Different things are worth it or not worth it depending on the person. Some people see $70 value in a game where others might not. You can buy it or not buy it.
People do still buy games and so far that hasn't changed. In the future, it might and we will see what happens to game pricing then. It is also not about being first or last, if that is some sort of a consolation prize then sure, I guess the "Xbox" folks can have that....but Microsoft was always going to raise prices. It was an industry move and anytime that has happened, everyone has followed suit and this latest news by MS shows that.
Subscription services also lack choice since we all know that not every game there is, is going to be available on a subscription. So it all depends on how someone plays games. For someone who does it casually, not sure if having a gaming sub makes sense when they can just drop $40-$70 on whatever game they are interested in but habits are evolving so we shall see.
they used Halo 3 as the reason to justify breaking that promise back then IIRC
Something quite strange and inevitable about a number of responses I'm seeing on socials from ambassadors. This is just a sample.
Not new games, but certainly something I have not played before. But I have not played Grounded yet.
haven't a few posters on here used basically the exact same language as well?
I'm sure it's just all a coincidence
Something quite strange and inevitable about a number of responses I'm seeing on socials from ambassadors. This is just a sample.
Chill, no one is saying the price is going up by $30, I think everybody in their right mind expects a $5 dollar increase at most. And yeah, the value is still there. But as with every price increase, some won't care but others will.
Those guys got their emails from HQ and carried out their ordersSomething quite strange and inevitable about a number of responses I'm seeing on socials from ambassadors. This is just a sample.
Please do!
This time they dont have to pay them either.
yea they should thank microsoft for increasing price after 2.5 years, good guy Microsoft.
Those are cross platform though...
Look at these assholes. I hope everyone of these brand ambassadors step on a lego.Something quite strange and inevitable about a number of responses I'm seeing on socials from ambassadors. This is just a sample.
Those guys got their emails from HQ and carried out their orders
Trazyn the Infinite
lol be like "ok, but they were forced to by gun point by SONY, EA"
"Microsoft" had nothing to do with ESO or F76. These were in development for *years* prior to any purchase. You don't just create an expansion in under a year. Trying to use *any* game from the Bethesda purchase as props to MS for "being busy" is silly. You are trying to desperately attribute work that was done by others to MS in a sad and pathetic effort to bolster their poor recent history.
No, you are the one confused here. Also stop defending "live service". Its a fucking joke and ruins game design. Halo Infinite and AoE4 suffered greatly because of this cancerous design. FH5 is a joke as well with copy paste content that feels as unrewarding as it could possibly feel. All in an effort to create "GAAS". This mindset is killing games that could otherwise be far, far better.
And yet who was the one who routinely stated that Xbox would "never" raise prices and how great their services were? You are as transparent as they come.
- search for a keywordSomething quite strange and inevitable about a number of responses I'm seeing on socials from ambassadors. This is just a sample.
Exactly. Even then, you can still have a "live service" style update system with a fully released and complete game. We had that for literal decades with updates, patches, and "map packs", which are still the better choice. Yes it "splits" the player base, but it also must be stated that buying things online back in 2007 was a lot less common than buying things online in 2022. Ultimately they are going to end up spending *more* money and time to make this game at the state it should have been at launch and piss off/push away customers.
The thing is, they *have* been raising prices across the world. Just wasn't in most western markets until now. India in particular has received the brunt of the price increases up until now. But when you bring this up to folks like the aforementioned in this thread, they dismiss it/handwave it away/move goalposts.
Exactly. Price are going to increase, at least for AAA games. They *have* to if they want to continue to balloon budgets to the size we saw with games like Halo Infinite. 150,000,000? That isn't chump change.
What nonsense are you talking about? The video I linked was clearly about Forbidden West. Zero Dawn was given away for free. I was talking about charging extra for cross generational titles. Sony said it would get a free upgrade, reneged, then promised it again only to make getting the savings difficult. You also realize Sony never made a PS5 version for Zero Dawn so it is irrelevant to the point I was making.
Horizon Zero Dawn got a 60fps patch for PS5. You replied to somebody who said this
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As Dusk Falls and Pentiment. Grounded if you count a final release of an early access game. So they have released some games, none of them AAA as I mentioned. Absolutely not a good year for them in terms of releases, which I have not argued otherwise. I was arguing against the point that they didn't release a game this year, which is factually untrue.
