>>714305126 (OP)
At least Blizzard is safe so they can make more great games like Overwatch 2.

and nothing of value was lost. latest forza was dogshit.

>>714305126 (OP)
Any word on Double Fine? I was hoping they would close

>>714305126 (OP)
>Raven
>Call of Duty team

>>714305126 (OP)
GOOD
thats what you get for still picking shit countries in horizon

>>714305126 (OP)
>Had 8 years to make a new Forza entry
>Release a absolutely buggy piece of shit
>That is STILL reusing models from fucking Forza 3
They deserved to get shut down

>>714306278
>tfw the next horizon will be pozzed third world instead of japan

>>714305126 (OP)
>Turn 10 laid off
NOOOOOO DON'T CANCEL FABLE I WANT TO LAUGH AT THE WOKE SLOP FLOP

isn't like half of their studio during development contractors anyways
there can't be anyone left after this

More like Turn 5

What's the point of like 3 companies owning 90% of IPs and studios shutting them down and then sitting on the IPs for years and not doing anything

>>714306984
LMAO

>>714306502
Listen here, we needed to take monthlong vacations to the swiss alps every april for five years straight, it was for the sake of the game. We have a track that has the swiss alps in it somewhere. We went there so that we could take in the atmosphere and study the locale, so that when we outsource the creation of the swiss alps racetrack we know exactly what to expect. And before you ask, it was the same thing with venice in may.

>>714306816
Most of M$ staff is like that. They have this system where, if you work with them for either 6 or 12 months, you can request full time employment. So every time their contractors are about to hit that mark their contracts don't get renewed and they get replaced with a new batch of contractors. M$ is known for having one of the highest turnover rates by far thanks to that.
And you end up with fractured dev teams that have no idea what the previous one did. Fucking 343i is probably my favourite example, how they developed a completely new engine for Halo only to have nobody left who could use it and switch to UE5 since that is something everyone knows.

>>714305126 (OP)
forza is a boring game and they've been copy/pasting the same dogshit racing game for like 20 editions now. good

>>714305126 (OP)
They're replacing them with H1b's lmao

>>714307009
they wish to destroy your games. there are too many man wasting time (in their eyes) with games, and (((they))) are poisoning the milk, so to speak.

For specifics, this is the Forza Motorsport team (Turn 10). Playground games heads the Forza Horizon series and they weren't effected.

>>714307461
well where the fuck is horizon 6

>>714305126 (OP)
>development time of latest game literally 3x longer than any other game in the mainline series, most expensive game in the franchise to date
>looks worse than the competing game despite being newer and next-gen only
>runs worse than the competing game due to jeet optimization
>lacks content, disappoints fans
>sells poorly despite needing far better sales than prior entries due to the much longer dev time

Explain how Microsoft isn't justified in firing a bunch of people here.

>>714306984
kek

Gran Turismo chads how we feeling

>>714307452
Can I get an answer that isnt from someone that obviously watches too much interracial porn

>>714307461
>Spin off outlives the main series
How often does this happen

>>714305126 (OP)
All this could have been avoided if the Xbone reveal in 2012 wouldn't have been a disaster.
They lost me on that day and I couldn't care less now what happens to xbone devs.

>>714307678
Still waiting for a PC port.

Last one I played was 5 on PS3 and sometimes the load times were longer than the actual race.

>>714306502
Last played 6 during the Xbox One days and never tried Horizon, wtf happened with Turn 10?

GRAN TOURISMO WON

FORZA IS KILL

>>714307519
Announcement coming next year.

>>714305126 (OP)
I hope everyone involved in the writing and theme of Forza Horizon 5 has been fired. That's an insult to players, to young people (because the devs think young people are retarded), and to humanity in general.

>>714309186
Was that the one where they spent half of the dev tran-hours on systems that let you pick your favorite type of tranny and peglegs?

Why do people assume that companies have juuuuust the right amount of staff and that losing a bunch of them is going to hurt them? In reality companies are bloated to fuck.

>>714307009
corporations only care about wealth generation. all decisions are made with the prime motive being to generate wealth for execs and investors. they don't care about your beloved franchises if they such franchises are not performing well for said prime motive. it's why corporatism does not belong in a creative industry, because those creative decisions cease to be when your primary motive is extracting capital through commodification. a company will either rely on a existing franchise by producing endless sequels and remakes, or kill it when it doesn't perform well due to poor decisions that are the antithesis to creativity. they don't make games, they make money.

>>714311491
>all decisions are made with the prime motive being to generate wealth for execs and investors
They're made with the INTENTION of generating wealth. In reality their decision making processes are often incredibly flawed and result in money being lost.

>>714311491
>corporations only care about wealth generation
*quarterly wealth generation
Wouldn't necessarily be so bad if the big corps were on 10-20-100 year plans to make infinite money, but they're more than willing to burn all their goodwill and reputation to make line go up for a couple of months. Never go public, ever

>>714305126 (OP)
Every microsoft studio fires 90% of new hires every 18 months to avoid bwing legally required to pay them benefits

>>714305126 (OP)
Absolutely deserved for making the absolute trash that is Forza Motorsport 2023, the fucking retards

>>714305985
yes, they haven't worked on anything else for 15 years.

>>714305126 (OP)
If you can lay off half a company without disrupting game development, then they clearly weren't doing anything.

>>714311985
Yeah but all the black ceos get to fuck snow bunnies

>>714313096
I know, still pisses me off that this is what they're known for nowadays.

>>714305126 (OP)
This is some of the greatest news ive ever heard! All those fat fucking whores and feminists are kill, is this the greatest comeback for gaming

>>714306984
lmao

>>714305126 (OP)
That kind of sucks. Forza isn’t that great, but it’s ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cY5JLjzCNQ

THANOS SNAP

>>714307461
Oh makes sense. Wasn’t the last FM a disappointment?

>>714305126 (OP)
raven is finally free?

>>714314045
buggy, half-baked and some car leveling system no one asked for, people also figured out they were using models straight from Forza 3 with the same odd quirks and dimensions carried over. Ironically their marketing was all about the phrase "Built from the ground up" which was thrown around a lot;

>>714309652
Yes. The funny thing is that there is only one white male character among the 30 or 40 characters you can choose from, so 75% of all the people playing the game use exactly the same avatar, LOL.
But that's not even the worst part. The most ridiculous thing is the tone of the writing. When I play it, I feel like the retarded kid in a special needs class who gets praised all the time even though I haven't done anything to deserve it.

>>714311491
It turns out that there is no magic formula for making money, so corporations run by intelligent people know that they need to maintain a certain humanity in what they do.
Keeping famous franchises on hold because the target audience is not large enough to justify a big project is stupid. Even if the return of a new entry is only 1% of what the big project is making, you still want to maintain an image that fans can trust your company.
That's why Bethesda's ID Software, recently released new source ports for Doom 1 + 2. It wasn't to make money (although it probably did). It was to keep a strong franchise in the spotlight, keep fans interested in the company's products, etc.

>>714305126 (OP)
People ACTUALLY play racing games other than Mario Kart, Crash Team Racing, and Sonic Kart? What the fuck?

>>714305126 (OP)
Weren't they developing the Fable reboot? Guess that's cancelled too.

God fucking damnit.

>>714305126 (OP)
>Call of Duty studios such as Raven