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[Otterz4Life]

Extremely pointless. Microsoft needs to stop hyping and just deliver.

Don't be stupid. Try to understand what this video is about.

 

[Bernkastel]

Extremely pointless. Microsoft needs to stop hyping and just deliver.

I don't think any of these hires are hyped by Microsoft. These posts on new hirings are made by fans(or by Journalists in their sites). The video on OP is made by Darell and his team for recruitment.

 

[Pallas]

Extremely pointless. Microsoft needs to stop hyping and just deliver.

Yeah because developing a game is a fast process, at this point The Initiative is the equivalent of vaporware.

 

[sendit]

Reminds me of this. After 4 years, this studio still has nothing released:

 

[Bernkastel]

Reminds me of this. After 4 years, this studio still has nothing released:

Do people in GAF really think that games are made in a year ? I don't think we will see anything from Initiative until atleast 2023-2024.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Think of all the things you by.

Then think how many of those companies go around telling you "Hey, look at the office where we work".

Aside from egotistical game companies, can you name any others? Even companies that do tons of creative work like ad agencies don't even do this.

 

[Kagey K]

Meh. Less talk, more action please. These fancy ads are doing nothing for me. Very empty.

Are you a developer looking for work?

If you aren’t this video shouldn’t appeal to you. It’s a recruitment video, not an advertising one.

Funny how that works.

 

[TLZ]

Are you a developer looking for work?

If you aren’t this video shouldn’t appeal to you. It’s a recruitment video, not an advertising one.

Funny how that works.

They're talking about themselves to the public. What else am I supposed to say, except how I feel about it?

 

[Kagey K]

They're talking about themselves to the public. What else am I supposed to say, except how I feel about it?

It wasn’t meant to be public?

It was meant as a way to get you to work for them as you graduate from your school.

Look at the youtube Author, do you think that’s an official MS rep?

I assume based on your last post, that we can call this official MS marketing going forward?

 

[TLZ]

It wasn’t meant to be public?

It was meant as a way to get you to work for them as you graduate from your school.

Look at the youtube Author, do you think that’s an official MS rep?

I assume based on your last post, that we can call this official MS marketing going forward?

How's it not meant to be public if it's on their public YouTube, and released for everyone to see? Did they forget to put it private? I watched the video back then when they released it and gave my opinion on it based on what I saw, talking about themselves and who they are.

 

[Kagey K]

How's it not meant to be public if it's on their public YouTube, and released for everyone to see? Did they forget to put it private? I watched the video back then when they released it and gave my opinion on it based on what I saw, talking about themselves and who they are.

You are right, I worded it poorly.

That doesn’t change the fact that it wasn’t meant for you as a consumer, it was meant for people that want to make and create games.

 

[TLZ]

You are right, I worded it poorly.

That doesn’t change the fact that it wasn’t meant for you as a consumer, it was meant for people that want to make and create games.

Ok, I guess. I don't know what else to say

I can say, I hope nothing but good stuff comes out of it. Selfishly, that means great single player games.

 

[D3SCHA1N]

Ok, I guess. I don't know what else to say

I can say, I hope nothing but good stuff comes out of it. Selfishly, that means great single player games.

Considering the leads they've hired I'm hoping the same. More specifically I'm hoping their game is a melee centric action game, a genre I feel xbox has always fallen short in. I'm not saying I want something exactly like God of war, but I think xbox needs an equivalent to that in the same way as killzone is sony's answer to halo.

 

[Bryank75]

This studio seems to have been set up with one of the main objectives being to poach talent and erode surrounding PlayStation Studios in the area. Typical Xbox, can't build anything on their own, can't develop talent, have to steal or use shortcuts to do everything.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[DynamiteCop!]

Whatever it is it's no doubt a 2021 game, but I don't doubt we'll see something on it relatively soon.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

Look at all those ex-PlayStation employees.

Traitors.

 

[LittleBusters]

We won't see their first game until 2023.

 

[Bryank75]

Look at all those ex-PlayStation employees.

Traitors.

Look at the comments, I straight up said to him 'why are you making a game for an audience that doesn't appreciate narrative heavy games and denigrates them by calling them 'walking sims'.

All of these people would be appreciated more at WWS and by PS gamers, who actually buy these games.

 

[Team Andromeda]

We both know Death Stranding will be a homerun. This studio doesn't have a 'Kojima' in their team to guide them into a great visionary concept.

