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[Malak]

Including the 'Haunter Hogsmead Shop' mission, which will only be able to reach other platforms after 12 months

PC players will have to wait too

 

[MiguelItUp]

Doubt it, I think the contract just covered 1 year. I feel like 1 year and 6 months is pretty standard in a lot of situations.

 

[Connificent]

 

[LordCBH]

Gross.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Reeeeee on suicide watch already? How dare beloved Sony ponder to JKR!?

 

[wvnative]

Exclusive content does suck but it's typically trash anyway.

I do hope Microsoft throws Sony under the bus in court for the hypocrisy.

 

[SlimySnake]

Jim Ryan giving me exactly what I wanted when I bought his $500 console two years ago.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Worst generation ever.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

Got to protect the PlayStation gamer at any cost! just like fighting tooth and nail to not allow cross-play.

Thanks Sony!

 

[lughnasadh123]

Are we just tossing out false equivalencies now as a point?

 

[Matsuchezz]

Cool. Xbox players like the waiting game as long as the game or content hit gamepass they can wait months or even years. If they can wait years on end for MS Games to be released on the platform. This is no biggie.

Patience is a virtue.

 

[Pallas]

Destiny DLC all over again.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

They have a marketing deal with the game so why are grown men butthurt over some content being exclusive? This sense of entitlement, like certain content or games not coming to your system is a violation of your civil rights or something, is just childish.

And yes that could apply to Jim Ryan too over the COD statements but at least he's a businessman and says what he says for obvious strategic reasons. These randoms crying on Twitter over this stuff are just being manchildren.

 

[SoloKingRobert]

I thought Jim Ryan said this was anti consumer when Microsoft does the exact same thing?

Can't go both ways..

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

This is why MS should buy Activision

Spoiler

/s

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I thought Jim Ryan said this was anti consumer when Microsoft does the exact same thing?

Can't go both ways..

Of course you can go both ways, look at Jim Ryan.

 

[Gravemind]

I feel protected

 

[Dynasty8]

I feel protected! Thanks, Sony!

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

If Microsoft saw it as a priority to get marketing rights to Hogwarts Legacy, they could've gotten this (optional) exclusivity content for Xbox and GamePass platforms themselves. I mean they can spend $7.5 billion for Zenimax and $69 billion for ABK, but not $15 million (if that) for marketing rights and some exclusive optional in-game content for a AAA release?

Why don't people ask the real questions before crying?

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Phil gonna be so mad, he's gonna buy the entire Harry Potter franchise.

 

[DeepEnigma]

If Microsoft saw it as a priority to get marketing rights to Hogwarts Legacy, they could've gotten this (optional) exclusivity content for Xbox and GamePass platforms themselves. I mean they can spend $7.5 billion for Zenimax and $69 billion for ABK, but not $15 million (if that) for marketing rights and some exclusive optional in-game content for a AAA release?

Why don't people ask the real questions before crying?

War.

 

[Jaybe]

Are we just tossing out false equivalencies now as a point?

This is why MS should buy Activision

Spoiler

/s

Yeah, Malak has already posted this tweet in both the Activision and Phil Acquisition threads like he just scored some game winning intellectual touchdown.

 

[GhostOfTsu]

I thought Jim Ryan said this was anti consumer when Microsoft does the exact same thing?

Can't go both ways..

An exclusive quest is the "exact same thing"

 

[anthony2690]

Sony is also protecting me from an extra side quest! They are trying to preserve a few extra minutes of my time as an Xbox player.

Joking aside, it sucks for sure, but I'm oddly far too excited for this game, to pass on the game due to this.

I'm not even a Harry Potter fan, but the overview trailer for this game, really sold me on it.

Hopefully I enjoy the story & characters too.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I thought Jim Ryan said this was anti consumer when Microsoft does the exact same thing?

Can't go both ways..

Phil was the one who ran his mouth first about exclusive content... not long after the 1 year Tomb Raider, which the very same names here doing mental gymnastics said, "not the same thing..."

All so ironic to say the least.

 

[ParaSeoul]

Phil gonna be so mad, he's gonna buy the entire Harry Potter franchise.

Do you guys have some kinda secret findom fetish to get off at acquisitions like this

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Do you guys have some kinda secret findom fetish to get off at acquisitions like this

It's a joke

 

[Kilau]

It's funny how the scummy publishers seem to escape most if not all the criticism on these shit deals. Some people even blame the dev instead.

