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[ManaByte]

They should start making single player games in the Starcraft and Warcraft universe.

I played StarCraft: Ghost on the GameCube. It wasn't bad.

 

[analog_future]

you can tell he knows he's just putting out PR because he turned off comments

...or he just doesn't want to deal with a bunch of crying console warriors. I don't blame him.

 

[harry mason 1989]

Huge win for Ms
Congratulations

 

[FF:Enhanced_Reality]

My favourite bit of the speech Phil made was this:

For the millions of fans who love Activision, Blizzard, and King games, we want you to know that today is a good day to play. You are the heart and soul of these franchises, and we are honored to have you as part of our community. Whether you play on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, PC or mobile, you are welcome here – and will remain welcome, even if Xbox isn't where you play your favorite franchise. Because when everyone plays, we all win. We believe our news today will unlock a world of possibilities for more ways to play. Thank you for the ongoing support. We have so much more to come in the months ahead – I'm excited for the future and cannot wait to share it with you.

Bullshit Phil. Complete and utter bullshit and more reason why people shouldn't believe the shit some of these CEOs say, this man literally made Sony trade franchise's to ensure the most important ABK asset on PlayStation stayed on PlayStation. You chat shit Phil.

Future plans, the next publisher we intend to buy hahahaha.

 

[adamsapple]

you can tell he knows he's just putting out PR because he turned off comments

Looking at the few replies that tweet has gotten here, I would too.

People are all kinds of charged up on social media right now, both positively and negatively.

 

[Golgo 13]

I'm just happy this finished so I can stop reading about it on GAF

 

[marjo]

you can tell he knows he's just putting out PR because he turned off comments

Or maybe he just doesn't want to deal with the infantile toxic fanboy warriors.

edit: Never mind. I see that I've been beaten like an FTC lawyer.

 

[balls of snow]

Wonder if the next sony ceo will go acquisition hangry.
Soooo not the latest cod but surely they will make modern warfare 1 and 2 available on gamepass soon.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

End of an Era for COD

Eh CoD is already on the back end of its run CoD peaked with OG MW 2 and BO1/2

 

[jumpship]

Which is fine. But there better not be a single Xbox fan whining about FF7remake, SF5 or any of that shit anymore.

I better not see a gawdamn peep from your filthy mouths!

 

[Malak]

 

[Caio]

I'm a fan of both XBox and Playstation, and I don't know exactly what to say about this acquisition. I just hope to play better games from both side, New IPs, and that higher competition will push both to do better and produce better games.

 

[poodaddy]

Good, I just want Gamepass to be the best value proposition it can be. I'm the consumer, I couldn't give a shit about loyalty to a brand or a box, make the thing I pay you for better. I definitely won't be canceling Gamepass now, and I was going to before when it ran out. Guess it remains to be seen what all will be on it though.

 

[j0hnnix]

Time to up that subscription another few years.

 

[TheBomb]

You know what I mean. Lol

 

[Matsuchezz]

Fucking Sucks!! I do not care for any of those games, but i fucking dislike MS products and they buying the industry just plain sucks. A crappy uninspired company is taking it all. I hope they still remain in third place.

 

[VolticArchangel]

 

[BlackTron]

I played StarCraft: Ghost on the GameCube. It wasn't bad.

 

[adamsapple]

Wonder if there's enough time to add the Xbox studios splash screen to MW3 or if it's too far along for that

 

[Orbital2060]

Meanwhile, shitty-ass State of Decay 3 is not scheduled to be released until 2027 - a 9-year development cycle. Good luck.

You know, State of Decay can take as long as it needs to get animations up to scratch, if thats 2029 ok fine.

 

[ArtHands]

Time to up that subscription another few years.

This how I imagine Sony is doing with the PS+ hike

 

[marjo]

Wonder if there's enough time to add the Xbox studios splash screen to MW3 or if it's too far along for that

Day one patch baby!

 

[dotnotbot]

One good outcome from all this crap is that they are forbidden from acquiring Ubisoft at least.

 

[SJRB]

Another bunch of IP, studios and developers absorbed into the soulless amalgamation that is Microsoft.


Remember guys: if you can't properly manage 20 studios, just buy another 15 and see what happens.

 

[solidus12]

We can play this game

 

[Mephisto40]

They should start making single player games in the Starcraft and Warcraft universe.

Yeh, that's probably not going to happen...

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

How soon will MS starts this one: "Today we announced a our restructuring efforts for our upcoming financial quarter. This will allow all of our teams to realigning their strategy and focus on core business functionality and at the same time become laser focused on releasing quality content by bringing the full capabilities our family of studios to bear. While its always hard to say good bye to team members we will do our best to make sure all of our talent, even the ones who will be leaving, are positioned to do their best work!".

 

[johnjohn]

Glad that's done and we can finally move on.

