They will be back once MS acquires them. With the success of Diablo 4 and an announcement of a new game in the Starcraft universe. They will come running back once they see Blizzard is back to its old roots. A lot of gamers grew up with Blizzard. There will always be people dreaming to work for them. That is what some of yall need to understand.
Since Starfield will be on gamepass, I highly doubt that Microsoft will make a lot of profit from it, especially since the Series X/S isn't doing too well in sales
I forgot who it was but it was a hiring manager for either Facebook or some other tech company and he said he loves when these companies tell the employees they have to work from the office again for no good reason because he just goes on Linkedin and finds their employees and starts sending them job offers and makes sure it says they can work from home. He said he has been able to acquire a lot of great talent that way.
Combine that with MS uncanny ability to completely mismanage studios, they will have paid $69B for an empty shell. IPs are worthless without the talent behind them.
Nintendo games are proof that IPs can survive without talent.
I've seen indie games do Pokémon better than Nintendo. Most of their games besides Zelda would be considered garbage if they weren't attached to one of their beloved IP.
Also Sony has closed down as many if not more studios than Microsoft. This narrative that Microsoft mishandles studios is nonsense.
I love how Jeff Grubb leaked that Hi-Fi Rush didn't sell and didn't make enough money and all we see on N4G is Aaron Greenburg's knee-jerk reaction, which was to say a generic 'Hi-Fi Rush was successful'-type comment. Sweep the news under the rug and let the PR machine brainwash the masses lol
Is that why more people play Sea of Thieves than any Sony games? Because it's so bad? 🥲
Fable is not coming out? Did you just cancel it? 😂 You want Xbox to fail so bad lmao it's not working out is it? They got Bethesda and about to get Activision Blizzard. Must be hard to cope with 😭
Next level COPE! HAHAHA Sea of Thieves has so few players things borderline close to being shutdown lol Bethesda?! Oh man you mean the $7B spend where all they could desperately cobble together was the 30fps definition of mid game Redfall?! LOL please keep that game far away from PlayStation don't need it bringing down the company lol imagine the metascore on Redfall ohhhh man that's gonna hurt Microsoft bad! Maybe they should have spent extra to keep talent? Can't wait to see all the new ways Microsoft will completely mismanage Activision, Call of Duty about to take a massive hit! Incoming talent exodus 🤣😂 CoD had a nice run but MS is here to end it lol Atleast a ton of brand new studios are popping up from all the Blizzard vets jumping ship, will be great targets for Sony to add to the family.
More than that, too. Morhaime founded Dreamhaven in 2020, which houses Moonshot and Secret Door games. From what I can tell, the only studio that came from ex-blizzard employees that has made something was Ben Brode's studio that made Marvel Snap.
Oh boy Blizzard about to be gone imo.
Combine that with MS uncanny ability to completely mismanage studios, they will have paid $69B for an empty shell. IPs are worthless without the talent behind them.
All the good talent should get together and form a new studio
Oh man, MS acquisition already causing issues…