ChorizoPicozo
Member
no end to this PR Cluster Fuck
They don't have to kill it. Just announce not all games will be day 1 after a certain date. Then scale back how many day 1 occur. Have media friendliest talk about it still being a great service - they have all those CODs if u didn't know, boil that frog and keep lots of revenue.The weird thing is that Xbox still wants to retain the Ultimate tier customers despite winding down. As in Gamepass is not working for them but the monthly payments are still substantial enough that they want to keep them. Hence the weird attempts at sticking an Xbox in a PC for BC. They can't just kill Gamepass immediately because that would mean ending the existing revenue flow.
For Western game devs, short term, this is going to be abysmal, but this is gonna be look backed on as the period preceding a radical revolution for the Western Games Industry. If you're interested in getting into game development and don't mind putting in the time to work on prototypes and develop your technical skills working on an engine, as long as the USA's socioeconomic situation doesn't deteriorate into some really awful places (this has a much higher chance of happening than i'm comfortable with...), then i'd say that opportunity cost is going to pay out big time.
Sure, it means a lot of titles that we as a fanbase have emotionally invested in for decades are likely going to be lost in the IP/license hordes of these mega-corps, but there is gonna be a lot of new, amazing things coming out of this budding western game dev scene.
To John's credit, he was not one of the game 'journalists' cheerleading these acquisitions.
I can't understand that rage against ms.
If AI is the cause of these cuts it's just a more step of evolution.
See it positive. Maybe some useful jobs get done due to many people available.
I can't understand that rage against ms.
If AI is the cause of these cuts it's just a more step of evolution.
See it positive. Maybe some useful jobs get done due to many people available.
Oh no! Anyways.gifWe can already see this playing out, a lot of franchises that gained prominence during the Xbox 360 days seem to be dying off. My missis was complaining about the lack of new Bioshock games and I had to explain the develop had gone bust.
Seems like in Japan the old stalwarts like Capcom, Sega and Namco are going to be around for a long time where as a lot of big name American studios are going to go bust.
Looking at the positives, there's possibly big rewards for western indies once this blows over.
Oh no! Anyways.gif
To clarify…nothing great was lost. Western studios and their games for the most part suck compared to Japanese ones imo.
To tell the truth, because we were hoping this would give MS a fighting power against Sony. as in to have enough exclusives and big studios to actually push sony into real competition instead of just playing dirty by securing third party games exclusive to their system and locking the xbox out.Someone posted a shot of him saying he had no problem with the acquisition back when all that was going on. Think it was in this thread. If I come across it I'll repost it. Not exactly cheerleading, but his attitude about it has changed dramatically.
Sorry, but AI isn't anywhere near what the marketing wants you to believe. It adds almost zero value to humanity. Something's may get done quicker, but the benefit is not there for much of anything.I can't understand that rage against ms.
If AI is the cause of these cuts it's just a more step of evolution.
See it positive. Maybe some useful jobs get done due to many people available.
AI isn't replacing the developers and artists (hence the game cancellations)
Investment in AI is replacing the investment in gaming.
The first top comment got me pretty good:
"There's a little nothing for everyone"
Finally a company helping gamers play the 500 untouched games on their steam library