Former ESO boss Matt Firor talks about the death of unrealised MMO Project Blackbird: ‘Microsoft is Microsoft’
via pcgamer.com
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Microsoft’s brutal rash of layoffs and studio closures after the acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $68.4 billion is something of a grave marker in the industry, sweeping promising projects under the rug. One of those was Project Blackbird, an MMO by Elder Scrolls Online developers Zenimax Online Studios, which had been in production since 2018. […]