Actually continuing to play games you’ve already paid for costs them money in server costs and maintenance, assuming you’re not actively spending money.

I’ll play to my username and point out that they paid Bungie to platform-lock content, weapons, and armor in Destiny and time-gate more for D2

You misunderstood what Sony and Microsoft were saying here. Sony is trying to keep people focused on COD, because they want to manage their own brand and image. If people worry that COD is going exclusive to Xbox, then they might speak up, ect... which is a distraction.

Because MS literally couldn’t care too much about…

Not totally worthless. The IP are the golden eggs. If Microsoft really wanted just them, they would buy the company and fire every single employee and gut the place.

Only in the context of Sony’s argument. They brought it up in a way that matters to gamers and makes them feel validated. Sony’s argument of it being important had nothing to do with actual value, but on philosophical cultural value, and brand value. Of which, Microsoft doesn’t care. It can handle it’s image just fine…

I have both consoles and I kind of hope it does go exclusive, mostly for the drama.

It’s easy to argue against *because* they are being hypocritical. If a game is essential, no game should be an exclusive.

And they would be doing exactly what Sony has done with the franchise and marketing/content deals for the last however many years. 

I mean COD is a multiplat series. It’s not the game that dictates choice. It’s Sony having limited exclusivity on things that dictates the choice. Xbox continuing to sell it on several platforms but keep the really cool stuff for themselves first is the slightest of change. 

Spider-Man is huge across entertainment brands too, but I have yet to see any web-slinging on Xbox.

These aren’t traditional hackers who do this out of some sort of twisted ethics - this is an organized crime group. The same sort of people who engage in human trafficking, protection rackets, drug dealing, prostitution, illegal gambling, etc. When criminals realized just how much money could be made through…

Not only that, but use already-flawed smartphone ports as the source material for the remaster, rather than the original PC/console releases.

You should know that’s the general rule. It’s unreasonable to expect to be able to jump back onto Call of Duty whatever for PS3/360 and expect to be able to play.

Rockstar: “GTA Fans, what would you like in a GTA remaster?”

Too bad because GTAIV and RDR would be much “easier” to port for today’s standards. The gameplay is closer to what we are use to, the graphics ain’t that bad either. GTA PS2 games are from a much older era that does not play as nice. We loved it back then, but things have change a ton since then.

Anyway, I just want a…

Or they said “apparently we can’t get away with half-assing things on the cheap, so don’t bother.”

There’s not even a slight difference. There’s literally none. You’ll run up against other system bottlenecks long before you saturate 2 PCIe lanes in the SSD. It’s kind of ridiculous how some people are actually getting mad over this.

... or changes with no performance change.

I wouldn’t mind seeing the OOT/TP art-style come back. That tech demo for the then-unreleased WiiU looked amazing.

Rather than an ill-advised attempt at photorealism—which, in the era of gaming’s technical arms race, would’ve doomed it to a brief half-life—