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I don't know if Halo needed to be under Activision, but it damn sure needed to get the f away from Halo Studios.
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I'm keeping it a thousand.
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Listen, man.
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There was other videos where I discussed Halo and I said, yo, they fed up so bad.
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They messed up so bad.
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I'm gonna have to start editing some of them curse words out.
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They messed up so bad with the campaign evolved remake.
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I literally got up on this screen.
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I got up on this mic.
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Pause.
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I hit record and I said, yo, this ain't verbatim.
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This is me paraphrasing.
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I said, yo, they need to go to the Halo Studios office and fire everybody.
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Fire everybody with purple hair and septum rings.
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I'm probably not the only one to say that.
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But it's crazy how I said that a couple weeks ago.
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And I said it with such passion.
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It was such anger.
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Maybe I haven't showed it in my face when I said it.
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But the passion and anger I had internally with the devastation that they have done to this great man.
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We still remember his greatness.
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But there are a couple things when there's a couple things that happen when you put such a star, such a legend under the hands of woke terrible developers, people that only care about activism instead of gaming and making a good game.
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When you put such a Chad, such a legend, such a warrior, such an icon in the hands of people that can't handle his polarizing nature of who he was.
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There's a great evil that we gotta face that wants to destroy everything.
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Activision now holds Halo in the palm of his hands.
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Make sure you like, comment, subscribe to the channel.
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I want to read this article, man.
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Xbox Layoffs update Ninja Theory Acquisitions fall through Halo to be given to Activision, Obsidian joins Bethesda and more.
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Microsoft has upper offered an update on its Xbox layoffs, which sources indicate will fall below the previous numbers revealed in July.
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So before Xbox wanted to get rid of 3200 people, so I guess they reduced the number.
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This manager gotta get to see this email and see that email, and the other manager gotta afford it to the other manager, and this manager got it's a bunch of bullshit that was happening in DEI Xbox, alright.
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Now the company has revealed that it has been doing things wrong.
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It's questionable to throw Halo under Activision, but it might not be.
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There's a bad taste in people's mouths when it comes to Call of Duty.
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I don't like Call of Duty no more.
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You probably like Call of Duty, I don't like it.
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Guess what?
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Even if I don't like Call of Duty, if you don't like Call of Duty, if she don't like Call of Duty, if they don't like Call of Duty, you know what Call of Duty does every year?
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It has millions of people playing it concurrently when you combine every platform together that can play Call of Duty.
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It's millions.
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They sell DLC, they sell product, they sell they they they esports.
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It's a money-making machine, ladies and gentlemen.
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Activision might have the hands to handle Master Chief.
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They might, but we'll see though.
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Microsoft just revealed another round of restructures for Xbox and its game studios with Ninja Theory, Obsidian, Turn 10, Halo Studios, and other impact.
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Last July, Microsoft announced it would be looking to reduce its gaming workforce by around two 3200 staffers.
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Sources suggest that the total figure will fall short of that previous estimate as Microsoft opts for restructuring and moving employees around to other departments as much as possible.
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That's smart.
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Which when I first heard it years ago, I was like, oh shit, they going crazy.
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But I didn't know you could just take teams and put it under somebody else, and then they specialize and build another team under that parent to focus on a game.
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Halo Studios wasn't gonna do it.
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Halo Studios had Halo Infinite.
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Halo Studios had Master Chief under them for the past 10 to 15 years, and guess what?
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They have not delivered.
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I told my homie the other day, not even the other day, it might have been today.
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I said, yo, soon as they get rid of all them cats that keep disrespecting this legend, this icon, and they got them making a game for him, using his likeness, when they don't like war.
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I mean, it's one thing not to like what's going on in the wars today, but you don't like a uh a masculine figure being the one to take on such a great enemy.
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Oh, he's he's toxic masculine.
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We don't need none of y'all in these studios doing that.
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Asha Sharma ain't gonna get up on here and say, yo, I'm gonna completely remove all of these woke motherfuck out of these studios.
