re: Microsoft Closing Multiple Studios

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I don’t view these as a negative. So many of these studios over hire, lose money like crazy, keep pushing release dates back and then eventually rush out an unfinished product they had been half arse working on all along.

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Effective project management is needed in the games industry.

That said, lets take Redfall for example. Arkane is a studio known for narrative driven single player games. They had no experience whatsoever in developing a live service title. The publisher just saw dollar signs with the live service model and forced them to pump out a game that the entire studio hated working on.

It's not that shocking that the game wasn't successful.

Much of the same could be said for Suicide Squad.

People get mad because executives keep making boneheaded decisions that affect the livelihood of real people, yet the executives seem to continue to fall upwards.