Was...this a myth? Does a single example of something disprove a general rule that Game Pass lowers overall sales which even Microsoft (and this article) acknowledges?

Don’t worry fam, Phil will have a few more tens of billions of Daddy Nadella’s money to spend to really make the Xbox brand competitive. Once they burn through these IP’s and fail to cultivate or grow new internal ones they’ll have a whole new crop of studios and IP’s to buy up.

Yep, I probably should have alluded to that more explicitly but that’s the joke. That OW seems like it was always primarily designed for esports-first, and that the years of the game being dead followed by the massive internal scandals and OW2 landing mild seem like they’ll result in the big-money league shuttering.

Nobody. I just hate knowing how much money Phil makes for being functionally fucking useless, being really transparently dishonest, and that people fall for his “I’m actually your gamer bro and not a corporate stooge, have you seen my bitchin jacket?” act.

Don’t worry, I’m sure Aaron Keller will be out with another developer blog post about how important this kind of monetization is to support the longterm health of the game and how crucial it is for the OWL which is totally not a big focus for them still.

Damn, I wonder if Phil Spencer is gonna do another round of interviews where he talks about how good games don’t move hardware and the lack of good, major, high quality games isn’t Xbox’s problem.

Glad they patched 5 months later, everything about this game is a mess and Arkane is doing a pretty terrible job of the post-launch cleanup. 0 communication, just drop a patch outta nowhere without a word about what’s realistically coming.

Almost like there isn’t actually a really coherent world with a consistent narrative like Blizzard keeps claiming there is! Just acknowledge it’s all a mess, keep creating a fun universe with cool characters people like and want to make a lot of porn with, and call it a day, dudes.

Yves is gonna maintain his grip on the company until he runs the whole bloody thing into the ground. He’s a walking disaster of a human being.

Don’t worry guys, media consolidation is actually a really great thing overall and is beneficial for consumers and creators. We swear! Please be excited about Microsoft consuming Activision, too! It’s for your our own good! I mean, your own good! Believe us!

No, having MAU’s of 2-300K after that kind of investment and spending is a hilarious joke. This is about Horizon Worlds, which makes it even worse when you see how many headsets they’ve sold.

All for a cool, cheap, $40B or whatever the absurd investment number is at this point.

Phil panicking so hard that the best reviewed game of the year so far is having issues due to their bad gamble on the Series S and policy of feature-parity.

Man...I forgot he did the soundtrack. I hate people that can make such great art end up being such terrible people often times.

“Rewards”

Still a criminally underrated game taken way, way, way too seriously by many people for too long. Referring to the whole upskirt achievement as a “horror story” is kinda emblematic of it - sure it’s pervy but the way it’s handled is actually like, kinda good? You get an achievement, but the game/Juliet chide you for…

Yo that’s absolutely wonderful news. Fuck the Saudi royal family and the companies taking money from them.

It has nothing to do with streamers telling you about builds. It has to do with how the damage formulas in the game work. Those aren’t subject to your opinions on streamers rofl. Streamers are garbage, you’re still wrong.

Additive damage increase vs. multiplicative damage loss.

I don’t think they’re lying...I think they genuinely think that the move accomplished their goal and didn’t realize that it did the literal opposite. The way they speak about ARPG’s as a genre is wrong, and I continue to think that their primary and only real frames of reference for the genre are D2 and D3.