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Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] tourist@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

people just don't want to work anymore

NO

THEY CLEARLY FUCKING DO

BUT YOU FUCKING GREEDY CUNTS KEEP FIRING EVERYONE AND TAKE FAT FISCAL QUARTER BONUSES

AND THEN IT'S A 19 STEP INTERVIEW PROCESS WHEN THEY TRY TO LOOK FOR A NEW JOB

AND THAT'S IF THEY'RE "LUCKY" ENOUGH FOR THE DOGSHIT AI TO RANDOM.CHOICE() THEIR RESUME OUT OF THE 900+ OTHER DESPERATE APPLICANTS

THEN THEY FINALLY SOMEHOW GET AN OFFER: $1.89 per full uninterrupted hour at your desk and a single bag of skittles (opened)

Sorry for the caps, I've been in the job market recently and it's fucking brutal. I have to constantly justify my value as a human being and then just face rejection after rejection.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

You left off the part where after you finish the bag of skittles the lay you off again.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Zenimax?

I thought TESO was actually rather profitable?

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

It is profitable

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember kids, don't buy into hype anymore. Hype is a marketing tool. They don't have to make any promises that a game will be good or even come out just because they hyped you up for it. Don't allow yourself to be excited for anything until it actually releases.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

"When you preorder a game you're just committing to buying something some assholes in California haven't even finished working on yet"

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago

Microsoft is literally scorching earth in their Xbox Gaming Division...Gotta chase those short term profits, I guess. 😡

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am so ready to just cancel my game pass. This shit just pisses me off.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm honestly surprised people still have it.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it fits your gaming profile, it's a pretty good deal.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I just think it stopped being a good deal the moment they implemented their first price increase. That signalled that they're willing to do what every other subscription service does and raise prices as arbitrarily high as people are willing to pay, with the enticement being that once you're in deep enough, you can't unsub or you're left with no games.

If you have copious time for gaming and are always on the hunt for sometbing new, is it still a better deal than buying every game at release? Sure, at least for now. But the patient gaming strat at least gives me a backlog of affordable titles too long to finish them all, and I can also return to it at any time without worrying about titles eventually disappearing from a subscription catalog.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

If you go for subscription, you accept that the stuff is temporal. Or at least you should. So it should make no practical difference if a game vanishes because it gets pulled from the catalog or if you decide to cancel the subscription because you consider it too expensive.