• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    4 hours ago

    Microslop is incapable of not strangling the things it acquires impulsively and obsessively, there is no plan just chaos with cycles of culling.

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      Remember back when it was basically just EA that was notorious for killing every studio it acquired, via ungodly incompetent management?

      Now its just the industry model… do everything you can to have to most idiotic people managing everything.

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        Honestly a big part of me thinks “good riddance, let these big corporations trying to enshittify the video game industry all die” but then I think about how no matter how cool indie game companies are, they can’t fulfill the same role for entry level video game developers and artists or for video game developers and artists who want the consistency of a stupid large game development company so they can start a family…

        I find it really frustrating most video game fans are naive as hell about this shit and only seem to react with “Yeah, let them all collapse, fuck them!” like yeah I get the vibe but look at the impact it is going to have.

        I love indie games, I really really really really do I am such a weirdo finding weird video games makes me feel human and grounded, but I can also see how the boring, predictable consistency of large game studios play a different vital role in the video game industry even if I don’t buy games from these companies myself.

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    Following the release of the memo, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said “there’s more monetization of Xbox games happening on YouTube” than at Xbox, adding that the Xbox team needed to figure out how to “innovate both in hardware, as well as in the games, going forward in an economically viable way.”

    “No one can accuse Microsoft of not having invested for the last 25 years,” Nadella added. “Now, we have to turn this into a sustainable business that delivers what is fundamentally one of the best sources of entertainment, still.”

    We didn’t know what were doing and throwing money at it didn’t help, so now we are going to cut money off completely, this will definitely help

    Also, fucking ign redirecting me to a regional version, will always open it in IronFox from now on. I probably should open everything there anyway

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      “No one can accuse Microsoft of not having invested for the last 25 years,”

      Coulda fucking fooled me tbh.

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    Fucking Microslop! They really try to destroy gaming for everyone.