Michael Trosper of Gamer Professionals writes: "Despite growing concerns, that we ourselves share, microtransactions are becoming the norm. And right now, there cannot be a discussion about microtransactions without mentioning EA.While this is certainly good news for those of us that have already purchased Battlefront II, this announcement does not come without concerns."
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
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
TNS - NCSoft CEO admitted that AI is rapidly becoming a core part of game development, but he added that it cannot replace what makes games fun.
To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
It’s a compromise, now you can level up and unlock heroes in enough time so you will be on an equal level with players who choose to buy the game after the release date, or don’t have as much time to play as others.
To the whiners, accept the facts, AAA games cost a lot of money, and cheapskates are going to force digital distribution only sooner then we want.
Now remove lootboxes = win
It's only a win of they actually make changes to the system. They said they are taking them down while they reevaluate the system.
So if they actually make changes to it, win. When they eventually do bring them back and nothing has changed then you lost.
It's a gap to their plans just keep creating more until they understand.
EA needs to learn that MTs are unwanted and unnecessary. If they want to charge people for new content not on disk or part of free updates fine but balance-breaking characters and weapons shouldn't be locked behind ludicrously impossible playtimes or steep monetary fees. Cosmetic stuff is alright but you should be able to earn that by playing as well. Uncharted's multiplayer has these kinds of loot boxes and people don't care because they don't change the game they change a characters appearance only.
If you wanted a specific kind of hat it doesn't cost much but I wouldn't pay anything for it.
If Uncharted's MP allowed guns, grenades, loadout points and such to be unlockable via forking out some real cash, that would break the game and make it unnecessarily unfair.
MTs and in-game ads (WipEout HD/Fury Multiplayer loading-screens on PS3 jump to my mind) suck hard. Thankfully the majority of games this generation don't feature them but way more games have them this generation than last... That needs to change and it can start here by letting BF2 fail.