Generally how big business works. That's capitalism, baby!

@@LabGoatsmore like corporatism

This whole situation with not just Microsoft but also Sony is giving me serious Outer Worlds vibes. :/

This is how I feel. It’s people putting profit over art, profit over enjoyment and profit over the hobby. It’s sad

@@MrSpartan993 Sorry, to disappoint you, but that is capitalism.

greedy jerks

It’s because they are greedy and don’t care about gamers anymore. I remember when games just had about four dlcs, at fifteen bucks a pop-now look at it

thats just the flow of capitalism my friend

dont worry indies and aa studios will pick it up and gaming will return to its niche it once was it will just be different studios at the front line.

@@JG-jq9nfthe flow of capitalism is supposed to be driven by competition through giving the customer the best value for their dollar. What we instead have is is mindless consumerism where gamers will complain that big corporate publishers make horrible games yet keep mindlessly giving these same publishers their money.

I don't see how killing your own studios 'squashes competition,' or results in profit. I mean, your own studios are not the competition, and laying those people off literally frees them to go work for the competition (or start new ones), at insane cost to you.

@@Christobanistan Expand your mind man. Before Microsoft bought them they were a competitor. After Microsoft bought them they’re out of a company and a job. The IP still belongs to Microsoft. It’s not my idea of a good strategy. But besides bad press Microsoft has lost very little and their ‘EX-competitors’ are fucked.

@@joalnith WHAT? That makes no sense at all. They're 'out' billions dollars, just to put a few people out of a job for about a second? And how valuable is an IP you now can't develop? Expand your mind, man.

@@Christobanistan Microsoft can always make sequels or remakes of those games whenever they want. The IP now belongs to Microsoft.

@@TrivedijiGames Yeah, cuz they have unlimited development resources. I used to work there as a dev; they are stretched thin. Also, you don't switch IP to a new studio easily after the original team is gone. No, this is just how Microsoft handles ALL its acquisitions. They fail because they have no integration strategy.

You have no idea how spot on you are.

@@Adam-pi8qv Except for the 'overqualified' and '5 different degrees' parts. I worked at MS several years ago and while there are a lot of smart people working there (and a crazy number of attractive women), none of them were executives. Those people were all bean counters, and they had far too much clout.

Right, imagine “Baldino” discussing this probably a dozen unfunny jokes among other cringe

just like my dad

after skype, linked in, RARE, mixer, to name a few companies micrtosoft mismanaged and ruined, xbox did best when they were more seperated, then xbox one introduced more integration with MS and they havent been good since

@@WhackedoutCookie Jake Baldeagle is great leave him alone

@@sarahjessicafarter7383 Jake is way too milktoast with even serious topics. Whereas Falcon is capable of being strongly worded *if* and *when* the situation calls for it.

I was thinking the same thing

I didn’t even think of that but that’s the real take away here. That’s pretty messed up

What are you talking about Halo 5 was great the campaign should of been longer with MC though

Bathesda is in the same boat. Haven't had a good game since Skyrim, 13 years ago.

It's because Halo is the company's presentation image, even if it's mistreated it's still worth it

More like "I told you so". Mergers now a days for the most part are bad for any industry. They do not make anything better, and only make things worse.

One of the flaws of capitalism.

Don’t worry. It’s not like the actual enthusiastic developers and creators and designers and writers have disappeared. They will likely continue to create. Let’s hope at least

Sounds like what's happening with Hellblade 2. Had no idea that was coming out so soon. Thought that was gonna be in like September. It's absolutely joever for them.

The Xbox marketing department is also staffed on the DEI principles. The math solves itself here.

That was tangos idea buddy lmao

​@@georgejones5019 "everything is DEI fault when I have a smooth brain incapable of critical thought."

I even bought a series s just for hifi rush! Granted I would've bought it on PS if it was there day one but still, they got my money and it didn't even matter lolol 😂😭

I had an admin job that became far too much work for me alone to do, and the manager was this is what your job description says you do, so why can't you do the (impossible) amount of work?