People are focusing on MS and what this means for their output, but looking at Sony and their output (or lack of output) this gen, they're the ones who really need to start acquiring studios or they're going to really struggle to keep up with MS and Nintendo. maybe that's what the new CEO will focus on…

 

[ThatStupidLion]

that price doesnt seem worth it

 

[Three]

They did it, the fucking madmen did it.

Shows you can achieve anything, even triple the size of your gaming division revenue in less than 10 years, as long as you have money.

Great job to everyone involved.

FTFY

 

[Fess]

Finally! Actually thought it wouldn't happen. Time to start hunting for cheap Gamepass subs again, current one ends sometime next year.

 

[Ozriel]

Complete and utter bullshit and more reason why people shouldn't believe the shit some of these CEOs say, this man literally made Sony trade franchise's to ensure the most important ABK asset on PlayStation stayed on PlayStation.

When did this happen?

 

[adamsapple]

Finally! Actually thought it wouldn't happen. Time to start hunting for cheap Gamepass subs again, current one ends sometime next year.

Core/Gold to GPU conversion is still the best way if you want a bulk conversion. Otherwise if you have the patience to do a few minutes daily, Rewards is the most cost effective way.

When did this happen?

 

[64gigabyteram]

That changes now

this is a problem buying COD is not going to solve. Forza and Starfield just came out to middling reviews from critics. This is a CULTURE thing, not a studio thing

 

[Pop]

We're only about 6 months away from ultimate gamepass costing $20 a month. Who the hell wants to pay that

 

[VolticArchangel]

One good outcome from all this crap is that they are forbidden from acquiring Ubisoft at least.

What? Is it some Canadian/French law?

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

10 years from now this will be seen as yet another failed acquisition that a company paid way too much for and whose identity and brand has completely eroded

All in the name of career moment empire building power fantasies

 

[Fess]

Core/Gold to GPU conversion is still the best way if you want a bulk conversion. Otherwise if you have the patience to do a few minutes daily, Rewards is the most cost effective way.

My time is precious so no bing work for me. Will check out the Gold conversion though

 

[Negotiator101]

Well, that sucks for gaming in general. Nothing was gained, stuff was only taken away from a major part of the gaming audience.

Personally I don't really care though, Activision has nothing I want to play.

 

[Kabelly]

this a port begging thread yet? give us crash team racing on pc for the love of god

 

[Cyberpunkd]

It's not "the new crazy" because it hasn't had the large breadth of impossible to ignore AAA games at a steady cadence releasing every couple months.

What are you going to get every couple of months? ABK doesn't have this output.

 

[LordBlodgett]

They...made a trailer celebrating this? lmao!

Biggest deal in Microsoft history? Yeah, probably going to tout the heck out of it.

 

[analog_future]

this is a problem buying COD is not going to solve. Forza and Starfield just came out to middling reviews from critics. This is a CULTURE thing, not a studio thing

Forza and Starfield received scores in the mid-to-high 80s. Does that make Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Gran Turismo 7, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Horizon: Forbidden West, Death Stranding, and Ghost of Tsushima "middling" too?

Besides all that, COD has reviewed in the 70s for years now and it hasn't effected consumer interest at all.

 

[Ozriel]

this is a problem buying COD is not going to solve. Forza and Starfield just came out to middling reviews from critics. This is a CULTURE thing, not a studio thing

'Middling reviews' for two games rated 85 and 83 on Metacritic?

I'm old enough to remember all the posts here claiming Microsoft had nothing to do with games like Psychonauts 2 and Starfield.

Pentiment, Grounded, HiFi Rush, Forza Horizon 5, Flight Sim et al landed with great critic reception. Let's keep these conversations honest, shall we?

 

[Fess]

10 years from now this will be seen as yet another failed acquisition that a company paid way too much for and whose identity and brand has completely eroded

All in the name of career moment empire building power fantasies

I'll be close to 60 by that time, I'll just load up on cheap subs and will enjoy cheap gaming as long as I can still do it. Might finally check out how much has happened to Call of Duty since the one I bought near the 360 launch.

 

[Negotiator101]

10 years from now this will be seen as yet another failed acquisition that a company paid way too much for and whose identity and brand has completely eroded

All in the name of career moment empire building power fantasies

 

[Jboemios]

Who else will they need to compete?

Tik tok

 

[64gigabyteram]

Forza and Starfield received scores in the mid-to-high 80s. Does that make Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Horizon: Forbidden West, Death Stranding, and Ghost of Tsushima "middling" too?

metacritic and opencritic are only part of the equation- gamers matter too. There is a major difference in the sort of conversation a game like fucking Spider-Man gets compared to Starfield. Look at this forum. Look at the videos. Look at the user scores of both games on Steam. Metacritic will have you believe these are games on the same tier.... they're not

 

[Ozriel]

All these studios and still can't pump out games on a regular basis it's actually quite sad. I know this is a long term strategy but in the short term you can have all that and really don't mean much if you have nothing to show for it.

They've put out 5 first party games this year from their studios…

'Nothing to show from it' is a truly lazy effort. This ain't 2022

 

[ulantan]

Tik tok

There will be signs.