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She's not gonna say that in public, but I know behind closed doors, whenever they announce this new Halo, we're gonna see a picture of the developers, and it's gonna show me a lot.
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It's gonna show me a lot.
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We need developers who care about the character, who care about the storyline, the original storyline, who care about actually upholding the lore or evolving the lore truthfully and rightfully as it as it correlates with the actual foundation of the character.
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It has to correlate.
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If you're gonna evolutionize the character, you can't be like, oh, Halo, it we're gonna still put Master Chief, but now we're gonna have a girl boss bossing him around, talking down to him.
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You get rid of the other guy, and and and and you got some lady cursing him out, not knowing that or not respecting that.
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This guy is the guy who saves humanity, the guy who saves the universe.
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Put him under Activision.
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Let's see what Activision does.
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One way Microsoft has sought to achieve some of this is via diversitures.
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Oh my god, I can't I what one way Microsoft has sought to achieve some of this is via divestitures, double fine and compulsion both have returned to being independent game studios.
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For example, with the former starting a Kickstarter to fund the next title, Undead Labs of State of Decay fame is also moving to another publisher, although it has not been revealed exactly who this is just yet.
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Okay, I don't really care about ninja theory.
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You guys might care about ninja theory, but I'm skipping I'm skipping this shit.
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Alright, let's get straight to Halo, bro.
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Furthermore, Halo Studios is also looking at major layoffs in the hundreds as Microsoft seeks a major restructure to the way Halo is run.
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Okay, look at this man.
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He he don't even look like himself, bro.
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This is crazy, bro.
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This is this is an icon, bro.
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How y'all disrespect this man for so many years?
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In his heyday, Halo was a cultural phenomenon.
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It turbocharged the Xbox platform, giving Microsoft incumbent console a strong basis for growth in a market dominated by Nintendo and PlayStation Halo 2 and Halo 3 sent the platform even higher and defined a new era of console-oriented first person shooters.
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Those times are well and truly behind it though.
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Those times are well and truly behind it though.
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Through years of mismanagement, Halo is now a shadow of its former self.
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Jesus.
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We all see it.
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We all been seeing it, we all noticed it.
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Xbox 360, Microsoft, I should say.
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Well, Xbox, I'm gonna say Xbox.
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One of the Infinity Stones is most definitely Master Chief.
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He is one of the Infinity Stones for Xbox.
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Marcus Phoenix and his compadres, they are another Infinity Stone for the Xbox.
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Who else?
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Those two games carry such a weight for that system and that company that the fact that they even decided to even hand the keys to anything other than developers that will evolutionize and revolutionize Master Chief and even Marcus Phoenix Gom the Gears franchise to another level.
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The fact that they will take the keys and give it to somebody else, get some DER hires, get some activists to make games.
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Are we making games or are we making politics?
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Gamers want to play a great game.
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I think this is my take for this.
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Email.
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She might have made a phone call, she might have made an email or something, but she told people, yo, all of this bullshit, this woke shit, this activism bullshit is not making us no money.
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Okay.
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Halo Studios.
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We seen what y'all did with that.
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Um let me go interview Sally and them.
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Um the male feminist guy that's in the back room.
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Them 13 managers that ain't doing shit but lagging the process.
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Let me have a talk with them.
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Um see what they think about certain things and see if I'm gonna fire them.
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She probably had a talk with all of them.
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Yo, how you feel about Master Chief?
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Why did y'all change Master Chief's story?
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I think.
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Did y'all think that the story was gonna be better when y'all did that for Campaign Evolve?
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When y'all like, did y'all think that was a right idea?
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Yeah, we thought it
was a right idea because, you know, um USAID and feminists around the globe, like the patriarchy, just you know, the patriarchy, and there's dudes and women saying this.
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And I know Ash was like, Yeah, let me add these motherfuckers to this 3200 that I'm about to fight.
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What was your name again?
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Oh, you identify as uh them?
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Okay, uh Yeah, we're gonna put her in the list.
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We're gonna put him on the list.
