Real ID has come under fire lately for its use of Real ID - a gaming/social networking system that links players together in-game through personal information.
Recently, Blizzard and Battle.net announced that all posting on their forums will now go through Real ID as well - therefore, you will have to post using your real name.
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."
When I read the forums part, I had my concerns. Good highlight of the issues Blizzard is creating with this concept. I have no idea WHAT they are thinking or how this got by all the smart folks who work there.
I have mixed feelings about this. The Real ID system is really convenient for when you have a select group of friends that you don't want to have to constantly be remembering to add on every character, and the cross-game chat support is incredibly cool. However, I don't see the logic in being able to see all of your Real ID friend's Real ID friends too. There's no good reason to network it that far out, that I can think of, and plenty of reasons not to.
The forums thing doesn't bother me too much, as long as there's still another avenue for technical support for those that have a problem with their full name appearing.
I think after years of playing their games and completely enjoying everything they've done: whatever decision Blizzard makes sounds like a good idea to me.