Not well, I have to imagine. It definitely will make you depressed, constantly worried about what will happen next and have you worried for yourself & your family’s way of life.
Satya Nadella, renowned playground psychopath.
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well who would want to get acquired just to get laid off
Lol ya for real. 
And now watch them sell a 10% stake to Tencent.
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strange I can’t find his tweet anymore, did he delete it ?
yup
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I think we can take of acquisition for a good time. This will not sit well with any developer or publisher. Frankly speaking i don’t think a lot would want Sega to even consider joining Xbox. I think partnerships will be the way as Xbox transitions to being a Steam like digital platform.
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Yeah, no developer or publisher never had layoffs, many of which were much worse than 8% overall, come on.
Also the guy who wrote that comment deleted it, I doubt PocketPair owners were cool with it.
I don’t think the some random Pal World employee has any say in them being sold or not
Regardless, I don’t see MS making an acquisition anytime soon, I don’t see a lot of companies making acquisitions anytime soon
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I get it, I’m just looking at the current picture which is pretty darn bad.
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How? Layoffs are literally affecting every publisher at the moment, and Xbox is hardly going to be the last. This FUD that’s only being applied to Xbox to paint this dark version of reality for the company is both tiring and becoming a definitive pattern with some of you. That looks pretty darn bad…
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Well I think Microsoft has the reputation of being one of the best companies in the world (at least they are often rewarded for that) Indeed we have seen a lot of layoffs in recent years but it is an industry trend globally. And even without acquisitions Activision would have laid off staff. 1900 people is a huge number because ABK is huge. It is common for layoffs to occur after restructuring. This doesn’t excuse everything but it is possible to end up with duplicate posts. Or for example the support service. Microsoft already has its own competent support service; there is no need for another one, for example. that obviously doesn’t excuse all the layoffs and I think that if they buy another publisher like SEGA for example there will also be layoffs on a smaller scale given that SEGA is a small publisher but it’s a logical process after an acquisition of several billion.
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i think people r more disappointed with microsoft that they recently turned into 3 trillion and a day after they did layoffs.so many people r more disappointed with that thing plus many devs were being laid off people wanted them to lay off the management causing issues at Acti blizzard rather than devs
One of the main realities of how western economy works is that what you have made does not matter. The only thing that matters is what you can make a moving forward
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i really hope things get better from here for the devs they already seen a lot with bobby as their ceo
Like I said I get it. The picture just looks bad not saying anything more. I think Hoeg broke it down well. This was always expected and considering it’s not the standard 30% I’d say Xbox actually did well. Also i don’t know if you know it but you come of in a very aggressive and annoying way. People are just expressing their honest sentiments, you don’t have to like it.
Not to take away from your point, but I guess I am lol sorry. But I just saw a couple other studios let go of 50% of staff. Toys for Bob was one but the other one I can’t recall right now. It happened this morning.
If you asked me yesterday, the layoffs would have been worse if Activision wasn’t purchased by Microsoft.
After everything I’ve read today, I’m going to have to double down on that, it honestly looks like things could have been so much worse for Blizzard.
Of course this is not a justification for what happened. The circumstances leading to this situation across gaming, across tech, and across many industries is a circumstance that will not change and will be a part of our lives going forward.
And for better or for worse it is the bigger corporations that will be able to better weather those storms. Which perpetuates the system in where the smaller fish have less of a chance of surviving.
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According to Harvard business school after a merger or acquisition about 30% of the workforce becomes redundant and are laid off this was only 9%. It’s still disheartening though. I only pray all those laid off are able to land on their feet.
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I am always posting my customary Sega gif, but honestly at this point I think MS should cool their jets a bit. I’d like to see them wait a couple years and prove they can handle what they already bought.
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