Pushing ingame ads, talking up ai usage in development.. EA are doing a great job ensuring they won't get my money any time soon.
Clearly this is just a big conspiracy orchestrated by the popcorn industry, Microsoft are just their puppets, every time they open their mouths, I'm forced to stock up on popcorn.
Yeah it's starting to feel a bit like the late PS2 era, unfortunately there isn't anybody to humble them and get them to pull their fingers out their ass in the same way Microsoft did with the early 360 days.
"Welcome to the Xbox family, graveyard is out back, what should we put on your epitaph?" Microsoft turning into this generation's EA, spend all those billions on Activision while closing studios they've run into the ground.
GOTY? It's my game of the generation so far, then again I'm a huge FF fan but the game blew me away and far exceeded even my high expectations.
FF7R released to how many potential buyers compared to Rebirth? Sales figures be damned, it's still my game of the generation so far. I'd be surprised if it didn't end up being a good seller for Square, if it isn't then their expectations are probably far too high.
You mean a game that released as a platform exclusive got outsold by a game released on multiple platforms? If you did the math and compared the sales proportionately to the install base, I think you'd find Rebirth out performed it.
Yeah COD is more of a causal game, loads of people who aren't necessarily huge day one gamers buy it as their friends buy it and even if I haven't bought one in years, it is a game that's much more fun with groups of friends.
I still can't quite wrap my head around how Battlestate could have thought this would go any other way. $250 editions of games is something that rightfully deserves every negative article it can get.
*facepalm*
I hate censorship in all forms but everything about this is just so needless and wrong. Wrong that they felt it needed censoring, wrong the creator had the audacity to lie about it and wrong that gamers are so up in arms about it that they feel it necessary to get a refund. A great action game that deserves to be praised getting dragged under the mud due to the pettiness of all parties.
Great to see the gaming market improve. I remember like 20 years ago, gaming was a fair bit less popular. I remember when I lived in Canada, it really surprised me just how mainstream gaming was over there compared to the UK.
Yeah tip your developer, 5% proceeds go to developer, 95% to the publisher or whoever. Isn't tipping for staff not making minimum wage? How about they just pay their developers properly and like you know, give them fair bonuses? Too much to ask from Blizzard these days, Kotick saw to that and is now laughing all the way to the bank.
Probably because they've got the cash cow that is UltimateTeam which makes them stupid money for barely any effort.
Helldivers 2 proved live service works, I think there will always be room for good ones that respects the player base but ultimately, how many GaaS games can people juggle realistically before gaming becomes more of a chore than a hobby? FOMO is also a huge problem with these games.
My favourite part is Nimbus. I think it's great that Bungie are giving young talent the chance to be a part of the design process, letting a 10 year old Marvel fan create a character brings so much to the game.... jokes aside, Strand is a lot of fun but the rest was awful, like worse than the original no time to explain Destiny 1 level awful.
With all these delays, is this going to be the world's first AAAAA game?
How many years ago was this now? I'll give him some credit for what he inherited but lets be honest, he hasn't exactly done anything praise worthy and has done a terrible job managing the studios Microsoft owns.
Not a typical looking corporate suit? The guy straight up looks like a used car salesman lol. To be fair, after Mattrick, I think anyone with half a brain could succeed him and look semi decent, whenever I think of his name, I immediately remember that "this is how to share your games" video from Sony.
GOTY so far for me... if not game of the generation. Those last two hours were just pure epicness that I'm still recovering from, such an emotional rollercoaster ride.
Ever since that cringe Kinect reveal they've never been the same. They used to make some amazing games and do great deals with third parties Early on in the 360 era they had games like Chromehounds and Shadowrun, both well ahead of their time. Now instead of nurturing their studios, they'd rather gaslight gamers and throw billions on pre existing studios. Not sure how Spencer is still in a job, I wouldn't trust him to organise a piss-up in a brewery.