All gamers need respect for throwing so many money to play the games they love. No only publishers are trying to scam players all nights and days, but they're especially missing the most basic notion of respect in the name of greediness.
If the industry continues to go this way, you can rest assured that we are going into serious troubles.
Here are some tips to avoid armageddon.
Xbox's handling of the marketing for Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is casting a huge doubt over the future of its developer, Ninja Theory.
The lack of worldwide availability of Arrowhead Studios' Helldivers 2 on Steam is due to restrictions from PlayStation, not Valve.
To be clear though, Steam does not restrict use of their platform in any country. So, to say that Sony delisted games in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and other similar regions is disingenuous. The taliban doesn't allow video games in Afghanistan.
There are many restrictions in many countries. Painting this as a false dichotomy of Sony or Valve ignores all other layers of what is going on.
Just be honest in your journalism about what countries are left out. Those countries should a) have internet access b) allow the game.
There's literally almost 170 countries and mentioned 3, and Taliban banned PUBG only, do you seriously think that these countries that had games all this time, suddenly decided to ban games when Sony wanted to put PSN as a restriction
Sony would be stupid to let valve run the show. They would be bad at business if they did that.
Companies, particularly public companies like Microsoft, need to grow.
i mean its pretty simple, they spent close to 30 billion in acquiring activision, they thought they'd make it bk no problem, and that didnt happen.
its just shit that because of MS's miscalculation alot of people lost their jobs.
This is exactly what many people said would happen including the CMA and FTC. Lies lies and more lies and they allowed a $69 billion buy out to happen.
They are going to use AI for a large portion of the game development process. Upper management need bonuses and the shareholders need more money. So, people will lose their jobs.
Nice grammar in this article... Jesus H. Christ.
Written anger is always lulzy :3
Grammer aside...the message is well thought out using very valid points. In a nutshell most of the concerns stated here derive from online control.
The first step to resist abusive forms of online control is to identify the issues and spread the news to everyone who is unaware. The second step is to organize a consumer group, name that group, and stand together as one voice. If enough people are involved there may be a chance these industry leaders will back off or make online control a bit more accurate against piracy. As it stands there is too much collateral damage and the honest consumers end up the ones getting robbed. There is no justification to steal from one group in order to protect yourselves from being robbed from the next. That is what these companies are essentially doing right now all in the name of antipiracy.
wtf is step 15? is it true :) ?
It seems Microsoft's deadlines are strictly based on the Xbox Live subscription.
17. Changes to the Service; If We Cancel the Service.
We may change the Service or delete features of the Service at any time for any reason.
8. Available Content
"We have no obligation to provide a re-download or replacement of any content previously purchased. "
If you move somewhere else...
"You may be required to purchase and pay for content in your new Territory even though you have already paid for that content in the previous Territory."
9. Your Content
"You are responsible for backing up the data and content that you store on the Service. We may permanently delete your data from our servers if the Service is suspended or canceled. We do not have any obligation to return data to you after the Service is suspended or canceled. If data is stored with an expiration date, we may also delete the data as of that date."