What did he mean by this

I think he's admitting that Microsoft keep demanding their devs to make live service slop that gamers are rightfully rejecting

>>716446585 (OP)
Every excuse under the sun just so they don't have to admit that the solution is making good games

>>716446585 (OP)
reminds me of this shit lmao

>>716446585 (OP)
I think he's trying to say that keeping people on a development team, with organizational knowledge/memory specific to that IP or franchise, isn't worth it, because you can spin up a brand new video game IP and outsell franchises with decades of history, such as Doom, Star Wars, Dragon Age, Final Fantasy, Assassin's Creed, etc.

He's not exactly wrong, but it sounds like some degree of cope. GTA 6 will sell a bazillion units on day one because it's the GTA franchise.

>>716446585 (OP)
He basically says that they've ruined all their franchises by pimping them out to absolute idiots (but with the correct agenda) which has made once guaranteed hit titles be flops over and over again. The videogame industry is a lot like wrestling though, with probably hundreds of thousands of people desperate to break in who they can pay below market rate and see if this new crop of talent can make anything good from the ash that the old guard left in their woke wake.

>>716446585 (OP)
What he's saying is Microsoft is just cooking the books with its various subdivisions and Xbox is burning money.

typical pajeet ceo
no vision, no creativity, only way to make line go up is to jack up prices and run a skeleton crew

>>716449430
He's killing the company so he can fill it with his ten thousand cousins and make it an Indian company.

>the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value
If I am reading this correctly, he is saying that success is an unknown factor for video games even if it has a franchise name attached to it, which is a "no shit". It doesn't matter what IP a game is attached to if it is at least a good game.
The thing that shits me off about the quote though is that it has the presumption that Microsoft has been treating its' franchises correctly, which is fucking laughable.

>>716448049
Its honestly insane. Nintendo is still succeeding by making good games. Why don't microcock and snoy just admit they were wrong?

>>716446585 (OP)
bloody benchod bastard

there are people on this board that actually bought the bone, fucking kek

it's just corporate speak, it doesn't mean anything

>I also want to acknowledge the uncertainty and seeming incongruence of the times we're in. By every objective measure, Microsoft is thriving—our market performance, strategic positioning, and growth all point up and to the right. We're investing more in CapEx than ever before. Our overall headcount is relatively unchanged, and some of the talent and expertise in our industry and at Microsoft is being recognized and rewarded at levels never seen before. And yet, at the same time, we've undergone layoffs.
>This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value. Progress isn't linear. It's dynamic, sometimes dissonant, and always demanding. But it's also a new opportunity for us to shape, lead through, and have greater impact than ever before.
>The success we want to achieve will be defined by our ability to go through this difficult process of "unlearning" and "learning." It requires us to meet changing customer needs, by continuing to maintain and scale our current business, while also creating new categories with new business models and a new production function. This is inherently hard, and few companies can do both.
TL: We want more money, so we're cutting costs. Learn to do more with less, slaves.

>>716446585 (OP)
I’m guessing AI wrote that line for him because it makes absolutely no sense.

>>716446585 (OP)
They're frustrated that all the IP they purchased isn't getting them guaranteed sales like the old days. These days random indie titles become smash hits out of nowhere because gamers want fresh experiences. Microsoft is too full of money bugs to do something new and creative.

>>716446585 (OP)
C-suite executives are literally nonhuman; they've abandoned human language.
This guy is basically one of those obelisks in Evangelion.

>>716446585 (OP)
It means that he believes that people will buy whatever slop they get given if it has a familiar name on it, but that vidya apparently doesn't have this happen and it's a complete mystery why people didn't buy the latest dragon age game or whatever.

>>716449109
>Destroy franchises
>Huh, not sure what the problem is!

>>716449786
He did say they were investing more in AI. Maybe they should fire even MORE people, because clearly the AI isn't working yet.

>>716449737
>buddy has one
>only thing it does decently is play videoessays 24/7 for "background noise"

>>716449767
One of the oldest and most reliable corporate magic tricks is to do mass layoffs before or after the end of a quarter and you've suddenly cut millions of dollars for shareholders. Then you just rehire whatever you need until it's time to do the magic trick again

>>716446585 (OP)
>what did he mean by this.

Pound sand cunts, you're all fired and I don't give a shit.

