-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Microsoft has passed on Empire of the Ants for Game Pass
- Thread starter ManaByte
- Start date
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Lame. I'm looking forward to it.
Portugeezer
Member
Can't really say much without knowing the figures they asked for, but that is a GP game if I've ever seen one.
struggler_guts
Member
Huge bummer for the devs, can't imagine the disappointment after being in talks for months.
Hopefully it wasn't cause they were asking for too much money
Hopefully it wasn't cause they were asking for too much money
GHG
Member
It's not skipping Xbox entirely. You can still buy it you know?
Mattyp
Gold Member
SimTown & SimFarm was where it was at. SimSafari was a blast as well until I found my crack Simtower.
ChorizoPicozo
Gold Member
Maybe the game is not worthy of the Xbox quality seal of approval 
.
.
Liljagare
Member
Empire of the undergrowth is more like Simant, this doesn't have the underground hive part if I am reading things correctly.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I suspect he knows, why is why he said:
‘am’ =/= ‘was’
Gotta watch those tenses.
GHG
Member
In which case it shouldn't have been prefaced with "lame".
There is nothing "lame" about purchasing a game you are allegedly looking forward to.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
They know. Idiots. I've explained dozens of times that I buy more games than probably both of them combined, literally. Just ignore it. I think I'm also the only one on this site that's included this on my lists for games to buy multiple times already. It's never been announced for GP so I wasn't planning on GP. Just waiting on reviews.
Social - Community - What games are you buying day one for the rest of the year?
August: Visions of Mana September: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom October: Metaphor: Refantazio & Ys X: Nordics November: Mario and Luigi: Brothership & Dragon Quest III 2D-HD Remake Those are my day one '24 games.
Even if I was only waiting on GP games, who cares? FYI, I'm not and I never have done that. Just straight up useless console war trolling, and it's not even accurate. Literally no one even said they're skipping this if it's not on GP. Barely anyone even knows this game exists.
Last edited:
Ridicululzz
Member
I wonder what sort of criteria you have to pass in order to get on Game Pass?
They know. Idiots. I've explained dozens of times that I buy more games than probably both of them combined, literally. Just ignore it. I think I'm also the only one on this site that's included this on my lists for games to buy multiple times already. It's never been announced for GP so I wasn't planning on GP. Just waiting on reviews.
Social - Community - What games are you buying day one for the rest of the year?
August: Visions of Mana September: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom October: Metaphor: Refantazio & Ys X: Nordics November: Mario and Luigi: Brothership & Dragon Quest III 2D-HD Remake Those are my day one '24 games.www.neogaf.com
Even if I was only waiting on GP games, who cares? FYI, I'm not and I never have done that. Just straight up useless console war trolling, and it's not even accurate. Literally no one even said they're skipping this if it's not on GP. Barely anyone even knows this game exists.
Receipts indeed.
Getting it on a subscription service he’s already on allows him to save that money and put it towards something else.
he says he’s waiting for reviews. A GP deal would have eliminated that risk.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
What's even more hilarious is even the devs are bummed and wanted a GP deal. The only people that seem to care about this argument are the same 10 or so trolls on here that have done that for literally years. Here they have to invent people saying things to keep the trolling going.
GHG
Member
Reciepts my arse. The thread asks what you're buying (buying, not playing) day one and he's listing a bunch of gamepass stuff.
If you're genuinely interested in a game, gamepass or not shouldn't change that, the process of looking at reviews will remain the same regardless. The good news for the devs though is that people who want to play it will need to make a purchase in order to do so. Nothing "lame" about that.
Last edited:
And if you took even a cursory look at that post, you’d see there’s no ‘GP’ beside Empire of Ants there.
In any of those posts. Basically by July this year, he was planning to buy Empire of Ants.
Was it really that hard to read both posts in good faith?
Where did you hear he’s lost interest in the game?
You think the devs weren’t going to get paid for a GP deal? A deal the devs themselves sought?
Dr.Morris79
Member
Probably involves some form of purple.
GHG
Member
I read it in the context of his full reply where he states he purchases more games than myself (and whoever else) put together. Which, based on that, is factually bullshit, even if you include the (GP) nonsense.
Well let's see if he follows through with that day one purchase.
Is there anything to suggest Microsoft didn't approach them for the proposed deal? Regardless, it's clear an agreement couldn't be made. Either they wanted too much money in Microsoft's eyes or Microsoft changed their mind.
Last edited:
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
I bought probably 10 games this month. I've pre-ordered Zelda. I've already pre-ordered Dragon Quest 3. I'm pre-ordering Slitterhead as soon as it's allowed on the store. I'm waiting on reviews on Empire of Ants, as I literally said months ago. This is why you should ignore him
O
Ozriel
, he's a loser that just talks shit and never stops. We've had this conversation about me supposedly never buying games literally dozens of times. It's LITERALLY pointless to respond. Maybe a mod could respond and deal with the totally baseless trolling and console warring, but other than that, no reply is warranted at this point.
Last edited:
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
mansoor1980
Member
when games get passed on for gamepass..........................
GHG
Member
JackMcGunns
Member
Chukhopops
Member
Shame, would have tried it. I don’t think GP needs any more November games though between Flight Sim and Stalker 2.