They're still going on about dyed hair and piercings

Why does this scream high schooler who hasn't bathed in three days

Could also very well be a 35 year old who hasn't bathed in three days

"days"?

Yeah man gutting studios and firing everyone's friends to destroy morale is famously a good way to make a product better and not worse. I'm sure all the people you didn't fire won't immediately start looking for work elsewhere.

It's also famously exactly the opposite of how Microsoft usually does things.

"first ill fire all the gays and nonwhites and ill do it publicly"

microsoft's lawyers immediately stop him to prevent the slew of employment lawsuits they are about to lose

The whole "livestreamed" thing jumped at me, because, sure, if you believe the nonwhites and women are ruining your videogame it makes sense to get rid of them, but the fact it has to be a spectacle it makes it somehow even more disgusting

I'm 99 percent sure the first draft of this guy's comment read I WOULD PERSONALLY SHOOT THEM ALL IN THE HEAD before he sheepishly went back to edit it

Is there even a "modding community" for modern Halo games? Everything I see is for Halo 1.

You wait for InfernoPlus to do something. It takes a few millennia. But yeah mcc has solid mod support ans i vaguely remember seeing some mod an ex battlefield dev made that looked really fun

Halo 1 had editing tools on PC since the original Gearbox port but later 343 released tools for games in the MCC on Steam which has Workshop support so there's mods for those games. If you mean 5 and Infinite, no.

Now I don't know shit about shit, but here's my plan which is definitely good and smart: first I'd purge all the people responsible for smoothing over employee morale and making it look like 90% of our hires aren't just the dipshit white boy friends of some manager, and I'd do it in a way that opens us up to lawsuits while making a thorough chain of evidence of what we're doing; then I'd purge all the people who know what they're doing and got in on merit, also in a way that would open us up to a whole lot of civil liability and was thoroughly documented, of course; then I'd go find some amateurs who say my favorite slurs on twitter, and hire them on the spot for being special good boys!

It's foolproof and no one can tell me otherwise!

I love how people will describe how to fix a game franchise and never once mention game mechanics, programming, style, whether they have a good idea to work from, etc

That is a different genre of post that while typically more sophisticated than the chud g*mer still ultimately fails to understand the creative process.

Reading that made me wince but also feel bad for the poster because they probably got torn to shreds in the replies

Oh lol

if these tourists actually respected games as a medium they would be very offended by this

Uhh everyone knows that if you simply put a bunch of nerds that look like 90s John Carmack and John Romero in a room with computers, pizza, Mountain Dew, and posters of bikini babes on the walls, good games will just magically come out

in a Marxist sense, a bunch of nerds that look like 90s John Carmack and John Romero in a room with computers, pizza, Mountain Dew, and posters of bikini babes on the walls are precisely the material conditions required for vibeo gane

False, you can do also bunch of nerds that look like 80s Pete Burns in a room with computers, pizza, Mountain Dew, and posters of bikini babes and you will end up with video games with some banger synthwave soundtracks. As always, Marx failed to consider the Arch Linux-obsessed transbians.

I would only hire people who are passionate and actually good at what they do

The modding community would be sourced for real talent

So no shade on modders, they do some great work. But modding code in an existent piece of software and building code from scratch are leagues apart. That’s like assuming because someone does entertaining “playing [song] in [genre the original song was not in] style” videos, that must make them an expert composer.

Even if they hired the guy who made Cursed Halo and all of those other incredible mods he would jump out of a window after a month of dealing with Microsoft's boneheaded upper management

part of the appeal of modding is not having any management tbh, just make any stupid shit and throw it out into the world

i'd hire luigi and bring him to all my meetings and have a covert signal for him to nod or shake his head when the exec's lips are moving

All of my big booba 4K skin retexture mods beg to differ

People who work in video game development are very often young professionals who are liberal (at worst). Good luck finding a cohort of brainless zombies with no opinions or passion about anything other than sitting at computers 3D modelling binary male-female characters because you've banned wokeness and yell at anyone who deviates from your rigid conservative vision.

Nobody would work for your shitty bland "non-political" game studio. No dyed hair, tattoos, or piercings allowed. No complaining about shit work conditions or joining a trade union. Only plain white t-shirts, Hitler youth haircuts and complete subservience to the bossman (because bosswoman would be too DEI).

The gamedev equivalent of replacing your coco pops with polystyrene and your milk with warm piss. No thanks.

Let me preface this with saying I don't know what I'm talking about

But it would work!

Microsoft, hire this man

Yeah, do it!

This is not reverse psychology

Hiring literally any human being would be a righting of the ship for them at this point though.

"Hiring"? Is that when you have to pay money? Not interested. We only pay money to our stock holders thank you very much.

Get this man as a management unpaid intern, since he is clearly so passionate about the franchise he will eschew pay in order to make Master Chief great again

And you know the funny thing about all of this? It would actually work.

Hey guys the funny thing about this is it would actually work

Microsoft, Hire this man.

Not to be a grammar Israeli but there was no reason to capitalize the 'h' in hire; also this experiment was already tested at twitter when Elon Musk took over and fired everyone who knew how everything worked and then had to beg them to come back.

Also if you did all this and then one of the people you hired dyed their hair or got a septum piercing, do you think they'll suddenly take a massive nerf to their software engineering skill? Are you playing so many video games you think you can alter your stats with different gear or appearance options?

I'm gonna have to steal grammar Israeli, that got me good

Not to be a grammar Israeli but there was no reason to capitalize the 'h' in hire; also this experiment was already tested at twitter when Elon Musk took over and fired everyone who knew how everything worked and then had to beg them to come back.

perhaps they meant a full stop rather than a comma

Microsoft.

Hire this man.

this version of 343 would end up making a cortana sex game

Fakefactory's Cinematic Halo with fully modeled Cortana

bet this dork has night terrors about anita sarkeesian

Microsoft, hire this man!-

Microsoft, hire this man!-

he's using Unreal Engine,

in any way he can!

......oh

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