Contraband cancelled- Schreiet

So it was supposed to be an 8 player heist GaaS?
Might have been good. But maybe they cut their losses and maybe Avalanche had problems. It sucks, but it might be a sound business decision in the current market.
 
chromatic9 said:
These showcases where a lie then?
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They were starting from scratch almost and basically had to front load trailers during a hardware push. Really no choice. Hardware had to launch then. They were just increasing their 1st and 2nd party studios and nothing was ready. They still had to sell the hardware. They had to show CG trailers of Avowed, Hellblade 2, Contraband, Everwild.

Most of their stuff now is significantly more accurate.
 
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So what's the future plan for Game Pass adamsapple adamsapple ? There's an obvious strategy shift here. Less reliance on first party content to drive subscription growth. They going all in with COD and third parties?
 
Philip and the gang do not care. Everyone is a number on a sheet.

You think 343 will be around much longer? The coalition if this new gears is bad?

No one is safe. Except Phil. Untouchable.
 
Kacho said:
So what's the future plan for Game Pass adamsapple adamsapple ? There's an obvious strategy shift here. Less reliance on first party content to drive subscription growth. They going all in with COD and third parties?
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I don't see much change yet. They're still even doing some 2nd party stuff still.

metro.co.uk

Xbox is funding next game from Rocksteady co-founders claims report

Microsoft may have signed the next game from the directors behind the Batman: Arkham trilogy, which is apparently a single-player game.
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Shocked Patrick Stewart GIF
 
Don't worry, soon the script will be updated and we will have dormant accounts waking up to tell us why this is good for gamers, good for Xbox and how grateful the industry should be to Microsoft for this.
 
Tiago Rodrigues said:
I'm starting to believe they just bought Activision and Bethesda because otherwise they would only have Forza in 2025 lmao.
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It's the other way around, after buying Activision they came at the same conclusion that Bobby Kotick did years ago : why waste time and money on risky projects when you can print billions by making the same thing forever and ever
 
Flabagast said:
It's the other way around, after buying Activision they came at the same conclusion that Bobby Kotick did years ago : why waste time and money on risky projects when you can print billions by making the same thing forever and ever
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To be honest, they wouldn't be able to do it without acquiring Bethesda and Activision.
 
adamsapple said:
4 years, radio silent, nothing beyond an announcement teaser trailer.

I wonder if there even was any work done on it.
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I'm sure there was something present. Makes me wonder when they would've shown gameplay.

Kacho said:
Surely they had to do something in 4 years lol. What else is Avalanche doing?

I like the studio. Never cared for this announcement. Was always expecting it to be a shitty GAAS. No thanks.
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Right? There has to be SOMETHING, lol. I know sometimes it's hard to tell though considering how long its taken some games to get released. Especially in the realm of AAA.
 
Called it.

Well let's be honest...a decent number of us did, back when the big round of layoffs happened a month or so ago.

diffusionx said:
We all did but still sucks to see it.

Still think it's a 50-50 shot Fable is done
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Them cancelling Fable, when they've already cancelled Perfect Dark, will be a Scalebound/Phantom Dust 1-2 combo level of "F you" to the diehard Xbox fanbase (what remains of it).

So yeah, 50-50 chance it gets cancelled.
 
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diffusionx said:
We all did but still sucks to see it.

Still think it's a 50-50 shot Fable is done
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I can't shed any tears over cancelled multiplayer games. Total indifference. I'll never understand westerner's obsession with multiplayer focused games. They do nothing for me personally.
 
At this point if you have Microsoft attached as a publisher for your game you might as well not even try. Seems everything is being cancelled, no matter the hype and interest around the title.

Even games where the top Xbox guys were super excited about aren't exempt.
 
Besides the mismanagement at MS that has been widely discussed and there's not much to add, I think that after all these cancellations and pseudo-fake/scripted presentations ala Perfect Dark some people (boomers :messenger_grinning_sweat:) should really re-evaluate their desire for E3 style conferences that are just smoke and mirrors or about games that will see the light 5 years later.
 
They cancelled all these games to be able to keep up with Kojima's demands, probably lol.
Anyhow it's total bullshit, Perfect Dark was only thing I was looking forward to and they fucked it.
 
Studio will die because of this.

I'll always be thankful to them for Just Cause 3 (but not 4)

Wonder if MS will ever learn that announcement JPG/MP4s before a game is even in production are a terrible idea.
 
You announce a game, pretend it's coming for half a generation or more, everyone with an xbox thinks there's a bright future, and then when it's time to release, you cancel it, and ask chatgpt to write you an appology letter. This is fucking pathetic.
 
Will that green Grinch ever be stopped from screwing things up?

At least this one, we didn't even know what it really was yet. Hope Avalanche didn't get hurt by this.
 
At this point any person being hired under Xbox umbrella would stop working. Why bother when the game is gonna get cancelled in 4 years.
Might as well take free money in that time and skill up.
 
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