Raven and id reunited and it feels so good

Eh, I don’t know. Microsoft and its subsidiaries have made/are making virtually nothing I want personally.

The customers will suffer as Microsoft will starve other platforms of content. Once they have control, they will increase prices because they can.

I’m as anti-megamerger as the next person but I strangely see this as increasing competition more than harming it. Microsoft has been trailing Sony for some time now and while I wish it was done via an internal push for more and better first party entries, them having additional massive franchises under their belt…

If we’re talking IP, then yeah, it’s a small number. If we’re talking games, it’s quite a few. There have been, what 30 CoD games by now?

Yeah, so even as an Xbox lifer I’m ambivalent about this and wish Microsoft would’ve been more aggressive (and competent) at building up its own properties instead of acquiring established ones. It’s been a pretty rough decade for us Greens since the golden Xbox 360 age of solid exclusives. I genuinely feel bad in…

I know I really shouldn’t be rooting for any big company monopolies, and I’m probably going to eat this, but I really am happy for this ruling. Microsoft’s been putting in a lot of work for console/PC parity and I’ve been enjoying simultaneous releases (with good ports) for their 1st-party games. And getting same-day…

Excellent! This is awesome news. Looking forward to see what MS does with Blizzard as they need a kick in their bum and some new blood.

Nothing deflated my interest more in this game than hearing about “Skill cards” I will never understand the desire to insert deck building/card mechanics in games where it doesn’t belong.

This isn’t shilling for them, this is pointing out that Sony is pulling out a bunch of paranoid “But they could do this!” complaints instead of anything actually meaningful.  Sony is looking desperate because all of their complaints are being met by Microsoft willing to compromise.  Calling one company out on bullshit…

Microsoft always charged for online and has been WAY more reliable than Sony’s offerings. Not only that they made a lot of the online free the last year (F2P games for instance)

There’s also the reality that if you have a modern tv you can actually play any microsoft 1st party title with your PS5 controller by using…

Crazy how many people out here shilling for MSFT like the gaming world will somehow magically be a better place if they can buy ActiBlizz. 

No developer WANTS to release a bad version of their game...and Sony knows this.  Bad faith actions at every turn with this whole debacle.

Did Microsoft dump doom eternal on PS4 after buyng Bethesda? No, instead they released a PS5 upgrade for free and continued supporting it, including the Haptic triggers. Did Death Loop and Ghostwire Tokyo release in buggy/unfinished condition? No they released them to solid reviews. The fact is Microsoft already has a…

I mean, Activision could also do this (or not release CoD on PS5 at all) in retaliation for the deal falling through, so. 

Sony is insufferable. They lead Xbox in marketshare 2:1 or better in almost every market except the US. Hell, it’s more than 95:5 in Japan. They’re just being pissy about a game that has already been guaranteed to be on their platform for more than a decade into the future. All this does is make them look weak,…

$35 for a game like this, that can potentially offer hundreds of hours of playtime, is a fucking bargain.

Ugh, that Uncharted movie was so bad. Holland was miscast, Mark Wahlberg was miscast. IIRC the studio burned through a dozen different directors before ultimately settling on the Zombieland guy (probably because he was under contract with the studio) and he was not a good fit for the material. What we got was just…

Seeing Pentiment come out of Obsidian post-Microsoft acquisition makes me wonder if we’re going to see Xbox step into that role of “platform holder publishing weird A/AA stuff to attract users”. The new economics of Game Pass might allow for that in a way buying games individually no longer encouraged at the highest…

On the grounds of competition you should then be in favour of it. As Sony has also acquired a lot of studios recently, and Xbox needs a better portfolio to actually compete more evenly against both Sony and Nintendo.