"Let's put this another way, shall we?

Let's assume for a moment that these individuals averaged 100k a year - laughably generous if I might say.

That means Microsoft cut just under 200M in payroll.

They paid Bobby Kotick 360M to go away.

Those people paid to get rid of Bobby with their jobs."

God damn

“It was conceived as a survival game, like Minecraft and Rust, but with more polish and fewer bugs.”

“Odyssey was originally prototyped on the popular Unreal Engine, from Epic Games Inc., but Blizzard executives decided to switch, in part, because it wouldn’t support their ambitions for vast maps supporting up to 100 players at once. (Blizzard instead directed the Odyssey team to use Synapse)”

6 years of your life given to develop a game just for it to be cancelled and you get fired, that’s nasty work.

I wonder if Xbox has their own big survival game in development.

It’s the same reason they cancelled the Halo Battle Royale.

Why create a competing product to Warzone now that they own it.

yeah this s*** is getting repurposed into something more iconic for sure

not worth that server upkeep cost and risk of no return on a new IP

apparently they also didnt cancel the battle royale project, they cancelled making a battle royale but there's been rumours for a while that the team pivoted around the Activision Microsoft merger announcement

we may never see it but there's a chance whatever we see next from Halo has some relation to that project

I misread this, but maybe State of Decay 3?

IMAGINE, especially coming off the reception of the latest game and how strained we know these COD developers already are (with a ton of them being laid off as well within this mass lay off).

I wouldn't disbelieve it.

i love doomer conspiracy theories

bro dont give af

!

Absolute nastiness fr

Real

Working in this industry is hell on all fronts man, unless you're one of the higher ups whos not even involved in game development

This is why Sony is better

Microsoft is trash Xbox is trash. They still ain't got games

acting like sony didn’t do the same thing last year

People just getting triggered for no reason lmao

All digital is dumb as s***

Even if you buy digitally, you don’t own the games. They can take the game away at any time

You’re buying a license to play it

Name an example of that happening tho where people who bought it havnt been able to download it even after delisted

At least Sony got games

Xbox aint got games. It ain't got games