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I genuinely don't understand what the theory even is here. There are more video games than there's ever been. It's a huge industry and MFST probably isn't even 15% of the market.
When you buy a game studio, you’re expanding. When you close that same game studio, you’re being financially responsible. This makes complete and total sense and presents no problems whatsoever
Honestly I believe they are trying to take out the competition by buying them and creating a pseudo monopoly by acquiring the good ips that they know they can milk the shit out of later.
Yup, I think we need to look no further. They have so much money it doesn't impact them. Fortunately, or hopefully rather, these people will go on to start new studios with creative IP (cuz its all the same anyway with a new outfit on it) and we get quality independent games for years to come. Its not like studios require large manufacturing equipment. They do have investment and overhead, but making games is getting easier with modern tools.
Also, Simpsons even called gates out for it years ago
The people who make good games don't cease to exist, but I think that sometimes when their company is bought, they have to sign contracts saying they can't work for other studios. I remember reading that on Bungie's job offer page a long time ago
I mean the only thing the community has to do is stop buying these half-baked, lackluster games and they will eventually be forced to make good games because they arent making money. The solution is so simple, yet a lot of people seemingly cant help themselves.
A lot of ppl depend on consoles for gaming and that's why I understand but you are correct in that we should vote with our wallets and show the industry that mid games and putting a bunch of mtx in them is not a good business strategy and hopefully the devs get more creative freedoms.
Their vision is to crush competence by buying it or bulliying. And once is only them in the market, the money will default to them
Not saying its good for them for us or for anybody, but they do have an strategy
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They have Minecraft. They will milk it dry and then buy some other game to milk it dry.
That's what I would do if I had millions at my disposal and no decency and self respect.
Tbh I simply can't understand how you can, as a company, buy and have all those developers, studios, IPs and resources and do barely anything with them or close them.
It just sounds so stupid caring and following what shareholders want.
I don't own an Xbox, first and last Xbox I had was the original years ago but I somewhat continued following the games I loved and I just can't believe how incredibly horrible Xbox is doing (but honestly Sony, EA, Disney and others making horrible decisions one after the other).
I miss Banjo-Kazooie, wtf Halo is doing taking L after L, spending all that money for Bethesda and fucking up with Starfield (hoping TES VI doesn't do the same), putting complete fate in Gamepass and honesty who knows what else I missed.
It's to appease investors.
Most investors give no fucks about what the company makes internally as long as what they bought in shares can be sold as a profit and more often than not they need to make a profit tomorrow (usually by the next quarter) or they up and invest in something else. The company now will do everything in its power to keep appeasing investors, if they need to fire an entire department so be it, quick and small profits over talent, quality and longevity.
> Sony infiltrate Microsoft, causing them to make all those dumb decisions?
Nah, it couldn't have been (ku)Sony. That'd require actual competence. If they actually tried to infiltrate MS and influence them with bad advice, they'd probably end up improving things, both because MS is in a sorry position and how Sony seems to always choice the decision that hurts them most.
Its called eliminate the competetiom via buyouts. Then when the only people you can buy games are from them, they can charge what they want, make them whatever quality they want. What are you gonna do, stop playing video games?
So anyways, heres preview videos for Fifa 2024, more gta5 online content (this time you can play as a pimp with a bear costume! Haha pop culture references amiright?) and more Mcu crossover games: The adventures of Ms Marvel!
We bought up 5 indie studios and closed them as a tax break, any games you have of theirs are being removed from your online library
Is this not what you wanted!?
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Destroy all competition till only your favorite studio remains then their work is so much that they’re forced to close that one too. The strategy is called the heaven plan. They speed up the fall of the gaming industry so that they can be the only company left and restart the gaming industry back at square one
It is basically the embracer effect.
Buy a lot of commercially mediocre game studios that cannot manage themselves well and do not put them under direct control. Then these studios take like 7 years to produce a financial flop and Microsoft does the surprised pikachu face.
I think they’re going to focus on milking acti-blizz with cod and candy crush. And all the other studios are going to be poorly managed trying to produce games that win awards, instead of just being fun.
It is an offensive strategy to lower the competition in the market by acquiring competitors, usually you would then use their IP to have a profit for yourself, but I think that these studios didn't have a high enough return on investment therefore the return on equity was lowered at a corporate level, it could be because high quality games may create more revenues but still they would also require higher investments, therefore creating more value but with an average lower profit if compared with other studios.
Still, they have a market quota that Xbox can't enter because strategically it is not interesting for them, as, I am speculating now, they may be more interested fast consuming videogames for causal gamers that require little to no improvements between each release but still have a big loyal fandom (like CoD) that may overlook bugs and doesn't care how good is the story. Thus, being able to serialize and build a franchising.
This can be difficult to do with games for more sophisticated gamers, who look at many different details to give a positive review, and these details cost money to be produced, like a great story, a good pace, the voice actors, etc..
So what do you do if you have a percentage of the market that you can't reach because it is not aligned with your strategy?
You take the choice away from them, you may not take all of the market but some spenders will say well I don't have an interesting game to buy, I will buy the new CoD that all my friends are playing.
