What’s healthy for the business long term isn’t healthy for the customer. Remember that.
Nor the employees, only the capitalist benefits
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
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.
‘“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.
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.
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.
I’m sure the studio employees feel the same way
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.
