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My first top 8. Never going to forget the experience. Thanks to every player in Colorado for the help!!
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Remember when I said the Player's Voice site was a bad idea?
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I see the Xbox layoffs as a win tbh
Xbox studios devs should just work on cool fan-favorite IPs or they should get fired
It’s that simple
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Is 8 days from new game announcement to studio shutdown a new record? Atrocious look for Microsoft.
Ninja Theory staff were told on a call today the studio is being shut down by Xbox
Ninja Theory is hoping a potential buyer can save the studio
[via @theverge]
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Remember when I said Xbox fans talk like they're weighing the stock price and get really excited for every update to Excel?
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
4,000 Steam peak
Bleeding Edge
1,464 Steam peak
South of Midnight
1,400 Steam peak
Psychonauts 2
1,400 Steam peak
Kiln
193 Steam peak
Keeper
191 Steam peak player count
What are these games then? Niche games targeting hardcore gamers?
There has to be a line to draw when you spend 10s and 100s of millions of dollars to acquire these studios and pay their 50 - 100 staff years on end. You need some kind of return no?
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You don’t buy Double Fine, Ninja Theory, or Compulsion to make commercial hits - that was never their role, and their proposed closures represents a shameful blunder
Is Swan totally wrong? So many in games media trashed or called these games underwhelming at launch and created negative hype. They didn’t even sell well on PlayStation or Switch. A lot of people like myself love hyping up these games but can’t get them to support or buy them all the time. It’s a sad reality of gaming. Sony has been closing studios left and right, same with Ubisoft and others. I really wonder how the industry would look now if COVID never hit, because it does feel like it messed up everything again.
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Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory. Compulsion Games and Double Fine are also in “active negotiations” about spinning off theverge.com/games/950204/xb…
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Famicom Detective Club was written and directed by the director of Metroid: Other M, a game that was received so poorly it became a meme. Nintendo kept him, and let him write another Metroid in Dread (he directed Super Metroid after all) and then let him do his passion project
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If Compulsion Games shuts down, I will be DEVASTATED! Not only for its contribution to the art of this medium, but also from my side of the industry, accessibility knowledge that is lost, that Xbox needs. That knowledge doesn't get built overnight. They deserve much better.
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An idiot who was barely involved in their presentation.
What kind of idiot shows a game, then closes the studio down making the game a week later?
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1) Buy studios
2) Steal their IP for a shitty unsustainable gaming subscription service.
3) Then either sell the studios or get rid of them.
Xbox 👍🏻 cannibalise your IPs and then they get rid of you
Several Xbox Studios are in active negotiations with XBOX to spin off as they try to avoid closure 🎮
It includes:
• Ninja Theory
• Compulsion Games
• Double Fine
Many employees will likely lose their jobs as a result
(via @Bloomberg)
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I haven't stopped thinking about this. Generational fumble turning them into the Hellblade mines.
The Verge: Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory
"Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping the studio will find a buyer."
theverge.com/games/950204/xb…
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Remember when two Drakengard games and Nier did badly so canceled all projects and buried it?
Wait, they invested properly in Automata and it sold millions! Hm!
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We're about to see a lot of performative posts about a studio that has released 3 okay games in 13 years. I wish the art side of this industry mattered more than the business side but that isn't the world we live in. I hope the devs quickly land on their feet. #XBOX
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These people are stepping down to help prevent mass layoffs btw.
ANOTHER ONE!
Treyarch Studio losses studio head
Xbox currently has an exclusive on terrible news...
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ANOTHER ONE!
Treyarch Studio losses studio head
Xbox currently has an exclusive on terrible news...
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It’s clearer than ever that Asha’s first 100 days being centered around putting “fans first,” invoking nostalgia, and building loyalty towards Xbox as a brand was deliberate and deceitful. What a move, pandering and aligning themselves with the most fanatical before pulling this!
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Okay, here's the thing: she is right, but not for the reasons he thinks he is.
Publishers should be doing things like selling enterprise academic builds to universities for research purposes.
The issue here is that he views games as disposable just like everyone else
As Xbox eyes layoffs, Microsoft's CEO says its videogames aren't monetised enough pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/…
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Host a popup to show bts materials, sell tickets to popup talks at museums and colleges.
Fuck, make a podcast that is exclusively not very corporate and take sponsors if you think youtube makes more than you
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You're the fucking CEO of Microsoft - YOU'RE supposed to be the hungry capitalist coming up with ideas. NOT ME
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Hot take: Asha Sharma has no idea the prestige this brand carries.
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I'll say right now, if Double Fine survives this cull, it's only because of this man.
The fallout Xbox would get if they shut down Tim Schafers studio would be insane.
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