Techrights — Microsoft Whistleblowers Say "The Entire Thing Is Going to Fall Apart" and There Are "No Benefits" to Being Part of Microsoft
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"There is no advantage to belonging to Microsoft," says Doom's developer: "They have destroyed an immense value of which I don't even think they are aware."A new report sheds light on what happened behind the scenes, when Microsoft announced that approximately 3,200 jobs should be removed by fiscal year 2027 and separated from a number of studios. The employees concerned at Bethesda, ZeniMax and id Software would have been informed of their term…
An id software developer sharply criticizes Microsoft after the recent layoffs and doubts the benefits of the takeover.
Ex-id Software developer: "There are no benefits to being owned by Microsoft"
When former Xbox head Phil Spencer made his high-profile acquisitions of developers such as Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, and Bethesda five to ten years ago, it was said that these studios would gain greater stability and the opportunity to develop games with a significantly larger budget than before. Many developers have since said they are satisfied with the acquisitions, but after the latest massive round of layoffs, it's clear that far fr…
"There are no benefits to being owned by Microsoft," says Doom dev: "They have destroyed immense amounts of value that I don't even think that they're aware of"
An id Software developer says there is no benefit to being owned by Microsoft after the Xbox-owned developer faced mass layoffs one day before the launch of a new Doom DLC expansion. Speaking to Gamedeveloper, the unnamed source at the Doom developer explained, "They [Microsoft] didn't even wait to see if the product is successful before they got rid of the team." And had Microsoft waited, it would've seen that Doom: The Dark Ages' Revelation DL…
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