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Alright, cool.
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And it is what it is.
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Yo, it's really not that hard to make Halo great.
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It's not hard to make Halo great.
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All you gotta do is go in the past, look at some things that can be better, not change it.
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You looking at things to make it better.
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You better the combat system, you better the gun system, you better the the the the the master chief in in its entirety, the storyline.
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How can you make this great?
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Bungie did a good job, and then we got to Halo fucking studios.
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Another Infinity Stone that Ashasharma seemed to have come up with, gotten was one of PlayStation's Infinity Stones, and that was Hideyokajima.
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But I digress.
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Let's get back to the article, and there's another article that I gotta talk about as well.
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Talking about another game.
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Uh through years of mismanagement, Halo is now a former, a shadow of his former self.
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A disastrous TV show.
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I can't I can't second that.
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I can't because when I watched Halo, when I saw the first episode, when I saw the whole thing, when I saw the whole thing, I actually really liked it.
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Yes, it was off the lore, it went off, but I actually liked the story.
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I liked I liked it.
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I really enjoyed it, bro.
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I ain't gonna lie, I enjoyed it.
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Um yeah, people respected Master Chief.
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There wasn't no bullshit happening, um, there wasn't no woke bullshit.
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It was kind of like, you know, it is what it is.
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Disastrous TV show and two previous games that arguably missed the mark in different ways, arguably.
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Halo Studios' most recent outing, yet another remaster of Halo Combat Evolved, also missed reviews from fans and critics for various reasons.
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Microsoft announced that it is effectively downsizing Halo Studios.
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Yes, and I know exactly who they're gonna start with.
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Microsoft announced that it is effectively downsizing Halo Studios into the franchise's production and administration arm, and it will play stewardship of the franchise under Activision, confirming some vague industry rumors I've heard over the summer.
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Microsoft says around 230 roles will be lost as a result.
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We're thrilled to welcome Halo Rare and World's Edge to Activision.
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It's an honor and a responsibility that we do not take lightly.
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These teams and their games have inspired fans around the world for decades.
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For Halo, our goal is clear to make the greatest Halo game ever.
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Worthy of its universe and legacy while staying true to what made players love it in the first place.
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It is a bold ambition, one that franchise deserve, that this franchise deserves, damn right.
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We have already begun assembling a purpose.
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We have already begun assembling a purpose built team, unique in capability and talent, ready and excited to deliver this next chapter with the community to the world's edge and real teams together.
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We cannot wait to work together.
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Oh, yeah.
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Exactly which Activision Studio will handle Halo going forward remains to be seen, but it's certainly true that Activision's Call of Duty teams have had far more success than Halo Studios had at building broadly appealing live service shooters.
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Furthermore, Microsoft is also placing rare and sea of thieves under Activision 2, with Obsidian and Grounded moving under Xenemax to work more closely with Bested Softworks Fallout.
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World's Edge and the Age of Empires franchise will also move under Activision.
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Xbox Game Studios will remain as Playground, which is absorbing turn 10.
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The coalition in exile, Xbox is publishing on handling games like Hideo Kajima's visit.
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Yo, you know what this reminds me of?
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You ever seen um there's a lot of wars and shit happening right now.
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You know when the news and um media sites they try to show you, yo, they tell you, yo, North Korea is they're they're testing bombs.
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Uh Russia is they're they're about to have their planes go to such and such.
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Uh Ukraine has a thousand drones ready to go, and they show you the drones, they show you the the the the the the the ships with the with all the planes on them, they
show you the areas with all the soldiers training and shit.
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Yo, World War III is about to happen.
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Me watching all this, reading this article, and you seeing how Ashesharma and Xbox is mobilizing.
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You seeing a mobilizing movement happening.
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Yo, you go over here, you go over there, we're gonna do this, we're gonna fire these people, yo.
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We're gonna focus on exclusives, yo.
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We're gonna focus on that.
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Yo, we're gonna bring Master Chief here, yo.
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We're gonna there is a mobilization happening.
