If Halo is basically ending at 343, and Microsoft wants to downsize the studio meaning no more game development at a full staff level, what would an artist do for example?

Your ignorance doesn’t make you right 

It is absolutely delusional to think CEOs do nothing.

Where is management safe and sound? And yes Halo Infinite had a long development, so any competent developer should be able to get basic multiplayer features working.

Why not engage in fucking reality here that Microsoft is literally wants to hire 10k people from Activision?

So the fact that Halo is dead and Microsoft clearly isn’t supporting Halo Infinite beyond the bare minimum doesn’t enter your head here on why they laid these people off?

No one cares to engage with fucking reality here and just wants to shout “shareholders” or “corporations”.

Why should I?

I believe basic facts like Microsoft will have to pay thousands of new Activison employees

So then why was he rewarded for hiring 80 thousand people?

Shareholders get paid through a dividend based on what they have invested, and CEO’s manage the company

Apparently not sense they are stopping development of Halo

CEOs get fired all the time

How is Microsoft going to do what?

“343 Industries Will No Longer Make Halo Games, But Will Oversee Outside Development”

If they have no work for them because Microsoft is ending or downsizing whatever they produced, then yes they would be doing nothing.

Do you understand the concept of negative profit moron? If any spending on Halo Infinite is more than the potential increase in sales, then having developers do work on it means nothing.

Do you honestly not realize that buying Activision means getting thousands of new employees that need to be paid?

Does any company on the planet pay people to do nothing?

So they should just pay people to do nothing because their net income is high?