tldr outer worlds 2 and avowed missed expectations, the studio is aiming to release smaller games quicker.
Microsoft aquisition Phases:
- Purchase game studio
- Set unrealistic expectations
- Use unrealistic expectations to drive away talent
- Use failure to meet expectations to justify layoffs.
- Various Tax write-offs
- Claim that nothing could be done to avoid having bought out and eliminated another competitor.
This is not Microsoft-Only. Any single company out there is like that.
Yes. Any publicly traded company, at least. Some privately held ones behave better.
But Microsoft gets the special shit list here because they have been specifically doing this to game studios.
Lack on anti-trust law enforcement, specifically against Microsoft, is why many delightful game series are now locked away in Microsoft’s vaults instead of getting sequels, this year.
Microsoft didn’t want the competition.
Hey, Grounded are great games!
The sane reckoning that more of the industry needs to have. And both Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed were some of my favorite games from last year, so hopefully what they’re talking about with building on the work they’ve already done can speed things along.
