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Zelnick and Slatoff have received a $25m bonus for their management fund after sacking 550 people from Take Two Interactive.
Can't wait to hear how the corporate bootlickers defend this.
550 probably consultants.
GTA6 is in tweak phase, no need for massive number of people for that.
Bury them deep, plant an endangered species of tree ontop- body can never be recovered 🧐
Don’t ask how I know this 😂
I really don't even think CEO's should get bonuses. If I were a CEO and I made millions, I would like to think I wouldn't. Or if I had to legally, I would maybe find a way to disperse among the lower tier employees. Take my bonus and turn it into stocks to disperse out to those employees evenly.
That would be the way to do it. Imagine thinking a CEOs "leadership" is worth that much money while the talent makes the product.
Insanity.
I remember when I started working, my department manager used to gift us stuff each year, one year I got a bottle of Scotch, another it was a small basket of treats... But that was also a lot less money than what we're talking about here.
It would be ideal if the CEO could gift a bonus to everyone under them.
Monetary company bonuses (often referred to as Christmas bonuses) were astoundingly common.
The entire premise of Christmas Vacation was set around Clark's bonus.
CEO's work for shareholders and are shareholders they also rely on share price to receive their multimillion dollar paydays and they will happily fire thousands to protect shares. CEO's are there to extract the most value out of a company and give it to the wealthy few.
That is so god damn fucked up!! Unfortunately...I know damn well I will be still buying their games but shit like this should seriously have some sort of repercussion of some sort. 550 people get their lives totally up-ended and the leadership get a bonus on top of an already high salary. 25M could set those 550 people up with an annual salary each of $45,000. Depending on where you live, that is a very livable salary even...
Xbox ports of Final Fantasy XVI and I-IV Pixel Remasters may be set to be announced at the upcoming TGS 2024, based on the latest rumor.
Hopefully if it does get announced I really hope people actually buy it rather than hope it's on gamepass or comes to gamepass in future.
I hope they support it. It will be a shame if they don’t and Square goes back to leaving Xbox out, unless MS pays some really big bucks to put it on game pass to give square more incentive to release future titles on game pass.
Either way I don’t use game pass to olay my favorite studios games, unless it’s Bethesda or other MS own studios that I like since well MS owns them and they benefit anyways I think lol
They don’t deserve to be supported. Releasing games waaay too late and treating Xbox players secondly.
They never learn yet they blame Xbox players for not buying their products. I wonder why. The only game that releases the same day as ff13 which is the worst of the series.
You build a fan base by treating your customers right. Not by giving them scraps and leaving them to wonder if the games are coming.
Xbox so much in need of games that they pay the price everytime..
On the other hand squats didn’t sell enough so they’ll be the winners
We already know they won’t. They don’t buy MS’s games at a high mark or any other game so why would these be different?
Since both Sony and Nintendo will be present, It´s gonna be interesting to see how many japanese devs and publishers will actually be skipping Xbox, after Tango´s closure.
I really hope they don’t. Companies need to understand that they can’t expect any level of success on a platform just because they release a game years later with absolutely no improvements, often at full price. Developers and publishers seem to forget that they aren’t entitled to sales just because they release a game; they either need to put in the work to build a fanbase or just forget about it.
Also lets be honest there's not going to be a big enough fanbase on Xbox to make a massive difference sales wise, enough to meet Square Enix's massive expectations.
You can release them sure but considering the fact where Xbox is in the overall market, the lower userbase compared to Sony / Nintendo and how the audience aren't really known for buying Japanese games or even JRPG's in general I just don't really see the point in making an Xbox version.
Like you said this is also years later once the games have already been released so that's going to go against them aswell.
"Hopefully if it does get announced I really hope people actually buy it rather than hope it's on gamepass or comes to gamepass in future."
Why do you care about what may or may not make it to GamePass?
There´s nothing preventing people from buying games on Xbox or PC regardless those being available on Gamepass or not.
Sony´s MLB 24 is available on Gamepass, and yet, it´s one of best selling and most played games on Xbox. The *RETAIL* version!
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is Top 10, among Fortnite, COD, GTA V, Roblox, Minecraft and more. And that game is not available on Gamepass.
Now we know that MS is investing 1 freaking Billion in third party content for Gamepass. So chances are that more third party games will be announced for Gamepass at TGS, like you or not.
That been said, I doubt that SE which has been making public statements on how their latest games "underperformed" and failed to meet expectations, would refuse money paid up front. Money that potentially could cover all of their development costs with said games.
You guys are funny. First you said that FF games won´t sell on Xbox and that´s the reason why SE couldn´t even bother and port their games for Xbox consoles. And now that there´s a *chance* those games might be coming to Gamepass, all of sudden you´re "hoping" that people actually buy it rather than hope it's on gamepass or comes to gamepass in future.
You can´t make sh!t up.
"Sony´s MLB 24 is available on Gamepass, and yet, it´s one of best selling and most played games on Xbox. The *RETAIL* version!
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is Top 10, among Fortnite, COD, GTA V, Roblox, Minecraft and more. And that game is not available on Gamepass."
Dude, you need to put things in perspective. 6/10 is a higher percent than 500/1000 but 500 is still more than 6.
@Einhander1972
"Dude, you need to put things in perspective."
Sure... I´ll put it this way to make things a little easier for you to understand.
Right now, San Diego Studio is the *only* GaaS focused Playstation first party studio making games for both Xbox and PS5. It´s been 3 years now. Day One on Gamepass AND retail version on Xbox. No PC version is available.
Now, based on information I´d provided you above, I can safely say that San Diego is also the *only* *GaaS* Playstation first party studio which is not shacking their boots over the possibility of getting their studio shut down or it´s developers fired. (FYI, as of now, not a single person from that studio got fired)
That been said, you can always reach San Diego´s developers themselves and ask them whenever they´re happy for their game reaching more players on Xbox or not.
You know, just in case you need further "context" on the matter.
I read the username. Noticed the wall of text and I really can't be bothered to waste a few minutes of my life read what ever you have to type I'm annoyed with my self I'm taking seconds to type this.
But I'm polite enough to responded.
Congratulations
Or
I'm sorry for what you are going through.
I want physical copies for both. Though I already got FF16 on PS5 while it was on sale for $30
Microsoft made it clear that their own first party titles' sales suffer due to Game Pass.
If the very titles that give one their reason to buy an Xbox have people using Game Pass to play it, I don't see much (i.e., *any) hope of this game performing well sales wise on Xbox.
And mind you, I think we all expected it to perform better than it did on PlayStation.
I think it either launches on Game Pass or comes to the service within 6 months.
I can definitely see that happening. Great game. I hope people support it since I’m a big Square fan.
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