Thread 721169986

Halo Studios just lost its Chief of Staff Mellissa Boone. Recent reports also indicate that no one in the studio is happy with the quality of the next Halo game

>>721169986 (OP)
Good.

Fuck me well that was quick. Fair play to Microsoft. Could it be AAA studios are running out of Blacrockbuxx and are all of a sudden actually getting a clue at last???

SAD NEWS

>>721169986 (OP)
Good riddance

>>721170371
>Could it be AAA studios are running out of Blacrockbuxx and are all of a sudden actually getting a clue at last???
It's more that they're trying the Rollercoaster Tycoon exploit of deleting an old ride and putting the exact same new ride in its place to get a free boost in park rating. They fired Boone because the asspats they got for hiring a BIPOC landwhale slowed down and she wasn't doing a great job anyway, so they'll probably hire another black woman and proclaim how inclusive and forward-thinking they are, hoping people won't realize they already played that card once before.

>>721169986 (OP)
Hopefully Nintendo has the smarts to snatch up a talented dev like that. Kudos, sir!

>>721169986 (OP)
>chief of staff
so she would just get more people like her in actual dev jobs?

>>721169986 (OP)
What new game? Halo ended after 3.

>>721170371
The economy is cratering. Hopefully we get a nice deep recession that purges all shitty unprofitable companies and ends the misallocation of capital towards unprofitable slop. But that's probably just hopeless optimism. Banking jews will just rev up the printers and the DEI bucks will flow once more.

>>721169986 (OP)
Why is Halo even a series they're trying to keep going? It literally has not been good since Bungie fucked off.

>>721170371
>Could it be AAA studios are running out of Blacrockbuxx and are all of a sudden actually getting a clue at last???
There's really no reason why one of the richest and powerful company in the world can't properly staff up a studio for their flagship franchise. We all thought Microsoft's hand's off approach to their studios would lead to better games, but the reality is that without the fear of Corpo God, these studios can't make deadlines or functional games. I don't even hate 343 as much as other people do. I enjoyed Infinite at launch and the multiplayer for 2 years. But it's undeniable that they could, and should, be performing at a caliber that is unmatched in the industry. It's really sad being a Halo fan.

>>721169986 (OP)
Melissa Sheboone

>game dev has black skin
>Retards start immediately screeching DEI DEI DEI DEI
Layoffs are affecting everyone dumbasses

>>721170770
MS is trying to hold onto whatever they can, Gears and Halo are the only "relevant" things they have anymore. You'd think that with literal infinite money they would be able to do something about it but they don't realize that those hires they get are the worst shit ever.

>>721170653
unfortunately, she never posted any photorealistic mario art. nintendo cant hire this (wo)man

>>721171115
>Trying to hold onto whatever they can
>While shutting down every studio they get their hands on
Microsoft doesn't seem very smart.

>>721170371
MS has been cleaning house because most of their firings have been in blue states like california.

>>721171314
why is this so common

>>721169986 (OP)
They lost the grunt face model
Halo is finished!

>>721171070
Please then anon. Show us her amazing past work that was so revolutionary that shows she earned that high position for skill instead of skin color.

Go ahead anon. We are all waiting for you to show us

>>721170371
they put blacks in leadership positions because of religious passion. The search for meaning drives the world, not money, and it was how they fulfill their religious impulses. Accountability from money is a last resort after passion fades.

>Massive layoffs in western gaming
>Weaboos suffering from massive censorship by eastern companies that decided to implement ESG regulations 3-4 years late.
What a horrible year.

>>721169986 (OP)
More like Baboone amirite

>>721170371
Too late, damage is done and trust is gone. There are still remnants clinging like their life is on the line making the pivot back to good games difficult

>>721169986 (OP)
what key and peele sketch is this

>>721171894
>>Massive layoffs in western gaming
unironically good
>eastern companies that decided to implement ESG regulations 3-4 years late.
that shit is always funny, they're late to the party every time, remember square enix announcing that NFT project? kek

>>721170371
Microsoft has never had a single clue how to run game studios, and they don't know how to run anything at all these days with their jeet leadership. They're so entrenched into government and corporate enterprise that they can afford to just throw money to buy out all their competition even as everything they touch turns to shit.

>>721171482
>pandemic
>loved for
>the saboteur
well that's a blatant lie

If these fired game devs are so talented, why don't they make a good game on their own?

>>721171070
>clown hair
>clown glasses
It ain't just the skin

>>721169986 (OP)
i don't think any IP has fallen as hard as Halo has. at one point in time Halo was the most popular video game IP on the planet. now it's just a wet fart.

