https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-lays-off-1900-staff-from-its-video-game-workforce
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Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce
https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-lays-off-1900-staff-from-its-video-game-workforce
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What games did they made?
they didn't make any. that's the problem.
so basically diversity hires
Funny how they wanted diversity to pay less, if they waited a few years they could have just used AI
Probably sweeping up ABK's garbage.
>videogame workforce
its all the diversity hires, women and pr gays
There is no evidence for this but people keep parroting it.
are you seriously asking for fricking source? Maybe use your brain a little.
>it's not my job to educate you, shitlord
>video game workforce
games that are mass produced have no soul
oh no they fired 2000 people out of their 300 000 workers. such huge wow percentage
>"As part of this process, we have made the painful decision to reduce the size of our gaming workforce by approximately 1,900 roles out of the 22,000 people on our team."
almost 10%
10% haircut is needed. Probably entirely low performing diversity hires that don't produce value.
Keep voting Biden morons.
>products will be total dogshit come five years
thank you for the job sir
After causing 2000s tech crash it looks like its going to happen again 20 years later.
>implying H1B figures didn't stay stable throughout tramp's presidency
lmao
Actually worked in the corporate world during Trump's time. His presidency caused our organization to shift from mass importing Indians to work in the main office and instead "insource" Indians to corporate owned subsidiaries in Bangalore. It didn't fix the job loss issue, but the office did stop smelling of curry and shit for a time until Biden came in.
Yes.
did you forget to take into account inflation moron? Of course the amount spent on US manufacturing went up, the amount spent on everything went up.
>shows chart of cost of materials increasing
thanks for proving him right?
how much salary raise did you get in the past 4 years paco
>he still thinks it matters what blackmailed shabbos goy is in office
even the game industry got long covid, double boosted, triple vaxxx
>t. election tourist
This shit happens no matter what half of the uniparty is in power. Yes, even when your god emperor was in power. It's allowed to proceed unmitigated because you're all moronic and get caught up on politics instead of focusing on the root of the issue and attacking that.
Prove it.
It's just the continual decline caused by the Dodge Brothers-caused legal requirement of all corporations to seek maximum profits. Line must go up forever, even if it means firing and outsourcing cheaper replacements right after announcing record-breaking profits.
Makes sense to clean the house like this since the company is theirs now.
they're using all that saved money to buy pocketpair
>Saved money
This company has more money than God.
jew
>nooooooo I demand a pay for doing nothing, you are rich you MUST do charity to ME
why are communist like this?
>impacted during the transition
surely they laid off females, POCs and other unproductive parasites and they are going to hire passionate and competent devs to make games????????????????????????????????
>xbox
>making games
That's a good one anon.
most of those are """"people"""" that didn't physically gon on their workplace since Covid.
good goy
kek it's always funny these layoff waves happen because one company fires a bunch of morons and their stock price balloons and soars
This is all the redundant staff like HR DEI ESG and support that MS already has plenty of on there own.
Video game division is just because its studios in the video game umbrella.
a sign of terrible leadership when you can't find your talented workforce shit to do though
>redundant staff
>HR
Just how stupid are you?
/pol/tards and other invalids will point towards this being because of ESG or woke or whatever boogeyman they've concocted for the day to rationalize their pathetic worldview but it's clearly because of businesses scaling up rapidly and over-hiring during the pandemic. A correction was always going to happen, especially as we're heading into a recession.
>we're heading into a recession
aren't we already in one?
HAHAHAHA GET REDEEMED SIRS
They're the ones who will be taking their jobs
on the contrary, pajeets will be hired for penies to oversee the AI operations
Let me guess, got a job during covid to work from home?
It is still funny to me how Ganker of all places shits on work from home when most of its population are shutin neets.
They're going in on ai
80% of them were Bharati.
It's gotta sting knowing you got replaced by AI.
Nah. Just comfy WFH positions being taken by third worlders en masse. It makes no sense to have an American workforce in an online post-office era when you can hire shitskins for a third of the price and the same amount of work done.
with these massive tech layoff where are the newly unemployed tech workers going to work now?
Local banks and governments if they're smart.
how long until apple tries to enter the console market again to take xbox's third place spot
You can thank Elon for this one.
