Consolidation is going to happen anyway until there’s massive cultural change in the first world. So if we HAVE to have all encompassing corporate overlords, I’d rather have one that’s lawful neutral than the full chaotic evil that was ABK.

Worth it for getting rid of kotick.

It’s apparently quite good now.

Don’t you know? It’s illegal for anyone other than sony to succeed.

Company desires to defeat competition. News at 11.

Great time to do it with their announced lineup being what it is.

Xbox only allows you to bank 36 months total on any one subscription. If you try and bank 3 years of gold, then one month of ultimate, the month may be rejected. You need to wait for their system to register that you have less than 36 months.

Anyway, XBOX is well aware of the trick. I have to imagine that they are…

As long as your ultimate subscription has expired/lapsed, you can still stack up to 3 years of gold and then purchase a single month of ultimate about a month later, which will convert your banked 3 years into GPU. You end up paying a little over a third of the price, you just need to have a block of cash available up…

I really wish JMS would stop telling side stories when he gets a chance to revisit b5 and would tell us the stories that we actually wanted to see.

It wasn’t old age.

Given that this was the mid 80s, I’m going to assume the editor was also doing a life threatening amount of cocaine. King was putting out like 3 books a year during that time, most of them classics.

For a guy who once, in a cocaine fueled haze, wrote a teenage gangbang in the sewers, King is pretty damned wholesome.

The issue with that is making multiplayer games takes a long time now. Making a single player game that also has a long tail multiplayer? Call of duty and Halo are about the only franchises left who even bother and both of them had issues due to how hard it is now.

It’s stupid to blame the controller. The US military has used xbox controllers for drones since Gulf War 2. It’s an easy way to give people a familiar interface.

That art style is terrible.

EDIT: shit, I meant the starfield dee dive.

No, the price is artificially high. They started doing that in the 2000s by refusing to lower prices on any of their games no matter how old they were or how poorly they sold. Even wii U games were not discounted. It’s designed to get people used to the idea of always paying more.

Xbox found a way to include multiple female devs in skyrim’s deep dive alone. Also 4 of its titles are headlined by women, and it the showcase was presented by a woman. The pre showcase was hosted by a woman as well.

Guy got his start working with Tommy Tallarico. We should be impressed he can form a whol sentence.