>>721172325
Its decline was also before the "us women are also gamers!" phase the industry entered so that's interesting, it certainly didn't help and possibly accelerated its decay

>>721172253
>Mr. Goldberg is helping me make my game
They are just waiting for the next call for more propaganda media

>>721169986 (OP)
why was this groid put in charge of halo anyway

an how does phil spencer still have a job?

>>721170770
gamers don't give a shit about devteams, only the IP they produce
it's why remakes and reboots are churned out ad nauseum by anyone other than the original team and still find an find an audience
i find it baffling

>>721172253
Relooted exists!

>>721170770
Halo 5 multiplayer was excellent, though probably only on accident

>Hates gun and want gun control laws
>Head of a game that involves gun
I dunno who exactly it is but i find it funny.

>>721172537
Under the Biden years stuff like qualifications were deemed to be forms of racism, so they threw that aside for equity. "Equity" means hiring people who are not qualified for a given position for the sake of ensuring demographic representation. The claim is they'll learn on the job and will eventually get up to standards with it.

>>721171482
Westwood made Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, which is still my all-time favorite pirate game. It's a shame that EA took them over just to gut them and shut them down.

>>721169986 (OP)
Is that a Concord character?

>>721169986 (OP)
The boards of all these companies should be dragged into federal court for breach of fiduciary responsibility to the share holders.

>>721171482
I know EA is easy to blame, but i wonder how much of this actually had to do with behind the scenes things? Pandemic was busy fucking up a batman game and Will left Maxis after spore. Wasn't Maxis a mess at that point ?

>>721171070
>Hi, I'm Melissa! I'm a user researcher at Xbox! I've been in the industry for 3 years. Currently I work on Minecraft and also on diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in gaming. I studied psychology at Spelman and got a PhD in psych at Columbia. #blackgamedev weekend

https://x.com/TheRubyValkyrie/status/1033841346157527040?lang=ar-x-fm

>>721170696
Halo CE remake

>>721171482
Honestly, EA alone has probably done more damage to the western gaming industry than any single entity in the entire history of video games.
So many amazing studios that made breakout, awesome, generation-defining games in the 90s were killed by EA.

>>721170371
it looks like she's working for Riot Games now so she probably left for another job

>>721169986 (OP)
She Boone

>>721171894
>turns out they weren't based, just slow
Fucking Asians.

Putting any kind of woman in charge of a beloved dudebro franchise like Halo is just a sick joke

>>721170770
343, or whatever they're calling it nowadays, is undergoing a managed decline. They're not hiring any new staff whatsoever, when one head leaves they just promote some schmuck instead of headhunting someone qualified. They kept Halo around because it was symbolic of the Xbox brand, but now that they've bought Activision and made the move to 3rd party they're no longer necessary.

343 is officially in sink or swim territory, if their next game is another failure then there's nothing to save them from getting closed down.

>see black people
>immediately do a "shieeeeeeeeeet" to myself

Can't be the only one?

>>721176889
no you're not the only racist on /v/

>>721173059
This has nothing to do with Biden and this problem existed long before him.

>>721169986 (OP)
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>>721170371
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>>721171352
Read this >>721177140 retard

>>721169986 (OP)
>Halo Studios just lost its Chief of Staff Mellissa Boone
They lost this bitch a couple of days ago after Charlie Kirk's death.
>Recent reports
Those recent reports were old and either related to Infinite or the MP project which may have gotten canceled.

>>721177140
>>721177283
Wonder what Microsoft is going to do now after the H1B law changes, lol.

>>721176841
They're not going to kill Halo but I won't be surprised if they kill all if not most of their studios. I heavily believe that Microsoft and Sony will start outsourcing most if not all of their IPs to third parties to make as multiplat games in the future.

>>721177140
>>721177283
>15k
>(new!) 100k USD in taxes, per each H-1B
They might have infinite money but the point of H-1B is that they're cheaper than an american. Sooo...

>>721177473
>Implying there won't be anyone from microsoft lobbying trump or anyone to exempt them via some bullshit.
Oh boy.

>>721177140
>that will be $1.4 billion in additional H1B visa fees per year now
lmao, good luck with that

>>721177473
Technically the law hasnt changed, and it could be stopped by the courts.

>>721170371
Quick? She had been working at MS for over 10 years

>>721177887
There won't be, plan is to kill the left, nothing will be changed, payment processors are next. You need to stop thinking these people can be bribed and they'll back off. Those days are over, convert and change or be deplatformed, blacklisted, locked up, or die.

>>721178481
You literally can't prove that.

>>721178021
Which "courts"?

>>721178554
She has a Linkedin page...

