The One Where Microsoft Admits Game Studios Are F*cked (The Jimquisition) 

This is why capitalism needs strict regulations.

You have to look at this from a standpoint of slow motion controlled destruction of every studios and independent, buisenesses in the west, then all you are seeing since 2019 finally makes sense.

@@ElBandito Strict Authoritarian Regulations just like Singapore.

"we need more games like hi-fi rush to get us awards" fires studio that made them quite a few awards anyway

​@@maximvsdread1610Yeah, you're right! Fuck regulations! Let them do whatever they want, free country!!! There's no problem in the game industry, everything is going fine, those fail are just not good enough, that's how it is!

But the wokerati killed my dog with diversity!

It's a shortcut to avoid culpability; humans can't conceive threats at grand scales but can latch onto individual concepts that represent a personal threat.

@@joshuamartin4349 Tell that to the people that believe in Jewish space lasers.

BECAUSE WOKENESS KILLED MY GRANDMA, OK?

I'm not sure what's being said here, are you saying that we should buy games just to keep studios open?

That's right. They work very hard to actively make the end product worse.

im sure.theyll outsource the abuse to AI macros any day now

So they spend the rest of their time on other people's asses.

And covering for literal therapists without the "the" !

@@OneWingedRose The analyst/therapists, it you will.

Next fiscal quarter? They barely care about the next fiscal day.

for these asshats. that is long term.

@@davidspring4003 Gotta get dem Pre-Order sales, bois. If we don't make a billion 6 months before launch, we're trashing this failed franchise and blaming the Gamers! Don't worry, they'll eat each other alive as soon as we say the game wasn't financially profitable to continue support past 24 hours!

Nintendo seems to have the long term in mind.

@@BedinsisNintendo has its flaws, but it’s probably one of the few gaming companies that still thinks about making games and making a profit without screwing over the employees that make their products. Now, if they could get their heads out of their butts about emulation and fan content, then we’d be swell.

Companies are probably realizing they don't have to make excuses anymore. They aren't going to be punished by their actions as 98% of video game people do not even know studios make video games. They just think they appear magically at the store or appear on the online store to be purchased.

​@@xcwarrior Unfortunately you are correct.

@@xcwarrior Gamers already can't be bothered to even learn the difference between developers and publisher, so you're not wrong. I'm just begging people to fucking learn *something* related to the gaming industry besides "new game coming out soon", so that my blood pressure doesn't have to continually go up whenever I hear some blithering idiot say stuff like "I'm shocked that Hi-Fi Rush is so well made considering it's Bethesda!". FFS.

​@@bunnylizard2717 not just the difference between publisher or developer, I had to explain to a guy that "Frostbite" is the tech that drives the Battlefield games, not name of some group of individuals... But hey, it appears on the splash screen when you launch the game and in all the marketing blurbs the traditional games media keeps showering us in, so it must be important!

They laid off the guy who normally writes those lines.

How can you have a union... when your company itself is at danger of being asset stripped if it looks good on the bottom line of somebody's corporate growth report? Unions are great for local control... but these companies are not being closed by local control. We need something BIGGER than the local union. a worker's united type union. Hell, when we struck as graduate students for better health care as student employees, we had support from the trucker's union, and that was back in 1990.

@@thomasneal9291 No one said anything about a "local" union. You need a union that covers the whole industry (or more) that works in solidarity with other unions so that if they try to shut down a studio for stupid reasons, EVERYTHING grinds to a halt.

@@thomasneal9291 You do know unions can form without a company? Those are called trade unions. One of the biggest being SAG.

That reminds me of when someone claimed Arkane Lyon was safe because they were working on Marvel's Blade... I pointed out Arkane Lyon is probably safe because it's located in France.

​@@TheSylda Indeed!

@@auturgicflosculator2183 I know, but even on the curve of capitalism, signing up with these people is just no longer pragmatic.

