Hardcore Gamer: We all know that microtransactions are becoming more and more integral to their respective games, convoluting competition and damaging publishing rights, but we’ve still been able to (begrudgingly and reluctantly) coexist with them. Final Fantasy: All the Bravest was a downright travesty, one of the most manipulative and dishonest releases to come from any franchise. When you have to either wait three minutes to revive a party member or pay real money to speed it up, that’s putting up a paywall that literally prevents you from continuing. You’re forced to just…wait. All the Bravest was widely panned for this issue alone, earning a number of dubious honors, including places on many gamers’ and publications’ “worst of 2013” lists. But as much of a wreck All the Bravest is, it’s not the worst use of microtransactions. That’s very hard to believe, but something has gone lower. A game has made microtransactions even worse than All the Bravest did.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
All available May 5.
Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-
I think the only game here for me is Nine Sols. Was always interested in that game.
Good month for me, I wanted that particular footy game and thought it might be due. Anyway who cares, shame about the site I'll miss the comment sections. All the best everyone.
But we're also winning the war on getting games for free.
Thats why you dont pay to win like a noob lol. You can get most of the sheet from just playing.
I don't think its was going to stay with core games. Remember when EA said that they were going to put Microtransactions in all future games right around DS3 came around? Fuse doesn't' have them, Battlefield 4 doesn't have them and the upcoming Titanfall won't have them
I just can't get my head around those microtransactions where you can pay to skip through the game and unlock everything.
Whats the point in even buying a game if you don't even want to play it. I get that some people just want everything from the start but you just spent £40/$60 on a game. Try getting your moneys worth. I hate microtransactions so much, one of the worst things to hit the industry in a long time. Whatever happened to unlocks and cheats. Ya know the fun stuff?
Now it's all buy this costume/skin, buy this item, buy this new car etc etc.
Time is money! normally you would not need to grind hour after hour so they make grinding extra long and give you boosts if you pay 99 cents! free to play games suck big time. Id honestly rather watch ads than be forced to pay to win but that's just me.