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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

So I see that the headline aged like milk in record time.

 

[AV]

Man that milk went sour in 5 days

 

[Gudji]

 

[SlimySnake]

 

[Dr_Ifto]

OOF, yikes, this thread.

 

[Sanepar]

MS bringing the good consolidation

 

[gokurho]

Xbox has cautious and considered strategy with engagement

 

[Kadve]

Microsoft just fired more in a single swop than what Embracer has fired in Total since the Saudi deal btw.

 

[Krieger]

Not even milk gets this bad this fast.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Windows Central:

 

[GHG]

He's out of line but he's right .jpg

Look at the closures at Embracer in the last 5, 6 months (and the one's expected in the coming ones).

 

[FunkMiller]

He's out of line but he's right .jpg

 

[kruis]

Windows Central:

Jez Corden, managing director gaming news at Windows Central:

 

[Yoboman]

Kinda awkward when such a shill article obviously isn't even paid for

 

[Banjo64]

You have to say the ability to constantly make your own Ls is unique to this fanbase.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

MS bringing the good consolidation

That's comedy gold.
Thanks to you, I had to stuff my face into my pillow, here and laugh into it with enough force to feel the air pass right through.

 

[JawaSaysUtinni]

I decided to pop in, as I could smell the curdling stench a few threads away.

Was not disappointed.

 

[Sanepar]

That's comedy gold.
Thanks to you, I had to stuff my face into my pillow, here and laugh into it with enough force to feel the air pass right through.

It was a joke

 

[SJRB]

This article

 

[Dazraell]

Windows Central editor right now

 

[Roni]

Windows Central editor right now

Guess Jason was right about Starfield...

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Microsoft basically said hold my beer then.

Ain't nobody, AND I MEAN NOBODY, going to out lay off Microsoft!

 

[onQ123]

So I see that the headline aged like milk in record time.

Most likely made to jump out ahead of the bad news

 

[Ronin_7]

Microsoft just fired more in a single swop than what Embracer has fired in Total since the Saudi deal btw.

Embracer is bad, MS is mankind saviour!

 

[Kadve]

Embracer is bad, MS is mankind saviour!

Makes me wonder where all those "Microsoft Should buy everything!" guys are. Seems to have gone quite quiet.

 

[gokurho]

Embracer Group reportedly cancels unannounced Deus Ex game, lays off staff at Eidos Montreal

An unannounced Deus Ex game has reportedly been cancelled by Embracer Group, with layoffs at developer Eidos Montreal.

www.windowscentral.com

Fuck embracer
They should sell Eidos/CD to Microsoft

 

[Heisenberg007]

Embracer Group reportedly cancels unannounced Deus Ex game, lays off staff at Eidos Montreal

An unannounced Deus Ex game has reportedly been cancelled by Embracer Group, with layoffs at developer Eidos Montreal.

www.windowscentral.com

Fuck embracer
They should sell Eidos/CD to Microsoft

Same thing. Both Embracer and Microsoft would end up firing the staff, cancel the games, and shut down the studios.

 

[Krieger]

Makes me wonder where all those "Microsoft Should buy everything!" guys are. Seems to have gone quite quiet.

Microsoft must have fired their script writers, so now the shills don't know how to respond to this negative news.

 

[Hudo]

The difference is that Microsoft actually have the money to buy shit. Embracer didn't have the money and proceeded to buy shit based on a non-formal promise for a deal (which never came through). How none of the managers have faced consequences for betting the company on some vocal promise by some Arab dude is beyond me.

And now I'll never get a new Deus Ex.

 

[kyussman]

For all the money they have spent between them......where the fuck are the great games?

 

[GHG]

For all the money they have spent between them......where the fuck are the great games?

At least someone is asking the important questions.

Meanwhile some people are tripping over themselves speculating/begging for the next acquisition. I'm not sure these people play games.

 

[GHG]

Hey Windows Central, can we get an update on this article please?

 

[thismeinteil]

Hey Windows Central, can we get an update on this article please?

Let me be as lazy as MS seems to be with its studios and just copy/paste Heisenberg007.

Windows Central:

 

[onQ123]

Hey Windows Central, can we get an update on this article please?

 

[Meicyn]

Hey Windows Central, can we get an update on this article please?

I wonder if the industry has another lifetime achievement award to present to Phil Spencer. He’s done so much for gaming!

 

[baphomet]

Destroying the industry? How's that? In Microsoft case they are giving these Studios financial stability and letting them create without the burden of paying the bills.

Also from Phil Spencer, We have a service that is financially viable, meaning it makes money, in Game Pass. We’ve put a lot of money into the market, over a billion dollars a year supporting third-party games coming into Game Pass

Over 1 Billion to funding third-party games is not how you destroy an industry Quite the opposite

Is that so?

 

[PSYGN]

This didn't age well at all, the thread title is comedy at this point

 

[Crayon]

Bumps for ms puff pieces are a public service.

 

[Plague Doctor]

Reads like a corporate shill piece.

I mean.... you pretty much summed up Windows Central. It's like the junior deputy recruit PR wing. I am pretty sure when Jez writes a good article, they print it out and post on the break room refrigerator at Xbox HQ so everyone can see it when they go for their lunches.

 

[jhjfss]

 

[HAYA8U5A]

 

[drganon]

Womp womp

 

[MrRibeye]

Hahahaha literally laughed out loud when I saw this old thread pop up

 

[El Muerto]

 

[Puscifer]

So much finely aged milk lately

*chefs kiss *

 

[GHound]

Can't believe Windows Central sold an entire shipment of ammo that Microsoft used to execute these game studios directly to Microsoft after asking what Microsoft needed so much for and Microsoft answered "I've got some studios to murder."
Fucking RIP.

 

[Shin-Ra]

Like a bulldozer trying to catch a butterfly.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Destroying the industry? How's that? In Microsoft case they are giving these Studios financial stability and letting them create without the burden of paying the bills.

Also from Phil Spencer, We have a service that is financially viable, meaning it makes money, in Game Pass. We’ve put a lot of money into the market, over a billion dollars a year supporting third-party games coming into Game Pass

Over 1 Billion to funding third-party games is not how you destroy an industry Quite the opposite

 

[Barakov]

Destroying the industry? How's that? In Microsoft case they are giving these Studios financial stability and letting them create without the burden of paying the bills.

Also from Phil Spencer, We have a service that is financially viable, meaning it makes money, in Game Pass. We’ve put a lot of money into the market, over a billion dollars a year supporting third-party games coming into Game Pass

Over 1 Billion to funding third-party games is not how you destroy an industry Quite the opposite

 

[Loomy]

I'm not saying that Lifetime Achievement Award D.I.C.E gave Phil is the most hilarious award given to someone since Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize less than a year into his presidency while the US was already a decade deep into bombing and droning the fuck out of Yemen and Afghanistan......

But I'm also not not saying that..............