บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ "Mobilization IMMINENT" | TP&C | Episode 114

00:07:37.839 Oh, he's he's toxic masculine. 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.959 We don't need none of y'all in these studios doing that. 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:54.800 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. 00:07:54.879 --> 00:08:08.879 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. 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:10.959 It's gonna show me a lot. 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:35.440 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. 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:36.399 It has to correlate. 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:51.279 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. 00:08:51.600 --> 00:09:00.879 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. 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:08.639 This guy is the guy who saves humanity, the guy who saves the universe. 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:12.159 Put him under Activision. 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:14.320 Let's see what Activision does. 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:22.320 One way Microsoft has sought to achieve some of this is via diversitures. 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:38.480 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. 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:53.440 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. 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:56.080 Okay, I don't really care about ninja theory. 00:09:56.159 --> 00:10:00.240 You guys might care about ninja theory, but I'm skipping I'm skipping this shit. 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.440 Alright, let's get straight to Halo, bro. 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:14.639 Furthermore, Halo Studios is also looking at major layoffs in the hundreds as Microsoft seeks a major restructure to the way Halo is run. 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.519 Okay, look at this man. 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.240 He he don't even look like himself, bro. 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:21.360 This is crazy, bro. 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:23.039 This is this is an icon, bro. 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:26.639 How y'all disrespect this man for so many years? 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.799 In his heyday, Halo was a cultural phenomenon. 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:52.720 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. 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:55.919 Those times are well and truly behind it though. 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:00.799 Those times are well and truly behind it though. 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:09.600 Through years of mismanagement, Halo is now a shadow of its former self. 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:11.279 Jesus. 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:13.039 We all see it. 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.799 We all been seeing it, we all noticed it. 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.960 Xbox 360, Microsoft, I should say. 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.039 Well, Xbox, I'm gonna say Xbox. 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:32.080 One of the Infinity Stones is most definitely Master Chief. 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:37.360 He is one of the Infinity Stones for Xbox. 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:47.360 Marcus Phoenix and his compadres, they are another Infinity Stone for the Xbox. 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:49.679 Who else? 00:11:50.320 --> 00:12:19.360 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. 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:28.720 The fact that they will take the keys and give it to somebody else, get some DER hires, get some activists to make games. 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:32.559 Are we making games or are we making politics? 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.679 Gamers want to play a great game. 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:43.840 I think this is my take for this. 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:54.960 Email. 00:12:55.360 --> 00:13:12.960 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. 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:13.600 Okay. 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:17.919 Halo Studios. 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.480 We seen what y'all did with that. 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.480 Um let me go interview Sally and them. 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:29.360 Um the male feminist guy that's in the back room. 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:35.919 Them 13 managers that ain't doing shit but lagging the process. 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.279 Let me have a talk with them. 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:44.000 Um see what they think about certain things and see if I'm gonna fire them. 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:46.080 She probably had a talk with all of them. 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:48.799 Yo, how you feel about Master Chief? 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:51.200 Why did y'all change Master Chief's story? 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:51.840 I think. 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:56.080 Did y'all think that the story was gonna be better when y'all did that for Campaign Evolve? 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:01.679 When y'all like, did y'all think that was a right idea? 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:20.080 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. 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:29.039 And I know Ash was like, Yeah, let me add these motherfuckers to this 3200 that I'm about to fight. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:31.679 What was your name again? 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.919 Oh, you identify as uh them? 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:39.919 Okay, uh Yeah, we're gonna put her in the list. 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:41.360 We're gonna put him on the list. 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:43.519 Alright, cool. 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:45.600 And it is what it is. 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:51.120 Yo, it's really not that hard to make Halo great. 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.480 It's not hard to make Halo great. 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:03.519 All you gotta do is go in the past, look at some things that can be better, not change it. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:05.919 You looking at things to make it better. 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:18.240 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. 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:20.639 How can you make this great? 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:27.840 Bungie did a good job, and then we got to Halo fucking studios. 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:44.480 Another Infinity Stone that Ashasharma seemed to have come up with, gotten was one of PlayStation's Infinity Stones, and that was Hideyokajima. 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:45.840 But I digress. 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:50.559 Let's get back to the article, and there's another article that I gotta talk about as well. 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:52.799 Talking about another game. 00:15:54.799 --> 00:16:03.440 Uh through years of mismanagement, Halo is now a former, a shadow of his former self. 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:05.840 A disastrous TV show. 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:07.840 I can't I can't second that. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:20.480 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. 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:27.039 Yes, it was off the lore, it went off, but I actually liked the story. 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:30.399 I liked I liked it. 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:31.759 I really enjoyed it, bro. 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:33.840 I ain't gonna lie, I enjoyed it. 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:38.159 Um yeah, people respected Master Chief. 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:42.879 There wasn't no bullshit happening, um, there wasn't no woke bullshit. 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:46.159 It was kind of like, you know, it is what it is. 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:56.799 Disastrous TV show and two previous games that arguably missed the mark in different ways, arguably. 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:05.440 Halo Studios' most recent outing, yet another remaster of Halo Combat Evolved, also missed reviews from fans and critics for various reasons. 