Not really? There are a lot of similar designs in the MMORPG genre overall, but there’s a huge amount of variety and diversity if you bother to look. Even the “big 5" (WoW, ESO, GW2, FFXIV, and Black Desert) all play very differently than each other once you go beyond the absolute base-level basics of “hit button,…

Uh, sauce on Marvel offering the Spider-Man games to Xbox? Because IIRC Sony owns the film/game rights to the Spider-Man universe still (hence why they did Morbius) due to the contract (same as Fox had with X-Men and Fantastic Four where if they made a movie every X years they keep the film rights).

Xbox isn’t worse*

In the reality where Microsoft really wants this to go through and will gladly trot out any executive to just lie about shit to that end. Companies don’t get to have $1T market caps by being entirely honest and forthright.

And they were talking about how Sony, a company with a market cap worth 10% what Microsoft is worth, is absolutely destroying them when it comes to marketshare. Sure Sony had one generation head start, but like...ooph.

Totally, just like MMO’s it will continue to exist. What will change is there will be fewer big releases compared to the glut we’re getting out of now where everyone wants their own GaaS and everyone seems to think it’s easy/free money.

10/10 counter-trolling on her part, in addition to cleaning house with those scrubs.

What CMA argument? CMA is literally just including Microsoft’s own admission in their report, lol. Why do y’all think this is some kind of CMA opinion when Microsoft literally sent them the data?

Because the price per-game scales, likely. Absolutely with the initial offer (they’re not paying an indie the same as they’re paying a AAA for their game), plus I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some sort of performance-based metric in there with payouts increasing as more people play the game on the service.

Microsoft’s followup statement not even attempting to dispute that fact is the cherry on top. Some Phil Spencer fans are bangin line after line of copium, good lord.

Enhance your calm.

Surprising nobody. Microsoft makes up for the lost sales by compensating the developer/publisher just like Epic does with their free games.

This and the constant, “Oh we all just suck so much and are so incompetent and can’t compete with Sony.” arguments are probably my favorite parts of this whole affair.

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How can I play something if I haven’t purchased it?

...indulgences? They’re not trying to buy their way into heaven bro, and raising money for trans rights groups is generally pretty rad since that like, actually goes directly towards helping trans folks - either through broader pushes for improved and more inclusive policies to providing financial assistance to house…

Rofl, I bought the game? That’s news to me.

It’s their platform. This is new territory and I have no problem with them setting up STRICT policies around this shit and not fucking about. I don’t treat this any different than a lot of other extreme harassment of individuals which is likely to trigger a permaban on Twitter.

Quite the ultra-reasonable take. Literally every trans person is currently fighting against someone attacking them RIGHT NOW, sent directly by JK Rowling.

In which that’s a reasonable binary where there’s literally no middle ground or other options. Just “You’re literally murdering trans folks for playing this game” or “You’re a righteous defender of trans rights because you harassed a child who doesn’t know Rowling is a TERF for playing the game.”