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The new logo keeps making me think FG has been going for 100 years 😅.

I'm really digging the new graphics @GazzaGarratt Happy 10 years FG!!! 🤘🏻

It's looking rather nice, definitely an upgrade. Not that I was opposed to the "old" forum. Some fantastic work @GazzaGarratt I particularly like the and more TBC. The mystery alone has me in great suspense and anticipation. 🙂

We've moved in from spacing issues I hope 😁 I'm loving the new forum graphics. Outstanding work @GazzaGarratt

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When are you planning on getting the ball rolling? (No pun intended) 😂 Looking forward to the draw!

I'll look into it 🫡

If I gey a chance will download it when I'm able to get on next.

Yep thats the one everyone got free!! That means most of you other lot should have it too....even @phil bottle!! 😅

FIFA 22, not sure if it was on PS Plus or not though, sorry.

What fifa is this? Is it the one we got on ps plus?

I'd like to try and start it this week if possible, or at least make the draw. I think if we can get 2 more people then I can add 3 ready made 'BYE' teams which allows the people who get that draw a free pass to the next round. 5 people would be ace still though! Any help you can give would be awesome.

There was a chant going "I can't see anything, I can't see anything, I can't see anything, I can't see anything."

Guess its weaker because of the large mag compared to others but too often people can turn on me and kill me even when I have jump on them.

Todd Howard: ''fly anywhere do anything'' Meanwhile.... Starfield Doesn’t Let You Fly Seamlessly from Space to Planet: ‘That’s Really Just Not that Important’ - IGN WWW.IGN.COM Todd Howard has said that Starfield won't allow you to fly seamlessly from space to its 1,000 explorable planets, saying the feature is "really just not that important to the player" to justify the engineering work... That's a bit disappointing! Don't want to be greeted with loading screens as it'll kill the immersion. Definitely not easy to do technically especially if it's running on old architecture but I would've expected them to do some masking of sorts where it would feel like a landing experience even if it was the game simply loading in the back-end. Not sure how it'll be presented but if it's just a 'click to go to X planet' format then it'll really diminish the experience especially as their existing games are largely seamless in exploration.

It's not just 60 - that was a single example because you said you hadn't seen anything of it related to gaming (despite it being the biggest lay off of a first party studio ever and it being widely covered in the mass media all week) No, as already said, these are main-line developers - literally their entire development portfolio including the main project lead who was transferred back to Xbox Gaming. That's why it's caused such a ripple and put the entire future of the brand into doubt because they literally have no recognised devs left with a project that has 9 years left to run. 10k is just the headline - once again I am not attributing this all to gaming. With no many failed parts of the business and outdated aspects, mass-layoffs were bound to happen but it's just crazy to see them obliterate their only in-house studio instead of allocate them elsewhere especially when they have over $100bn invested in grabbing external companies so they don't sell their products on Playstation. Could've easily merged them into a new studio or elsewhere and that's one good thing about Activision - no matter how shite their studios perform, their staff will always be allocated to projects and have work available. That is the main point - not whether a few hundred from a call centre or Kinect got the boot. Microsoft have always needed first party games so for them to kill their only in-house team overnight is quite a big move especially if they will use any small savings as partial collateral to complete the AB merger to capture another tiny indie studio to stifle on the Game Pass.

Minibak is gold. Dont know if its the connection I had but damn what a peashooter! People are just running through the bullets. Probably the shit connection, from my 3000+ kills in total, I have over 1000 assists.

I agree with @Luseth When you say stuff like "thousands of innocent people" and the number is 60 is hard to be credible in the rest of the argument

Fair enough it states some people at the developers but 60 people out of 450, that does not paint a clear picture in that are they all people working on the game itself? Are they writers that are no longer required or the cleaners to the offices? Also 60 out of 10,000 people is a very small fraction. It is not quite an obliteration as you stated and its also not the ‘hundreds’ you said in your first post. I feel like you are giving Microsoft a hard time there for something most of the big companies in the tech sector are currently doing. I agree Halo did not do well but you only have to consider that halo has been released now. What are the odds that all 450 employees are currently required whilst the next game is decided on? The other factor to this, Halo is not a series that appeals to younger audiences anymore. The majority of games that grew up with Halo now have families and such so wouldn't be able to give it the time and the younger generations prefer your fortnites, warzones etc. It is a much tougher and more competitive market than it was back on the og xbox and 360 xbox and that is out of the managements control. Where I would say they have fallen down is not trying to innovate and continuing to stick with the og halo formula. As with everything in an economy on the downturn people lose jobs, efficiencies are made (rightly or wrongly) and that is going to be the case across every industry. The job losses are not solely down to poor management and I would also argue these days the halo studio is no longer their flagship. Most of their recent displays have been based aroung Bethesda or based around Starfield, it doesnt really feel like Halo is their flagship game anymore (I would argue they don’t have one)

that's always the case. They probably got a bonus for reducing cost. However if Halo disappeared would it be a big deal to gamers. On steam they average the 30 day average is less than 5000. Comparatively Warzone is 120000, witcher 3 is 43000, Skyrim 27000. An 11 year old game is has about 600% more players. So if I am running a business and I am microsoft I wouldn't sweat closing down something that generates 5000 players a month and I would put my money into candy crush or fruit ninja. Sucks for those 60 people but with those numbers MS probably didn't think about it for more that 10 seconds.

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60 for 343 is huge. Nobody is saying that 10,000 equates to Xbox entirely or their gaming division as a whole, but this level of layoffs in their first party gaming sector is significant especially considering the personnel that's departed and how it will affect Halo going forward. As it stands, it's the biggest layoff of an active studio in gaming history. If Activision came out tomorrow and said that MW2 performed so badly during the first 3 months, we're going to be sacking every developer involved at Infinity Ward; that in itself would cause a huge shock to the industry and for people that follow Halo and have supported 343 in the last 13 years, that's the impact this announcement has had. Unlike Call of Duty, they have no other studios to fall back on to carry the series forward so the brand's future is in serious doubt on a game that had a 10 year plan. There is also a massive sense of injustice from people affected, that most of the management associated with the project remain and are also sitting on huge bonuses.

60 people out of 10000 is pretty minuscule. They probably expect the Activision merger to go forward and these people are a victim of that. I read that azure, sales and Marketing were hit hard.

I've followed this story for days and they certainly haven't been generic - 343 have had around 60 front line developers culled which puts the entire future of Halo into doubt. Some of the names that have departed are massive especially Joe Staten. This is Microsoft's flagship first party studio too https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/19/xbox-bethesda-hit-by-microsoft-layoffs-as-halo-campaign-team-gutted-18128386/ Halo had the biggest budget in gaming history and a 10 year roadmap set in stone.

Wow I'm really jealous! 🤤 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYeHPmQJ/

Now this came up on my TikTok and I can't find it anywhere online!! The guy must have created that himself, its truly incredible. I absolutely love the spinning controller storage so much, its exactly what i've wanted to try and create for my own place, just not as amazing as that (or as a Nintendo Switch, much prefer a Sega Mega Drive or just a bespoke non-gaming looking one). Links please from anyone that has found where we can make this for everyone here! 😄

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Yep, we rarely see any honest debate online. Also, shit stirring is profitable and the amount of grifters on there with their click bait content makes it even worse.

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Almost fixed - just the strategy section needs a bit of reducing🙂

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