Read this article from Venturebeat. They talk like Sony are the ones holding all the cards with having Game Pass on Playstation systems.

Activision/Blizzard puts out, what, 1-2 games a year now? I think indies are fine.

I guess I’m hopeful that this will allow for Activision’s back catalog to start being played with by a bunch of developers. There’s a huge swath of great IPs in there and all they put out is Call of Duty and maybe one other  game a year. 

I really don’t care how slutty my olive oil is.

This is rich coming from the president of a company whose games are multi-million dollar sellers but still don’t turn a profit.

I don’t haggle the price of a 4k tv, or a dishwasher, or anything else I buy, I pay the sticker price and if there is a sale going on great, otherwise I don’t buy it. Why the hell do we continue buying cars like we’re in a hostage negotiation?

“discount”

Even though it was announced last year, the ZeniMax purchase by Microsoft was finalized this year.

You think Sony or Microsoft give two shits where the money comes from? It doesn’t matter to them one iota that a ton of NFT and crypto bullshit is a money laundering scheme. They’re just happy to move units.

I feel like Halo Multiplayer and (depending on how you want to look at it) Knockout City should be on this list.

Here let me sum it up real quick:

Counterpoint: Xbox Game Pass makes it to where I’m not spending ungodly prices for new games anymore. $15/month and I’m playing Halo on day one.

The era owning and paying full price for games is slipping away just like for buying movies.

Motherfucker you’re making Neopets.

What products? They only release 2-3 games a year.

You won’t be bringing them up, but Uncle Ronnie will. He’ll be calling everyone a fag while wearing his MAGA cap in front of his son who hasn’t come out to the family yet.

Without COD, Activision barely has a company. The only other new game they have developed in house outside of a Call of Duty since 2017 is Crash 4. Everything else has been a remake, port, or (in the case of Sekiro), bought from an outside developer.

I’m surprised that they employee ~10,000 people just to release 1-3 games a year.

I just say talk to your doctor. I’m 35 but I have an underlying condition that’s “in the grey zone” of if covid will make thing worse for me or not. My doctor said that without the booster I would be in worse shape than with it due to my disease and recommended that I get the booster.

If the Developers at Sledgehammer, Raven, Infinity Ward, and Treyarch got brave they could leave and destroy Activision by walking out and making a new publisher without Kotick and friends.

There’s a bundle on sale on GoPro’s website that includes the camera, an extra battery, external charger, 32gb SD card and 1-year subscription for $400.

There’s a bundle on sale on GoPro’s website that includes the camera, an extra battery, external charger, 32gb SD…