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"Sorry Obsidian and Bethesda, you actually have to make games people want if you want to not be shut down"

Based on the Doom launch figures, doesn't feel like there were enough fans that the ones remaining fathoming the situation matters. Put another way, the cuts now seem justified. The team was left to cook, they cooked, the audience didn't appear at numbers high enough to justify the salaries (the dlc yesterday hit a 13k peak on steam), and so it goes. It makes the MS choices decidedly rational.

"Sorry Obsidian and Bethesda, you actually have to make games people want if you want to not be shut down"

Xbox's Obsidian Entertainment studio has canceled work on the next Avowed game as part of restructuring and is now starting to work on a new Fallout game [via Bloomberg]

Its actually crazy that Asha Sharma had to step in and redirect Obsidian from Avowed 2, to prioritize a new Fallout game. Do these studios just not listen to what fans actually want?

There is no fucking way there wasn't any malicious reason to do this, there's like, 48 people left. 48 You cannot make a new doom, quake or wolfenstein with only 48 people, no amount of AI vibecoding, ChatGPT slop or Unreal Engine features can fix that.