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You know what this mobilization is signifying?
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It is signifying that we're gonna have some great games, of course, but it is signifying a great change in the video game industry, it's signifying that woke will make you broke.
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Alright?
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That's one of them.
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Number two, focus on your moneymakers.
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Your moneymakers are your moneymakers for a reason, and you need to strengthen that foundation of why your moneymakers are your moneymakers.
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You don't change the identity of your moneymaker, you evolve them into a greater version of itself, really, from what made money, and now you're gonna make more money with what this thing was, what Gears of World was, what Halo is.
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Xbox is preparing for another era of takeover.
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That's what happened.
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Xbox is preparing for another era of takeover.
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I'm gonna be truthful.
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Years of war, like I've been saying in many videos, this has been for uh uh for a couple couple months now.
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It's just a that this has been a Xbox uh uh um focused channel.
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It's been I've been talking about other things, been political political things, I've been talking about Lindsey Cancy, I've been talking about certain things, music here and there, but this is what some of my passion is in, and that's in gaming, right?
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This is the thing that I go to when I just came off of work, when I need that decompression.
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This is the thing that I come to when I go from somewhere, come from somewhere, and I need something to play.
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My homies is on, I get on, I play.
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They want gamers to be political, and they have sacrificed what made the game a game, what made the game good.
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Gizible 4, Gizwall 5, Halo.
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They have seen brighter days, better days before things started to change.
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Pronouns started to pop up.
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The article says here a new dawn of a halo, of course, is a new dawn for Halo.
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There's a change of the guard, the guard that did not deserve the guard that did not deserve John 117.
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The coalition made some changes as well.
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We're gonna talk about them in a minute.
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The article says, a new dawn for Halo.
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Nobody likes to see job losses, but it was a hard path to see a path forward.
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It was hard to see a path forward for Halo in its current structure.
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You're damn right.
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The job losses that Xbox have been regrettable over the summer, but it's hard to overlook the fact that in order to have a sustainable business, games need to actually fucking sell.
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In order to have a sustainable business, games need to actually sell.
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Wow, that that seems like such a profound statement.
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I've never listened I've never heard something like that.
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Wow, we need to put that in a tweet.
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I don't think anybody has ever tweeted that before, man.
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Let's read that again.
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Let's let's read that again.
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Uh, you could clip this up because I've I've never heard this.
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I've never heard this before.
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Um the fact that in order to have a sustainable business, games need to actually sell.
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Wow.
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Whether it's small and quirky projects like keeper or mismanaged live service operations like Halo Infinite, Microsoft hasn't exactly handled his portfolio effectively in recent years.
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Oh, really?
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There's free, less free time and money for gaming among consumers, and more competition and ever making the stakes higher day.
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Make this making the stakes higher than they likely were previously.
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I like that point.
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There's less free time and money for gaming among consumers, and more competition and ever making the stakes higher than they likely were previously.
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Damn right.
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So, for all the people making the games here right now in 2026, the person wrote this article has so much common sense.
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Because that there's less free time.
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Maybe they played a beta or something.
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You drop the game, and the shit is disappointing, bro.
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We take that shit personal, bro.
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Gamers gonna take that personal.
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Yo, son, I just went and spent how much money on this?
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I spent a hundred and what?
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And they this bullshit.
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I'm playing through this storyline.
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I gotta go through this bullshit.
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It leaves a bad taste in our mouth, bro.
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Especially in these times.
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You gotta cut the fat to make the muscle shine.
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Alright?
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You gotta cut the fat to make the muscle shine.
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We gotta get lean.
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We gotta get, you know what I'm saying?
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We we we gotta get remove all the bullshit.
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We gotta get rid of all the parasites.
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We gotta take some, we gotta take some some uh dewormers and get rid of these people, man.
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There is a disease happening in the culture.
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It's not just gaming, but we just focused on gaming right now.
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There's a disease happening in the culture where there are people that hate you, bro.
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There are people that it don't matter how great a game is because of their feelings, they want to change certain things about a game because it doesn't align with their politics.
