2K lays off dozens of Firaxis employees, mostly those working on Woke Civ7
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Normies are finally waking up to the fact these are not companies they grew up with. These are different companies wearing the skin suit of someone that made a beloved game at one time.
Yup, to varying degrees. Some are close to what they were, staff/management-wise, but still get overtaken by the rot...while others are skinsuits from the start.
True, Todd Howard didn't need any one new to ruin Bethesda.
I still fault the majority of that failure on the likes of Emil, aka their narrative lead.
The guy thinks he is this amazing writer, when every contribution he provides is mid at best. All the best writing and setting creation was made by people working for Emil, not Emil himself, but Emil arrogantly believes that he is the reason why those things succeeded.
Until he is gone or at the very least removed from narrative lead, expect only mediocre stories at best from Bethesda. And the stronger his hand in the writing, the worse it will be.
Wait until they realize that's happened with the entirety of the west.
Jake Solomon, the man responsible for basically every non-Civ game in some way and directly every XCom one, was literally forced out after Midnight Suns (a very good game that had no marketability) bombed horribly.
It'll be hilarious when they try to make an Xcom game without him, because his finger is very notable on the franchise.