《毀滅公爵》系列製作人George Broussard在社交媒體上表示，Xbox關閉工作室的名單已被泄露。如果一切成真，很可能是遊戲史上規模最大的單次裁員事件。
jfc, I just got word of a list of Xbox studio closures (no, not posting them). If it's even close to true (and it's from inside) this will likely be the largest single layoff event in gaming history. Xbox is going to be supremely unpopular for a very long time and the devastation is going to reverberate like the meteor that took out the dinosaurs. On top of all that there will also be layoffs at the studios that remain.
據他獲得內部人士的透露，微軟將於當地30日敲定Xbox裁員名單，並於下周一（7月6日）開始實施，而微軟的財年結算是6月30日，因此7月做出大動作並非巧合，去年微軟也是在這個時間點裁了9000個員工。
雖然他沒有透露具體名單，但他表示，除了關閉工作室之外，那些挺過裁員風波的倖存工作室也將面臨裁員。
「Xbox將在很長一段時間內變得極度不受歡迎……就像滅絕恐龍的那顆隕石一樣。」
honestly, good. the gaming industry needs a hard reset. we got these studios gassed up charging $70 for a game, $25 for 10 different microtransactions a week, releasing games in unfinished states, canceling DLC in favor of multi-player slop, forcing voice chat AI detection for "hate speech" like these mfs need to die and be reborn.
They acquired so many studios to make games for game pass and game pass backfired on them. Game pass is not a sustainable product for video game studios to make revenue. Releasing games to retail and having the sales go straight back to the studio is what makes them more money. Game pass subscriptions and getting a small percent of each game pass sub is just not a good business model. I assume Microsoft had contracts where they paid these studios some kind of monthly payroll for their employees but I don't think it was sustaintable at all.
