Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands
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Japan has laws that say executives must take a pay cut before they can lay anyone off
But the billionaires are for us in the US! Herp derp
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Xbox was the only Microsoft product that I liked, paid for and used. I don't use Windows or Office -except when mandated at work-, but I've had the Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox Series S. I have over 300 owned digital games on Xbox. I decided to move away from Xbox a year ago, I never used Steam before Autumn last year, and now I game on the Steam Deck more than anything else. The writing has been on the wall for a few years now though, so this news isn't surprising. I still wanted to get an Xbox Series X to keep playing the digital games I collected over the years and was waiting for a price cut but they went and raised the prices instead.
Lmao are you me? Exact same models. My series S started collecting dust about a year and a half ago. All PC and Steam now.
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If you banned investing, the rich people who already have money would be the only ones who could afford to open businesses.
No common folk is getting rich thanks to the stock market. Maybe richer if they're lucky, but let's not pretend it's a tool for social mobility. It's the opposite.
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So going on a shopping spree and buying all those game studios wasn't a good idea huh. Who would have thought.
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Let me share my Xbox experience? I'm mid-40s. Owned Xboxes since literally the OG Xbox 1.
I originally bought this thing to play with my brother split screen. Nowadays I want to play split screen with my son.
Yet somehow there's no fucking split screen games anymore. The last two or three AAA games I purchased I played for a few hours and then never loaded again.
And the other day when I loaded up call of duty Black ops 3 to play zombies (this is like a 10 year old game now) I found that because I let my Xbox Gold live whatever the fuck subscription expire, I can't play "online" and use my unlocked items even though I'm doing local play.
So from this guy what in the fucking fuck xbox. This is some kind of device designed to clean out my wallet for eternity and not deliver what I actually want.
I pretty much exclusively use my Xbox as a YouTube player now.
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Let me share my Xbox experience? I'm mid-40s. Owned Xboxes since literally the OG Xbox 1.
I originally bought this thing to play with my brother split screen. Nowadays I want to play split screen with my son.
Yet somehow there's no fucking split screen games anymore. The last two or three AAA games I purchased I played for a few hours and then never loaded again.
And the other day when I loaded up call of duty Black ops 3 to play zombies (this is like a 10 year old game now) I found that because I let my Xbox Gold live whatever the fuck subscription expire, I can't play "online" and use my unlocked items even though I'm doing local play.
So from this guy what in the fucking fuck xbox. This is some kind of device designed to clean out my wallet for eternity and not deliver what I actually want.
I pretty much exclusively use my Xbox as a YouTube player now.
Borderlands, sports, indie titles are still good options
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I don't think it would change anything because all management there is the same. They don't play games.
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Borderlands, sports, indie titles are still good options
You might be right, probably worth looking into. I just have so little time to invest in new titles or any learning curve or really any game that takes a ton of grinding before it's fun
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You might be right, probably worth looking into. I just have so little time to invest in new titles or any learning curve or really any game that takes a ton of grinding before it's fun
You can but don't need to grind any of the Borderlands games until super late finished the game 3 times with the same character already end game, and by that time it's fun to just start a new character of a different class. Handsome collection, playing 2 in particular is the best. And that collection works for up to 4 player locally
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Japan has laws that say executives must take a pay cut before they can lay anyone off
The place I work for is having an executive pay cut… but with tons of threats of other layoffs and chafing benefits for the worse. It’s really cool. I bet the top execs have pay cuts equal or less than one regular worker’s pay.
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So going on a shopping spree and buying all those game studios wasn't a good idea huh. Who would have thought.
I wish companies couldn't buy other companies. That's how all the best things die
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If you banned investing, the rich people who already have money would be the only ones who could afford to open businesses.
If you banned
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So going on a shopping spree and buying all those game studios wasn't a good idea huh. Who would have thought.
I feel like this is all driven by MS diving full force into AI stuff. Their capex is going to be insane so they’re cutting shit left and right to keep Wall Street happy while they set cash on fire trying to make AI something more than anime profile pic generators.
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Let me share my Xbox experience? I'm mid-40s. Owned Xboxes since literally the OG Xbox 1.
I originally bought this thing to play with my brother split screen. Nowadays I want to play split screen with my son.
Yet somehow there's no fucking split screen games anymore. The last two or three AAA games I purchased I played for a few hours and then never loaded again.
And the other day when I loaded up call of duty Black ops 3 to play zombies (this is like a 10 year old game now) I found that because I let my Xbox Gold live whatever the fuck subscription expire, I can't play "online" and use my unlocked items even though I'm doing local play.
So from this guy what in the fucking fuck xbox. This is some kind of device designed to clean out my wallet for eternity and not deliver what I actually want.
I pretty much exclusively use my Xbox as a YouTube player now.
I’m having a similar experience with the PS5. Been playing since Gran Turismo on the PS1 and have it in the living room with multiple controllers. Thing is…like you said there’s no couch coop anymore, if 3 of us want to shoot zombies on the same map it just can’t but 2 player is there…with giant black bars on the sides to make it 4:3 on my 65” tv.
We’ve spent more time playing Balatro than COD the last few weeks, smaller cheaper games are simply a better deal right now with the price tag and all the mtx
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Let me share my Xbox experience? I'm mid-40s. Owned Xboxes since literally the OG Xbox 1.
I originally bought this thing to play with my brother split screen. Nowadays I want to play split screen with my son.
Yet somehow there's no fucking split screen games anymore. The last two or three AAA games I purchased I played for a few hours and then never loaded again.
And the other day when I loaded up call of duty Black ops 3 to play zombies (this is like a 10 year old game now) I found that because I let my Xbox Gold live whatever the fuck subscription expire, I can't play "online" and use my unlocked items even though I'm doing local play.
So from this guy what in the fucking fuck xbox. This is some kind of device designed to clean out my wallet for eternity and not deliver what I actually want.
I pretty much exclusively use my Xbox as a YouTube player now.
That really sucks. Consoles these days are just pcs with expensive libraries. If you can muster playing on pc with your son, the games are cheaper and I highly recommend it. On steam, you can filter by local coop and hook up two controllers to get a similar experience. You can even try emulating older games like on the ps2.
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So going on a shopping spree and buying all those game studios wasn't a good idea huh. Who would have thought.
Buying studios wasn't stupid.
Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.
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Buying studios wasn't stupid.
Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.
Why? they have the most players AND money than they ever did in their existence. Stupid would be suggesting it was a bad idea
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best they can do is lay off 10-30% and call record profits.
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Which is why stock trading should be abolished and outlawed.
or at least heavily taxed, which almost never happens because everyone in congress commiting insider trading wouldnt want that.
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So going on a shopping spree and buying all those game studios wasn't a good idea huh. Who would have thought.
That was just leveling the field of potential competitors.
