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As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
They can form a company if they want, they are just as jobless as if "Microsoft had left them as 3rd party".
"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)
I think Microsoft and other game publishers are letting people go because they think ai will replace them. Doesn’t matter how much profit they make. They were always going to be let go.
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.
Not really a brilliant defence from the CMA to some of the grilling. Slightly Partisan highlights here if you don't want to read/watch the whole thing; https://twitter.com/FOSSpat...
How will the UK have its own Silicon Valley when it will all be American businesses? Sounds more like just Americans expanding based on their own desires and needs in that region, not the UK growing their own technology growth center.
There's a ton of arrogance by Microsoft and Kotick here in regards that UK needs them to be Silicon Valley when the fact is they would not be creating anything of the sort. At any time, Microsoft and Activision can pull out and move their business to the next country they need to put a foothold into or will agree to their demands. That's not a security for the UK, that's just what we have in the U.S., businesses with tons of money running wherever they want and taking tax credits and benefits because they bring jobs when in reality they take money from the people while giving some jobs that don't have longevity or bring increased funds to UK other than jobs that the UK itself could create to compete against these same companies.
This whole thing is bad for gaming, now we're on the doorstep of having Microsoft control gaming the way they control PC operating systems which is bad enough but now we have to worry about them actually being able to force the gaming industry towards crappy streaming.
Not to mention their ability to steamroll PlayStation the only real thing keeping them in check.
And of course, Microsoft did what every big American cooperation does they looked for some people whose job depends on elections and gave them bribes to support their position.
It's really sad that anyone supports Microsoft when there is no way this makes anything better for anyone including xbox fans... where the only thing they can hope to gain winning some kind of "console war" and are completely unable to look at the long-term or bigger picture here.
Yay, we destroyed PlayStation for the 100 million people who have their whole lives worth of gaming on the platform, hurray we did it, we sure made those people's lives worse!
I love how they are echoing words uttered by MS when the deal was first blocked
Seems like their scare tactics are working, how did we get to a point where a company can bully a country over a decision. What’s the point of people like the CMA if you just allow everything and bitch over a decision made.