*mic drop*

https://aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-microsoft-phil-spencer

People speculating about something they know literally nothing about.

>>714327632 (OP)
Notice how the author wants to completely shify any blame from the DEI project leads who Phil allowed to run wild with infinite money and they still fucked up and produced nothing of value. Phil is to blame for letting them chimp out like this, but they proved that go woke go broke is still true.

>>714327632 (OP)
You don't see the whole picture

>>714327632 (OP)
Plunkett has the same ignorant worldview as a teenage girl who talks about just buying houses for all the homeless. What a pathetic "man".

>>714327632 (OP)
Why would the people deciding layoffs lay themselves off?

>>714328072
He is going to employ ALL his cousins

>>714327632 (OP)
Who? Matt Booty?

you know it's a serious outlet because they have a drawing of the author against a flat-colored background

>>714328353
Oh wow you're a conservative piece of shit.

>>714328072
Microsoft is behind way more than xbox. They make windows.

>>714327632 (OP)
>ceo taking responsibility for their decisions
Good joke, anon.

>>714327632 (OP)
>None of these people being laid off were responsible for the decisions
9 out of 10 of them go onto twitter to argue in their favor, though. That's worse than being the initial pitcher of said ideas—that's defending this bullshit as a hobby.

>>714327632 (OP)
>"Well, you see... it's not THEIR fault they were given 4+ years on a salary to deliver a video game product, and have nothing to show for it yet...

>>714327632 (OP)
Why not both?
Get rid of DEI hires and the ones that hired them.

>>714327632 (OP)
Phil is incompetent, but the idiots who couldn't make a game in 7 years deserve to be fired too.

>>714328491
Guess jeets just do this no matter the scale
>Move to country
>buy business
>fire everyone
>hire twice as many jeets

They can't be given an inch.

>>714328667
It's the whole company layoffs, xbox is only part of it, 10k americans out, 14k aindians in

>>714328612
Stalin wouldn't lay himself off would he comrade?

>>714329242
Same with any foreign ethnic group you import, everyone's favorite example is Jews but there's a lot less of them and they don't have an average IQ of 75 so they know to be more subtle about it.

>>714328667
I think that’s Apple. Apple Windows

I find it weird how high up people are just allowed to constantly fuck up and then fail upwards to another company.

>>714332884
It's a big club and you're not in it. Aristocracy never died, it just evolved.

>>714333009
>>714332884
It's actually all about how much dick you can suck and how soulless you are. That's really all it is. That is the exact attitude you need to climb up. Make really shit games, know it, and genuinely not care.
If you want to climb, everything you do needs to be some data-driven money making action. Never ever do something that is "a good idea". All you do is present some data, true or not, fudge it and cherry pick, and claim it makes money.

Why do you think they make decisions like "Shovel this game out before it is finished, instead of spending more money to finish it".
You can't argue against that decision, because you can't guarantee the game will sell well, if they spend the money to finish it.

EVERY. SINGLE. THING. YOU. DO. HAS. TO. BE. BACKED. BY. SOME. CHART.

It's not even true that releasing a broken game early is the right call. It's just that you can present numbers to argue for it. You can't predict/guarantee sales to ever argue against it.

It's a fucking battle to get them to care about PC. Even though it's the largest platform by far "most of our customers are on console" is what you will get talking to those kind of people. They ignore the fact they never ever have made a good PC game. They can't see a big picture, or come up with any good ideas. All they do is look at charts and data, so whenever they make a bad decision, they can reference "the data said this would work, how could we predict this would fail" and then they don't get in trouble, and they can move up anyway.

>>714327632 (OP)
How dumb. Once you know you need to do layoffs, it's too late and you can't lay off just one person.

>>714327632 (OP)
Phil Spencer walked around every studio asking the people what they did

>>714334907
So his entire job is to ask people what they do?
Seems pretty useless to me.