How else do you describe being told you will no longer be receiving payment?

that’s where you’re wrong kiddo👉😎👉

Sounds like this is as good a time as any to post my favorite phrase : “Videogame companies are not your friends”.

Blizzard have been burning through their accumulated goodwill for a while now.

wow this owns

Realistically it doesn’t matter what their competitor is doing. They are being outsold, no argument; but calling it a failure is completely misinformed and highly inaccurate. The Xbox brand is a big reason why Microsoft just overtook Apple as the largest company in the world. They are still making billions on Xbox.

Weird. I find the Xbox UI and game store considerably easier to navigate than its Playstation counterpart. To each his own, I guess.

I’m not sure by what metric you would call the Xbox One a “failure”. It’s been outsold by the PS4 by a ratio of 2-1 but that’s still tens of millions of people actively using the platform and buying new games. And 99% of the video games on the market are available for both systems anyway. This idea of a “console war”…

You bring up an interesting possibility. If true, it really slides the complaining faction of gamers from a category like “lazy” to something like “pitiful”...

This only works if the cooler is extremely tiny and has some magical way of being easily accessed. Launchers take up negligible space.

But the in-practice works exactly like the ‘theoretically’ part. I’ve currently got 9 games on the bottom bar of my desktop that open 5 launchers. When I want to play Hearthstone or Destiny, or Guild Wars, or Assassin’s Creed or LoL, or any of the steam games I’m currently playing whose shortcut/icons I move to the…

Your comparison is weak - look at other digital entertainment venues. Some movies only show up on Netflix. Some shows start there, move to Hulu, and then become Amazon Prime exclusives. It’s hardly an intolerable blasphemy that to get to the thing you want, you might end up getting a new account on a new service just…

While I don’t agree with the language used by the other guy, your response was poorly reasoned and poorly measured, at best.

I should be shocked how gamers went from “ra-ra consumer rights!” to “please go back to being a defacto monopoly!” on a fucking dime.

I’m not sure what the problem is. The actual, physical change is that instead of clicking the icon on the left, I would click the icon on the right to launch my game. Or you just launch the game icon/shortcut itself and it activates the launcher for you.

I’m really not buying the “inconvenience” argument here unless Gam…

Oh shut up. If you wanted to play Ashen then you’d get the launcher, you damn crybaby.

Having multiple storefronts online is a minor inconvenience but the benefits long term to both developers and consumers massively outweigh that. Steam has stagnated with no competition and this will force them to do more for everyone.

Toad approves.

I wonder which Licensed Property No One Asked For a Movie Of trope this is going to eventually go with; Sonic gets sucked into THE REAL WORLD and hijinx ensue, a kid gets sucked into SONIC’S WORLD and wacky adventure ensues, or DELAYED DELAYED DELAYED CANCELED

also can Danny DeVito voice Sonic, since the Pikachu thing…

That sounds hard to love even if you do get all the references. I guess I’ll just have to tolerate not having that fun co-op experience.

Does it ever really open up? My brother told me that GTA online requires you to do “story” missions first before it really opens up, and he thought maybe RDR2 Online might be the same way.