One doesn't need a Kojima-san in a team. One just needs a well run and funded team and it's entirely possible for a new start-up team to make great games right at the start, if one wants to get past the fanboy load of crap.

Playground Games, Machine Games, Respawn, Platinum ECT have done it. So one will just have to see what their games will be like

 

[Dr.Morris79]

kojima didn't have enough time to make it more meaningful.

The boobs were meaningful, wernt they?

Tell me it wasnt a lie.

 

[Bryank75]

One doesn't need a Kojima-san in a team. One just needs a well run and funded team and it's entirely possible for a new start-up team to make great games right at the start, if one wants to get past the fanboy load of crap.

Playground Games, Machine Games, Respawn, Platinum ECT have done it. So one will just have to see what their games will be like

Machine games dont deserve to be beside those other developers. Unfortunately Gallagher has been responsible for very derivative games like Tomb Raider...
You can see people from Sony studios went to Crystal Dynamics to help with Avengers but Avengers looks boring and basic compared to GOW in term of combat.
The Initiative will just try and emulate Sony studios and they might make a decent game but it will never be great, it will always feel like an imitation.

 

[Tomeru]

A studio will get my thumbs up and hype as long as it gives something good. As soon as you fuck up (bioware) you get back to level 1.

This studio is like an mmo whale that bought end game stuff and didnt manage to achieve anything yet. So, yeah, less talk more work.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Machine games dont deserve to be beside those other developers. Unfortunately Gallagher has been responsible for very derivative games like Tomb Raider...
You can see people from Sony studios went to Crystal Dynamics to help with Avengers but Avengers looks boring and basic compared to GOW in term of combat.
The Initiative will just try and emulate Sony studios and they might make a decent game but it will never be great, it will always feel like an imitation.

Games are subjective; Machine games are a awesome developer and I loved the reboot of Wolfenstein. I don't agree with you on Tomb Raider sorry, I loved the reboot.
But if one gets past the fanboy drivel/point scoring A new studio, if staffed well, got a clear direction and some decent funding. They can make an impact straight away like Platinum, Playground, Respawn or for a bit of irony The Coalition Ect

 

[ResilientBanana]

A studio will get my thumbs up and hype as long as it gives something good. As soon as you fuck up (bioware) you get back to level 1.

This studio is like an mmo whale that bought end game stuff and didnt manage to achieve anything yet. So, yeah, less talk more work.

Yeah, they should fire who ever does marketing for them, who needs marketing let alone lunch? Psh, not game developers, that's who. While their at it, they should never be excited either.

 

[Tomeru]

Yeah, they should fire who ever does marketing for them, who needs marketing let alone lunch? Psh, not game developers, that's who. While their at it, they should never be excited either.

Yeah, I clearly just laid out the facts. They was of the world ismy way or the highway. I wont have anymore of your "opinion" either.

Good evening.

Edit:
Lmao tying is hard. The way of the world.

 

[Shifty]

Are you fucking for real? ANOTHER "this is what The Initiative is" piece?

Best ad firm in town, but their games are shit until proven otherwise.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Are you fucking for real? ANOTHER "this is what The Initiative is" piece?

Best ad firm in town, but their games are shit until proven otherwise.

Check the date of the OP. This is an old thread.

 

[Shifty]

Check the date of the OP. This is an old thread.

ANOTHER necrobump when someone could simply have made a new thread for new news?

Fresh news is great but the posting practices are shit until proven otherwise.

 

[ResilientBanana]

ANOTHER necrobump when someone could simply have made a new thread for new news?

Fresh news is great but the posting practices are shit until proven otherwise.

I think you're joking, but new thread for a tweet? Nah.

 

[Shifty]

I think you're joking, but new thread for a tweet? Nah.

Half-joking.

If it's that much of a nothingburger I'd find a relevant current Xbox thread to put it in or just let it die, rather than playing necromancer.

 

[hunthunt]

The Initiative and The Coalition are without a doubt the most retarded names for a company in the history of videogames.

They sound so inorganic and fake, like a fucking boy band or a McDonalds meal.

Nothing new to Microsoft tough.

 

[Bryank75]

Welcome our other new studios 'The (starship) Enterprise' , 'The Affiliation' and of course the experts in high octane sims 'amusement park games'

 

[ResilientBanana]

The Initiative and The Coalition are without a doubt the most retarded names for a company in the history of videogames.