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Listen, I don't want to tell every Halo studio member that is getting fired.
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No, I don't want to see people get fired and lose their homes and go into financial hardship.
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But bro, sis, it your ideologies that don't do anything but tear the legacy of a franchise, your ideals that do nothing but destroy a great starting idea.
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You might have a great idea and it starts out good, and you got a good concept, and you got a good this, and you just add some bullshit.
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The main character might be some dude, guy, girl, chick, it's you have to make common sense now.
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The people don't care, bro.
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We don't care.
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You gotta make things make sense, you gotta make things that revolve around the majority of people, not a percentage of people, a one percent, a two percent, a ten percent.
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You gotta make things that everybody can relate to.
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Majority.
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You want majority of the money, you need to make something that majority of the people relate to.
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You can clip that.
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If
you want to make majority of the money, you need to make a story that majority of the people can relate to.
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The majority of the people will find time to go and say, Yo, this game is dope.
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I want to play it.
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I played it, I enjoyed it.
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It is an added memory to my life.
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There's a lot of games that has come out that have added nothing but bad tastes in the memory of a person.
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They think about your game and they say, Yo, I hated that game.
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That shit was trash.
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Or even worse, I barely remember it.
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I might have played it for an hour and turned it off and and and sold it.
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Refunded it.
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Cash for campaign evolve.
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They were so desperate for people to buy campaign evolves.
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They were so desperate.
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I think that game came out for$20.
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I think I saw it somewhere for$20,$30.
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People played it, people refunded it.
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We'll see what these people do for Halo.
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Okay, we're gonna see soon enough.
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As for Halo and other games, it remains to be seen if restructure will actually lead to higher quality products.
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We can take a bet, man.
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I think it will.
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When you start removing the fat from these places, a whole bunch of positions that don't matter is a whole bunch of people that's not adding to the company.
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They're just fucking wastes of space.
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Yo, get them out of here, bro.
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Get them out of here, bro.
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Please.
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Please, bro.
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Um there's another story that we gotta talk about, man.
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And this story is honestly make sure you like, comment, subscribe to the channel.
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This story has shot me.
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But who knows what the actual truth is?
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Who knows why or Gearsable EDA story director laid off just four days after celebrating the game going gold.
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I'm gonna say that again.
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Gears of War Eda story director laid off just four days after celebrating the game going gold.
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That's odd.
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Gears Dev has been at the coalition since 2022 and was excited for people to play the game.
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Hmm.
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Juan Vaca,
the story director on the upcoming Gears of War E Day, is one of the hundred employees who are losing their jobs as part of the latest round of Xbox Cuts.
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And heartbreakingly, Vocka was laid off just a few days after the celebratory post announcing that E Day has gone gold.
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This is such a corporate, such a corporate move.
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It's so fucking corporate.
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I can't say I agree with it.
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Cause I don't know who vodka is really.
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I don't know what he's done or what he hasn't done, what his what his uh opinions are, but what I do know from the works of Juan Vaca, he worked on Gears.
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He worked on Reloaded.
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Wait, no, no, no, no, no.
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He couldn't have worked on Reloaded because Reloaded already had his story.
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So he was mainly appointed to work on Gears of War E Day.
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When we played through Gears of War E Day campaign, I'm gonna understand if this was related to how the campaign turned out.
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Or if this was related to, yo, we need you to finish this and then we're gonna fire you.
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Once you finish this, it's cool.
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We don't need you no more, we're gonna fire you.
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I think it's a part of the latter, but we'll see.
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Juan Vaka, the story director of the upcoming Gears of Well, E Day is one of the hundreds of employees who are losing their jobs as part of the latest round of Xbox cuts.
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And heartbreakingly, Vaka was laid off just a few days after a celebratory post announcing that E Day has gone gold on September 22nd.
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Xbox announced more layoffs and studio changes as part of its ongoing corporate reset.
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Okay, the company is also moving Halo under iDivision and merging its Forza team into one studio.
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Okay.