I'd like to note that you don't even have to have ever actually done the job yourself to know it or know what the reasonable expectations are, you can literally just watch your guys do the job for awhile and figure it out. Execs at companies are so fucking detached from gaming that they can't actually learn from mistakes because they're not actually looking at the job they're bossing people around about

I was working at a job at the airport and they were looking for managers. They always hire people that came from Best Buy and other stores who don’t have no airport experience. They show up with a power trip thinking they know more than us and usually they get either fired due to power trips or messing up the operation. We were protected by the union.

@@skrumbobumbo3279 Talk to people doing the job, talk to their managers, watch people working, hell you can hire people to watch them work and report to you to get ideas of things. The complete detachment from the actual workers is what makes front office types problematic, as well as a complete disregard for asking "Why?" If Jett's front office person saw it was taking them so long, instead of going "That's unacceptable" they could have asked "Why is it taking that long?" And then they would've noticed "Oh shit, they're working even more efficiently than we expected, carry on" Which is also an example of not using all the data at your disposal when making decisions.

Almost like serious intentions to ruin things

I thought the same thing. Not even pong.

Booty ran Midway games into the ground

They/Them 😂

And for you. You and this channel doesn’t get business. Y’all just idiots. You play games

That and they've let their 'golden egg' halo rot.

They replaced merit with 'diversity'.

I would’ve never imagined the failures of the one in 2013 would be remembered as the downfall that they could never recover from

Yea man, the 360, the biggest failure of all gaming platforms in the last 20 years or so. Imagine that..

​@radagast7200 please explain because outside of two women, the rest of the executive staff is white guys.

It's like buying a taxi company, telling them they're bus drivers now with no training then acting like it's their fault when they hit a lamp post going round a corner

the worse part is that the core of arkane austin quit the company over red fall. The company was dead man walking after that.

That one guy name is Matt Booty. He booty for real

​@@nexusvideohas anyone ever considered that maybe that's why they had to close the studio down? There was no core talent left.

Maybe Microsoft is thinking, if they don’t belong to us, and they’re doing well, buy them out, and then destroy their studio because we don’t like people who are doing better than us on a lower budget.

Rip fr

R.I.P. EA Big

Kane lives 🦉

Needs pinned tbh. Gamepass is a worse concept the best buy or red box. Both already dead. Let MS rot, they are killing the CIVILIAN POPULATION, by removing people's jobs, a multi BILLION dollar company actively just removing its workers for more profit less spend. They need to be removed from making, ANYTHING. MS needs to go.

I can't even play Minecraft with my kids without gamepass. Its a con

Xbox is too tied to Gamepass. It's too late at this point.

Been saying this for years. Reason why I never got the game pass. What for? It's just renting the games u don't get to keep. I rather pay for the games I really do play. R.i.p xbox

I don’t pay for gamepass but have it and I only buy from certain devs. They’re also not the only ones with problems. I also didn’t play most of those games either

Xbox are the most clueless though. For example they went ahead with the slim and pro before the standard console. Completely risking it all, ruining their chances of being up with Sony...I think they've given up.

@@laurenedney7 They propably gave up with their console sales but end of 2023 (after the activision-blizzard deal was done in october 2023) Microsoft's gaming division overtook Sony as #2 most valued gaming company by revenue (#1 is tencent). Sony has to fight apple now for #3 (apple is close behind sony). So it's not surprising that Microsoft lost the console wars but they still winning over all right now.

Tl;dr, Skip it! Got carried away :) I feel you and all but, Business, not charity. Netflix does the same. If a show isn't popular enough, abandon. No love or anything. I can be a little sympathetic to this though. They are on the top of the world. It's not like they are small fish and just trying to get by. I think there's a huge difference when you are a whale. More options are open to you and things can take unexpected turns. Let's be fair, you bought a service, say someone is to fix your balcony with a new roof and it was done poorly, it holds and all but ugly and shamefully done. Will you hire that company again or recommend it to anyone? Wouldn't you rather go and try some other company next time? Red Fall, would you really like to support it? Give the developers another chance? Imagine you have the money, you're not some small fish required to stick and try to make it work. You can move forward just fine without them. Would you still go for a Redfall 2, but a singleplayer game this time? Think about it. It could end up even worse than the first game. It could become a smash hit. Anyway, not here to start a fight or such, this is just my take on it. I can be plain off wrong too. I'm no expert. I think Microsoft regrets the purchase of Zenimax. Not worth the time and energy and the continuation of bad press. Which I think isn't good for the gaming industry either. Makes people more concerned about which games to buy.

