VG247: According to Oddworld Inhabitant’s boss, Microsoft should cull its Xbox One team and start again. Lorne Lanning speaks out on Redmond’s great next-gen indie disaster.
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
“At the business level, Microsoft isn’t acknowledging people like us,” said Lanning. “It’s as if we don’t matter.”
That's very damming.
Microsoft needs to get its act together and fast.
And if it means firing people then Microsoft should do it because the situation is becoming increasingly untenable.
Honestly. Some of my greatest experiences have come from the indie developer's the amount of creativity and incredible attention to detail sometimes rival the AAA games of this generation.Why put so many restrictions on a part of the industry which already has problems with funding and watching restrictions
They should actually fire everyone involved into that mess...
It started with that "DEAL WITH IT" dude, then that asshole Don Mattrick "stick with 360" in charge of xbox one, Major Nelson etc etc.
At least they fired and got rid of the first 2 and now only that Major is left.
But all this is just ugly... they fucked up big time.
"but right now people like us are clearly not in Xbox One’s business model. And there’s nothing we can do about that.”
Join the club. Xbox One's business model is all over the place for the most part, but they do have a focus more on the Apple/Google crowd then on indie developers or even core gamers. The proof of that is in what they decided was the most important first impression to make, their extreme disconnect with core gamer sensibilities to the point that they were forced to reverse their controlling policies, and the generally poor handling of virtually all their public relations issues.
Microsoft just doesn't care about the little guys.I think they're being arrogant and expecting the Xbox One to sell so well that indie developers will feel releasing it on the Xbone will be just too good to turn down.