Industry's so fucked, man. Doesn't matter how well you do critically or commercially. What scale you're working at. There's a rot in the business.

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Industry's so fucked, man. Doesn't matter how well you do critically or commercially. What scale you're working at. There's a rot in the business.
I wasn't shocked Arkane Austin got cut, but Tango is literally pumping out only bangers, what fucking standard are they expecting??
At this point of the acquisition/closure onslaught, my question is also starting to be “which owner/employees benefited financially from the acquisition and are they financially helping peeps affected by the closure?”
Cause it’s not like Xbox bought those for nothing.
Considering Robert Trump was a board member/major investor in Zenimax Media and died without heirs, technically one of the biggest payout winners of the acquisition was Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
Yes but I was thinking more of someone like Mikami who may have gotten millions in the 2010 zenimax deal and left last year.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/resident-evil-creator-shinji-mikami-joins-zenimax
He left to found a new company to make games because he was unhappy at Tango because of Bethesda/MS. Tango 2 basically.
yeah mikami seems to be a real one from what i’ve seen today from people more in the know. todd howard on the other hand.. remember, didn’t bethesda get arkane/ID prior to msft getting bethesda? like they were in any way hurting for money.
Didn't that guy famously hate his dipshit brother? I would hope he had something in place to stop that from happening but I don't know.
Your thinking of his older brother Fred Jr., his daughter is a psychologist and hates his guts. Literally a week before he died Robert surprised Donald at a 2020 campaign event and they had a huge hug. About one of the few genuinely human moments that guy showed his entire life.