Step 1. Sucked in a familiar way. They got rid of their PVE staff. But then hired on like +50 more PVP staff.
Step 2. They are juicing up the Halo game modes, and adding a bunch of sometimes fanmade remakes of old maps at a rapid pace.
Step 3. And now they are adding ALL legacy Halo content, including unreleased content to workshop/forge modders
Seems like every other day I heard small, but healthy Halo stuff from these guys:
i bet microsoft is illegally paying off judges i bet a audit of microsoft and judges involved will find illegal transactions by microsoft which should result in severe fines and the judges arrested, assets seized and disbarred ontop of prison time
Even if they’re not doing it directly they almost certainly are doing it indirectly because the judge has a son working on Microsoft and they can promote him…
Like how did the judge even get the case?
How is that not a clear conflict of interest and downright illegal?
I mean FTC chose the judge and microsoft wanted another one. Btw the judge asked if there was a problem with her son working at microsoft, and guess what? FTC said no problems lol
Yeah that was dumb of the FTC but maybe they had no choice because they ran out of time or something and they had to have some judge pick up the case IDK…
The judge had a clear lack of technical understanding and that’s apparent throughout her judgment report as well…
1983: Brian Fargo starts company thanks to deal with Activision
1991: Allen Adham starts what would become Blizzard thanks to deal with Fargo
2002: Fargo starts inXile, later makes deal with Bethesda
2003: Fargo’s former staff start Obsidian
2023: Microsoft owns all the above
I think that this is a huge mistake, not for Microsoft but for us. Microsoft is going to do really well with this. But I do think gaming has become too consolidated already. I don’t think it’s great that studios continue to merge like this.
and not a single cent is going to go to any of these overpriced skins.