The regulatory bodies of several nations really dropped the ball by allowing the Zenimax and Activision-Blizzard acquisitions.
This isn’t the result of a market being “overextended”, and it isn’t about finding efficiencies. It’s about Microsoft doing what it’s always done- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
I was being sassy. It‘s a harsh business where people are getting exploited and being held in precarious situations for wanting to work their dream job.
The regulatory bodies of several nations really dropped the ball by allowing the Zenimax and Activision-Blizzard acquisitions.
This isn’t the result of a market being “overextended”, and it isn’t about finding efficiencies. It’s about Microsoft doing what it’s always done- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
They should extinguish Bethesda then so the people there maybe get to work on something good again.
So they can go work for EA? Or Ubisoft? Or one of Take-Two’s dev teams? Or something owned by Tencent or Embracer or Epic?
This isn’t just “Microsoft bad”. It’s “Microsoft is one of many giant mega corporations that are ruining the entire industry”.
Maybe some of these people could join or found smaller indie studios, but there are reasons why they didn’t do that already.
I was being sassy. It‘s a harsh business where people are getting exploited and being held in precarious situations for wanting to work their dream job.