>>716446585 (OP)
>no franchise value
pokemon proves this wrong

>>716449109
>keeping people on a development team, with organizational knowledge/memory specific to that IP or franchise, isn't worth it
It's habitually proven to be worth it. These new IPs that claim smashing success are chinese astroturfs

>>716449786
>>716450029
>>716450972
>>716451135

You're looking at this the wrong way. There's a good chance the glorified blogger journo used ai for it in between screeching about ai on bsky, but the reality is if he used ai to say this, it's because he doesn't think it's worth his time to comment on. Which is pretty fucking based.

>>716449109
it would be if they hadn't spent the last ten-ish years destroying their own franchises with terrible decisions

>>716448159
I unironcally think that shit is going to get so bad that people will actually begin to take this gnomes rant seriously.

When that happens I think I'll just buy a PC and emulate everything.

>>716451618
Don't worry, anon, it was happening in the studios they bought long before microsoft even considered acquisitions.

>>716446585 (OP)
>PLZ SARS, DO THE NEEDFUL AND REDEEM THE LAY-OFF PACKAGE. DO NOT REDEEM THE LAWYER PACKAGE! I WILL REDEEM THE LAWYER PACKAGE!

Azure fucking sucks, Co-pilot is spyware, and Windows is a designated operating shitter, now.

Nadella should've been fired after Windows 8. But the second best time is now.

>>716446585 (OP)
I’m beyond embarrassed that this pajeet graduated from the same Alma matter as me. Clearly he never learned anything in business school

Lots of retards on /v/ saying MS buying Bethesda/Activision meant unlimited money for their games when now it's proven the exact opposite

>>716452753
When will MS sell Xbox and the catalog?

>>716446585 (OP)
>>716446585 (OP)
I genuinely have no idea.

>>716446585 (OP)
Reminds me of this guy.
>The vectors for success are aligned and positions have been taken to maximize stakeholder buy in to achieve learning moments and win-win scrnarios in this evolving space

>>716449565
>Nintendo is still making good games
lmao, BOTW is almost 10 years old.
Nintendo just happen to have the most cultist consumers.

>>716446585 (OP)
Vance needs to scream at this guy more for getting rid of the jobs of 9000 Americans to hire Indians

>>716446585 (OP)
"Kyubey asked me to kick a bunch of people, i kicked a bunch of people, kyubey was happy".

Don't ask question, just obey kyubey and be excited for the next kyubey orders.

>>716446585 (OP)
he means they wasted billions making shitty games nobody wants to buy, now they think its impossible to make good games and its all luck or black magic whether you succeed.

>>716449109
>you can spin up a brand new video game IP and outsell franchises with decades of history, such as Doom, Star Wars, Dragon Age, Final Fantasy, Assassin's Creed, etc.
If that's what he meant then that's absolute BS.

The amount of times new IP's have absolutely bombed is off the charts.
Meanwhile people queue up and buy franchise slop by the millions, no matter how bad it is.

>>716446585 (OP)
I've been processing this quote for several minutes now and no matter which way i look at it (there are several possible interpretations) it doesn't make any fucking sense.

>>716446585 (OP)
He successfully replaced all laid off Americans with forefingers of the swarthy variety.

>get rid of people who actually know what is good and how good things are made (bigoted white men)
>everything goes to shit and stops improving
dang, that nigga Hitler was mad right yo

>>716446585 (OP)
Translation: H1B visa hires can make the same garbage games we're paying you to make for far less.

>>716449565
they're institutionally incapable of maintaining good devs and training/hiring good ones to replace them.

>>716453305
As if he cares. All Pajeets hire Pajeets and Vance, with half-Jeeta kids, will eat the shit.

>>716446585 (OP)
Microsoft is an Indian company. Normies think because they have the façade of a headquarters in the US and a stock listing that they're American but the ethos and culture has been entirely captured by India.

>>716449109
That is exactly his point. The cope part is how badly the've managed the franchises. Putting people who hate guns and the millitary in charge of halo isn't a winning move. And while they did cut a bunch of non producers, they also kept people like that one racist dude on Avowed.

>>716446585 (OP)
>we have no valuable franchises so we must downsize sar, please understand.

>>716456338
I miss hi fi rush.

>>716456443
is everyone on this forum ESL? the meaning is crystal clear. The route to success is enigmatic and doesnt scale with budget which means massive companies like Microsoft have no real advantage in the marketplace.