That day needs to be right now

​@@mesektet5776That's been the arc of capitalism for some time, at least since the era of financialization & the rise of vulture capitalism but it's more likely embedded in the entire ideology. The motives & incentives are no longer rational or pragmatic to the the long term interests of capital itself. The system is not in any sense sustainable, from food production to water to war profiteering to energy, fossil fuels & climate to media & entertainment to (in the United States) healthcare, education & democracy now being monetized industries, the consequences of immediate increased wealth for a vanishingly small class of people are not considered on any larger scale or timeline. The long term costs to society & human civilization generally are irrationally out of proportion to the ever-increasing appetite of the capitalist class. Beyond the amount of waste, inefficiency, corruption, precarity, misery, and death it produces, it will almost certainly become necessary for the survival of our species at some point to abandon capitalism as an organizing principle; and I'm pretty sure they know that and are slashing & burning as much as they can in the relative short term to accrue as much wealth & power as possible to fight back against change and prolong it as far as possible.

If you've built a successful business, NEVER sell it. You never know if it will find its way into the hands of a publicly traded horror show made to keep shareholders happoy until the next quarter.

Should be now. You'd think developers would try anything else honestly.

The embracer group solely buying so many IPs to bloat the selllput and then the foreign investors pulling the seal.

"Games are too expensive to make" they whine as they routinely get upstaged by indie developers with no more resources than 2 people and a dog between them.

@@MareSerenitis a dog, i thought that was a cat! lol

The biggest, most valuable company on the planet just had to shut them down. How do you expect little Microsoft to keep those studios running with a market cap of a mere $3 Trillion?! /s And like Steph said, MS and all the other big tech companies like Apple, Google, Nvidia etc are now obsessed with AI. Hence why Microsoft has invested $10 billion into ChatGPT/OpenAI. Created MS Co-pilot etc. And in May 2024, Microsoft announced a $3.3 billion investment to build an artificial intelligence hub in southeast Wisconsin.

While accidentally purchasing a second Lamborghini

Was even able to make out a "Thank god for Her" near the end.

Eloquent and informative in comparison.

Lol hope that’s not a game also it will get shutdown by XBOX 😂😂😂😂😂

Unfortunately, people like Bond are not a rare ware in this biz

Sarah Bond: "Do you expect me tell the truth?" Gamers: "No Miss Bond, I expect you to lie."

Remember, we have the discretion to remove your license. You are hiring it, not buying it, 008. Act with care. - Q

it's sad to see a black female executive talking like this, I know I shouldn't expect them to be any better then a straight white male exec but it still sucks.

And as if literally the largest company on the planet with a $3 trillion dollar market cap can't afford to keep these studios open. But they got $10 billion laying around to invest in ChatGPT/OpenAI, creating co-pilot etc. And in May 2024, Microsoft announced a $3.3 billion investment to build an artificial intelligence hub in southeast Wisconsin.

@@sean8102 That was kind of alluded to in the video. If you don't care about quality, and want to re-release variations on the same crap over and over again: AI is ideal.

Noooo, couldn't be, better start reciting McCarthyist mantras before I start thinking about inconsistencies!

It's antithetical to all life on earth. Not to be melodramatic, but humanity won't go with a bang, of even a whimper, but with the sound of eating. Capitalism is a cancer eating a body alive from the inside.

or indeed long-term survival.

Or human life, frankly. It's kind of amazing how billionaires and capitalists are wringing their pearls about crashing fertility rates across the globe, when the evidence for their soul-grinding economic system being the primary driver of those crashing rates is pretty much irrefutable. It's almost like laborers who are expected to work endlessly to support the 'unlimited growth' of the wealth of the investment class don't have time to have kids, or something. What a surprise... /s

or life in general. what do we call cells that keep growing uncontrollably at the cost of everything else? fucking cancer.

I'm not sure they even buy things with their money anymore. I seriously believe they just jerk off while looking at their account balances going up. Spending and enjoying the money would be too normal of a thing for them to do.

Guys, they're feeling the crunch too! The yacht they bought was smaller than last year's yacht! Everyone's suffering in this economy! /s

Won't someone think of the executives?

