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No one should be happy about this. All of those games, including StarField, were already coming to Xbox. Microsoft spent enough money to create a world leading studio with new IP, just to take choices away from 2/3 of the console gaming community. To celebrate the loss of games other people would have experienced because now it’s only on your plastic box makes gaming divisive, and that’s pretty sad.
Xbox was going to get all of these games before they took them away from other gamers, including StarField. Happy gaming? More like welcome to politics. This is a sad day for gaming that this kind of money is being dumped to patch holes in a sinking brand at the expense of everyone else’s enjoyment.
What a pathetic thing really. To think Nintendo’s game is so amazing because it’s filled with cherished original characters and IP that Devs were honored when fans wanted their studio’s iconic players added to Smash. For Microsoft, a Smash style game would only happen because they made zero of the IP and bought all of them. Authenticity counts, but I guess if the subscription is cheap enough no one cares anymore.
Yay, another company MS can show us they don’t know how to improve or run properly. I don’t know what was worse for Activision, Bobby, or Microsoft. They better hope that loyal C.O.D. fanbase and the casual players that bring revenue through King can reverse the massive $70Bn loss, or all of those celebrating are going to see prices on their beloved GamePass go up.
I love my Steam Deck. I’m an avid Switch gamer but have pretty much stopped using it since I got the Deck. I love it when traveling because Steam OS / Desktop is awesome for most of what I want a PC for when I’m out and about too. It’s really turned into an excellent platform all around.
lol, you think Microsoft doesn’t share that same motivation and greed? They wouldn’t be spending $70 billion to play nice with the dev teams and give them more time to relax with higher pay, they’re going to squeeze them even harder for return on investment.
Of course he’s going to say that. Problem is almost no developer or their games have gotten better under MS. Activision is already pretty mid at this point so it’s not exactly a promising situation.
I’m almost there too after 47 hours. And I don’t expect to return as often over the years as I have with Skyrim on every major platform since the PS3. The RNG aspect is too predictable and the fast travel / loading all the time breaks up an already somewhat barren and slow paced walking experience. It’s a good game but it’s just not up to Bethesda’s typical experience “density” IMO, and that’s left me kind of bored of hoarding and rinse/repeating.
🥱🥱🥱 cloud streaming is so bleh. But whatever, more GaaS options I won’t touch.
Well that’s disappointing.
Good. Mass consolidation shouldn’t be easy to achieve. Make them work for it.
Good. Now we can hopefully move away from Sony pretending to care about GaaS and never that failing enterprise to Microsoft to cut their tombstone to.
Sounds like an article written by an X-Bot. StarField is good, but it’s not great. To me, it’s “another” Bethesda game after 31 hours of slowly hoarding things and trying to understand why I bother to keep playing. It’s the formula all Bethesda games use to keep you hooked, except this time (unlike the diverse and beautiful world of Tamriel) the gameplay feels repetitive and barren. It feels like it needed to bake for another year to make sure we couldn’t spot the RNG formula repeating its...
Been playing this on PC for a while now. Can’t wait to see what they add in the full release. Also cool that PS5 is getting it.
In the fine print, they’re still not changing course on the per-install tracking malware. Either the dev voluntarily provides the data, or they use “their own metrics” to determine what the developer owes. They’re no better than MS. They showed their always online DRM riddled desires with XBOX One; and have been working tireless (and at extreme expense) to buy a checkmate with consumers. This will be no different. They are going to keep trying until they succeed at “their vision”, regardl...
And taking a $70bn loss they’ll have to recoup somehow. This is going to backfire wonderfully if they don’t succeed at convincing a lot more people to give in to their GamePass cult.
if people keep buying Microsoft consoles they should be. They showed their hand all the back when XBOX One launched. They have been slowly subsiding people into an all cloud, DRM ridden, always online GaaS model since then, almost like a cult. Look at how defensive people get about GamePass - but the main thing they defend is the convenience for that low price. If it cost what would actually make them money, the argument would reverse for most users. They’d want their disks back. I hope ...
Good
But it’s a win for their green plastic paperweight,
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