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Xbox Is Not Your Friend (www.kotaku.com.au)

submitted 9 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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After laying off almost 2,000 people, Xbox finds itself in a position at odds with the community-first image it has cultivated for itself.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Basically this.

I don't like mergers but holy fuck Activision/Blizzard had to go. That that POS Kotick got away with a golden parachute while pulling every dirty trick that unluckier cronies have pulled once and gotten cancelled, is a travesty.

Getting acquired is just about the only way something that big "dies". Activision swore many times they'd change, but it was never gonna happen. Too many wore rose tinted glasses and forgave them because of what Blizzard once was, dismissing what it had become.

Microsoft has been good to its subsidiary studios in recent years, but eventually it too will have to be dealt with in some form. My preferred method would be hitting it with the "monopoly-break-up-stick" again.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Exactly, it's not so much cheering for how great it will be, moreso that it can't really get any worse, and while xbox and Microsoft aren't great, Actiblizzard completely destroyed themselves from a public perception.