A quick bit about how negative feelings towards Hearthstone's randomness and f2p quirks are blinded by its addictiveness.
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.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
I could not get into Hearthstone at all. I am a fan of tabletop card battle games, but hearthstone goes from walk in the park easy to WTF with just a boss fight.
It will make you feel like OK, I got the hang of this to I have no Idea what I am doing.
All the matches leading up to Illidan are a breeze, then Illidian just rips you a new one in a matter of seconds.
Oh well. Just another game that will not eat up my time.
They should make Warcraft Tactics instead of a card game.
I never played any table top card games or whatever they're called except for this, So I'm a huge noob. I love Heathstone though. It's easy to get to grips with but difficult to master.
i really enjoy hearthstone but they still have some tweaking to do on card balance. Its going to be hard to restructure the game since people paid for cards
I feel like this article shouldnt be aimed at Hearthstone. Its listing off things that are apparent in ALL card games. Not just hearthstone. The game is not even out yet, its got a small pool of cards that will be built up with new sets, which they have announced to be working on. A card game has to start somewhere. EVERY card game started with a small set of cards and built on it.