On June 15, in case you didn't notice, Microsoft announced that Bill Gates will "transition out of a day-to-day role in the company" in 2008, though he'll remain as chairman. Bill, no one can complain about your new focus on philanthropy, but over the next two years, how about showing your customers a little love?
"While the 20 year anniversary edition of Nordic Game, NG24 Spring's homepage on 21-24 May in Malmö, Sweden, is getting closer, the organizers announced that more than 150 speakers are now lined up for the show." - Nordic Game.
The gaming industry has drifted away from offering full-fledged games to putting unfinished titles that are jam-packed with microtransactions on the market.
It's not the fault of the gaming industry. Gamers were told what was happening, were warned about where this would lead, did nothing, and now are acting like it's the fault of publishers that they kept buying these games and investing in MTX. If only those gamers at that time felt as strongly about these things as they do Helldivers 2.
This is what amazed me the most when playing hours upon hours of stellar Blade version 1.00.00 no bugs, no crashes, no sudden drops in frames, no screen tear, no falling from the world, just a complete package on a game under 50GB.
I think Korea will play a major role in gaming in the long run , because they're releasing banger after banger.
Still pretty common to find if you stay away from the AAA publishers, in the last 10yrs ive probably only bought like 3 games combined from EA/ACTIVISION/UBISOFT. Even now i still buy games that work right out the box perfectly fine. Just recently got like 6hrs into Alone in the Dark, and not a single sign of any of that bs, really enjoying my time with it.
And we as gamers have to accept our role in that. Constantly never being satisfied. Constantly demanding more while paying less. Constantly demanding better frame rates, better graphics, more modes and faster faster faster…. Then review bombing the product when a demand isn’t met. Meanwhile those same demands are making games more difficult, complex and more expensive to create than ever before, on shrinking timelines that burn out employees and make their lives miserable.
You wanna know why so many games get delayed? Cuz the original release dates weren’t realistic to begin with, but you can’t tell a gamer their game is further away than they want to hear. Some dev or game designer will be threatened physically. That builds even more pressure and rushing. We are officially squeezing water out of rocks and still complaining about that how hard you have to squeeze the rock be just waiting for rain. Most of the time we take it out on the developing studio, when it’s the publisher making the calls.
All you need to do is read the comments on most websites and social media to see how toxic, entitled and petty the gaming community at large is, and realize how that transforms into impossible expectations on the parts of game makers.
This is one battle that gamers have never won, hahaha. They were parading recently for their "win" against Sony. Where's the energy for this one, guys? LMAO!
"The most important games event of Latin America, gamescom latam, has unveiled the finalists for its flagship award ceremony, the gamescom latam BIG Festival, which celebrates the best in the global market of games." - Gamescom.
I agree with the philosophy and is exactly why I dont like MS. Please no flaming I own a 360.
and people say Sony reputation is bad. Sony may have a bad rep in the gaming world, but MS bad rep dwarfs that.
I don't dislike MS but I don't use Windows, I am a Linux fan ans stereotypically we Linux users have a thing against the big M, but a lot of that article is poorly made.
1- Microsoft IS very innovative- the company that claims innovation falsely is Apple. Microsoft is being praised by many KDE developers for their recent tech previews (screens like those in Minority Report, Revolutionary new Photo tool demoed a few days ago- it was amazingly innovative). The ideas Microsoft does take it often improves upon and a tonne of other companies steal ideas too, it's the way the user benefits- look at Sony and the PS3, it's taken a few tips from MS and Nintendo and added it's own spin- that's fine for a user who just wants a good product.
2. Microsoft's software doesn't suck, some aspects do but a lot of it is great- take Office for example it's brilliantly optimised and numerous OpenOffice developers have said they wish they had optimisation like MS's. Tablet PCs are great, Xbox 360 is good, and the dig at Microsoft's players not doing as well as the iPod? That's about the consumers perception of companies and most consumers are idiots. Microsoft applications are very stable generally too, there's room for improvement but they're better than most.
3. I agree with this one actually, it's true a shake up would be good, but they're getting there... hopefully.
Microsoft's bad rep is due to a poor past but the present is good and the future is looking better than ever. I won't be giving up my Linux box for a long time to come but when Vista arrives I am most likely going to go back to dual-booting.
The change is happening, you just can't change a huge company in the blink of an eye.
great article
i especially liked the bit where it said that microsoft always copies products that are already out. I already knew a few, such as when playstation was successful, along trotted the xbox, and the same with the ipod and zune. But i never realised they copied so much more. It makes me hate microsoft even more. There's no passion in what they do. They're just focused on money, money, money
isn't an arrogant company, like some i could mention (SONY)!!
although they PAWN the os market by 97%, for all their domination, u just can't hate on bill gates team!!!