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We don't really know who Microsoft fired. Did they get rid of some dead-weight danger hair people or actual developers? Because most people on humanity's garbage bin (Twitter) lamenting this shit are 99% of the former category.
They fired around 35% of Sledgehammer games and more than 40% of Toys for Bob.
Sledgehammer Games and Toys for Bob were two studios that were effectively diluted down creatively in the past 5 years to become nothing more than support studios to fill in the gap between Infinity Ward and Treyarch marquee COD titles. MWIII is the first time these two support studios were given complete charge of a mainline COD and it has become one of the most panned and content weak COD titles in the last decade. Why are we pretending like they were the team that made COD special?
Yes, firing people who had years of experience in making one of the most successful games of all time and replacing them with people who made one of the worst games of all time is horrible.
Wasn't this forum completely destroying MWIII a few weeks for being the worst COD game in the last decade and being a complete rip-off for having so little content? Why are we suddenly so protective of the people who delivered that trash?
Yes. Their acquisitions are driven by existing IP and back catalogue, not by experience and talent. They can and will outsource most of the development to people who will do it for cheap.
Well, the worst COD game in the last decade still is miles better than the last Saint's Row game for most people.
They wanted to make saints row, the dumbasses at the top forced them to make it saints woke despite the devs repeatedly warning it was a mistake.
I just wanna know if it's the guys with the skills or not.
I wasn’t. I called this. MS picked them up as they should have. Embracer is a leaky ship and it’s a free for all when it comes to poaching talent. Sony isn’t as good at grabbing American devs as MS.
I was actually joking when I said Microsoft should pick these guys up.
What something stands for doesn’t make it bad. Being a buggy, glitchy, unfinished mess of a video game with badly designed missions is what makes it bad.
You think they won't be making new CODs still? Pretending those layoffs were for quality control is straight up delusion. They will be making COD with even less resources. Let's not forget they had to make it in 14 months with 2023 originally supposed to be a gap year for COD as well. Probably a consequence of MS buying and not accepting a year of declined revenue
Was the OP truly that hard to read?
If we're going to play this game and say that Agents of Mayhem was a bad video game instead of just an average/decent game, then we will have to add Saints Row: Gat out of Hell to that equation because it was average as well. Hell, some people even hate Saints Row 4.
If we're going to play this game and say that Agents of Mayhem was a bad video game instead of just an average/decent game, then we will have to add Saints Row: Gat out of Hell to that equation because it was average as well. Hell, some people even hate Saints Row 4.
The problem is that people don't want to go down this route because then it breaks this whole 'agenda' argument into a larger argument about the fact that Volition has always made games of a varied quality, because those who make these agenda claims know that once you start to retroactively apply agendas to past video games, it all starts to sound a bit ridiculous
As I've said, they are a dev of variable quality.