@@InsanoRider777 Cue up the South Park clip of the detective showing the children all the poor celebrities who have to buy a slightly less expensive airplane or yacht because they pirated a couple of songs.

But now they're not going to get any new Evil Within or HiFi Rush moneys. 8C Just a smidge but confusing.

Phil Spencer is a bit of a hack so it comes as no surprise.

Nope, but we need to wake up and realise CEOs like Phil Rectum and Todd Coward are glorified, overpaid salesmen who's sole job it is to be the mouthpiece and enforcers of the Shareholders, who are themselves a shadowy, nameless, unaccountable cabal of ghouls, vampires and other blood-sucking parasites. The CEO's are the Mouth of Sauron, but it's the Shareholders who are Sauron.

he said smaller/cheaper, yet still prestigious/award winning games (hifi rush never being mentioned in this context) from their perspective hifi rush only covers the second half of that - it wasn't a small thing to develop the consequence of that ought to be publishing tons of actual small games with a shotgun approach, but I doubt they will find the developers willing to do that under their thumb - those projects can be funded through more trustworthy means

Even when I was much dumber I was calling this guy a pos as far back as 2015 lol. He defended the lack of split screen in halo 5 yo! Realities of the day lol eat my ballz!

​@@Yin2FalconAt this point, I don't think future Call of Duties and Elder Scrolls VI aren't gonna grow Microsoft. Just look at how they and Studio 353 handled their flagship franchise. I don't even think Starfield got as much acclaim as Bethesda's previous games.

Read 'The Man Who Broke Capitalism' by David Gelles. I knew about 'fiduciary duty' and 'shareholder value' as terms before, but never really understood how they've taken over industry until I read that book.

I have a bad news about companies in America, and about Ford v. Dodge...

Starfi.... Sorry, I fell asleep during my last sentence, what was I saying?

They published Sekiro. It's a good thing FromSoft bullied them into doing that.

I think you wrote your comments in invisible ink.

@@evilbarrels2506 Sekiro was long before Microsoft bought Actiblizzard, and the comment you're responding to is making the point that, since the buyout, Actiblizzard has not produced any bangers, keyword being "since" that is clearly readable in the original comment between the words "have" and "produced". Reading comprehension 101

Yeah it seems like Activision bought Microsoft instead of Microsoft buying Activision. This is the kind of decission one would associate with Bobby Kotick instead of Phil Spencer who has been crowing all the right pro gamer and pro industry things in the last while. (I know its just PR speak)

It's not the tax break, it's making the line go up

@@fluidthought42 how exactly does buying the studio and then closing it and firing everyone make the line go up?

@@user-sl6gn1ss8p Growth period = acquisitions to make net value bigger Crash period = closures to make expenses smaller, still own IP

​@user-sl6gn1ss8p On the off chance you're earnestly asking how the metrics are affected: Studio has just released a game, in order to develop a new game the staff will need to be paid for at least 2-3 years without an additional product being made. Microsoft elects to close the studio because they already have hifi rush on sale and can avoid paying staff for those 2-3 years. They cut expenses while still having the product to sell, they just won't have a new one from that team in 2-3 years. This is why Steph and many in the comments are calling it a short sided strategy, it boosts short term profit margins and uproots lives and careers, and deprives the world of the art that group of creatives would have made next.

@@wctgttm yeah, it was earnest, so thanks for the answer, but I was thinking more mid-to-long term. Short term what you said definitely makes a lot of sense, but this has been a recurring practice for a while now, hasn't it? And the line has in fact been going up afaik (at least for the huge guys who are swallowing up everyone else). So I was kinda wondering how does that circle get squared. Like, is it that they can effectively replace the people later, or maybe that they get "investor confidence" which translates to more resources in the future, or maybe just acquisitions and IPs being more valuable to them than employees, etc? To be clear, I'm definitely not trying to defend the practice, I just think that it either has to be acknowledged that it somehow ends up working for them or it has to be shown that in fact no, it doesn't, in order to go further in discussing this practice, you know?

that prolly makes sense tbh. Still sucks tho. But thinking of it. Hi-Fi Rush was shadowdropped with no advertisment at all. If it wouldn't have been for word of mouth I wouldn't have played it at all. It still sucks that they couldn't have saved them with a success tbh.

