“Looks Like the servers are already back up....should’ve posted this hours ago if you were looking for a slam dunk.”

There’s a very big difference between buying a game that happens to have some microtransactions and one that is built around selling you microtransactions. This, even though they seemingly have toned it down a bit, seem to be the latter.

Why kotaku trying to paint picture of a unreleased pay-to-play game’s microtransaction to be good?

We already lost Rocksteady, this is just the long depressing funeral.

Exactly. Make it F2P if they want us to dump money into it. Also make the gameplay better.

They did the never-expire Battlepasses for Halo Infinite and depending on how it’s done, it’s not necessarily a good thing. The amount of time to clear a battlepass for that game was pretty high for my kid (they stopped bothering after realizing they were playing not for fun but to get their quota each day - a…

I do love the low commitment aspect. I believe they’ve crafted an experience that will demand pretty much 0 hours of my time. :P

middling at absolute best, insulting is probably more apt. they took Black Flag and just absolutely gutted all the personality and removed ground combat and playable boarding. honestly it’s kind of sad but we’re talking Ubisoft in 2024 folks, nothing to see here. 

Given the infamous development of this game, “middling” is about the best anybody should hope for.

As someone in almost every major NA test I can confidently tell you that the end result is something painfully mid

Yep. That has to be one of the worst paragraphs ever published on Kotaku. 

Yeah these are kind of ridiculous oversights.

Alright then, since you won’t stop whining, you dunder-headed coconut.

If Microsoft was truly firing all these people to “be more efficient”, why did they post record profits before firing them and why did all the execs get massive raises? If Microsoft was truly wanting to be more efficient with their profits they…

and it also verifies that the system of capitalism cares more about profits over people, so while this company is “doing well” according to the standards of capitalism, it is not doing well at all.

the destruction of Capitalism

how do those boots taste, bootlicker?

Yeah I work for a fortune 500 company. Contract workers cost a ton of money, but they are used to make cuts like this - which instantly boosts reporting cash to shareholders. It is a horrible model and is 100% smoke and mirrors. Over-pay good workers, dont give them benefits, cut them when you need cash on some…

Feel bad for the people it impacts, but keep in mind that most of these 2200 were contract workers.

Feel bad for the people it impacts, but keep in mind that most of these 2200 were contract workers. We are seeing more and more layoffs in this industry because more and more people are entering it as contractors. When the projects are done, the contractors get the boot. It’s a silly way to do things, as you don’t…