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Phil Spencer on Activision Blizzard King + Xbox | Official Xbox Podcast

Xbox Podcast: "This week we have a very special episode with Phil Spencer, the CEO of Gaming at Microsoft, who sits down with us to answer questions about Activision Blizzard King and their teams joining the Xbox family."

darthv72224d ago

i know many will still remain pessimistic towards Spencer, but its good to hear him reiterate his stance on keeping CoD coming out to other platforms and with no more special treatment.

blackblades224d ago

So you trust every word he says, got it and noted in history

Tacoboto224d ago

Aww. Did you note it in your little N4G Burn Book?

spicelicka224d ago

"Noted in history" lmao damn dude is patrolling N4G your only hobby?

Lightning77224d ago

It's contractual so he has no choice.

blackblades224d ago (Edited 224d ago )

"Y'all taking what I said very seriously" lol

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Obscure_Observer224d ago

"i know many will still remain pessimistic towards Spencer, but its good to hear him reiterate his stance on keeping CoD coming out to other platforms and with no more special treatment."

Yeah, no more beta privileges. Sony will not longer lock out COD gamers from guns, skins, perks, double XP events, and/or any other in-game advantages or benefits!

Under Xbox All COD players will be treated fairly, away from Sony´s scumbag practices!

derek224d ago

@Obscure, you're ridiculous, you act as if Microsoft has saved you from the great game oppressor Playstation, lol. Power of propaganda on display.

Markdn223d ago

Obscure... You need help if you think this is good for anyone. Under Xbox COD will be a dead franchise in 2 years, that's there proven track record. And I only play on xbox so don't call me a Sony fan boy. I'M more concerned on how much game pass will cost by this time next year.

Obscure_Observer223d ago

@derek

"you're ridiculous, you act as if Microsoft has saved you from the great game oppressor Playstation"

It has nothing to do with MS good, Sony bad, dude.

You people simply fail to see the big picture regarding big acquisitions. You won´t see nothing beyond what´s negative. There´s huge positives as well.

Sony used to pay Bungie for Destiny 2 exclusive in-game content the same way they used to do with COD.

Now as a Playstation first party studio, Sony is treating ALL of the Destiny 2 players equally and fairly! No exclusive advantages for any platform!

MS has no other choice but to play ball and follow suit.

Botton line: Gamers are and will be getting more benefits from both Bungie and ABK as first party studios rather what they´d used to get when those companies were independent.

@Markdn

"Under Xbox COD will be a dead franchise in 2 years, that's there proven track record."

Yeah, like Minecraft. /S

https://n4g.com/news/257089...

"And I only play on xbox so don't call me a Sony fan boy."

Dude, I don´t care where you play, after your fallacious comment regarding COD dead in 2 years, after Minecraft´s success under Xbox for almost 10 freaking years, I know for a fact that you don´t sh!t about Xbox. You brought me whatever your crystal ball told you. I brought you facts. Don´t even bother and reply back to me.

derek223d ago

@Obscure, your words really came off as you seeing yourself and others as some sort of victims of Sony's exclusives early access agreement, lol. How can you rationally argue for the benefits of Microsoft acquisitions while being so against minor deals Sony reached with 3rd parties.

Markdn222d ago

So you cite one franchise lol one, how many have they ruined, that's right, all the rest. Don't tell me weather I can reply or not, it's you that knows nothing and your low intellect means you need to resort to vulgar language to make it seem like you know what your on about. The only facts you brought is your butt hurt and can't listen to the facts.

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derek224d ago

@darth, Spencer is proven liar based on his public statements vs what he says in private communications. His pronouncements are worthless and it's a testament to how gullible the public can be to take Spencers comments seriously.

darthv72223d ago

So you dont trust every word he says, got it and noted in history

derek223d ago

@darth, trust? I don't trust any of these executives especially that phony liar Phil Spencer.

gold_drake224d ago

ugh hes such a fame wh*re.

we've never seen ceo's on so many podcasts or interviews before him.

Futureshark224d ago

I wonder if the inevitable Master Chief CoD skin will find it's way to the PlayStation store then...