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Over 260 were laid off on Tuesday, according to Xbox, following a massive round of layoffs in July.
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Included in the most recent round of cuts was Vaca, who confirmed on the news social media.
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I am part of this round of Microsoft's layoffs and open to opportunities in games, film, TV, posted vodka in LinkedIn, and Blue Sky.
00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:58.719
LinkedIn and Blue Sky.
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Things are starting to make sense now and add up.
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I'm gonna be playing that campaign, Vaco.
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And listen to me, Vaco.
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Listen to me, Vaco.
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I am very opinionated and I don't sugarcoat much.
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So there's gonna be certain things I'm looking for and I'm not gonna be looking for.
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We're gonna be very candid when we do that.
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Uh Gears of War campaign Pay through.
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Okay.
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Vaca joined the studio in 2022 and helped guide narrative teams and cross-discipline groups through the process of building a story concept to execution.
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According to his LinkedIn page, it is unknown at this time how many other people at the coalition were laid off as part of Tuesday's latest round of Xbox cuts.
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According to a source familiar with the matter, less than a handful of people were cut at the studio for reasons unrelated to today's wider restructuring within Xbox.
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And the plans around EDA's launch remain unchanged.
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Kotaku has contacted Xbox for more information.
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What makes this layoff the more depressing is the fact that just four days ago on September 17th, vodka posted on some uh same social media sites that Gears of War E Day has gone gold.
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Effectively meaning development of the game which launches on October 6th is done and is now ready to be printed on this.
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Gears of War E Day has gone gold posted vodka on LinkedIn.
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Excited for the world to see what the whole team's been cooking.
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Damn, that's that's crazy.
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Oh man, my bad, bro.
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Listen, vodka.
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I hope you I wish you success.
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If you really cooked on this Gears of World Eday campaign, this direction of the Gears will eat campaign, it looks very promising.
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I must tell you, Juan Vaka, it looks very promising.
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So I am approaching this game with an open mind.
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Um you're gonna see on October 1st.
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I should be doing the campaign before the official Gears of War or um before it officially releases because a lot of people don't have what you call it the uh premium edition.
00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:59.119
Um maybe a lot of people do have it, but not everybody got it.
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So October 1st is the official day that I get to play it, and the other people that pre-ordered the premium edition or got the premium edition package through Xbox.
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Um We're gonna see, man.
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:21.760
But I think that's kind of messed up that Giza Will E Day Story Director gets laid off four days after celebrating the game going.
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I think that was a corporate business decision that was, yo, you guys, we we good.
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We don't need you no more.
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Um We're just gonna get you up out of here.
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Who knows, man?
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Um, make sure you like, comment, subscribe to the channel, man.
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:39.440
This was a good episode.
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:42.559
Uh I think I want to make this a podcast episode.
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I know my energy been down because I be working and I work outside, and it is what it is, and I still gotta get the work done.
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I'ma still get the content out.
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So there's gonna be some videos where I might look tired, my eyes might be low, but my mouth is still moving.
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Pause.
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Mouth is still moving.
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Make sure you like, comment, subscribe to the channel.
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Make sure you tune into Think Pieces and Conversations every week.
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We drop one episode at the very least every week.
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And if I'm feeling super duper generous, I drop two.
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And if I'm just on some just yo, we just on some productive mode shit, I might even do three a week.
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It depends on the week.
00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:31.519
It depends on what I'm doing, it depends on what I got going on.
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:41.599
Tune into my TikTok, tune into my um my ex channel, my ex uh Twitter page and all that.
00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:44.079
Tune into uh what else?
00:39:44.239 --> 00:39:45.280
So what else do I got?
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:53.920
Tune into my Twitch because we're gonna be doing big things on Twitch, we're gonna be doing big things on YouTube when Gears Award drops.
00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:59.679
I still can't really stream Tokon because it still be messing up, so it is what it is.
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But I'm gonna holler at y'all, man.
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We out of here.
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I'm gonna go edit this thing, put it out.
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Let's get it.