alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day agoDev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1592cross-posted to: pcmasterrace@lemmy.worldgames@lemmy.worldgaming@beehaw.org
arrow-up1592external-linkDev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'www.pcgamer.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square94fedilinkcross-posted to: pcmasterrace@lemmy.worldgames@lemmy.worldgaming@beehaw.org
minus-squareQueenHawlSera@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·14 hours agoWhy did Microsoft buy all these studios if the plan was to never actually have them make anything? I’ve been asking that since they bought Rare and proceeded to do nothing with them.
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoFor a long time, their value proposition was “use us because what else can you do?” Trying to monololize the gaming industry by buying up whatever good studios they can is just a part of that.
minus-squareCrypticCoffee@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoThey wanted to own existing IP. Not make new stuff. Buy an asset, milk it, and that’ll do. Any words about long-term maybe were lies.
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 hours agoBecause it’s run by fucking idiots with MBAs who have no connection whatsoever to the company’s profits and losses.
minus-squareapotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 hours agoIf you buy up all your potential competition, you have no competition.
minus-squareQueenHawlSera@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoI miss when Phil Spencer was talking about reviving Heroes of the Storm and Skylanders, he was never gonna do it, but I liked the hopium.
Why did Microsoft buy all these studios if the plan was to never actually have them make anything?
I’ve been asking that since they bought Rare and proceeded to do nothing with them.
For a long time, their value proposition was “use us because what else can you do?” Trying to monololize the gaming industry by buying up whatever good studios they can is just a part of that.
They wanted to own existing IP. Not make new stuff. Buy an asset, milk it, and that’ll do. Any words about long-term maybe were lies.
Because it’s run by fucking idiots with MBAs who have no connection whatsoever to the company’s profits and losses.
If you buy up all your potential competition, you have no competition.
I miss when Phil Spencer was talking about reviving Heroes of the Storm and Skylanders, he was never gonna do it, but I liked the hopium.