>>716449851
Part of me wonders how out of touch a person can be? Like at what point do you say “my info is bad maybe I should go see for myself?”. Like I’m genuinely curious as to who feeds them info? Like what soulless/retarded analyst spends all their time finding the most inaccurate and misleading metrics to feed these suits? I mean do any of them actually know why people like the games from the franchises they bought? Like even if the opinions vary at large there has to be some common factor that they can create a pattern from? Fuck man, it’s like they’re just spinning a fucking roulette wheel or throwing random shit at the wall.

>>716446585 (OP)
Why haven't any burgers coders shot a pajeet ceo yet? Aren't they ruining their lives and that's what the guns are for?

>>716446585 (OP)

>>716460962
No and no. Go ask pol if you're confused.

>>716449851
They say success is impossible to gauge yet they covet companies like nintendo who have maintained a hyper successful company by being able to gauge it. This is a weird admission that their leadership is clueless and that they do not belong in the game industry. Their leadership seems incompetent on such a fundamental level that they openly admit they lack vision and can only make money by abusing and shittifying obvious, existing sources of revenue.

>>716446585 (OP)
>enigma of success
This is a great line for being a huge failure. I wish i was a CEO and i could peddle this bullshit.
>Me as a cleaner be like
>The floors in these rooms aren't clean
>The enigma of cleanliness eludes us in an industry that has low pay

>>716460842
Western corporations aren't interested in providing goods or services to end users. They are designed to funnel money to stockholders. No one in management in any major publicly traded corporation knows or cares even the slightest about the industry in which they work.
All they have to do is put out some press conference about leveraging AI and fire a bunch of employees and stock price will go up.

>>716460962
Shoot up one jeet, and a thousand more will redeem his place.

>>716461762
But if it’s all about money then would they at least try to fix the issue of falling profits? Like it’s clear they give enough of a shit of at least want to make it seem like they do to say something. So at the very least they could try to figure out what’s fucking everything up.

perhaps the true success was the games we announced and then cancelled along the way

>>716446585 (OP)
they shouldnt have hired all of those dei faggot retards

>>716460842
I feel we aren't that far off from stock market AI dictating the actions of CEO's where the machine will advise them to make ridiculous decisions like firing 90% of its staff and buying 50 ukranian nuclear powerplants only to sell them the next day and buy an African diamond mine because its making predictions nobody understands but do actually make the green line go up.

These CEO's are already abstract, parasitic decision makers who care about nothing besides parking money in the right spot.

>>716462263
they're going to create a new pandemic because money goes burr

>>716446585 (OP)
Gaming does not make them money so who cares about that section of slaves.
What he basically said.

>>716462049
>One jeet dies
>A cow shits in his honor
>One thousand jeets redeem his place
>The cow dung erupts with methane and a loud "WHY ARE YOU REDEEMING?!"

in 5 years hes gonna fire like 40% of all americans and replace them with jeets

videogames cant generate the level of revenue they want

>>716448049
>duh just press the good game button
If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

>>716464531
This is disingenuous because there have been tons of fun indie games coming out, but big businesses continue to hire nepo troons or people who make shit or don't make anything at all

Small studios struggle with shoe string budgets while fat retarded troons get millions of dollars to blow on utter trash like concord

>>716462106
They get money either way from the government whether they make a profit or not.
America is filled with zombie corporations that just sit around and suck on 0% loan rates.
They're just waiting for the next blackrock to give them another whatever billion to continue making some shit about Jews or fags or whatever to continue their propaganda machine
Why make anything at all really? What MICROSOFT is going to go out of business? Please

>>716464531
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqUx6MH-BU

>>716446585 (OP)
Say insane shit to distract people from the fact you are going to hire thousands of rape jeets because paying white people that made your company successful won't let you buy another yacht.

>>716456338
That's because the New IPs as of late of have been shit.

>>716449565
>Nintendo is still succeeding by making good games
the last good Nintendo game was Super Mario Bros 2 for the famicom disk system

>>716446585 (OP)
he means:
make shit games, get fired, also ai good

>>716449565
>>716448049
it's just that simple
xbox got pozzed and made shite

>>716467760
this

>>716449565
>Why don't microcock and snoy just admit they were wrong?
the ones who complained got fired years ago

>>716446585 (OP)
Brahmin verbal iq.