They sound so inorganic and fake, like a fucking boy band or a McDonalds meal.

Nothing new to Microsoft tough.

Wasn't The Coalition a faction that was actually in Gears of War? Since they make Gears of War, it makes sense.

 

[Bryank75]

Wasn't The Coalition a faction that was actually in Gears of War? Since they make Gears of War, it makes sense.

Akchuuually! I'm pretty sure they were called 'The Affiliation'.

 

[demigod]

At this rate, there will be more replies in this thread than the OT of their game.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Akchuuually! I'm pretty sure they were called 'The Affiliation'.

The COG, Coalition of Ordered Governments.

Coalition of Ordered Governments

"I am responsible for myself and my actions; I shall conduct myself honorably, and live a clean and frugal life. I have responsibilities to my fellow citizens. I shall be loyal to them, and humble, because we are elements of a greater whole, and without them I am nothing, I have responsibilities...

gearsofwar.fandom.com

 

[DynamiteCop!]

Wasn't The Coalition a faction that was actually in Gears of War? Since they make Gears of War, it makes sense.

Yes it's the COG, the Coalition of Ordered Governments.

 

[Bryank75]

The COG, Coalition of Ordered Governments.

Coalition of Ordered Governments

"I am responsible for myself and my actions; I shall conduct myself honorably, and live a clean and frugal life. I have responsibilities to my fellow citizens. I shall be loyal to them, and humble, because we are elements of a greater whole, and without them I am nothing, I have responsibilities...

gearsofwar.fandom.com

I know dude...all of the names of the studios I listed above are just Synonyms of the real MS studios.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Xbox studio hires Apex Legends weapon designer | VGC

First-party startup The Initiative continues expansion…

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[kevin_trinh]

Hyped, can’t wait to play there 1st game in the next 10 year on Xbox1080

 

[Enjay]

If game development is such a long and arduous process then they should stfu and develop.

 

[Bernkastel]

If game development is such a long and arduous process then they should stfu and develop.

Because they need to make a team first. And for that you have to advertise hiring. Current they only have 37. Not something where they can stfu and develop.

 

[nikolino840]

Some come some go away

 

[Gamernyc78]

Some come some go away

The superflous reactionary response to fanboy dribble No need for tht, if your an enthusiast of gaming by now you know that the gaming industry is a revolving door, perpetually. Only idiots think a person leaving a dev company is because it's falling apart.

But congrats!!! Hope she does well.

 

[thelastword]

Akchuuually! I'm pretty sure they were called 'The Affiliation'.

I always thought they should name themselves the COGalition instead, since they are essentially a Gears dev house now......

Some come some go away

Don't know what Murray is so defensive about.....The problem is, just recently, when anyone left a studio for the Initiative, people made new threads about it, trying to imply an issue at these studios and that things were better at the Initiative, (sinking ships and all that), hence why everybody was leaving for that burgeoning ship......We told folk people leave studios for various reasons, hell for better pay and opportunities, to work on something new, to be closer to their loved ones, but I guess such answers never made sense till someone left the Initiative themselves......

 

[Bernkastel]

I always thought they should name themselves the COGalition instead, since they are essentially a Gears dev house now......


Don't know what Murray is so defensive about.....The problem is, just recently, when anyone left a studio for the Initiative, people made new threads about it, trying to imply an issue at these studios and that things were better at the Initiative, (sinking ships and all that), hence why everybody was leaving for that burgeoning ship......We told folk people leave studios for various reasons, hell for better pay and opportunities, to work on something new, to be closer to their loved ones, but I guess such answers never made sense till someone left the Initiative themselves......

She was just their as a recruiter, not a game dev.

 

[Kagey K]

I always thought they should name themselves the COGalition instead, since they are essentially a Gears dev house now......


Don't know what Murray is so defensive about.....The problem is, just recently, when anyone left a studio for the Initiative, people made new threads about it, trying to imply an issue at these studios and that things were better at the Initiative, (sinking ships and all that), hence why everybody was leaving for that burgeoning ship......We told folk people leave studios for various reasons, hell for better pay and opportunities, to work on something new, to be closer to their loved ones, but I guess such answers never made sense till someone left the Initiative themselves......

You need an upgrade, it seems that your OS is running on an outdated firmware. It’s all getting boring and stale now.

 

[Bernkastel]

Some concept art from Initiative art director Eric Persson

The last one reminds me of Akira.