An abridged version of a 2-year-long story about how Electronic Arts woke the Gaming Community up.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.
HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.
It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Good one.
Don’t make me laugh.
Gonna use this in the next funeral i attend... that room will be cracking up lol
Glad to see people reading the article I left intentionally vague on the description.
Shows how this place checks whether or not these are copies of other Op-eds or not
I read the article. I still wouldn't give EA props for shining the light on greedy business practices. Just like I wouldn't give Microsoft props for DRM2013.
"Good job greedy companies!" "You saved us!" "Thank you!"
GTFOOH!
I've boycotted EA for over a decade. I despise their predatory business practices. I despise their locking up game licenses. I despise them for all the companies they bought and closed or used there marketing dollars to destroy competition. Criterion and Burnout is a perfect example of buying your competition and slowly destroying them.
I don't buy loot boxes. Never supported loot boxes. Never liked the idea of grinding for cosmetics. I don't support items sold separately that could fit on a bluray disc. I don't support half made expensive games to only sell you the rest of the content later. I don't support season passes.
Knowing what you are buying, when you should buy and who you are buying from goes a long way in saving money and letting companies know you don't support certain practices that are a detriment to the console industry. Them being negative is not a positive.
And when companies end up pushing subscription services all over the place and gaming becomes fractured, when content and demos will only be offered only if you subscribe, when you no longer own anything physical, that's when you'll know oblivious thinking gamers F'd up again because they aren't thinking about the consequences.