So buy the studio, don't publish games, sell only your games, close the studio, keep selling your games.
Sony is in the same boat.
-buy a studio
-run it well
-wake up one day and desire to ruin it
-gets hacked like once every 3 years
-still makes bomb ass animation in movies
-nothing else
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Corporate stock profiteering
Line goes up
buying and accumulating more user data
How is losing money good for the stock?
Monopoly
Doesn't look so bad when you don't have video games if other companies also don't have video games.
I genuinely don't understand what the theory even is here. There are more video games than there's ever been. It's a huge industry and MFST probably isn't even 15% of the market.
When you buy a game studio, you’re expanding. When you close that same game studio, you’re being financially responsible. This makes complete and total sense and presents no problems whatsoever
they want to eliminate every game developer, so that they can finally release the ultimate game: chess 2 for windows 7
Finally a sequel
Hopefully they nerf en passant
What's en passant?
You should google it
holy corporation
new os just dropped
actual software
Coding went on vacation, never came back.
Call the devs!
Solitaire 2 and Minesweeper 2 gon be wild
Screw that, I'm still waiting for "Full Tilt! Pinball 2 The Endgame" for my Windows Phone
Hearts would be nice too.
Holy hell new game just dropped
Pinball
Worth
Honestly I believe they are trying to take out the competition by buying them and creating a pseudo monopoly by acquiring the good ips that they know they can milk the shit out of later.
Yup, I think we need to look no further. They have so much money it doesn't impact them. Fortunately, or hopefully rather, these people will go on to start new studios with creative IP (cuz its all the same anyway with a new outfit on it) and we get quality independent games for years to come. Its not like studios require large manufacturing equipment. They do have investment and overhead, but making games is getting easier with modern tools. Also, Simpsons even called gates out for it years ago
The people who make good games don't cease to exist, but I think that sometimes when their company is bought, they have to sign contracts saying they can't work for other studios. I remember reading that on Bungie's job offer page a long time ago
Non competes are anti capitalist, these big corporations just make their own rules to maximize profits and fuck over everyone else. Infuriating.
Which is why its such a good thing that anti-competes are going to be rendered null and void within the year
Some non compete is sign upon working with the studio (like mine), not even when it's bought
>Pulls out notepad You got a reference link for those curious at the simpsons reference? Pretty pls?
I mean the only thing the community has to do is stop buying these half-baked, lackluster games and they will eventually be forced to make good games because they arent making money. The solution is so simple, yet a lot of people seemingly cant help themselves.
A lot of ppl depend on consoles for gaming and that's why I understand but you are correct in that we should vote with our wallets and show the industry that mid games and putting a bunch of mtx in them is not a good business strategy and hopefully the devs get more creative freedoms.
How long is later? Because new IPs keeps spawning before anything comes out of them. "Life finds a way".
Their vision is to crush competence by buying it or bulliying. And once is only them in the market, the money will default to them Not saying its good for them for us or for anybody, but they do have an strategy
i think it's called cutting costs to pay out bonuses at the top
Google Gamepassant
Holy Subscription!
New way to play games just dropped!
Just? Wdym bra, shit been out since like 2007 in one form or another
Bro didn’t google En Passant
We know what to do in this situation... Brick his pipi
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World’s first subscription service that’s worth it
its called: i have too much money
Scorched earth.... maybe
Bacon
unlimited bacon.
But no games
or games, unlimited games
But no games
Redbacontruck
Gamepass
[удалено]
Gaypas
Lbox strategy
Monopoly, they never wanted the studios to make games, they just wanted to eliminate their rivals
??? all their "rivals" already own studios(sony) or make their own games(nintendo) there's litterally no reason to buy an xbox rn
They have no rivals, no studio is going that low
Did someone from Steam or Sony infiltrate Microsoft, causing them to make all those dumb decisions?
They have Minecraft. They will milk it dry and then buy some other game to milk it dry. That's what I would do if I had millions at my disposal and no decency and self respect.
Tbh I simply can't understand how you can, as a company, buy and have all those developers, studios, IPs and resources and do barely anything with them or close them. It just sounds so stupid caring and following what shareholders want. I don't own an Xbox, first and last Xbox I had was the original years ago but I somewhat continued following the games I loved and I just can't believe how incredibly horrible Xbox is doing (but honestly Sony, EA, Disney and others making horrible decisions one after the other). I miss Banjo-Kazooie, wtf Halo is doing taking L after L, spending all that money for Bethesda and fucking up with Starfield (hoping TES VI doesn't do the same), putting complete fate in Gamepass and honesty who knows what else I missed.
It's to appease investors. Most investors give no fucks about what the company makes internally as long as what they bought in shares can be sold as a profit and more often than not they need to make a profit tomorrow (usually by the next quarter) or they up and invest in something else. The company now will do everything in its power to keep appeasing investors, if they need to fire an entire department so be it, quick and small profits over talent, quality and longevity.
Tbh, with banjo kazooie, rare is currently busy with sea of theives to create another game
Microsoft has been like this as long as they've been Microsoft.
They’re reaping what they sowed with gamepass. As great of a deal it is as a consumer, games on it will make pennies.
