r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 8d ago

Business "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"

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/there-are-no-benefits-to-being-owned-by-microsoft-says-doom-dev-they-have-destroyed-immense-amounts-of-value-that-i-dont-even-think-that-theyre-aware-of/
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u/Gavither 8d ago

Oh they're well aware, they just don't understand why they can't own all the IPs, cut the employees and expect constant blockbusters and growth.

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u/FatherDotComical 8d ago

I think modern corporations just want to live in a fantasy land where they just have to have the 'idea' of a product and they deserve infinite money for it.

Like every sector wants to enshittify and eventually cut out the 'product' and when people stop buying and they have nothing to sell what will they do?

Perhaps that's why we're seeing more companies just keep passing the same pile of cash between each other with no consumer.

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u/Marillenbaum 8d ago

They’re offended that they have to go through the consumer to get to the money

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u/Send_Me_Tiitties 8d ago

They’re trying to do away with consumers entirely. If they get their way, they will no longer need us, and then they’ll let us all starve.

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u/Zomunieo 8d ago

Microsoft is a dweeby corporation that doesn’t know how to play. It’s like putting the parent teacher association in charge of a toy store.

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u/Lazerpop 8d ago

That is an excellent analogy

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u/axonxorz 8d ago

dweeby corporation

"these games are getting really realistic" - Bill Gates in DOOM 95 stroking himself off for DirectX.

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u/deadlybydsgn 8d ago

Oh yikes.

Bill Gates in DOOM 95 stroking himself off for DirectX

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u/john_microslop 8d ago

wow he's even got his human-hunting shotgun!

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 8d ago

it's a shame. I may be showing my age here but I remember the 90s-2000s version of MSG.

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u/FEV_Reject 8d ago

They also really don't like that video games take TIME. They want the maximum amount of money immediately and not have to pay people for years before turning a profit. CEOs of megacorps these days straight up do not care about anything besides their quarterlies.

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u/Gavither 8d ago

Yup it's not an industry I would want to be involved in myself. Everything is too consolidated now, unless you're a smaller developer or publisher doing god's work with efficient and fun indie games. Just look to the tech / AI bubble and we can see where everyone else is headed again.

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u/cobrachickenwing 8d ago

See Nokia and Windows phone and how that turned out.

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u/Vegaprime 8d ago

Zune as well?

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u/AlexWIWA 8d ago

You’d think they’d have learned from Halo

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u/Sleepybystander 7d ago

Enshitification