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:11.440 Microsoft announced that it is effectively downsizing Halo Studios. 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.759 Yes, and I know exactly who they're gonna start with. 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:35.359 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. 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:41.039 Microsoft says around 230 roles will be lost as a result. 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:48.240 We're thrilled to welcome Halo Rare and World's Edge to Activision. 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.480 It's an honor and a responsibility that we do not take lightly. 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:57.680 These teams and their games have inspired fans around the world for decades. 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:02.400 For Halo, our goal is clear to make the greatest Halo game ever. 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:11.759 Worthy of its universe and legacy while staying true to what made players love it in the first place. 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:19.920 It is a bold ambition, one that franchise deserve, that this franchise deserves, damn right. 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:24.799 We have already begun assembling a purpose. 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:42.160 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. 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:45.200 We cannot wait to work together. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:46.559 Oh, yeah. 00:18:46.720 --> 00:19:02.240 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. 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:16.799 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. 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:23.680 World's Edge and the Age of Empires franchise will also move under Activision. 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:29.839 Xbox Game Studios will remain as Playground, which is absorbing turn 10. 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:37.519 The coalition in exile, Xbox is publishing on handling games like Hideo Kajima's visit. 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:38.960 Yo, you know what this reminds me of? 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:45.279 You ever seen um there's a lot of wars and shit happening right now. 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:58.960 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. 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:04.559 Uh Russia is they're they're about to have their planes go to such and such. 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:19.440 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. 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.559 Yo, World War III is about to happen. 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:34.000 Me watching all this, reading this article, and you seeing how Ashesharma and Xbox is mobilizing. 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:38.799 You seeing a mobilizing movement happening. 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:46.000 Yo, you go over here, you go over there, we're gonna do this, we're gonna fire these people, yo. 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.400 We're gonna focus on exclusives, yo. 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:49.920 We're gonna focus on that. 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:52.880 Yo, we're gonna bring Master Chief here, yo. 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:56.240 We're gonna there is a mobilization happening. 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:59.599 You know what this mobilization is signifying? 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:16.480 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. 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:17.839 Alright? 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:19.440 That's one of them. 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:24.160 Number two, focus on your moneymakers. 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:31.680 Your moneymakers are your moneymakers for a reason, and you need to strengthen that foundation of why your moneymakers are your moneymakers. 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:49.759 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. 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:57.599 Xbox is preparing for another era of takeover. 00:21:58.240 --> 00:21:59.359 That's what happened. 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.720 Xbox is preparing for another era of takeover. 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:08.240 I'm gonna be truthful. 00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:16.400 Years of war, like I've been saying in many videos, this has been for uh uh for a couple couple months now. 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:23.599 It's just a that this has been a Xbox uh uh um focused channel. 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:37.839 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? 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:44.079 This is the thing that I go to when I just came off of work, when I need that decompression. 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:51.759 This is the thing that I come to when I go from somewhere, come from somewhere, and I need something to play. 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:54.400 My homies is on, I get on, I play. 00:22:55.759 --> 00:23:04.880 They want gamers to be political, and they have sacrificed what made the game a game, what made the game good. 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:09.440 Gizible 4, Gizwall 5, Halo. 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:18.240 They have seen brighter days, better days before things started to change. 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:22.640 Pronouns started to pop up. 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:30.400 The article says here a new dawn of a halo, of course, is a new dawn for Halo. 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:42.720 There's a change of the guard, the guard that did not deserve the guard that did not deserve John 117. 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:48.000 The coalition made some changes as well. 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:50.720 We're gonna talk about them in a minute. 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:54.880 The article says, a new dawn for Halo. 00:23:56.480 --> 00:24:01.279 Nobody likes to see job losses, but it was a hard path to see a path forward. 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:04.880 It was hard to see a path forward for Halo in its current structure. 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:06.480 You're damn right. 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:18.880 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. 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:27.920 In order to have a sustainable business, games need to actually sell. 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:36.079 Wow, that that seems like such a profound statement. 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:40.000 I've never listened I've never heard something like that. 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:42.559 Wow, we need to put that in a tweet. 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:45.440 I don't think anybody has ever tweeted that before, man. 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:46.319 Let's read that again. 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:47.440 Let's let's read that again. 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:51.119 Uh, you could clip this up because I've I've never heard this. 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:52.720 I've never heard this before. 00:24:52.880 --> 00:25:08.480 Um the fact that in order to have a sustainable business, games need to actually sell. 00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:09.759 Wow. 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:22.640 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. 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:23.839 Oh, really? 00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:32.720 There's free, less free time and money for gaming among consumers, and more competition and ever making the stakes higher day. 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:37.680 Make this making the stakes higher than they likely were previously. 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:39.759 I like that point. 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:48.400 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. 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:49.440 Damn right. 00:25:49.920 --> 00:26:01.359 So, for all the people making the games here right now in 2026, the person wrote this article has so much common sense. 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:04.480 Because that there's less free time. 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:14.720 Maybe they played a beta or something. 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:18.160 You drop the game, and the shit is disappointing, bro.

