The market switch to digital storefronts have basically made non-platform owning publishers redundant so Microsoft needed their own platform to continue as a publisher.

It is netflix logic of the content promoting itself. It doesn’t work.

Those are great examples of successes, but horrible examples of AA in general. High on Life had a built-in fanbase and Hollywood marketing heft behind it. Atomic Heart also had an uncommon amount of exposure during its early development, and, in the “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” department, benefited from…

Subscription services are bad for game developers because instead of selling to millions of buyers (the players) you are selling to GamePass, who has immense leverage over you.

He’s not saying anything about MS being a hero, and he’s not calling the retail stores bad, he’s saying that AAA publishers were overly reliant on the moat they built of dominating game sales by dominating shelf space in retail stores (which is something game companies pay for), and didn’t figure out how to keep that…

There is the danger where AA Boutique publishers can get lost in the shuffle, but I think they’re just as agile and adaptable as smaller independents, so long as they keep their overhead relatively small, and more importantly, do all they can to keep customer loyalty.

Which Immortals did eventually do, but too little too late. Sucks because it was a decent and funny Breath-like. (Especially recommend the mission about the birth of Aphrodite for the comedy side.)

I feel like Pentiment is a good example of a game that might not have been able to be made without Game Pass making it financially viable, and something that we’d be worse off if it never existed. It’s probably not going to happen with Pentiment specifically, but if a studio comes up with a mid-budget hit via Gamepass …

It’s a fairly astute assessment of the publisher’s situation, but one that either was not listened to by his bosses or even himself. He says that AAA publishers are in a fragile state because all they can think to do is ride old IPs for as long as they can, but Microsoft’s whole business strategy of the last few years…

It seems fairly obvious that the subscription model has the potential to serve players better, at least right now. For PC GamePass, even considering the pre-Starfield dry spell, players are getting a great deal. Couple that with the ability to get it free, or nearly free, by doing some stupid Bing surveys and it’s an…

It doesn’t matter in the end, gamers will always complain about something. I think the only time they wouldn’t complain is if you continually released content every week for their free online multiplayer game they always revert back to, and end up complaining about anyways as well.

“In terms of subscriptions and the impact on larger publishers I realized that I haven’t really done a good job sharing our view on the disruption AAA publishers potentially see and how their role in the industry will likely change with the growth in subscription platforms like Xbox Game Pass,” Spencer wrote

“Be wary, dear reader, for what you are about to experience is a cautionary vision of the future, full of strife and inequality. Greed and exploitation.”

My favorite version of E is the one bricked up in the Montresor estate catacombs.

This is all perfectly normal behavior...

Chriiiist, this fucking try-hard.

Cops don’t want to take on a guy like that, he’s scary! What if they got hurt? It’s just easier to pull over some people for speeding at night and threatening them.

This sack of crap also appears to wear the exact same thing every day. He even got arrested wearing the same damn clothes. So, they had an easily identifiable subject who never changes his appearance committing these crimes while driving the same vehicle. Dude could have a license plate that spelled RDRG GUY and…

He is a incel, he did it multiple times to women.  Its LA A hole drivers come in all sexs,and colors