It goes even deeper than that. Xbox has struggled to gain a foothold in Japan and Tango Gameworks was their only Japanese studio after the Bethesda acquisition. They've effectively killed their only way into the Japanese market for seemingly no reason.

​@user-bu7vb5tg6b what are you talking about? Xbox has made many attempts to the Japanese market, gaming exclusives, Dlc you name it. What was Tango gonna do for them?

This will end sooner or later, all succesful american studios will fail

If Microsoft and EA swapped names I couldn't distinguish between the two.

They all did it. Even sony. Sony just screwed over gamers in 170 countries.

Ea sucks

And here I am on ps5 and a Sony fan boy going 🙄🙄

​@craigsampson3386 well, i mean, most corporations are essentially owned by the same handful of people so, that's not surprising

Modern day corporate America unfortunately

I feel like that's the normal story for a lot of game devs. It's a similar story in software dev too, for a lot of folks. Anything remotely related to tech is suffering under the care of unreasonable people who don't understand what they're working on.

IT in general

That just sucks.

Happened to me, two months ago and having finished the job and had the customer complain I got blamed for "sabotage" (even though I'm a perfectionist) and let go for that reason it really hurts you deeply and ruins the industry for you as a whole.

exactly like who needed a dual sense edge when the only game you can use it to take advantage is cod lmao

Eh falcon was disingenuous. It’s more like buying a landscaping company where the previous owners had made them do aqua culture until 70% of the staff quit

That’s the frustrating thing. I never thought Xbox was dumb enough to do a EA and interfere in their purchases to the point that they destroy everything that was good. Once Todd Howard retires Bethesda are screwed

@@ironized how? Sure the shooting mechanics they use is decent but they were never considered good for them. The reason why Arkane was a good studio is because of their stories, to force them to make a game with little to no story is stupid. Sure live service games can have a story, but it always takes a backseat and Arkane only have decent gaming mechanics at best which 100% led to the fall of red fall.

@@eliteheadhunter830 yes and if they lost 70% of their staff that probably includes the writers. When a company loses staff it loses the best staff. The shit staff have nowhere else to go. It’s like a “skill distillation”. So after losing the 70% of staff that made good games, it’s effectively a new company.

@@j0nnyism if they lost 70% of their staff whilst working on red fall, the company you miss was already gone. You can blame Bethesda for this, not Microsoft.

I went back to MGS5... and I'm blown away by how much better games were just a few years ago.

​@@radagast7200Mainly because of Corporatism and DEI/wokeness, and this is coming from a center left Filipino minority that voted for Obama. I'm no MAGA Trump supporter.

@@JAF2991 I'm not sure how corporatism factors in. Games were just fine before under a corporate structure. But it is definitely DEI. That is for certain.

​@JAF2991 it's not dei, not saying it's a good thing but it's not actually a massive problem. The biggest problem is companies outsourcing work to contract workers, only to fire them 18 months later and then starting over again

@rewpertcone8243 it's definitely DEI. You can either have meritocracy or mediocrity.

I want to launch my own studio for this reason alone

I mean any corporation that's public and beholden to shareholders are basically forced to do whatever it takes to increase share values for the next quarter cause the business is secondary, please investors first...

@@myclamish Thus will be the down fall of capitalism

@@saakersnah bruh Become a billionaire and shareholder Do it for the gamers And future of games. You’re basically the top dog and can do whatever you want since they’ll answer to u from my understanding.

It's less shortsighted and more just what is for them personally most profitable. Which is anything that rises the stockprice. Buying IPs does that. Cutting costs also does it. So thats what they do. Sure for the corporation long term, for the consumers and for the industry all of this is terrible. But none of that matters to a modern corporate structure.

Jc, around what years did u work in the industry?

What’s wrong with it

​@@alwaysgaming000didn't earn it's hired for some arbitrary characteristic instead of merit.

Don't believe it.

