id Software Employee Speak on Uncertainty Following Xbox Reset
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The Xbox reset doesn't have an end date
Asha Sharma marked the conclusion of her first hundred days as Xbox CEO with a public blog post in which she called for the next hundred days to be a "reset" of the business. Highlighting the division's low "accountability margin" and declining revenues, along with macro factors like the hardware component crisis, Sharma's post was a fairly obvious omen of layoffs to come – corporate executives don't say things like "we have found ourselves over…
Microsoft's Xbox division faces new layoffs and strategic changes, with the morale of declining employees and goals judged unrealistic.A long article published by Aftermath focuses on the internal situation that is attacking Microsoft's Xbox division, especially after the other 268 layoffs arrived a few months after cutting about 1600 jobs.A second wave that also involved several studies.Read more
Xbox is firing and of course many are criticizing the moves of the new CEO: even a veteran of Microsoft has been included in the speech.
"It was a bloodbath," one of the laid-off id Software developers said in July. Although the Xbox reset began in early summer and initially affected 1,600 employees across the company, there are many indications that the situation among developers is still far from calm. See more
The Valve veteran thinks Xbox executives simply don't understand the gaming industry. And players are getting harder and harder to squeeze money out of them.Information “Sorry Microsoft, but you can't cope.” Chet Faliszek hits Xbox and points out why the company doesn't understand the industry in which it operates was published by GryOnline.pl on September 25, 2026.
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