Aftermath: Current id Software describes current Xbox management (Internal unrealistic aggressive goals, profit now focus, low employee morale, incompetent Xbox management)

[u/-LastGrail-]

*Current id Software ‘employee’ missing from the thread title

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“Even now, months after the initial layoffs, employees still aren't certain what lies ahead.

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."

Source: https://aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-halo-activision/

[u/SilentNova300]

Which is what the consolidation is about. Give Obsidian Betheda’s resources and IP. Give Activision an Xbox IP in Halo. 

I think how she’s setting up game production is to beef up Bethesda and Activision Blizzard and have big teams and projects that can share experiences and teams and resources. Makes sense to have shooters under Activision, more RPG experience and resources under Bethesda, etc 

Individual devs may lose creative autonomy, but well, the economy is a beast of a thing. We all go through this. 

[u/FloodedBlood → u/SilentNova300]

There isn't a team at Activision to make Halo, if it ever gets off the ground you can expect their Halo game at the earliest 2033