Their games have always been dreadful performance wise. Frame pacing issues and stutter galore.

By releasing the same game over and over for the most part, just with minor changes to the formula. Same engine, same mechanics, same style, same aesthetic, etc.

Which games funding is he going to funnel into developing this one instead of making the game he's being paid to make?

Gemini is terrible. It gets so many things wrong, and is wrapped in all sorts of DEI bullshit.

Stargate was 4:3, so there's that....

You’re forgetting there was a merger. Jobs that were necessary when there were 2 separate companies are now not necessary when there is only 1 merged company.

Also it seems a large number of layoffs were for:

• blizzards survival game that was reportedly in development hell after 6 years of development
• the physical games department because Xbox is going all digital

You don’t employ people as backups. What you do is you share knowledge across the existing people so there is no single point of failure.

It’s not good in tech to have 2000 people employed who have nothing to do.

So there is a cost to them.

Who is paying for the internet connection to the car for non subscribers?