ChorizoPicozo
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and what publisher arm has been doing a pathetic job at.....publishing games?.... Yep, the entire Xbox publishing is the one that should be massively layoff.It would depend on how many workers they brought in for the pandemic. I think MS hired about 70k during that period.
On here people console war with this, but in reality the gaming division has only represented a very small percentage of these layoffs, because that division did not suffer from as much pandemic bloat as other areas of the company. The gaming specific layoffs seem to be more about reducing redundancies between Xbox Game Studios and Zenimax (besides the house cleaning at 343), which you knew would happen eventually. At the end of the day, MS probably doesn't need two completely distinct publishing arms.
laying off zenimax "redundancies" is going to "rub the wrong way" to zenimax staff; is going to create friction, cultural clash, power vacuums, and turmoil.
we are witnessing the beginnings of some Game Of Thrones shit inside xbox.