It is never enough

It wouldn’t surprise me if Microsoft’s entire goal in buying these studios was to shut down the competition. Lie to the government, knowing they’re unlikely to be held accountable, then make up excuses to shut down studios they never intended to keep. Additionally, their subscription service functionality gave it away for free to subscribers, further undermining the game’s success, by making it less profitable.

Until the corporate shills still sitting in power get ejected from office. They are the biggest group of insider traders out there. Making far more than the average of their investments than the market actually trends. Why would they harm their own financial self interest even though all of them have a automatic lifetime retirement pension that kicks in the second they leave office. THEY WANT ALL THE MONEY!

Why would they? Our government IS Microsoft, and Tesla, Proctor and Gamble... Just puppets for these big companies.

As if the US govt has the balls for anything but genocide.

No, the people calling the shots are too busy eyeing their soon-to-be executive positions at Microsoft.

I suppose the only way to find out is bombard the FTC website with complaints about Microsoft closing studios they swallowed up just to make line go up.

I think the real lesson is that if you work for any kind of subsidiary development studio, start looking for a new job.

Hey, they're just following the example set by executive management, especially when they make bad and stupid decisions, some of which are copycatting from other companies! But the big difference is that these executives typically have "golden parachutes" after they're FINALLY fired after multiple fuck ups, a luxury that *doesn't* exist for all of the other employees!

Execs after developers start doing this and the games don't get done - "nobody wants to work anymore"

id argue thats the case for any job nowadays imo

both of these deeply hurt me. Ghostwire: Tokyo is a fuckin masterpiece. I love EVERY Arkane game except Redfall. I'm sick and fucking tired of these companies destroying things and people I love in the name of pleasing shareholders who should be in jail.

@@HadalStreetlights Redfall was OK, it had it's fun moments but it should've been a single player game and it really feels like it was being held together by duct tape and bailing wire.

I came here to say the same. Teh G@merZ gotta gAem.

Even cancerous growth has it's limitations, upon the death of its host. There's a moral in that story somewhere. 🤔

There is a limit when the host dies

And stupidity.

Scientists use a cancer culture that has long outlived the person who originally had it. Cancer can live forever as long as it's fed. Scientists have also contracted tumors and cancers from handling such cells that came from others. Only starvation or purifying fire stops it.

And your Mum.

people are allowed to enjoy AAA games genius.

@@jacksonteller3973Can't argue that, I'm still looking forward to the inevitable PC release of Spider-Man 2: Glider-Men. But there's less and less keeping me hooked in, every year. And one day, I too will awaken.

@@jacksonteller3973enjoying and buying is not the same if you know what i mean

@@jacksonteller3973 Yeah, and they're also 'allowed' to scream and yell when they're asked to put on a mask during a pandemic, as well, or insist that the world is flat despite all evidence to the contrary. But at some point, their feeding of a broken and toxic system doesn't just affect them, it hurts everyone. Just because something is 'allowed' doesn't mean it's ethically defensible.

Jackson, you're always in JSS videos being nothing but a contrarian, you really think we didn't notice?

That maybe why they closed the studio lol

Counterpoint: not every game has to be risk-free to be enjoyable and if a game is not for you, that is not always the fault of the game. That's just personal taste coming into play. Although, yes, Sea of Thieves is a buggy mess of a live-service game that is somehow enjoyable to me.

@@gjshomeofsilliness9391 Counterpoint, I don't think they should. Those companies should absolutely not be claiming to want more players while ignoring would be players. Especially with the way they implemented Safer Seas and claimed to be doing so on behalf of players like me who have been pushed away from the game from hostile players while ignoring those people. I'd respect the vision if it wasn't surrounded by PR statements and marketing telling me they want me to play it. edit: I remeber when Dead Space advertised itself as gross and it'll scare your nan, so I didn't play it. Not for me. I don't do horror. Just want people to be honest.

