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Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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Post by trollied »

DanHulton wrote: post #2

Who could have predicted this? /s

I get you're trying to be sarcastic, but it's how acquisitions work. You don't need two HR departments, two sets of IT support, two sets of facilities managers etc etc. They build this in to the numbers when they're weighing up the cost of acquisition & profitability.

Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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Post by two_in_one »

dvngnt_ wrote: post #9
mensetmanusman wrote: post #4

Yikes, how many are artists replaced by LLMs?

it hadn't replaced much yet since it's hard to make consistent high quality art

LLMs don't compete with artists, they are more about text.. (Large Language Model)

Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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Post by rightbyte »

dvngnt_ wrote: post #9
mensetmanusman wrote: post #4

Yikes, how many are artists replaced by LLMs?

it hadn't replaced much yet since it's hard to make consistent high quality art

Ironically the image generators might increase pro-artist wages in the short term since there is less money in grinding low paying jobs now? The competition should fall abit.

Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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Post by aaomidi »

AlexandrB wrote: post #6
iammjm wrote: post #3

"primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted / work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total." 2k employees look like a lot, 8% looks kinda better. I need Starcraft 3 badly :)

> I need Starcraft 3 badly :) I do too, but I don't think Blizzard are going to be the ones to make it[1]. [1] https://playstormgate.com

With the advances in AI, I really hope coop vs AI gameplay will be made better.

Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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Post by whoswho »

iammjm wrote: post #8
AlexandrB wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I need Starcraft 3 badly :) I do too, but I don't think Blizzard are going to be the ones to make it[1]. [1] https://playstormgate.com

Have you already seen Zerospace?[1] I think it also looks great and there are some SC/SC2 pros involved in making it [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1605850/ZeroSpace/

As a grown ass man who played Vikings/rnrr/superman/War1/War2 / War2BNE /SC1/ SC1X/{basically every released and unreleased blizzard title including alphas}, I really really wish I could see a successor game that doesn’t have pinups of women that look like they have yoga tights and crop tops for armor. It would be nice to have a game that’s a bit less thirsty.

Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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Post by iammjm »

two_in_one wrote: post #13
dvngnt_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it hadn't replaced much yet since it's hard to make consistent high quality art

LLMs don't compete with artists, they are more about text.. (Large Language Model)

No, the art that LLMs are generating is already amazing and getting better each month. There's even LLMs that generate whole videos.
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