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The games industry has seen round after crushing round of layoffs over the past few years – a consequence largely of an…
  • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The regulatory bodies of several nations really dropped the ball by allowing the Zenimax and Activision-Blizzard acquisitions.

    This isn’t the result of a market being “overextended”, and it isn’t about finding efficiencies. It’s about Microsoft doing what it’s always done- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

      • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        So they can go work for EA? Or Ubisoft? Or one of Take-Two’s dev teams? Or something owned by Tencent or Embracer or Epic?

        This isn’t just “Microsoft bad”. It’s “Microsoft is one of many giant mega corporations that are ruining the entire industry”.

        Maybe some of these people could join or found smaller indie studios, but there are reasons why they didn’t do that already.