What the hell are you guys doing?

So a lot for that dedication to axing forms, eh? ‘In our relentless dedication to slicing layers of administration, we’re inserting a brand new layer of administration between ourselves and Obsidian,’ says Microsoft.

Does it make sense to convey Obsidian underneath Bethesda? Not a lick. At least, not if you understand something in regards to the videogame studios Bethesda Softworks and Obsidian Entertainment, which isn’t one thing I’m presently prepared to credit score Microsoft’s government workers with.

Bethesda and Obsidian aren’t the identical. They may each make issues we name RPGs they usually may each be making a Fallout, however these are two studios with completely different pursuits, outlooks, and philosophies. I’m genuinely somewhat baffled that Microsoft has lashed them collectively like they’re similar-enough colors you are throwing within the washer. What a staggering disregard for the legacies and builders of the studios you voluntarily went out and spent billions to accumulate. None of this needed to occur, Microsoft. None of this was pressured on you.

Reader, if nothing else, let this disabuse you of any notion that our betters are any smarter than the likes of you and me. Microsoft’s gleeful gutting of half the western video games trade (although, honest’s honest, it did give obliterating Japan’s Tango Gameworks the outdated school strive) appears to have been pushed, primarily, by a profound lack of ability to get its personal shit collectively, like a deadbeat cousin who by some means grew to become accountable for tens of hundreds of livelihoods.

I suppose I’ll meet you again right here when it reveals the following part of its masterplan.