Comment on Inside Xbox, Obsidian Entertainment Is Trying to Reinvent Itself
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
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.
Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
This is not Microsoft-Only, I believe that any single company out there is like that.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
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 rightful delightful game series are now locked away in Microsoft’s vaults off instead of getting sequels, this year.