>>721177796
so now they're just going to outsource it all to India instead of bringing over H-1Bs

>>721169986 (OP)
I'm looking online and all I can find about this is some odd facebook post from some Halo fans, where the OPs image comes from actually. I'm sorry Halobros, but it looks like we're stuck with Boone.

>>721178786
>HIRE Act

>>721177283
Better some pajeets than some ugly she-boon that puts all the pointless DEI shit in games.

>>721178909
Nope, she's actually been fired. Halo Studios is looking for a new Chief of Staff currently.

>>721170770
it still prints money

Halo... it's finished.

>>721179079
Why aren't any game journalism sites reporting this? Seems like big news that the flagship franchise for one of the Big 3 has lost its Chief of Staff and is looking for a new one.

>>721178978
Senate Dems oppose it
it's not passing unless they get rid of the filibuster

>>721179614
>Chief of Staff
that's why

>>721178978
Doesn't actually exist yet and and no chance in hell of being approved.

>>721179079
she's working for Riot Games now according to her LinkedIn so she probably left. I doubt someone who gets fired gets another job like that so quickly

>>721177796
>for no reason
>even r/india is full of threads about indians gangraping children and animals

>>721179614
Not worth reporting, I guess or they're dealing with their own problems.

>>721169986 (OP)
more like melissa coone heheh. more like melissa baboone *snickers and runs away*

>>721169986 (OP)
She... I mean, IT looks like a Concord character. These clowns are literal living caricatures lmao.

>>721170697
>Hopefully we get a nice deep recession
Do you like being hungry?

>>721176004
>Remake
To the depths of the gravemind anus with you.

>>721177140
>>721177283
>just yesterday signs an executive order to make Pajeets pay 100K to even apply for their shitty poo visas
FUCKING KEK! Good luck with that, Sandeep.

>>721182684
It's deeper than that. The jeet needs to spend millions to get in, then the employer needs to spend 100k annually to stay.

>>721171070
May we see these whites hit by layoffs?
And no, women in made up positions don't count for obvious reasons.

>>721178786
>so now they're just going to outsource it all to India
Sounds like no government subsidies to the entirety of Silicon Valley then. Why should the government help a bunch of traitors?

>>721178786
There's a reason they're importing them instead of outsourcing.

>>721174984
Absolutely owned that anon

>>721169986 (OP)
Why even rename 343 to Halo Studios? It's still just 343. It will always be a studio that hates Halo, hates you, and outsources most of its work to bargain bin contractors. Them switching to Unreal will mitigate the learning process, but all they're ever gonna make are mediocre unfinished projects made of low effort, talentless work headed by a creative team that will do the opposite of what anyone wants because of a misplaced sense of superiority, despite making nothing but divisive bombs for 15 years. Kicking out Bonnie Ross and renaming the studio changed nothing.

>>721169986 (OP)
Why do I feel like I know all the opinions of this person just by looking at her?

>>721178481
>10 years
>did nothing but ruin and run one of the biggest IP's into the ground

amazing

>>721183287
Skin's not a choice, but the choice of glasses and hairstyle are. When someone makes those choices, sometimes you can know a book from its cover.

>>721183193
343 was a feminist name, once they got rid of the cunts, they needed to change the name to show that. During cunt era they wanted to sissify Master Chief and then replace him with some DEI stand-in, now as Halo Studios they're forced to only make Master Chief mainline games and Master Chief now must act like a badass, he can no longer act like he did in Halo 4 and 5 ever again. Halo will also now focus on its fantastical elements, something Bungie's Halo and 343's Halo only hinted at didn't dive into it because for Bungie, War on Terror, for 343, copying COD was more important along with some finding your humanity gay shit.

>>721169986 (OP)
>boone

Why do niggers even exist? Have you ever seen a nigger scientist or enginner. I haven't.

>>721169986 (OP)
>imagine this being your boss

They really do just see a black person with a job in game development and immediately lose their shit huh.

>>721182684
BLOODY BASTARD BENCHOD TRUMP WHY DID YOU BETRAY US SAAR

>>721169986 (OP)
gee i wonder why your games were dogshit unfinished garbage
might have something to do with
HIRING NIGGERS LMAO

>>721169986 (OP)
Coincidentally, I assume.

>>721169986 (OP)
one less dumb coon

H1B was supposed to be an Einstein visa for poaching Nobel prize winners and shit, not for shitcode mills.

>>721170697
recession won't mean anything without a population check too sadly

>>721182890
Annually for a year*. Burgers have to push for it to remain or else it might not be extended past 2026.

And she was only hired just under a year ago. Embezzled enough "development" funds for a while, I guess.

>>721169986 (OP)
how long were they chief of staff. Because that could explain some things.

>>721186473
we wuz makin vidio gaimz n sheit