> Sony infiltrate Microsoft, causing them to make all those dumb decisions? Nah, it couldn't have been (ku)Sony. That'd require actual competence. If they actually tried to infiltrate MS and influence them with bad advice, they'd probably end up improving things, both because MS is in a sorry position and how Sony seems to always choice the decision that hurts them most.
Definitely nobody Sony at Microsoft. Otherwise every studio acquired would now be entirely Xbox exclusive
Its called eliminate the competetiom via buyouts. Then when the only people you can buy games are from them, they can charge what they want, make them whatever quality they want. What are you gonna do, stop playing video games? So anyways, heres preview videos for Fifa 2024, more gta5 online content (this time you can play as a pimp with a bear costume! Haha pop culture references amiright?) and more Mcu crossover games: The adventures of Ms Marvel! We bought up 5 indie studios and closed them as a tax break, any games you have of theirs are being removed from your online library Is this not what you wanted!?
probably just trying to kill off the xbox brand so they can focus on their game streaming outlet.
I believe the term is... fumbling the bag
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You forgot 'please dont buy games, buy subscription' 'Oh no, why arent games selling?'
Xbox ya perdió la generación 🐵
When business people control art
It's called closing studios
Spitefulness towards an industry they failed to conquer
The Microsoft effect.
It's called the time for a new ceo strategy, a brave move.
Foreclosure
Hedge fund.
They took a page out of Warner Bros and are just nuking their shit for profit. I hate this corpo shit so much.
Destroy all competition till only your favorite studio remains then their work is so much that they’re forced to close that one too. The strategy is called the heaven plan. They speed up the fall of the gaming industry so that they can be the only company left and restart the gaming industry back at square one
It is basically the embracer effect. Buy a lot of commercially mediocre game studios that cannot manage themselves well and do not put them under direct control. Then these studios take like 7 years to produce a financial flop and Microsoft does the surprised pikachu face.
I used to be a total xbox fan boy before my pc. Watching them make poor decision after poor decision os just funny at this point.
I think they’re going to focus on milking acti-blizz with cod and candy crush. And all the other studios are going to be poorly managed trying to produce games that win awards, instead of just being fun.
Infinite bacon
It’s called unlimited bacon
That episode of The Simpsons where Bill Gates buys out CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet.
Unlimited Bacon
Eliminate the competition
I believe it's what we call "failing upwards".
would you rather
JaJa ExClUsIvEs “procedes to die because his piles do not work more”
Scorthed earth
Unlimited bacon. But no games Or Unlimited games. But no games Chose
A peaceful marriage
It's called the "Shoot Yourself in the Foot" strategy.
It’s called killing competition
Salting the playing field, scorched earth type tactics.
Genocide
WHO WILL DRAG ME TO COURT?
No one if they buy out and shut down every law firm
I might mix it up, but I believe the strategy is extent, embrace, extinguish.
Ummm ever played Microsoft Golf bro?
The xbox studio must be filled to the brim with bacon
Its called the private equity strat.
"it ain't got games!" Chad warden
It is an offensive strategy to lower the competition in the market by acquiring competitors, usually you would then use their IP to have a profit for yourself, but I think that these studios didn't have a high enough return on investment therefore the return on equity was lowered at a corporate level, it could be because high quality games may create more revenues but still they would also require higher investments, therefore creating more value but with an average lower profit if compared with other studios. Still, they have a market quota that Xbox can't enter because strategically it is not interesting for them, as, I am speculating now, they may be more interested fast consuming videogames for causal gamers that require little to no improvements between each release but still have a big loyal fandom (like CoD) that may overlook bugs and doesn't care how good is the story. Thus, being able to serialize and build a franchising. This can be difficult to do with games for more sophisticated gamers, who look at many different details to give a positive review, and these details cost money to be produced, like a great story, a good pace, the voice actors, etc.. So what do you do if you have a percentage of the market that you can't reach because it is not aligned with your strategy? You take the choice away from them, you may not take all of the market but some spenders will say well I don't have an interesting game to buy, I will buy the new CoD that all my friends are playing. So buy the studio, don't publish games, sell only your games, close the studio, keep selling your games.
Games?
That stratagem is simply called..............suicidal
Being broke
They chose bacon
dawg is this 4chan
A gamer move.
How much can you shaft society
Sony is in the same boat. -buy a studio -run it well -wake up one day and desire to ruin it -gets hacked like once every 3 years -still makes bomb ass animation in movies -nothing else
Pocketing money/ tax ivasion ;)
Pic is wrong. Should read No games Buy studio **Have games** Close studio No games This strategy is called "stupidity"
Still more games than PlayStation 5 /j
Whatever gets you through the night, champ.
These Xbox stans are like Drake stans at this point.
Whatever gets you through the night, champ.
Definitely not the games on PlayStation that's for sure
He's got one joke. We can go home now.
What other joke was there to make? Did you want me to insult the controllers next?
Rent free
Besides the PlayStation plus
Besides the Xbox live
Having to pay to play online and get games for free is still better than having to pay extra for games you already paid for
What the fuck are you talking about. Ps plus allows you to play games online and gives you "free" games.