Player 2 breaks down the choice by Deep Silver to head to the Epic Game Store with Metro Exodus and points out that the anger this choice has caused is misdirected.
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.
Another case of cry babies not getting their way so they trow their toys on the ground and storm off. They were doing the same with Ace Combat 7 because it didn't support some super high tech flight sim joystick even though Ace Combat is not even close to a flight sim.
people are angry because they know it will kill the sales.
The game was on Steam for pre order for a long time and showed up on the featured list, basically advertising the crap out of the game. Now that that's done they wanna jump ship? Extremely crappy move and then there was the stupid PR statement from the publisher. They were too afraid to even back up there own decision and just pointed fingers at the devs lmao.
Lastly, this is some exclusive bs that belongs on console even if both storefronts are free, this is not the way pc games should turn, maybe give different dlc or something but don't just outright shut down the competition. The sales of this game will be killed off I believe because of this. Maybe they'll make it up with Epic taking less than steam would've though, I dunno.
As the Author of this, I guess my point, which seems to have been missed a little, is about the behaviour as a result of this choice, not about the choice its self. Business choices are often full of weird and secretive reasoning that I am not privileged to be aware of. I am however very aware of the appalling behaviour it has brought out in gamers. By all means, you are free to not like the choice, but attacking, review bombing and abusing the developers is appaling behaviour not matter your justification.
These companies are going to be very disappointed when they receive more revenue per sale, but, end up selling 1/4th or less of the games because it's not on Steam. I'm one of those people that want all of my games in one place. It would have to be a Borderlands 3 level game for me to consider downloading yet another terrible platform that I have to remember a login and password on and split my games and friends list up yet again for. No thanks. Release on the platform I like or no sale. Metro, Meat Boy Forever... possible buy titles for me... on Steam. Division 2, no thanks. Epic has nothing that makes me say "I have to download that platform that I want nothing to do with to play that game"
Imo, devs are going to learn a hard lesson here. What would you rather have, 70% of the profit on 1000 sales or 90% of the profit on 200 sales? gl with that nonsense. I won't support it.