Game director Jeff Kaplan discusses the rise of in-game toxicity, the Overwatch team’s current plans to help reduce it, and ways that players can contribute
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
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."
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
Goodluck on the plea, jeff
"We love creating these cool content and features for you guys. We want to make new maps, we want to make new heroes, we want to make animated shorts. That's where our passion is, but we've been put into this weird position where we're spending a tremendous amount of time and resources punishing people and trying to make people behave better," he said. "I wish we could take the time we've put into putting reporting on console, and have put that towards a match history system or a replay system instead. It was the exact same people who had to work on both, who got rerouted to work on the other.
Any game with a credible ranking system in place will always deal with toxicity. You should know this even from Halo 2 in 2004 with standby-ing, modding, and de-ranking.
Consider it an accomplishment that you have created something that people take this seriously.
With this type of competitive atmosphere, you will always have trolls online due to anonymity. Stop pleading with them and just double down on effective punishment. Your game is contending for the most played game on the planet. Start acting like it.
It's an online shooter. What do you expect
You design a game that basically invites and promotes the very toxic community you've built, and now you ask them to stop.
Obviously this is PR bulls**t, but still, if there's even a shred of sincerity to this, maybe take your head out of your a** and fix it yourself.
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