“ Acty, this is part of the Series X SELLING strategy I think you'll find”
So... when MS says games will be compatible between generations, it’s bad because they aren’t making people buy the console... but now they’re pushing this feature and that’s... bad because they want people to buy the console?
To be clear, the actual patent includes the word “purchase” multiple times, which is where the article gets it’s point that it’s built for micro transactions. From the patent:
“While the player 200 may have access to a store in which to purchase various resources, they may not be aware of those resources most likely to assist them in defeating the boss character.
In this embodiment, the player 200 is able to submit a query 206 verbally to the game system...
Im reading through it now, and that’s kind of what it seems like.
It talks about how if a player asks a question like “how do I level up” or how to defeat a boss, it cross references the context around the question with other players who successfully beat that encounter or achieved that goal, and what ‘resources’ they had acquired in doing so.
I’m just grabbing a couple of different quotes here:
“While the player 200 may have access to ...
That’s a leap in logic that doesn’t work at all. Just because what MS is doing could be seen as pro-consumer does absolutely not mean anything else is anti-consumer.
It’s like saying that if one game is a 10/10 then no other game can be because they aren’t exactly the same. Or how The Witcher is considered one of the most productive-consumer’ games because of the love and care it had at launch plus the post launch support it received. Does that then mean that when other gam...
Either that or it’s genuinely a good game... why is the latter somehow hard to believe?
It’s always online but can be played solo
How is that semantics? He literally said:
“Some people say ‘Oh, they’re just kind of burning money left and right in order to gain customers so they can trick you into raising the price later.’
“There’s no model like that, for us“
That’s possibly the clearest I’ve ever heard Phil say something
... what’s the difference?
I guess screw them for doing a good job updating it then /s
What’s done is done and they should be ashamed of how it launched and their attitude around it, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t give credit where it’s due
Allegedly they’re working on it, but you can’t as of now
“Xbox needs exclusives to encourage people to buy the console”
*gets exclusives*
“Oh well guess I’m never playing that game now”
@Con
You’re acting like Sony didn’t just come up and accounce that they would release a PS5 Pro this gen. Does that mean that Sony shouldn’t get our money either?
Come on mate, repetitive games are repetitive games, no matter what console they’re on
Is it the same though? You have to own a PS4 for shareplay. And then to do couch co-op you’d have to take it plus a TV to someone’s house
To my understanding you won’t need to own an Xbox with xCloud. Plus it’s on your phone, which is a far cry from lugging a console/TV around
“ Nice, not bad for a service that doesn't support the developer”
So the games get put on there for free without permission, and Microsoft don’t pay the developers to do it?
Replying to your x2 replies to my comment from earlier.
I appreciated both your replies, and I think that after re-reading them and your original comment we seem to mostly be in the same page.
And thanks for taking the time to send through a well thought out reply - you could have left it at the first and I probably wouldn’t have minded really, but you took the time and effort to send a second more thorough reply through, which you didn’t have to do and I...
Im just here to reply to your “I guess you don’t understand how websites make money” comment, because it really seems lime you’re taking a super narrow approach and leaping to a lot of confusions.
1 “ These sites sign up with an advertising company(s)”
Not always, and especially not for smaller sites. A lot of high profile and well known publishers (eg MS and EA by your own examples) will have certain benchmarks that sites have to meet in order to even be...
People are acting like quitting once gets you a 640 day ban, but it adds up with repeat offences within a certain window
Would you prefer they make a service/product and not support it? I don’t understand the issue
I ride a total of 3 hours on the bus to and from work every day. Do I need a group help seminar because I would like to spend some of that time playing an Xbox game on my phone?