"I wonder what will happen if we put all of our eggs in the same basket?" - Famous basket-dropper.
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Activision in charge of Halo? That's a deathblow if ever I heard one.
Microsoft Is the worst thing that ever happened to computers
Ehhhhh, if we could see into the multiverse ball, maybe. I'd fucking hate to see a timeline where Apple was the dominant consumer-grade OS producer through the 90s and 2000s.
Holy moly.
That is basically the worst case scenario, no?
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The absolute last thing Obsidian needs is Bethesda presiding over them. Bethesda (the publisher) is pure toxicity, and don’t they hate Obsidian?
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They should have given Obsidian TES/Fallout, and folded Bethesda into Obsidian as a studio to farm work out to. BGS has some great level design teams, but the decision makers need to go.
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The absolute last thing Halo campaigns need is to be more like Call of Duty.
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They should have cut 343, and split the IP amongst specialized studios. Like an Arkane “special ops” stealth game, another Halo Wars, and/or a strictly multiplayer Activision game.
This is beyond even my worst expectations. It’s what I would have done if I was a corporate spy inside Microsoft, assigned to sabotage them.
Its not even close to the worst thing. The worst thing was letting 343 "Halo Studios" keep Halo.
At worst, we just get another bad Halo game. But with entirely different people working on it, at least there is a chance it could be better. Under 343 "Halo Studios" it had no chances of being good.
Activision is a publisher, they don't only make Call of Duty. They have a large variety of games they publish, including Blizzard's Overwatch, which while one can argue doesn't fit the Halo gameplay, proves that Activision has the capacity to publish FPS games that feel almost nothing like Call of Duty.
These fuckers won't rest until there's nothing good left to play and all that's left are multiplayer only games that cost $100 up front and still need several microtransactions a day forever in order to be in any way playable 😮💨🤬
As I remember, back in the 90s, the CEO of Activision hated video games.
So of course that zombie of a company is still fucking up gaming.
A good time to mention that Xbox (and boycotting Game Pass especially) is one of a dozen or so priority targets chosen by the Palestinian BDS Movement beecause they're vulnerable and Microsoft's cloud computing services are so vital for "Israel's" military and prison system
Halo to become Call of Duty In Space in 3...
Where have you been for the last 14 years? Halo has been call of duty in space since 343 took over.
What exactly is their plan? Just collect IPs so they aren't being released on other platforms?
It is a very old strategy for monopolies to buy up competition when there are no anti monopoly protections so they can kill the competition, it's how Microsoft was founded.
From what I've heard, Bethesda and Obsidian have always been great places to work. I hope Microsoft isn't ruining that for the devs. Hopefully the increasing union presence in Microsoft will bring worker interests back into consideration.
I imagine Bethesda hasn't been fun to work for for a good 10 years now.
Word is that NOBODY wanted to make starfield other than Todd Howard. Apparently once whispers of being bought happened, he wanted that game out because he knew Microsoft would never allow them waste time on something that isn't elder scrolls or fallout.
Companies that make "boring" games are often great workplaces, while those that make bestsellers (such as CD project red, rockstar, etc) are shitholes putting workers through hell and constant crunch.
bethesda has only ever had layoffs twice in their history, i think one was before morrowind and the other was after asha took over xbox
Deck chairs on the Titanic.
I honestly believe that Xbox will stop existing as a company in a few years.
Yeah, Asha Sharma seems to be set up as an example of the glass cliff. She's clearly trying to bail out a sinking ship rather than revitalize a stale brand. Giving Halo to Activision shows a misunderstanding of what Halo players want, but the other things she's doing are things that probably could have helped five or more years ago, but are just too late now. We're probably heading toward a repeat of the 1983 crash. Xbox and PlayStation might still be around after, but they'll be in the position that Atari and Sega were after the crash, with their remaining market share evaporating the instant a new competitor arrives.
Meanwhile, so long as Nintendo just keeps doing what they've been doing they should be fine. I could see them phasing out game key cards as an option for devs if the digital only backlash on the next generation is bad enough, but they might not have to given that the publishers that have been using them are the ones most likely to implode.
Honestly, Nintendo is in such a good position to pick up serious market share from Sony and Xbox. It's insane that just making actual games that aren't riddled with crap and not insta firing everyone who works for you is enough to be the clear front runner.
I wonder if, like Sega and Atari, there will be someone to swoop in and take market share here. I worry it's a Meta or someone with a terrible spyware product.
meanwhile Valve just building platform after platform that in long term will draw people into Steam
Can't wait for Fallout 5: Skyrim Crossover Edition.
Turns out Heimskr was working with the Thalmor the whole time and after Ulfric captured Hoover Dam, the Khajit Commonwealth just said "fuck it" and nuked everyone.
Well, it was skooma spiked with Nuka Cola.
The Radskeevers are everywhere and are a pain to kill.
Activision is also overseeing Age of Empires as well... Couldn't let Sony outshine you in "who can shoot themselves in the foot hardest" could you?
Xbox is dead
Wow. This is what happens when you put someone without game industry experience in charge of your game division. Incredibly stupid decisions all around.
at least double fine got out... well i don't want to say "before" microsoft started gutting everything but at least they got out
also daily reminder that the xbucks you spend on xbox fund genocide
So is Halo Studios/343 just.....dead now? Seems like they're dead if they don't have Halo. Kind of in their name.
They made awful games so who cares. I don't think even Activision could have made it more like a Call of Duty clone than 343 did.
Nooo not Obsidian! Fuck off, Microsoft.
Rip obsidian, I enjoyed pillars, avowed, and pentiment

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