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Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Playing devil’s advocate, sometimes the blame is not solely on Microsoft.

Bethesda Softworks is a good example. They’d basically doomed Arkane to dev hell with that vampire game, and kept that little detail hidden during the acquisition; Microsoft gave them total leeway when the Arkane team supposedly hoped a “rescue” instead, and never got it.

It’s a hard argument though.

Take Phil Spencer. Just Phil Spencer. Thats an incredible crater, right there, and he failed upwards for it.

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