and Publishers being removed from competing systems so that MS, CEO's, shareholders and Bobby Kotick get nice fat pay-outs.
MS's has given a big middle finger to gamers and now to its own workers, thank...
"are you suggesting that had MS not bought these companies that no layoffs would have happened?"
A US Senator is, I'm agreeing. "Senator Warren took to Twitter to criticize the downsizing, reminding followers of her previous warnings against the merger. “I warned that this deal would hurt workers,” she wrote. “These layoffs are a stark reminder that corporate mergers are bad for workers. The FTC should keep up the fight to unwind this merger.”
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MS truly is the s**t that keeps s*****g.
I wonder what this game could have been? Blizzard need to flex their creative muscle a bit as I feel they are getting stale, thanks to Microsoft we'll never know.
Oh look, the thing that we knew was going to happen is happing. Yes MS is the giant pile of **** we knew it was and now you've handed a huge part of the industry to them workers are paying the price.
Gamers got screwed with the sale of these publishers and now the workers are too, but hey a handful of very, very, very, rich people got stacks more cash from this deal and shareholders will get a nice boost and that's the only thing that matters to MS. Isn't indust...
The results of industry consolidation, the only people that benefit are CEO's and shareholders... gamers and the workforce gets ****ed
I can see way more cuts in the short term too as parts of what where competing publishers in the industry merge, and lets not forget the introduction of AI, MS is set to be a big pusher of that.
Hopefully it'll mean all these publisher acquisitions that serve no one but shareholders and CEO's will be a disaster and make these "services" unviable because they haven't succeeded in forcing gamers onto a certain platform.
Xbox will still have the same amount of games as always, they've just removed competitions access to multiplatform publishers. They've just convinced you that removing games from competitors means you're getting more when the truth is because of MS others are getting less.
With Starfield sitting at 29% on Steam I don't think it should be included in any best list.
It's like they are told what to hate and they do it without question. It's embarrassing.
@Popsicle
Where is the evidence that Blackrock is doing this in gaming? No quotes, and no evidence have been produced from this article but it seems you can get people riled up about a secret global cabal without any proof.
This article is completely based off unsubstantiated opinion.
"Identity politics has gone FAR beyond US politics."
It truly hasn't in any meaningful way outside of client journalists chancing it, most people are laughed out of the room if they bring it up outside the US or a dictatorship. There are hundreds of articles on this very issue of the US's obsession with division through these means dating back decades.
So you think that if a dev studio wants to include minority/diversity but doesn't ...
@Foxtrot
"These companies go to studios to gain clients and if they refuse or refuse their ideas when hired they are baiscally made out they are being racist or whatever which in turn puts fear into publishers thinking “F*** if this becomes a PR shit storm then it might ruin our games marketing and launch. Twitter will be brutal and it might hurt our sales”
If they did that they wouldn't have any clients.
"At the end of t...
"Do not insult our staff."
But they are free to insult readers by posting unfounded opinion? If this is a industry wide issue please provide quotes from devs/studios that are directly being affected or stating that companies like Sweet Baby are hurting their games otherwise it sounds like inclusion is just upsetting you.
Identity politics is not gaming, it's US centric political platforming. They are presenting inclusion as a negative on the industry with nothing to go on outside of their own opinion, no interviews, no evidence.
"Most mergers have layoffs."
You just argued my point, and to why they are a negative and shouldn't happen on this scale. Xbox has no new games coming from these mergers but gamers on competing platforms now have two less publishers and the workforce from those publishers are paying the price with their jobs.
The only ones to benefit from this is MS, a hand full of CEO's and shareholders, everyone else loses.