also its genuinely disgusting to see some people on here and other websites applauding the layoffs like they were a good thing.
"Bethesda games take too long to come out and Microsoft needed to send them a message"
What is this the fucking mafia?
"Take a few loyal employees out back and give em two pops in the head each to send a message"
Getting rid of experienced devs instead of just reorganizing the company is INCREASING inefficiencies that already exised. Employees you need are gone, contractors who have no idea how to do anything will need to get brought on board and receive expedited uptraining (which pulls established Employees away from their actual jobs)
All Microsoft did is doing fire loyal employees and hire cheaper contactors to replace them
Dont let yourself be duped by corpo propaganda, this isnt about making Bethesda a better company, its about Xbox bleeding money and firing salaried devs to try to save money thru cheap contractors while the games themselves get released around the same time they were planned to anyways