Submitted 2 days ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
Inhuman. I can't believe how they would fire everybody without telling them what's going on, just shutting off all their accounts and leaving them hanging.
Original source: gamedeveloper.com/…/zenimax-staff-lambast-inhuman…
Hate to be nitpicky, but this should be linked instead of the referring article.
Thanks for this, I appreciate it
I suppose the next batch of marks have now learned why some of us don’t trust Microsoft any further than our noodly coder-arms can throw them.
Also, that’s an incredibly scathing interview for current employees.
Also also, the game they inexplicably canned well into development sounds awesome: trueachievements.com/…/canceled-xbox-mmo-project-…
Traversal was a core aspect of the game, with Exodus offering a vertical playground for players to explore, equipping players with a grappling hook, and, according to our source, you’d have been able to “climb and wall-run on any surface.” The team wanted movement to feel natural and fun, similar to that found in games like Spider-Man and the driving in GTA.
Interestingly, our source tells us that ZeniMax had been toying with ideas for multiplayer side content away from the combat that would put the traversal system to good use, included races and obstacle courses. One mode the team had been toying with was like a blend of basketball and Quidditch. Our source says, “There was a ball to dunk into a ring, and you could pass or shoot,” offering an experience that felt a little like Titanfall 2, although not as fast.
Maybe it was a little too anti-corpo for Microsoft?
I no longer give any money to MS and I’m not changing my mind on that anytime soon.
I can’t believe…
What’s hard to believe here? This is how capitalism works.
I’m amazed they’d layoff ESO workers, it’s been a Zenimax cashcow for years.
microsoft set fire to all their money with the help of OpenAI
TBH I kind of blame the state of US education on this one.
/>Businessman read book about make money: spend less while make more.
/>Businessman make employees do more tasks, higher productivity
/>Businessman hire robot contractor to do job of employees
/>Businessman layoff staff, condense departments, liquidate many assets
/>Businessman hire firm to prevent unionization
/>Businessman products not selling anymore?!
/>Businessman can’t fill new positions?! Nobody want to work!
/>Businessman initiate bankruptcy filing, ask courts to delay so businessman can earn 300 Million USD bonus if turn situation around.
/>Businessman am smart, read only the best book, follow to letter.
But it could be a bigger cash cow if we didnt have to pay people money. Better to apply for some h1-b visas and get some proper slaves like we had back in the day.
Maybe in other industries but that strategy has never translated well in Gaming.
Being a cashcow isn’t enough in this day and age unfortunately
How do we live in a world where being a major financial boon for your company isn’t enough, this is bullshit.
But at least the shareholders are happy!
I’m just assuming they think they’ll be able to exploit laborers by forcing them into a more gig style system. Capitalism is ass and this seems like an inevitable result especially in this industry.
I know its not so easy but I wish people would just stop working for these shitty companies under abusive conditions. I understand people have to eat but there’s gotta be sethingnthat can be done.
I’ve played ESO for a long time now. It was a great game but it’s likely that Microsoft just killed it and it will slowly die or at best they severely crippled it and it will regain its team and continue on. Either way the way MS handled everything was very poorly done and have lost the trust of their employees and consumers. Trust is hard to gain but easy to lose. Personally, I am not willing to invest time or money into a game that will not be able to update or take care of their servers.
I never really trusted any sort of MMORPG that wasnt able to be community hosted with my time. It always ends up being a rugpull.
Yup. I REALLY hate those 11 year long scams. Hell, WoW is going at 21 years but it is gonna screw everyone over ANY! SECOND! NOW!
This is very common in the corporate world. The only thing is it doesn’t make sense for a trillion-dollar corporation reaping record profits to be doing this, or maybe it does. We all say competition in the market is good, but I don’t think trillion-dollar corporations are incentivized to compete. They’re chasing dollars while employees and consumers are pennies to them.
award winning
ok ok, enough comedy…
Asafum@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Every time…
“Don’t mind me, I’m just here to acquire your company.”
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filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (but with companies)