You misspelled terwilliger lol

Someone sees

They’ve got a gold mine with FO76. Started playing 2 weeks ago now it’s all I think about

But he didnt say "it was a month ago" 10:45 - he clearly say "and this month...." So, what is actually your point?

@@arianoooamari6949 He literally did though. Re-listen to the timestamp you highlighted. He said “Just last month an executive said publicly that they consider that game a breakout hit by all conceivable metrics”.

@@arianoooamari6949 He literally did though. Re-listen to the timestamp you highlighted. He said “Just last month an executive said publicly that they consider that game a breakout hit by all conceivable metrics.”

He literally did though. Re-listen to the timestamp you highlighted. He said “Just last month an executive said publicly that they consider that game a breakout hit by all conceivable metrics.”

@@arianoooamari6949 He said just last month.

Two worst company’s ever it’s so sad to see state of gaming

They pulled a McDonnell Douglas - Boeing?

What games are we currently playing at this moment of time besides call of duty

@@willwilkinson8014 An exaggeration, but I get your point.

It's a virus, Activision is like T-1000

Capitalism in progress, carry on, nothing to see here

@@BdR76 Do you even know what capitalism is?

@@nadeauno he does not lol

@@nadeau How is this not 100% capitalism in action?

Capitalism is actually the most effective and efficient way to get the best product to market for the least amount of money. Do you really think if someone could open an amazing studio, with top talent, a comfortable work environment for less money and release games quickly they wouldn't? They'd make a fortune and monopolize talent. Of course they would. You have zero... zero understanding of market pressures and what that means. Obviously if someone could do it better for less they would. There is no profit motive to do otherwise. Take an economics and business class ffs. But go ahead, tell me I'm wrong.

Suspicious amount of female executives and all list their pronouns. The issue is obvious. Hiring based on diversity metrics.

You beat me to it.

Buying all the competition and burying them to create a monopoly is peak capitalism tbh

As Bob Iger recently said. IP mining.

Can’t really call it the Disney playbook when this has been happening long before Disney made any moves like that. 🤷🏽‍♂️

If you're "asked to leave," you don't have to. The incentive to leave like that needs to be big before you should consider quitting.

@@woofspider330 Unfortunately it’s not that simple. They have big lawyers to support.

@@ovigilante2k5Did you at least get a good chunk of money for compensation?

@@anabang1251 Yes

And everyone who cheered on the buyouts can thank themselves.

@@gavinhillick I used to work for MS this is par for course

@@joshbarker4953 I was particularly worried about Arkane and Obsidian. And as I type this I remember that they just ported two Obsidian games along with Hi-fi Rush.

And next will be Activision and COD

@@matthewcarter9790 Skyrim? listen, i hate that game but I'm also aware that I'm in an extreme minority when it comes to Skyrim.

Xbox is clearly winning that contest.

Uh I think Xbox has been winning that for the last several years.

@@drenks07 idk honestly. Once Xbox is dead and Sony is an Monopoly, we are back at the PS3 or worse days

​@@drenks07Well it's not like Sony closed all its studios in Japan, right.

What?? Sony makes little dumb type decisions like the require PC players to have a psn account....that is nothing compared to shutting down studios after buying them in a blatant way to just acquire their IP's to put on their gamepass....its disgusting and honestly they should be investigated for these practices

Playstation is no better. It's all of gaming right now.

The goal of a public company is to make money for it's shareholders. Not to deliver a product, or look after it's staff. It's to make the bottom line as big as possible. The execs are there to achieve that goal. You're right, they don't know what games are. Nor do they actually care. They only care about that share price. There will never be a publicly traded publisher that cares about the games they are publishing. Thank god for publishers like Devolver Digital who remain private. We need more of them.

It's like that in every industry. All that matters is the zeros at the end of your paycheck... But what can you buy when everything gets shut down?

But but but Phil Spencer wears a G@MER t-shirt so he must be a gamer!!!

Good thing she’s only Human Resources usually that’s the type of person who gets into HR

Thats sadly not how it works. Its the same at my job. The ones causing the mess are not the ones paying for it

They call it failing upwards.

@@zeb3050this right here!

​@@zeb3050 can i learn that kind of power?

