Microsoft might have purchased someone, maybe

Valve makes money releasing a game once every 10 years...

This was from 2021




Thing is as easy as it is to shit on the main 3 in charge of Xbox. I do feel this more someone above them from MS that wants that $79b back quickly.

Valve makes its money from taking a 30% cut of every game sold on Steam, they're a store that occasionally makes their own stuff for shits and giggles mostly.

Microsoft couldn't go the same route, no one with any sense is buying anything from their absolutely awful PC game store.

This has been happening across the industry and it's really sad, but game development has become hugely expensive and maybe it was inevitable that it would collapse under it's own weight.

I just hope that the talent themselves can find meaningful employment at decent wages. This has been happening across the industry for the last couple of years, nothing like a glut of talented people looking for work to drive wages down.

It is borderline insane that they don’t just use all that AAA talent to bang out AA and Indie scale games and recreate that golden age of XBLA on the 360.

This also isn't some plucky publisher looking to cut costs to stay afloat it's Microsoft. They made tens of billions in revenue alone last week.

But they would make more money making cheap mobile gacha, blockchain, slightly addictive gambling games.

They really need to shift up a gear, like Ubisoft have, and start making AAAA games.

Last I saw COD had some skin where you could play as a velociraptor so it wouldn't be too far off a change of what COD currently is.

Yeah it really its own little multiverse now. Whatever aspirations it had about being a military arcade shooter are long gone.

I kind of asked a technical sales guy this a while ago. We are, unwisely imho, moving pretty much our entire tech stack to Microsoft, most notably moving our SIEM from splunk to sentinel. We already deal with them randomly changing and dropping features like the Insider Threat Module being locked behind a new subscription and Azure AD changing every time I log into it, so what happens if our entire event management system makes them no money and they just turn it off?

I know that’s a risk with every vendor but we definitely increase that risk with every product we move to.

Maybe Phil will give him a tip for that.

Spencer's biggest problem over all this is to make sure he never wears any of the t-shirts with one of the closed down studios again while doing yet another video podcast saying how sad it all is but it was beyond his control while doing his fake smile he always uses.

He's just a gamer really, not another corpo prick.