Bad news - Microsoft cuts 650 jobs at gaming…
Could you post the link?
The key part:
The job cuts will affect mostly corporate and supporting functions, the report said, citing a memo sent to staff by Xbox chief Phil Spencer.
No games, devices or experiences are being canceled and no studios are being closed as part of these adjustments, the report said, citing the memo.
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Maybe it means they cut communication even further 
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Even further? What is worse than none?
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Negative.
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They go minus. Retcon any posts regarding AoE3 into AoMR posts. Didn’t exist 
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The only microsoft studio directly involved in AOE is Worlds Edge, the cuts therefore wont impact the development teams as they are 3rd party.
I hope no one at WE is affected.
While I hope that’s the case, I have a really hard time imagining they are cutting their own staff but leaving 3rd party contracts untouched.
Question for everyone, what characteristics does the game have to meet to be considered dead? And do you consider the game dead or alive? 
AOE1DE
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Honestly, at this point I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if they remade AoE3 inside AoE2’s engine before they update AoE3DE. /s
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I don’t think so.
It’s much more difficult than AOE1 ported to AOE2. Porting AOE3 to AOMR is more realistic.
Also they did RoR because they want to attract Vietnamese AOE1 players. But they hate money from AOE3 players.
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I would consider Stormgate dead, there are literally more people playing the original AOE3 just on steam.
AOE3DE is in the top 15 RTS on steam and top 10 if you remove things that really shouldn’t be on the RTS listing. I would consider the game alive, i play games with far smaller players that still have an active multiplayer.
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Please note - Another Microsoft job cut 1900 it in January - this is the consequences of why AoE3 is not updated!
Yes, things as they are… in fact in AoE 2 HD there was a mod set in the colonial age and that was the gameplay of AoE 2 but with civs and units from AoE 3, for example the arquebusier was upgraded to a musketeer in the second age and then to a fusilier in the fourth age… the native civs of North America used the buildings from American Conquest and so on…
Now they are going to update it with AI 
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please don’t give them ideas, its probably already being established under the rug
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It’s not an idea… they are already doing it, but on an increasingly larger scale… Ubisoft doesn’t even need to use AI, they simply apply their formula to all their games…
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Uibslop is going down under currently due to a combination of toxic politics, toxic gamedesign and moronoical middle and upper management.
Quite frankly them using AI in it’s current form would already improve gameplay and design…
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well aware they are, and its obvious why, shareholders are pleased by idea of only needing 10 employees instead of 50 for the same work throughput