00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:20.880 We take that shit personal, bro. 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.400 Gamers gonna take that personal. 00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:28.240 Yo, son, I just went and spent how much money on this? 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.000 I spent a hundred and what? 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:34.400 And they this bullshit. 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:36.000 I'm playing through this storyline. 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:37.920 I gotta go through this bullshit. 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:43.920 It leaves a bad taste in our mouth, bro. 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:46.400 Especially in these times. 00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:53.119 You gotta cut the fat to make the muscle shine. 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:54.559 Alright? 00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:58.720 You gotta cut the fat to make the muscle shine. 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:00.000 We gotta get lean. 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:02.160 We gotta get, you know what I'm saying? 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.799 We we we gotta get remove all the bullshit. 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:06.640 We gotta get rid of all the parasites. 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:11.680 We gotta take some, we gotta take some some uh dewormers and get rid of these people, man. 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.640 There is a disease happening in the culture. 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.640 It's not just gaming, but we just focused on gaming right now. 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:24.640 There's a disease happening in the culture where there are people that hate you, bro. 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:35.599 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. 00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:41.920 Listen, I don't want to tell every Halo studio member that is getting fired. 00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:50.720 No, I don't want to see people get fired and lose their homes and go into financial hardship. 00:27:51.279 --> 00:28:20.400 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. 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:29.759 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. 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:46.880 The main character might be some dude, guy, girl, chick, it's you have to make common sense now. 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:49.279 The people don't care, bro. 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:52.240 We don't care. 00:28:52.640 --> 00:29:05.599 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. 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:11.759 You gotta make things that everybody can relate to. 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:13.119 Majority. 00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:20.319 You want majority of the money, you need to make something that majority of the people relate to. 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:23.599 You can clip that. 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:31.519 If

you want to make majority of the money, you need to make a story that majority of the people can relate to. 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:39.680 The majority of the people will find time to go and say, Yo, this game is dope. 00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:41.200 I want to play it. 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:43.839 I played it, I enjoyed it. 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:49.119 It is an added memory to my life. 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:57.920 There's a lot of games that has come out that have added nothing but bad tastes in the memory of a person. 00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:03.119 They think about your game and they say, Yo, I hated that game. 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:05.519 That shit was trash. 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:08.319 Or even worse, I barely remember it. 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:13.440 I might have played it for an hour and turned it off and and and sold it. 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:16.160 Refunded it. 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:19.599 Cash for campaign evolve. 00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.880 They were so desperate for people to buy campaign evolves. 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:24.240 They were so desperate. 00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:26.240 I think that game came out for$20. 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.000 I think I saw it somewhere for$20,$30. 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:36.319 People played it, people refunded it. 00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:50.400 We'll see what these people do for Halo. 00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:52.960 Okay, we're gonna see soon enough. 00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:59.200 As for Halo and other games, it remains to be seen if restructure will actually lead to higher quality products. 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:01.359 We can take a bet, man. 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:03.359 I think it will. 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:10.640 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. 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:13.200 They're just fucking wastes of space. 00:31:13.519 --> 00:31:15.440 Yo, get them out of here, bro. 00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:18.880 Get them out of here, bro. 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:20.319 Please. 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:22.240 Please, bro. 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:27.119 Um there's another story that we gotta talk about, man. 00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:37.519 And this story is honestly make sure you like, comment, subscribe to the channel. 00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:39.839 This story has shot me. 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:44.720 But who knows what the actual truth is? 00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:55.279 Who knows why or Gearsable EDA story director laid off just four days after celebrating the game going gold. 00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:05.440 I'm gonna say that again. 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:14.880 Gears of War Eda story director laid off just four days after celebrating the game going gold. 00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:23.359 That's odd. 00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:31.519 Gears Dev has been at the coalition since 2022 and was excited for people to play the game. 00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:33.359 Hmm. 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:46.799 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. 