What’s healthy for the business long term isn’t healthy for the customer. Remember that.
Nor the employees, only the capitalist benefits
Right, because a healthy business consists of a sort of zombie corpse leech, not a symbiosis.
The little diner down the street where everyone has a good time every day? That’s not a healthy business.
It is very important that we twist the definition of every word to ensure people understand how bad capitalism is. Language and the ability to think is secondary to the great Revolution Take 25!
They want to ensure their business is working well, so they shutdown the parts that were working well, and left those that are failing miserably. Logic checks out
they got the IP, that’s all they wanted.
Don’t forget removing competitors! Gotta remove those competitors. That’s what healthy businesses do. /s
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Can’t you buy the rights to an IP without the attached studio ?
You can try, but people won’t be as thrilled for TES or Fallout without Bethesda, for example.
I would be.
FO5 is going to be a FO76 tier disaster. With the show there has to be a ton of pressure to crank something out the door. Microsoft’s folks are probably beating down Todd’s door. Bethesda has never really understood the series anyways.
If TES6 comes out, it’ll have 3 skills and ignore all established lore to turn an interesting and nuanced character into Bad Guy who wants to destroy the world for no reason. Admittedly normies really like this version of the series, so maybe it’ll still be wildly successful.
I can understand that, yea. But I know I would be! It’s high time something changes in that regard
Limp dick anti trust agencies approved this shit…
Like wtf am I paying taxes for here? So rich people get more of my surplus labour?
Yes
Bias confirmed
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She mispelled “investors will be happy next earning call”
Well, it literally says “business will be healthy” so yes that’s what that means
You see, our stock price goes up when we buy other companies and it goes up when we fire people. We’re doing both at the same time, so our stock price will go up double. This is a sustainable business model and not at all a very dead canary in a very deadly coal mine.
‘“You know, we’re a platform where you can play Grand Theft Auto but you can also play Palworld. Where you can play Call of Duty and can also play Pentiment. That doesn’t change,” she said.’ - yeah but now I can’t play HiFi Rush 2 :(
You will when Micropenis puts out the sequel full of AI gen slop.
Funny how they praise success these studios achieved before suddenly slamming the door shut and firing those people, but 343 has literally been fucking the corpse of Halo for 12 years now and you still funnel then millions of dollars to keep ruining everything.
Microsoft doesn’t need those studios, just the IPs.
They could sell the studio without the IPs, bring in some revenue, but it’s worth more to kill the studio than let it exist to compete.
You know what would be even better for the long term? A large variety of games with less bullshit. Suck it, Microsoft.
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I’m sure the studio employees feel the same way
Yes, the modern mindset. Murder the product, preserve the manager’s paygap.
Who’s taking bets on when they’ll buy the next studio?
After the fight they had to put up for Activision, it will likely be a while.
We got one for not in a while.
Who’s got anything sooner in mind?Activision wasn’t just a studio, it was a huge publisher with several studios, that’s why they needed approval from competition regulators. I doubt they will stop buying studios over this in the short-term.
Can’t have a healthy business without insane overcompensation of the c-suite and friends
Yeah this is bullshit. They wanted the IP’s and nothing more. Situations like this remind me of something that Marty O’Donnell said when that Bungie/Activision lawsuit happened. He said something along the lines of they have to own their IP’s because it’s the one thing a studio has that’s holds value.
