ID Software's (still employed) Lead Services Programmer had some SCATHING criticisms of #Xbox following the gutting of their studio. He says: +Impossible to make a AAA game of previous Doom standards with current employees. +Entire important departments and disciplines at studio gone. +Reassurances they're the same are a lie; they're half. +Studio management given talking points on what can/can't be said. +Reassurances are so more people don't jump ship fearing no future. +They're not the same size as when they shipped Doom 2016, they're fewer, despite higher game production demands. +ID Software has serious issues with how Game Pass has done. +Poor sales is an unfair metric due to Game Pass sales cannibalisation. Game Pass means it's not the same game sales business model. +Xbox doesn't understand art, or games or the business model. +Nor does Xbox understand what goes into making a game. Besides Xbox still being a disaster, the way they're moving lately has me fearing much of this is prepping more to ready studios to be divested or sold off, thus fat free and lower cost till a sale is on the cards, than it is Xbox seriously being interested in a studio like ID Software making more premium quality AAA games. We shall see.... But what a travesty either way. Link to full Auf Ein Podcast. youtu.be/aA64Ogzm_VU?is=Neqa…