Over the last week, we’ve been regaled with leaks from devs on or associated with the Project Blackbird team that was laid off During Microsoft’s massive purge of over 9000 games workers. The MMORPG had been in development for seven years at Zenimax Online Studios and had apparently been through someone reboots and false trails along the way, not atypically for large-scale MMOs. More importantly, it was apparently an incredible game with lots of potential, and it would’ve filled a gap in the market that Destiny 2 isn’t really working overtime to fill anymore.

I’m sad for so many reasons; obviously, I’m sad that we’re losing a AAA western MMORPG. I’m sad because we’re losing several hundred MMORPG devs who may leave the genre forever. But I’m also bummed because I probably would’ve played it.

How about you? Would you have played Blackbird? Or do you think the only real loss here is the devs themselves?

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