This guy isn't even a developer, he's just in PR.
I hope you don't mean MS... because they added an A. Where is Initiatives game anyway? AAAA where you at?
Just because a small group of babies cried loudly about TLOU2 doesn't mean it was divisive AF. It dominated sales, reviews and awards. It won over a dozen players choice awards.
These changes mostly only harmed high level players who were min/maxing the best stats. So they spent all that time finding gear and spending tens of millions of gold to get the right build.
But if you never got to that point, you weren't really harmed. People who weren't min/maxing will actually be buffed since they buffed baseline stats.
And how does the make sense? The replayability of the game is due to the seasons and changes they make, so what's the advantage to waiting exactly?
Not including online in the "console" tier is same old Microsoft bullshit. Literally makes no sense.
This deal is better than the previous offer. It was not "10 years for all" like you said in another comment. It was only 5 years, the emails are public.
Nothing is my guess. It would be dumb of them to kick people off the program and then later tell them to sign up again.
This is just another cost cutting measure. It made no sense to allow any random people to sign up together.
"after conducting an unbiased analysis" .... trying to make yourself sound important there huh?
If you downgrade the resolution to 2 generations ago....
So I guess it is impossible.
So the alternative is people were gonna have to stay in the cockpit and manually fly for an hour to another planet or something?
You can get Gold for less than $40 a year pretty easily.
Console prices increases in many countries
UGP price increase
$1 trial no longer offered
Worse conversion rates
Phil's leash is shortening. Can't fudge those subscription numbers so easily now.
It always was if you didn't have GP. You could buy up to 36 months of Gold. Then you buy 1 month of UGP and it would convert all 37 months to UGP.
So you bash people who already think negative of the game, but you've already come to the conclusion it will be your GOTY?
Riiight.
So what, it still makes the jab at Sony completely stupid. Don't call it a Sony tactic, when Microsoft has done it plenty.
N4G readers agree (except the single webmaster who approved this), this is the dumbest possible "news" and quite a pointless article.
What kind of an argument is this? We only have 16% of the market. Let us use our $2.5 trillion to buy our way to the top!!
Microsoft prior to ZeniMax sale - "It is not in our best interest to pull any games from Playstation."
- sale goes through
- Microsoft pulls games
FTC prior to ActiBlizz sale - "You lied about Zenimax games"
Microsoft - "We'll release some Zenimax games on Playstation in the future."
You can't make this stuff up.
Care to expound? He has been in journalism and PR most of his life. His LinkedIn mentions zero about being a developer. Am I missing something obvious?