• slazer2au
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    281 month ago

    Hope this isn’t some kind of token gesture so MS can say “See, we don’t restrict our games to only Xbox and PC, unlike Sony and Nintendo. Please accept our proposal to buy (next game company they buy for several billion dollars).”

    • @RightHandOfIkaros
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      191 month ago

      To be fair, it IS more than Sony or Nintendo are doing.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        Because their market share is so bad that they can’t make their money back on their own hardware.

        • circuitfarmer
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          91 month ago

          *with PSN requirements. Don’t confuse money grabs with altruism.

          • @slimerancher
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            51 month ago

            Completely agree with you, but MS is doing this for money too, they just think it’s a strategy that works better for them, specially because they are selling least amount of consoles.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 month ago

            SoNy BaD.

            Dude, MS has been dumping and killing the value of games so much, the entire industry is shifting to free to play live service. MS single-handedly ruined the past 10y of the games industry with their push to remove physical ownership and move everything to the cloud so they can double dip with Azure and Xbox. Furthermore they are responsible for the introduction of pay to play online and on Xbox you had to pay to play F2P games online until recently. Sony are greedy cunts but MS is not even on the same level of evil, they are pure distilled cancer and thanks to them the 2nd hand industry for game copies is struggling, everyone went live service because full price game sales went to shit thanks to gamepass (which is still not profitable) and now they have orchestrated a coup to kill Ubi so they can buy it the same way they did with Nokia. FWIW, the whole PSN debacle started with the sanctions on Russia.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 month ago

          With huge delay where it should be discounted by release but they treat it like brand new, maybe a mediocre texture enhancment fans could have done better and calling it remasteted, then with the forced useless psn log in…

        • @RightHandOfIkaros
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          11 month ago

          Some. Some games. The very minimum amount of games that are typically not highly requested games.

          TLOU2 Remaster really be coming to PC before Bloodborne or Demons Souls Remake.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          At least a year after releasing it on console, in an attempt to get players to buy the console for the sequels. I think there’s at least a small chance they might start releasing them sooner but we’ll have to see.

    • ms.lane
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      51 month ago

      It’s more likely to try and capture more hype and eventual sales, TOW2 doesn’t exactly have lot of hype behind it right now.

    • @ampersandrew
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      41 month ago

      It’s a gesture that acknowledges that they’ll never be a market leader following the old model ever again. Those days are over.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      I don’t think it’s a token gesture. Microsoft is a software company; they want to sell software, not hardware. They don’t really care about xbox other than as a means to sell more software and gamepass subscriptions. Selling their games on as many platforms as possible is a logical move for them.

    • @NewNewAccount
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      31 month ago

      Which companies are even left to buy?

      • slazer2au
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        11 month ago

        Ubisoft, but I don’t see that being purchased by MS.
        Embracer Group, or whatever they are called now.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        I was more engaged by this than the Witcher 3. I’m not saying it’s better, I’m just saying it was engaging.

      • ms.lane
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        21 month ago

        I wouldn’t even say it was good.

        It was aggressively mid.

        I own it, I’ve played it through. I don’t think I’ll ever pick it up ever again. I’ll get this sequel when it’s under $10.

        • @EnderMB
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          31 month ago

          It could have been good if all the planets were actually playable.

          It felt like half a game, and another six months to bake would have probably turned it into a great game with some replayability. Put a gun to my head, and I couldn’t tell you the plot, but I remember both “some” fun, and a lot of frustration of how short it was.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          I’ve played many, many good games only once and don’t think I’ll ever play them again.

    • @ampersandrew
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      151 month ago

      It reviewed well, and I personally loved it.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      41 month ago

      I liked it despite its clear flaws

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      I really wanted to like it, but just couldn’t get into it. It was completely forgettable for me, and I like nearly every game that has a sci-fi setting. My bar is very low for that genre, but this one was not engaging at all for me.