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2024-01-26 Economy

Microsoft: Layoffs for nearly 2,000 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox

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Posted by Fred 2024-01-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [23 views ] Top

#1 Trimming the fat. Yes, at home but no longer working.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-26 07:38|| 2024-01-26 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Tech and media companies are all letting people go. The notion that there's an unlimited demand for anything, let alone computer games and crap like Vice, Buzzfeed, LA Times and WaPo is slowly being grasped, at least in some of the C suites.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-26 07:42|| 2024-01-26 07:42|| Front Page Top

#3

Expect massive global layoffs as A.I. assumes more and more mundane day to day staff tasks.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-01-26 07:43|| 2024-01-26 07:43|| Front Page Top

#4 AI will make up more imaginative lies and all future games will be a mash-up of games already made.

When game features become part of your server management package, that will be a feature, not a bug.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-26 07:47|| 2024-01-26 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Most top gaming programmers are 'gypsies' by trade. They work on start ups and development then move on to another project at another company when the product is matured enough in the publication schedule. The 'C' team is left with clean up (updates and fixes) near the end.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-26 07:48|| 2024-01-26 07:48|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Often nothing more than change of dates and mods to the wrapper.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-01-26 11:09|| 2024-01-26 11:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Activistism-Blizzard.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-01-26 12:09|| 2024-01-26 12:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Apparently, their AI has learned to code.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-26 12:18|| 2024-01-26 12:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Well Blizzard has been a dumpster fire for a decade now and just keeps pumping out crap games. No one likes them and is buying their stuff anymore.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-01-26 13:04|| 2024-01-26 13:04|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by Jack Creanter7508 2024-01-26 13:20|| 2024-01-26 13:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Well Blizzard has been a dumpster fire for a decade now and just keeps pumping out crap games. No one likes them and is buying their stuff anymore.

The lesser known Disney treatment story arc. Blizzard used to be top of the line.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-01-26 13:37|| 2024-01-26 13:37|| Front Page Top

#12 i program web apps and use c# to program for legacy apps. I use c# rather than c++ because i like the syntax better. That being said the c# platform (visual studio) is obese. It amuses me to hear the story of MS being asked by IBM to write an OS for IBMs new PC and MS referring them to another shop who were out hang gliding that day.

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-01-26 16:32|| www.weemfg.com 2024-01-26 16:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Next thing, they will discontinue Flight Simulator 2024, that I just finished building a new Windows computer for. And only for.

Posted by KBK 2024-01-26 18:49|| 2024-01-26 18:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Next thing, they will discontinue Flight Simulator 2024

Doubtful. That is one of the only successful PC games they have.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-01-26 19:47|| 2024-01-26 19:47|| Front Page Top

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