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:53.599 And heartbreakingly, Vocka was laid off just a few days after the celebratory post announcing that E Day has gone gold. 00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:58.319 This is such a corporate, such a corporate move. 00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:00.720 It's so fucking corporate. 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:02.319 I can't say I agree with it. 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:04.319 Cause I don't know who vodka is really. 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:15.359 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. 00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:19.680 He worked on Reloaded. 00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:21.359 Wait, no, no, no, no, no. 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:24.559 He couldn't have worked on Reloaded because Reloaded already had his story. 00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:29.680 So he was mainly appointed to work on Gears of War E Day. 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:41.119 When we played through Gears of War E Day campaign, I'm gonna understand if this was related to how the campaign turned out. 00:33:41.440 --> 00:33:46.319 Or if this was related to, yo, we need you to finish this and then we're gonna fire you. 00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:48.720 Once you finish this, it's cool. 00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:50.400 We don't need you no more, we're gonna fire you. 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:54.480 I think it's a part of the latter, but we'll see. 00:33:54.720 --> 00:34:04.960 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. 00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:16.159 And heartbreakingly, Vaka was laid off just a few days after a celebratory post announcing that E Day has gone gold on September 22nd. 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:22.719 Xbox announced more layoffs and studio changes as part of its ongoing corporate reset. 00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:30.719 Okay, the company is also moving Halo under iDivision and merging its Forza team into one studio. 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:31.280 Okay. 00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:39.199 Over 260 were laid off on Tuesday, according to Xbox, following a massive round of layoffs in July. 00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:46.639 Included in the most recent round of cuts was Vaca, who confirmed on the news social media. 00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:56.719 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. 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:17.679 Things are starting to make sense now and add up. 00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:21.840 I'm gonna be playing that campaign, Vaco. 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:24.000 And listen to me, Vaco. 00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:27.119 Listen to me, Vaco. 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:32.719 I am very opinionated and I don't sugarcoat much. 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:38.000 So there's gonna be certain things I'm looking for and I'm not gonna be looking for. 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:42.719 We're gonna be very candid when we do that. 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:46.079 Uh Gears of War campaign Pay through. 00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:46.480 Okay. 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:57.679 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. 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:06.480 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. 00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:16.480 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. 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:20.639 And the plans around EDA's launch remain unchanged. 00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:26.159 Kotaku has contacted Xbox for more information. 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:45.599 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. 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:54.800 Effectively meaning development of the game which launches on October 6th is done and is now ready to be printed on this. 00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:00.159 Gears of War E Day has gone gold posted vodka on LinkedIn. 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.079 Excited for the world to see what the whole team's been cooking. 00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:06.079 Damn, that's that's crazy. 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:08.719 Oh man, my bad, bro. 00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:09.840 Listen, vodka. 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:13.199 I hope you I wish you success. 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:23.280 If you really cooked on this Gears of World Eday campaign, this direction of the Gears will eat campaign, it looks very promising. 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:27.039 I must tell you, Juan Vaka, it looks very promising. 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:31.679 So I am approaching this game with an open mind. 00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:38.480 Um you're gonna see on October 1st. 00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:55.119 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. 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:09.119 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. 00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:13.599 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. 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:28.960 I think that was a corporate business decision that was, yo, you guys, we we good. 00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:30.400 We don't need you no more. 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:34.400 Um We're just gonna get you up out of here. 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:35.280 Who knows, man? 00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:37.760 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. 00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:50.880 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. 00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:52.960 I'ma still get the content out. 00:38:53.199 --> 00:39:02.000 So there's gonna be some videos where I might look tired, my eyes might be low, but my mouth is still moving. 00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:03.519 Pause. 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:05.039 Mouth is still moving. 00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:07.519 Make sure you like, comment, subscribe to the channel. 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:11.679 Make sure 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what it is. 00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:01.199 But I'm gonna holler at y'all, man. 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:01.840 We out of here. 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:03.679 I'm gonna go edit this thing, put it out. 00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:04.639 Let's get it.