>buys twitter, suspects its full of dead weight
>purge.exe
>everyone screams at him, are utterly convinced he's going to destroy the service
>hire back a handful of productives who got axed by mistake
>twitter has minor issues but soon stabilizes and starts getting new features, with 1/8th the workforce
You think other big tech companies didn't notice this happening? They were already aching to do it since no more ZIRP free money, Musk just took the plunge first.
I still can't believe they spent $69 billion on a shitty company. They could have made their own studios make 690 games for that price. This is made even more ridiculous when you consider how well Palworld is doing, you don't need a bloated company to be successful, you need talented people with ideas.
>talented people with ideas.
it was literally a game with stolen ideas from several other games.
The thing is, talented people is better just trying to make some indie/smaller project on their own over dealing with diversity hires
2024 YEAR OF THE INDIE DEVS
lol?
I think Myke Ybara didn't want to work for Microsoft anymore and fell under their clutches again with the purchase of Blizzard.
>I think Myke Ybara didn't want to work for Microsoft anymore
You're right.
It would be funny if Microsoft buys the next company he goes to work for.
What announced survival game?
>xbox employees fired
maybe goy pass isn't as successful as it is said to be.
When did blizzard ever announce a survival game?
Jan 2022
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23768911/create-a-new-universe-with-us
I did not notice that one
>Microsoft buys ActiBlizz for $70 Billion
>all the people that made ActiBlizz successful leave so now it's just a standard studio
It's too funny.
>ll the people that made ActiBlizz successful leave
but that happened before 2010
so is it a good thing or not? Why is Ganker so divisive on this?
Company A buys Company B and absorbs them. Company A does not need two HR, accounting, IT, and various other departmental functions absorbed from Company B. Not sure who would be surprised by this.
You already forgot when they axed 10,000 people working on VR/AR.
let's hope only white men are affected by this
I just think it's funny how this is the exact opposite of Nintendo's strategy, buy as many studios as you can and fire your employees like it's nothing.
Look how well it has worked for them so far.
>buy as many studios as you can and fire your employees like it's nothing.
it worked for EA.
This is what I don't get. The tech industry, which is at the core of all American industries, has been puking shit out of its mouth for over a year now. Layoffs are surging to insane numbers, and neither presidential candidate will even acknowledge it.
things are going to get so much worse, anons
>things are going to get so much worse, anons
good
microsoft just fired 10% of ABK's workforce
why would anyone do that after spending 80 billion freedom bucks?
This is concept art of their survival game
This piece of shit genre is in more need of innovation than almost anything else but that recent ARK clone doing so well ensures that's never happening.
Are you implying Blizzard would be the one to innovate the genre?
The same Blizzard that's exclusively produced derivatives of other games and gear treadmills for the past decade?
No, it was just an observation.
I suppose the closest we've come to the genre feeling kind of different was Subnautica, but you still spend a disproportionate amount of time in that game looking at grid-based inventory of random bullshit.
Also here's the other concept art they posted
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mostly accurate. however, actiblizz was already rotten and withered before microshaft got it.
To be fair, in this case the plant Microsoft purchased is already wilted.
Blizzard survival game that was announced last year got cancelled https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050297/blizzard-survival-game-cancelled-layoffs
>“Today’s actions affect multiple teams within Blizzard, including development teams, shared service organizations and corporate functions,” Matt Booty, head of Xbox Studios, said in a note to staff. “As part of this focus, Blizzard is ending development on its survival game project and will be shifting some of the people working on it to one of several promising new projects Blizzard has in the early stages of development.”
Starcraft 3 and ghost pls?
if biden's economy is so good why is everyone getting laid off? isn't that basically a tell-tale sign of a bad economy?
Anyone ever work for pinterest? I have an interview with them next week for a software dev position.
no but good luck anon
>Just got a job in banking
I wonder if I'm fricked
>Crashes Microsoft with no survivors
Microsoft is a cancer and has brought only shit to the industry. They just need to frick off
Knew this was coming when they started cutting employee benefits last year
>g-good guy Phil gave them their free Game Pass back!!!
Suck up c**ts