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Avowed Moved to Unreal Engine 5.3

With Support from The Coalition

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ThinkThink11h ago

That's great news. Hopefully the Coalition can smooth some of those edges from the last Avowed reveal.

phoenixwing8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

Well I'm annoyed. Especially at all the ppl who said the graphics sucked. It's your fault they probably shifted the game to unreal so it could look more fancy for you. I was ok with it and hoping to actually play it sometime soon. Now it's like 99% chance it's delayed.
Edit: effing graphics whores

Obscure_Observer2m ago

"Well I'm annoyed. Especially at all the ppl who said the graphics sucked. It's your fault they probably shifted the game to unreal so it could look more fancy for you."

What the hell are you talking about dude? Avowed was already in development using the UE5. The Coalition is just helping Obsidian in the transition to its latest version (5.3)

Fishy Fingers1m ago

It already was Unreal 5, its just moving to the latest build.

Lightning778h ago

Apparently the latest build looks way better graphically. This rumor from Jez Cordin (who's credible) pretty much confirms it.

Interested in seeing more on Avowed in a few weeks.

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Steam Account Transfer Via Will on Death is Not Permitted, Valve Confirms

In case you were curious, a Steam account transfer via will is not permitted according to an official response from Valve.

anast17h ago

The games are theirs. People just pay to ride the ride.

Skuletor1h ago

Would be nice if the article's writer looked into and reported whether other digital game libraries could be transferred over via will (Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, EGS, EA app, GOG, Ubisoft Connect, Rockstar Launcher etc) instead of this half-baked piece but it's probably the same for all of them anyway

Kornholic54m ago

This seems like a way bigger issue than mandatory PSN account linking for PlayStation games.

So where is the outcry?

Skuletor33m ago

It's not like PlayStation is doing any different.

"You may not sell, buy, trade, or transfer your Online ID, Account or any personal access to PSN Services through any means or method, including by use of web sites."
https://www.playstation.com...

NotoriousWhiz26m ago(Edited 25m ago)

It's not like your account just stops working when you die. Include your email, account id, and password in the will (including the password to your email) and your survivors should have no problem using your games.

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CDPR say Witcher 4 will be different from Witcher 3: "We don't want to be stuck in the same spot"

The next Witcher game will still be an RPG but players can expect new things as CD Projekt Red want to push boundaries and discover new ways of storytelling.

Terry_B15h ago

Each of the 3 existing Witcher games is pretty different from each other..

just_looken46m ago

They were different because they went from being a port studio with there last port being the god awful saints row 2 pc port to making the witcher one.

The first witcher was there first actual game with there own engine the 3rd one showed there years of experience/in house engine improvements.

This witcher game has very very few of the original people behind it and its using unreal engine like so many other games.

The big elephant in the room is that they are now proudly esg supports and go to a panel of esg reps to approve there games now.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

The is cdpr 2020's not the 2010's cdpr we used to know.

https://www.gamesradar.com/...

Take the blood/sex/nudity/adult humor/combat system/rpg mechanics/writing/story charecters/art/design and there passion/drive from the first 3 games throw it in the fucking trash there now you got what they have right now for the witcher 4.

New engine new writing team new everything even esg leadership so yeah "Witcher 4 will be different from Witcher 3"

Kaii14h ago

My only issue with 3 was with the combat

bRuud832h ago

Combat was never the strongest part of the series.

just_looken45m ago

True but anyone that thinks witcher 3 2.0 combat is bad would never get past the first section of witcher one.

Profchaos2h ago

I felt 3 was ok took a long for it to click but I tried 2 and I found combat controls to be my biggest barrier to actually enjoying it was about 50 times clunkier than 3

thorstein53m ago(Edited 53m ago)

I thought the weakest point was the copious amount of dialog. Sometimes less is more. I remember clicking through just to get to the objective.

outsider162433m ago(Edited 33m ago)

Compared to W1, W3 feels like a masterpiece in combat..lol.

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helicoptergirl14h ago

Bethesda seems like a studio that is "stuck in the same spot". Development wise. Glad CDPR are wary of that element in game design.

Hugodastrevas3h ago

This can either go very well or very badly. I hope the latter.

just_looken43m ago(Edited 42m ago)

That is on your mobile device they copied pokemon go few years back
https://www.thewitcher.com/...

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

It was such a flop they removed the videos and removed the link to that article but its still on there servers.

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