Even if they get fired, they get to deploy their golden parachute. It's not like when people like us (or their developers) get fired. For them, it's like, "Hey. Here's a ton of money as your reward for failing at your job. Would you like a top level position at this other company so you can run it into the ground too?"

I think that says everything there needs to be said; it's been 11 years since the Xbox One controversies and they *still* haven't righted the ship. How much longer can the brand survive this, especially when GamePass is so successful and costs them a fraction of the operating costs?

​@@BAMFsheedude game pass IS NOT successful

@@KingJohnMichael How do you know? All of the reports say it was the hardware business that was bad, not the other stuff. Show evidence.

crazy how 11 years has passed, and the ghost of Don Mattrick still lingers around the Xbox brand, they have never been able to shake off the damage since that dreadful reveal conference..

You kidding? You still blaming Don for phills mishandling?

My thoughts exactly. Hence why I kept shaking my head while everyone else was celebrating the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard

same with uber and netflix

Exactly. They bought up the competition and let those newly acquired promotions die or just shut them down. It's monopoly shit and it can only happen with political corruption and a lack of industry regulation.

Funimation and crunchyroll

100% agree. Can’t compete, buy your competitor. Close them down. Jack up the price. Rip the kids off.

That was the golden age for sure

Ya Xbox Live Arcade was the SHEIT!! 💯🔥

That's what I was thinking too. Like the sentiment is still true, the massive praise to shuttering the dev in the span of a year is still insane, but it was 1 year vs 1 month

​@@joshw1565 haha I'm not judging the corporate decision, maybe there are things like deadlines, targets or working environment troubles there I don't know. I'm just pointing the mistake Gameranx did.

i also noticed it

Nope you gotta have 30 awards and 5 billion in sales with 40 Different awards for each individual employee who worked on the game and also have 3,000,000 in in game trophy’s from each console played by a employee then and only then will it be enough

Ahhh young one…. the phrase isn’t even close to new.

I noticed that too. The point he’s making still stands. On this topic, I think all gamers are generally in agreeance, so it’s probably not an issue. I trust Gameranx and I typically agree with all of Falcon and Jake’s takes, but for those who don’t there’s a risk of the content creator’s credibility to come into question when there are oversights on information like this.

​@@valdezjonesmedia lies to you, but it's ok the point is good?? Wow

Honestly it's more like yelling at a brick wall. They hear us they just aren't doing anything.

*Aaron Greenberg But yes, it was 2023, not 2024.

The date is on the screen as he says the wrong date. Kinda funny. But still 1 month or 13 pretty shitty

Microsoft is worst than EA.

@@Zalkova hell no it’s not. Have you ever played FIFA? EA is the greediest company in the world, Xbox is consumer friendly and GamePass is the best option for your wallet

Nah, not even close. Think of the bar like this in terms of scumminess: Microsoft < Ubisoft < EA EA's the final boss

Microsoft tried devouring Activision Blizzard, but became Actiblizz.

@@ZalkovaHow? EA wants us to watch ada in the games we own. They want us to spend money. THEN watch ads. To please their shareholders.

It only goes up to 3 stars lol but I think even an Italian street sweeper could make a better game

Wrong Wtf even is that the reason for bubbles is bc the govt printe too much money

Was that Confucius?

An ancient truth, well said

Wtf are you waiting for?

Oh yeah, the guys who are trying to force their PSN on us and banning half of the planet from playing certain games are definitely the best example for a good future of gaming. I'm sticking to my PC.

Did you switch to Xbox when Sony closed all their Japanese studios.

​@OliverAnderson266 lmao, there's no comparison to wanting people to sign up for their psn (not saying its a good decision) to Microsoft buying companies for their IP's to be on their game pass only to literally dispose of these studios like they were nothing and ruining people's lives and careers...big big difference there fella

I'm in the same camp. Sony isn't great either but at least I can play the new FF7 and Helldivers. The JRPG scene is next to nonexistent. They did put the new tales of arise on there... one year after I bought it.

Capitalists gonna capitalism 💸 Would be nice if the people who actually make the games had more to say, instead of the owner class

Can it not even be played by yourself offline?

Nope

Good thing Sony, Nintendo and PC gaming are still around.