I'm glad I never stopped making fun of that crap game. Shame it got popular because dumb kids enjoy watching a streamer in a pirate hat.... Goodness we are pathetic lol.

@@Stephen... That's the folly of Rare's advertising of their own game. They market it as a pirate game for everyone, when it is not for everyone.

@@gjshomeofsilliness9391 They got my money once and fed me to the wolves. Last time I buy a Rare, Xbox Studios, or indeed Microsoft product in general. They could make it accessible to those they duped and redeem their name but they've chosen a different vision to pursue. It'd be nice if they kept accessibility out of their public messaging.

The fact that I can look at the game, no music, and still keep the beat is literally amazing. I hate the fact that we got one of tge best rhythm games PERIOD and it still got smoked.

-The Aristocrats!- The Neoliberals!

It is.

In a manner of speaking it absolutely is. The longer someone is employed at a company, the larger their salary tends to become. Eliminating their sense of job security by dismissing them can force them to accept a similar job for lower salary, or reduce their expectation of raises. So, if both company A and company B maintain their workers, they expect to face steadily rising operating costs, generally in line with inflation. However, if A and B both fire 50% of their workers, and then largely re-hire each other's dismissed workers over the next few years, this can reduce salary demands by those dismissed workers, who feel very uncertain about their career prospects, while the employees who were retained at both companies likewise are less likely to demand raises due to similar fears. In the end, company A and B and up rehiring to the same staffing levels as before - possibly with many of the same people swapped between them, but now they have 'controlled' costs through fear. So yes, fear and cruelty is very literally part of the system.

@@Vastin I'm glad that I work for a company that just gives me a good raise every year without me even having to ask.

Honestly I wouldn't doubt if that is a *part* of it. Scares people into thinking they will be next.

It's an easy answer that people don't have to think about. Thinking can get hard, painful, and depressing. It's easier just to sink in a relaxing bath of bubbling chud piss.

oof.

Well, what they meant to say was, "diversify their stock portfolios." And if they can't believe that, they are pretty ignorant.

Cult member... That's pure mental gymnastics to try and connect those. Dude is sitting there trying to put his plugs in other plugs level delusional.

Ah yes! Because nothing screams diversity like buying up game companies filled with sex pests and r**ists! What a very inclusive game studio that Microbrain company is!

Some one who has always cared for halo. I TOO just stick with 360 haha. Just wasn't as good after that : )

I still buy new stuff but i'm always prepared for this shit happening

The American government needs to regulate a shit ton of stuff in America, but they won't because some idiot will claim it's communism just to score some votes with the fucktards who are driven by fear instead of, you know, reason and what actually benefits them. The state of : - The aeronautic industry - Healthcare - Social programs - Abortion clinics - Job market etc. wouldn't be the bloody omnishambles it is if the government did what they're actually fucking paid to do, which is REGULATE.

Except the government (at least in the US) is even worse, being a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of these and other corporations.

The ability to turn wealth into political power is what is going to kill humanity.

@@Kaylakaze This is where we the people must come in. We can't just complain on the internet anymore. We need to take actual, organized steps towards change. If you really want to contribute, now would be the best time to join a socialist organization or any other group that best fits with your beliefs. The country is going through a crisis; it's not enough to be on the sidelines anymore.

@@guardmaster9620 Okay. What actual, organized steps? We can't do anything via elections, the only people on the ballot are in corporate pockets. We can't do our own lobbying, corporations can easily outspend us. We can't do mass reporting to government agencies, they do the smallest of smol bean fines that changes nothing at best and do nothing at worst (see all the updates to Ross Scott's campaign over The Crew, every government is blowing him off) Do you have any meaningful actions people can take, or are you just spouting off useless ideological drivel?

When you're not competing in a race in which the racers are at each other's throat, you tend to win by default when someone needs to declare a winner.

