Thread 714462512

https://www.ign.com/articles/update-romero-games-employee-says-whole-studio-subject-to-layoffs-after-microsoft-pulls-funding-for-new-shooter-from-doom-co-creator-john-romero
>"Today I found out our whole studio is being let go because of the layoffs at Microsoft," the staff member wrote via a post on LinkedIn.
>"A very sad day," wrote another employee impacted by layoffs. "It breaks my heart to say that Romero Games fell victim to the 9,100 Microsoft layoffs today. The best team I've ever worked with and my dream job gone just like that. It really was a great project and it's hard to process that it's over. It's nothing less than tragic."
Back to the gas station

>>714462512 (OP)
>Romero was creating a game for Microsoft
Was this disclosed before?

>>714462705
No, apparently it hadn't been announced yet.

I wonder what it is was? He conned Phil into funding Blackroom, maybe?

What the fuck is Microsoft doing, buying up lots of studios and pulling the plug on all the games in development.

>>714462779
Poor Daikatana 2, ruthlessly strangled in the crib.

>>714462512 (OP)
so what does this mean for the future of Blackroom? After the Kickstarter failed back in 2016 Romero promised that the game wasn't a scam and he was going to relaunch it once he had some gameplay and not just 4 concept art images. It's been almost 10 years now so the game has to be nearing a complete enough state that they can at least launch the Kickstarter again with some gameplay footage right? I mean, Romero has spent this last decade working on the project he claimed he was passionate and serious about hasn't he?

>>714464714.
Bloatmaxx to drive up stock value and reduce competition, then shut down everything before the costs really catch up.

This hack didn't make anything relevant in last two decades, and his recent record is all major failures. I don't get why companies are throwing money at such old farts

>>714466130
I heard some people say his doom expansions were aight. I watched fifteen minutes of him wander around myhouse.wad.

>>714466130
Competence only matters when you are young and starting your career, once you have made it, networking and being "easy to work with" become the only relevant career skills.