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Xbox's absent landlord execs are only part of a much bigger problem
Microsoft's continued job slashing at Xbox and beyond reveals a troublesome disdain for the human touch.
We've had enough of the disasters now - more than enough - where the attempts at providing reasonable business cases for "organizational shifts", or whatever the latest placative, idiomatic glibness from this lot is, don't so much ring hollow as they do sound a great summoning bell of absolute white-hot rage. As our extraordinarily bleak roundup summarises, Microsoft's dripping axe has also swung for the Perfect Dark reboot, the entire Forza Motorsport series, hundreds of people at mobile megastudio King, potentially the whole studio of Romero Games, and most ludicrously of all, Everwild. Matt Firor, also gone - reportedly in protest at his team's widely-praised project getting canned - founded Zenimax Online Studios and had been there as its head for 18 years, overseeing the incredibly rare feat of running an actually successful MMO into 2025 with conviction and vision.
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