One thing that came out during the Activision acquisition is that ppl inside Microsoft hope to buy Nintendo at some point lmfao

yeah nintendo is fucked for other reasons but weirdly enough this is one of their stronger points , and thats ignoring iwata taking a pay cut all those years ago

I don't know how many this has happened to, but it isn't that nintendo doesn't make a bunch of people workless. It's that the people loosing their income are contract workers. So it dosen't tecnically count as mass layoffs, which Japan has comparitavelly strict laws against. It's "letting their contracts run out", but the harm is the same. Dosen't help that their contract workers have been said to be treated as second class citizens... It sucks that nintendo are doing shitty things to their workers, but the rest of the tripple a industry is so ghastly that they sound like saints in comparison!

Nintendo is evil and working culture in Japan absolutely terrifying. But at least they don't feel like incompetent morons, which sadly telling about modern state of gaming industry.

I thought Prey 2017 was a masterpiece or at least the first half was. It could have been marketted much better and maybe the story could have been done better but its still an amazing game. Sad to see Arkane closed.

Hopefully the Development Heads get to re-recruit (i.e. all the talent that got fired, then choose a different publisher, or even [gasp] go indie) but anyone saying like "we're getting the band back together" now is going to be told where to go, IMHO. Sad.

Ohhh nooo diversity sloop should be subsidized Lol, you are outright making me syphatetic to capitalism wookies.

Glad I’m not the only one, lolol XD

For sure. I was very excited to see what their next project after Hi-Fi rush would be. Like their next bigger budget game. But oh well. Hope all involved land on their feet and find a new job as quick as possible. As really sad about Arkane.

@@sean8102 i was SO excited for Tango's next game, sequel or not. Seeing them learn from the phenomenal last game would have been incredible. ;_; And yeah, I'm sad about Arkane Austin too. Prey was the best Immersive Sim I've ever played. Worthy of being a successor to System Shock.

Kristi Noem just came at the thought.

There's a mental image that will haunt me.

Lord that's dark. Fitting but DARK.

@@Kaylakaze a truly disturbing image

​@bunnylizard2717 now imagine Noem on her knees right below the Mount Rectum of Bobby Kotick, lasciviously slurping all the shit that makes her cu-Skeleton Warriors!

Yeah what's up with that?

Well he apparently used to work at Disney before he got fired in 2020. Maybe it's something to do with that? A victim of pointless corporate worker cuts?

@@NeoSaturos123 Doubt it

I was thinking the same thing! He specifically left his corporate job for RU-vid. Seems like he's the opposite of the problems Steph was pointing out.

@@Allanon6666 I would very much argue the same.

@@Allanon6666 They were using him as a reaction image

I thought it was an OK game, didn't blow me away or anything so it wasn't a gut punch for me like it was for others, still sucks though.

Not being able to get Hi-Fi Rush was quite literally the only disappointment I had when buying the PS5. But now that Microsoft has finally recognized their consoles are failures, I can get it.

@@leejs nah their consoles are hits

If they openly admit nothing they make is successful enough to keep their studios open, it is not successful

most execs will only look at the massive gap between Larian's games.

eh I personally can't stand RLM.

Why did you speak this into existence 😢? And then the incels are gonna be mad because *insert woke thing here*

@@maybemablemaples2144 I didn't speak it into existance its already being worked on and you know it.

Resident Evil 4

@danhectic5629 that's it!!!! LMAO

Didn't know that about GTA 3 or Spider-Man, fascinating. Xbox also turned down Heavy Rain cause they didn't like the plot about the kid being kidnapped(which might've been the fuckup you're thinking of), not a very smart move considering how well Quantic Dreams games sold. Honestly i'm not the big on motion controls so I can't say that i'm too bummed about Xbox not going in that direction, in fact that was actually a big factor in me getting a 360 over a Wii as I was not at all sure about the motion controls thing. FF16 I don't care about so kinda eh on that one.

@@jacksonteller3973 Over 5 million copies of heavy rain sold? I played it for a hour and my kid got run over while I was busy being a lost moron in the mall. Fffffk that game yo! Then the guy who made it went on to make detroit become human. Another game that wishes it was deeper than it actually is but this one is even worse lol. Aren't humans complex and silly the game gets old pretty quick if you ask me lol. Also when are gamers going to realize that video game story lines, even the best one's are AZZ compared to something like better call saul so the bar is quite low lol. So this kind of a video game is going to have to do a lot more than promise a cute story to get me buying em up...

