cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/31337043
BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall’s Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush’s Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN
Direct Link to IGN , so you don’t have to go through xitter.
They should add a ‘Studios’ category at https://killedbymicrosoft.info
Microsoft argues against FTC that their merger would create jobs.
Then 180 degrees that shit because apparently Bethesda/Activision were going to eliminate those jobs anyway.
These studio/publisher buyouts and closures are a cancer spreading through the entire business right now. About the last thing you want as a gamer is to see your favorite studio or publisher trade hands. Because 99 times out of a 100, the thing you love gets canned or turned to shit.
As a gamer since the late 80’s, I’ve seen many studios come and go. It happens. But these days, with these huge publishers, closures are no longer single studios but entire swathes of them. Like carpet bombing, with little regard for collateral damage.
Some of those really, really hurt. Knowing that they won’t be able to recreate that magic because the people behind it are scattered like ashes on the wind. If this pace continues, it’s going to cause a big crash somewhere down the line.
