Layoffs at Microsoft hit 343 industries and Bethesda Games Studios

[howlingmosquito (mosquito)]

@Vivir

Rather then clinging on to launch numbers to claim that Infinite was more successful for MS than Forza Horizon 5.

Well the numbers dont lie. But yeah lets talk about sales metrics…for free games.

[TheLegendaryGamer]

@Economides_Silva

It may seem obvious what you said, but it seems that some people here in this thread somehow thought that Microsoft was some kind of charity.

Humans are emotional creatures. If they take the emotional part out of it, they would see that workers especially in big tech, get hire and fire, move around all the time, rarely do they stay at one place for a very long time. Only the upper people stay for long.

[Staffy]

I got a question, but not sure if anyone can know the answer to that.

Could this have consequences for Game Pass, the budget? Could January (so far) being so unusual have anything to do with this, or really not at all?

[Vivir]

@Staffy

I got a question, but not sure if anyone can know the answer to that.

Could this have consequences for Game Pass, the budget? Could January (so far) being so unusual have anything to do with this, or really not at all?

I don’t think it’ll impact the average gamers experience.

Gaming division still remains a top priority for MS, that hasn’t changed.

[Resist]

@Staffy

I got a question, but not sure if anyone can know the answer to that.

Could this have consequences for Game Pass, the budget? Could January (so far) being so unusual have anything to do with this, or really not at all?

By all indications, the layoffs are because of the looming recession, it’s not due to MS changing its stance on gaming.

[KakkaKarrotKake]

@Staffy

I got a question, but not sure if anyone can know the answer to that.

Could this have consequences for Game Pass, the budget? Could January (so far) being so unusual have anything to do with this, or really not at all?

Who knows but I doubt it

This is overhiring from the pandemic and now that things have went to absolute shit with the economy they are trimming what they can, things that weren’t performing what they needed to

Gaming is still a massive growth sector for them, hence the ABK purchase

[Paxton]

@Vivir

WOW.

Unfortunately the Forge update did not move the needle into the numbers.

[Sparda3g]

@Staffy

I got a question, but not sure if anyone can know the answer to that.

Could this have consequences for Game Pass, the budget? Could January (so far) being so unusual have anything to do with this, or really not at all?

No. It’s a separate issue altogether. The pandemic, while technically Covid and its variants are forever here, is over in a way. New normal is formed, some old tradition has returned. This was bound to happen due to many other factors, but Game Pass isn’t all the sudden going to downgrade severely.

[Resist]

And please stop using 10k+ people losing their jobs to make this some sort of gotcha about Halo.

There are 3 studios (343, Certain Affinity, Skybox labs) working on the ongoing MP, it has a popular TV show with it’s second season in development, and battle Royale in development.

Halo is fine.

But in this situation, knowing all this, it shouldn’t even be a point of discussion. Halo should be the last thing on people’s minds.

[PsyDec]

I guess that 4chan rumour of Phil leaving soon, Satya being unhappy with results and Xbox shutting down were true

jeez what a shitshow

Edit: I’m obviously joking don’t ban me

[TheLegendaryGamer]

@Paxton

Unfortunately the Forge update did not move the needle into the numbers.

Nothing is really gone to move the needle majorly at this point. Unless that rumor BR Mode blows people away? nothing will.

Halo found a niche audience of like 5-10k daily players, they won’t be doing no over 100k daily like Apex or PUBG or Fortnite for example. Halo days as the go to shooter is over, we have to admit it.

[Cairnst (Bill Cairns)]

@QuietGamer90

Of course, it will be played less than a year ago as that was when the game was still fresh. I did not say it was going to have an insane turn around. That will depend on how well Project Tatanka lands with players.

Assuming better content and cadence, I think a lot more of the core Halo fanbase will be retained.

Yeah I’ve seen a lot of people surprised that forge didn’t just FIX Halo’s player count, it was never going to. Consistent good quality updates and time is the only thing that will fix the playercount. Forge was just the first step towards that.

@KakkaKarrotKake

I don’t like to see people lose jobs

MS are a business though and of all the studios id expect to see cuts, 343 would be at the top of the list, especially single player

I imagine to be fair it is less about cutting staff on the campaign side and more about not cutting staff on the multiplayer side where they NEED to get content out faster and more consistently.

@Resist

By all indications, the layoffs are because of the looming recession, it’s not due to MS changing its stance on gaming.

Yeah, Activision represented just how serious they were taking their gaming divisions and that has not changed. I believe just as of today (or thereabouts) the amount it would cost Microsoft to walk away from the deal increased by another half a billion, if Microsoft were getting cold feet they wouldn’t be standing firm on this.

[QuietGamer90 (Tawsif (Rafee))]

@TheLegendaryGamer

Nothing is really gone to move the needle majorly at this point. Unless that rumor BR Mode blows people away? nothing will.

Halo found a niche audience of like 5-10k daily players, they won’t be doing no over 100k daily like Apex or PUBG or Fortnite for example. Halo days as the go to shooter is over, we have to admit it.

I have a hard time believing there are only 5-10k daily players on Halo. Mind you, I am not saying it has a big concurrent player base as of now, but I don’t think it is as low as you are suggesting.

[Mort]

Halo Infinite losing all hope for more singleplayer content by the looks of it sucks. The campaign was a 9/10 and I enjoyed it a lot. The rest was not great.

I’m not too surprised though, Halo Infinite has been so far down the most played charts its silly. I however blame this on everything but the singleplayer. Proper Halo campaigns will still have a good pull factor for Xbox and Game Pass.

[Failwood]

@Mort

Halo Infinite losing all hope for more singleplayer content by the looks of it sucks. The campaign was a 9/10 and I enjoyed it a lot. The rest was not great.

I’m not too surprised though, Halo Infinite has been so far down the most played charts its silly. I however blame this on everything but the singleplayer. Proper Halo campaigns will still have a good pull factor for Xbox and Game Pass.

Yeah, don’t think they will stick to the Infinite as a platform plan for the singleplayer stuff at the very least.

[TheLegendaryGamer]

@QuietGamer90

I have a hard time believing there are only 5-10k daily players on Halo. Mind you, I am not saying it has a big concurrent player base as of now, but I don’t think it is as low as you are suggesting.

We don’t know for console but on Steam it around 5k daily, give or take.

[Mort]

@Failwood

Yeah, don’t think they will stick to the Infinite as a platform plan for the singleplayer stuff at the very least.

Hopefully they focus on singleplayer sequels, either in house or better just give it to someone else. Infinite can continue to be the MP-stuff.

[QuietGamer90 (Tawsif (Rafee))]

@Failwood

Yeah, don’t think they will stick to the Infinite as a platform plan for the singleplayer stuff at the very least.

MP side will be supported for now, but any single-player DLC plans are scrapped for sure.

[Resist]

@QuietGamer90

I have a hard time believing there are only 5-10k daily players on Halo. Mind you, I am not saying it has a big concurrent player base as of now, but I don’t think it is as low as you are suggesting.

They’re only counting steam numbers.

[QuietGamer90 (Tawsif (Rafee))]

@Mort

Hopefully they focus on singleplayer sequels, either in house or better just give it to someone else. Infinite can continue to be the MP-stuff.

I think there will be an entirely new campaign, but not anytime soon obviously.