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Britxbox: Podcast Expansion Pack 71

Britxbox writes: "Welcome to the BXB Expansion Pack Podcast with Jasper "Spiiike" Kashap, Mark "Born2beSlicker" Lawson and Arnold "DogEyedBoy" Cook. The podcast that focuses on Xbox news, what we've been playing and seen as downloadable content for the BXB community. This week we talk about:

Trenched
Gears of War 3 leaks
RockStar walks away from Team Bondi
Bungie AeroSpace announced
Black Rock Studios shuts down
Xbox Live leads the way on online console game sales
Bethesda wants more substantial DLC for Skyrim
Original Crysis comes to Xbox 360"

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Rockstar launches official marketplace for mods

Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.

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Christopher2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.

Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.

fr0sty13h ago

What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.

ActualWhiteMan16h ago

Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.

Christopher14h ago

It's okay as long as they get a cut of the money.

fr0sty13h ago

Expect R* to force it on you.

Snookies128h ago

Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.

IanTH13h ago(Edited 13h ago)

I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.

Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.

I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.

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Skyrim Switch 2 Update Boosts Visuals, But Performance Falls Short

A new Skyrim Switch 2 update delivers major visual upgrades, surpassing some console settings, but locks the game to 30fps and introduces noticeable input lag.

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gigoran836d ago

they can't get a 14 year old game to run smoothly?

jjb198136d ago

That's ridiculous, lol. I'm waiting for the guy that says its too cpu-intensive for the Switch 2. This game is old af and has been released like 17 times.

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Discord Messages Reviewed By Rockstar Before Firing Union Members Have Reportedly Been Revealed

Discord messages Rockstar Games management reviewed before firing union members have reportedly been revealed.

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Shikoku52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

They were involved in protected Union activities and Rockstar will be in trouble with the NLRB.

DarXyde52d ago

You think this NLRB will lift a finger?

Ps5conehead52d ago

Watch the video this is in England

gerbintosh52d ago

Basically this is Rockstar vs the Union members word. These employees could be cherry picking or spoofing the chat logs.Rockstar could be lying. I will withhold judgment until Discord is subpoened and releases the chat group text from their servers.