@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 nah it's a good game you crazy. Detroit Become Human is also damn good you are insane. When are elitists going to to realize how crappy and overrated the storylines in most prestige dramas are, Better Call Saul is alright but it didn't blow me away or touch me like some game stories did, certainly not the way Last of Us 2 did.

Editor here. I was watching the episode about "perpetual stew" and paused the video to go do something. When I came back I liked how Max's face looked like he was having a concerned thought about something, so I screen capped it. I have a ton of screen caps with similar origin stories in my "Jimquisition Images" folder.

I was gonna say, I think the facial expression was why that got grabbed. That was still crazy to see.

I was looking for someone to mention Max, I assumed the confused look was the point. Great dude.

@@ZMannZilla Zilla! you sweet child! What is that at 12:04 ??? I suddenly remember watching it when I was 3 years old. Such a nostalgia punch to the testcls. What is it? Where can I get it? Please please please help a poor soul out.

@MH-hu5pi is from one of the Minds Eye videos. The second one I think.

It was certainly a surprise to see him in there but I am also struggling to figure out why he's there at all!

was thinking the same thing!

it's certainly not a stock image!

@@T.E.S.S. chicken stock maybe

Editor here. God this question is all over the comments, lol. Anyways I was watching the episode about "perpetual stew" and paused the video to go do something. When I came back I liked how Max's face looked like he was having a concerned thought about something, so I screen capped it. I have a ton of screen caps with similar origin stories in my "Jimquisition Images" folder.

I get what you're saying but truly $80 billion isn't much for Microsoft. They are the biggest company on the planet. $3 trillion dollar market cap. And they can't afford to keep these studios open, but can afford to throw $10 billion into ChatGPT/OpenAI, plus all the money they are putting into things like co-pilot etc. And in May 2024, Microsoft announced a $3.3 billion investment to build an artificial intelligence hub in southeast Wisconsin.

well most gamers don't follow gaming news that closely so they genuinely don't know this stuff.

just to replace it with a much younger, more beautiful and cheaper A.I. who also controls a s** robot who can s*** their d***

I wouldn't go that far, maybe cause I personally wasn't blown away by the game. It was fine enough and it does suck that Tango is being closed down now but I don't believe boycotts work so i'm not going to bother.

@jacksonteller3973 iunno, you can say "don't bother" on the wider scale but also... why bother putting up with Microsoft on a personal ick scale? its not like its a huge effort to pass on em -- we're kinda at a point with games like with any other media where most people likely have a backlog of games they've been meaning to play, or games they're looking forward to, or games that originally slipped under their radar that Microsoft isnt really Compelling yknow

@@2zuku820 that's your opinion not a fact i happen to like MS's games very much, you're not the boss of me.

Not to mention we are talking about literally the largest company on planet earth. A $3 trillion dollar market cap. But they can't afford to keep these studios open. Got $10 billion laying around to throw at ChatGPT/OpenAI though. And in May 2024, Microsoft announced a $3.3 billion investment to build an artificial intelligence hub in southeast Wisconsin.

Games would still be too expensive to make. Anything other than a zero dollar investment with literally infinite returns is too expensive to make. They don't want to make games, they want a money fountain.

To the first two questions, the answer is no. Last June they announced the open beta was ending and the game went offline. Don't worry, no one playing the game knew it was a beta either...

They called it a beta since day one. They also happily took your money.

@@AkumaKristian Hey truth stretcher, you could have told him that Multiversus was coming back in 6 days but you chose not to mention it for agenda reason.

@@floatingkites2420 Chill mate, I just figured that's what they meant when they said the game was "releasing" and didn't think I needed to reiterate that. Honestly, Multiversus wasn't my cup of tea but I don't think the game is that bad or anything. Go ahead and have fun with it.

I heard they also poop and fart just like "normal people"

Oh, oh and harass female employees!