Any opinions about Microsoft's announcements?
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 7:55 am
I was really excited to see Microsoft's annoucements last week, but I ended up very disappointed. I love videogames and I have both XBOX and PlayStation, but I enjoy more playing on XBOX, so I was expecting some juicy news (specially since they've been buying so good studios lately). Instead of that, we saw... some meh games and a really shitty Halo.
Let me be clear, I don't think it's developers' fault, they've probably have pressure enough and they should have more time to prepare, but come on... it looks like a 2010 game. I've been reading some people saying that it's because there's no crunch, and honestly what a LIE. First of all, I'm pretty sure there are (and it shouldn't! As I just said, I think they needed more time, no one should work with that kind of pressure, the 'crunch culture' should end, what are HR departments doing about this? I read an article about productivity and it's not that hard to not exploit people), but secondly, if there's no crunch and they need more time, CEO has to know it. In my opinion, the right thing would've been not including Halo in the anouncements and make it's own trailer later, closer to the release date.
I know there's plenty of people disappointed with that event, but I also read some people (XBOX fans of course) defending it. What do you think about this?
Let me be clear, I don't think it's developers' fault, they've probably have pressure enough and they should have more time to prepare, but come on... it looks like a 2010 game. I've been reading some people saying that it's because there's no crunch, and honestly what a LIE. First of all, I'm pretty sure there are (and it shouldn't! As I just said, I think they needed more time, no one should work with that kind of pressure, the 'crunch culture' should end, what are HR departments doing about this? I read an article about productivity and it's not that hard to not exploit people), but secondly, if there's no crunch and they need more time, CEO has to know it. In my opinion, the right thing would've been not including Halo in the anouncements and make it's own trailer later, closer to the release date.
I know there's plenty of people disappointed with that event, but I also read some people (XBOX fans of course) defending it. What do you think about this?