"The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."
  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    11 hours ago

    In this thread, we each call out a stupid decision Microsoft made in the past!

    Microsoft passed on Alan Wake 2.

    • raze2012@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 hours ago

      They bought out Rare and did nothing with them for 15 years. Now they are just “The Sea of Thieves” devs.

      Imagine a timeline where they became a 2nd party Nintendo studio instead.

        • Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          10 hours ago

          I didn’t mean that in a very positive way.

          I know there’s a post-hoc artistique justification where Alan is a hack writer and everything in the dark place is only as good as his imagination… but a poorly made game is still a poorly made game, and trying to shove half of a Max Payne action shooter into an Alan Wake game is just asking for disappointment (just ask Amnesia fans about pigs).

          • MetaStatistical@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            I’m still puzzled that they made their masterpiece in SOMA and then wasted years of their life on Amnesia sequels. At least ONTOS is on the horizon.