Well Microsoft is about to blow people shoes off. AI is apparently something they have poured funds into over the last few years which has them sitting at the top of AI Olympus. It’s even a part of the military drones I think. If AI takes over, Microsoft will be ready. For better or worse.
They are really putting money in the wrong places with this game. Releasing stuff like bird city, and even the hurricane mutator (which is exactly what it is) isn’t what’s going to keep this game kicking. I didn’t even realize it was AI voices. Their minds should be on arc, weapons, maps. It could even be on a rolling schedule. I’m sure they don’t want to fracture their player base with modes, because then a mode can be killed by another if the community gets too small. Mix in a new mutation ...
@FinalFantasyFanatic
You might want to abandon life. Even if you’re simply watching tv, you’re contributing in one way or another to a company doing the exact same thing. They are literally gauging what your mindset must be to watch what you are watching in the first two hours of the after work window. They are comparing it to the people down the street. Ever been asked if you have a college degree on a form that has NOTHING to do with that? Or what kind of employment you h...
Of course they are doing it for increased profits. It’s literally why it exist. To be clear, I turn off tracking on any and everything I do online when I can. Thing is, some of it is inevitable. As to you saying they can check your purchase data, it’s literally a part of it. You’re looking at it as if it’s as simple as that. Ask anyone in business about forecasting for example. Be it sales, recruitment needs, payroll of a period, whatever. Ask them how many things need to be taken into consid...
It’s more apparent with airlines. They are ALWAYS researching at what days of the week, month, year, holiday, weather pattern, cruise dates and where the port of calls are, so on and so forth. As a frequent traveler you might say “damn they raised the prices of flights to Houston/Galveston!” Little did you know, There’s a 8 conventions in town and a new Carnival ship leaving out of Galveston bay that weekend. Research shows people will begrudgingly pay this price (they don’t care because ther...
@8mff
That’s right. Please read my other comments. You play with the pricing to try to get a gauge on buying habits, impulses, genres that sell and don’t no matter what you do in certain areas, soooo much variance and variables.
Exactly
@icekoldkilla
I get it. It doesn’t bother me because I know it usually happens in waves and then they run off and decipher the data. It’s not something that is blanket or permanent. That’s why these people have never realized it. It normally flys under the radar and people really only notice big price differences these days. Like with cars or everyday items like gas. For gamers like us we normally only notice for consoles, peripherals, and day one games. That’s our big purc...
They are doing market research but these people don’t have all the research data obviously. So they are reporting it like they have a tenth of the data but people are taking it as preferential treatment? Certain games in certain areas could need a bit more incentive to cross the “impulse buy” threshold. Some people/places react more favorably to discounts ending in 0. This area wants the discount to be UNDER the whole number to feel worth it. Go from $41.68 to $39.99 and they’ll bite in Canad...
It’s literally market research. I think people don’t know what it is and how it’s in everything. Do they not teach economics anymore? Have I hit that age? lol
Everyone does it. It’s called market research.
I don’t know if this is fake outrage or people are experiencing things and not knowing what they are experiencing. As someone that ran big box retail brick and mortars as GM and Area work, do people not realize what market research is? For example, in grocery with the same grocery chain, halal cost more in certain areas with a higher concentration of certain religions. Less and eventually not carried in others. Same for say chorizo, ground beef, seafood, so on. Even goes as far as changing ne...
Well despite this, people feel like next gen won't be a repeat performance.
Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.
New Xbox announced and now we get the “Sony hates its customers” articles and videos. Coincidence, I think not.
The question will be if you have a PC, why buy a Xbox that plays PC and Xbox games… Unless they plan to have you buy a Xbox PC instead of a dedicated PC. Thats got to be the plan. Take some of the PC players and turn them into console PC players. They couldn’t give you full access to the PC/console like you can with a dedicated PC because you would think the piracy for the “dedicated” Xbox games would be crazy. Yeah, they are really going to have to explain who this is for. If you can install...
I don’t think R⭐️ would go for that either, it’s already too late in dev. HOWEVER, with the state of his things are in Xbox, even devs have chimed in that games don’t sell well on Xbox due to Gamepass. People just wait to get games that come on there. Combine that with the sales situation for hardware itself and you honestly end up thinking Xbox isn’t hard to pass up these days. People think games skip Xbox due to some back alley deal. In reality, if the game is experimental. strapped for res...
I think that IF a console was already knee deep in R&D with a ton of money poured in already, they will go ahead and release it. I think it all depends on how far it is and what they are forecasting for things we haven’t seen yet.
It’s wild to think, but gamespass and the pursuit of must have games for it killed Xbox. Activision and ID were already making games for Xbox but they wanted those games on Gamespass. The games sell great and people are willing to buy them so they woul...
I don’t know who keeps posting this guy. The switch does NOT match the PS5 performance. Please put digital foundry vids instead. It beats series S visually. The beginning of the video shows the car hood example. The upscaler is pixelated as hell on switch but smooth, but less detailed on PS4 and not even on PS5s league. That’s the upscaler trying to make 540p look higher res. I really don’t understand the reasoning for the gas lighting.
Well I can’t blame them. As a Gen Xer, I prefer people being hired and AI being a limited support strut than the job replacer that it is. Work is hard to find for SEVERAL reasons in SEVERAL industries. There are less entry level jobs in every field. I feel people have argued about people from other countries taking their jobs while supporting systems that give NOBODY the job, but saves these companies money.
People make the mistake of thinking you agree with something because you bri...