As gamers get closer to the end of 2020; gamers are looking forward to the release of new gaming consoles as well as several new games to enjoy. The end of the year also causes many gamers to look ahead to 2021 and in a new Opinion Piece; Skewed and Reviewed looks at announced games that have been very light on news that fans are eager for updates on and the possible reasons behind the silence.
Discover the latest news from Bloober Team: they are working on 2 new games, including a new IP in partnership with Private Division.
Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.
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Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
Xbox Game Pass and Diablo 4 are a match made in heaven, with the hellish RPG series blazing a path for ActiBlizz’s future on the service.
“Last month we added our first Activision Blizzard title, Diablo 4, to our Game Pass service,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says during the company’s latest earnings call. “Subscribers played over 10 million hours within the first 10 days, making it one of our biggest first-party Game Pass launches ever.”
Sarah Bond announced this a few weeks back. That's the gamepass effect I suppose.
Guess they had to find at least one glimmer of positive news to combat the poor Xbox hardware sales trends. GamePass stats on game from a 1st party studio that they spent $70bn to acquire are kind of useless IMO, especially when other than Act/Bliz the entire XBOX division was flat. I hope that spike on Diablo 4 was worth having to the XBOX brand go multi platform for.
They probably all fell asleep due to severe boredom and left their consoles on overnight.
I really don't get the obsession with these stats. So what? Is always my response.
If 10 million people bought the game, it doesn't matter at all how long they played it for. It's irrelevant. The sale is made, the revenue is earned. The person can take a year to finish the game for all the developers care.
If 10 million played the game on a sub, what does it achieve? They could play 1 hour and delete it as quickly as they downloaded it. I've done this with games like Need for Speed Unbound or Immortals of Aveum, I just don't have the time for every single game.
Unless Games Pass generates developer and publisher revenue for every hour spent, this is meaningless.
More to add ...
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Little Devil Inside
Destruction AllStars
Everwild
Scorn
Sons of the Forest
Dragon Age 4
Age of Empires 4
Project G.G
R6 Quarantine
Babylon's Fall
Exo Mecha
Werewolf Apocalypse Earthblood
Dead Island 2
and much more ...
its almost like people forget there is a pandemic going on.
The director for Beyond Good and Evil 2 was canned by Ubisoft I think.
Left 4 dead 3, half life 3, portal 3, dead island 2
''Overdue for Status updates...''
Sounds like entitlement.
Let them make the game and announce/market/release when its ready.