Microsoft to lay off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, Xbox staff

[Michelangelo11]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-lays-off-1-900-143146073.html

[ycdxvjp]

Maybe I am watching too many series on drug lords but Game studios feel like money laundering operations. How do you even give a group 100-200 mil and say ok go make something for 3 years or whatever with no guarantee it will work?

[SeanAnderson → ycdxvjp]

If you're actually interested in learning more, I highly recommend the book Blood, Sweat, and Pixels :)

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Pixels-Triumphant-Turbule...

[ycdxvjp → SeanAnderson]

Thanks will check it out. But these books are usually overloaded with the creative and tech side of the struggle and gloss over where the cash comes from and how it's kept flowing to keep the lights on.

[DamnYuppie → ycdxvjp]

How is that different than most startups?

[Blackstrat]

This routine acquisition BS and has nothing to do with LLMs or the economy. Bloodbaths after acquisitions are the norm.

[joe-collins → Blackstrat]

Grapevine says that beyond simple redundancies, ABK's customer service is being gutted in favor of outsourcing.

[lwhi → Blackstrat]

Makes me feel better .. slightly better ; )

[lwhi]

After using LLM in my own dev workflow, it feels that one developer can quite simply do more.

Would it be realistic to expect a percentage based cull across the board?

Is that what we're seeing?

[SeanAnderson → lwhi]

No? They are cleaning up after their merger.

[simmerup]

Blizzard needs a clean out to be fair