 

[John Wick]

Exclusive content does suck but it's typically trash anyway.

I do hope Microsoft throws Sony under the bus in court for the hypocrisy.

Why is that? Why is it that you have a hard time understanding that this wasn't Sony's doing but the owner and publisher of the IP. MS had equal opportunity to make deals themselves. Hugely different from buying up whole publishers but you won't see it that way for reasons...............

 

[John Wick]

It's funny how the scummy publishers seem to escape most if not all the criticism on these shit deals. Some people even blame the dev instead.

You kidding mate? Sony put a gun to their head and are holding the CEO's family hostage until they agree a deal.

 

[DeepEnigma]

It's funny how the scummy publishers seem to escape most if not all the criticism on these shit deals. Some people even blame the dev instead.

But in the great cuntsole wars...

 

[Bernd Lauert]

You kidding mate? Sony put a gun to their head and are holding the CEO's family hostage until they agree a deal.

 

[remember_spinal]

watch people act outraged about trash cosmetics and justify why that means microsoft should by activision lol

I expect 12 more of these threads by christmas

 

[DarthPutin]

They have a marketing deal with the game so why are grown men butthurt over some content being exclusive? This sense of entitlement, like certain content or games not coming to your system is a violation of your civil rights or something, is just childish.

Yeah, this melodrama is just silly. I'll try it out on PC, but I don't give a damn, the chances that I will do all of the game's content are close to zero anyway... It's like being upset over extra random bandit and extra rabbit in RDR2.
More curious about PC mods by far...

 

[John Wick]

I thought Jim Ryan said this was anti consumer when Microsoft does the exact same thing?

Can't go both ways..

Like clockwork. Maybe it's because your a MS shill but buying up whole publishers is a bit different to tying a 3rd party deal for limited exclusivity. The blame lies with the IP owner and publisher not Sony. Also MS could have made the deal first? No one stopped them.

 

[Tomeru]

Are we just tossing out false equivalencies now as a point?

 

[wvnative]

Why is that? Why is it that you have a hard time understanding that this wasn't Sony's doing but the owner and publisher of the IP. MS had equal opportunity to make deals themselves. Hugely different from buying up whole publishers but you won't see it that way for reasons...............

Platform holders historically pursue these deals.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

I thought Jim Ryan said this was anti consumer when Microsoft does the exact same thing?

Can't go both ways..

Of course it can go both ways.

In a single interview Phil Spencer goes from talking about thinking about gamers as a reason to why he's not increasing prices...but then also says he's going to keep acquiring studios to Microsoft, lmao.

 

[John Wick]

Cool. Xbox players like the waiting game as long as the game or content hit gamepass they can wait months or even years. If they can wait years on end for MS Games to be released on the platform. This is no biggie.

Patience is a virtue.

Now that's funny and so true to boot lol

 

[DeepEnigma]

watch people act outraged about trash cosmetics lol

This, this right here justifies buying two of the largest publishers in the world with some of the most renowned multiplat games for longer than most on here were alive... tO rEaCh mOrE gAmErS

Platform holders historically pursue these deals.

Due to publishers dangling the carrot to the interested bidders.

 

[Pallas]

Honestly if it was like the yearly exclusive dlc from Destiny then you aren't missing much tbh. Game will still be completely enjoyable regardless of what platform.

 

[Bragr]

I can't fathom who actually cares about this tiny shitty extra content.

 

[Jaybe]

Third times a charm

Good thing Sony thinks about gamers
and the impact that exclusivity can have on the community.

S/

Good thing Sony thinks about gamers
and the impact that exclusivity can have on the community. S/

 

[StealthGoblin]

It'll be the standard deal.

12 months.
The game will receive marketing.
Sony will have first dibs on sub service inclusion.

People trying to use this as ammo to justify what Microsoft are doing can get in the bin.

Temporary exclusive content most people don't care about versus removing a series from a platform permanently. If you think that's remotely comparable then you need to get your head examined.

 

[Ezquimacore]

But but... Protect the gamers!

 

[Zok310]

And they saved $69 billion in the process..

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

fine with me. i'll happily wait. i'm not buying a PS5 just for some exclusive content lol. I'll get Hogwarts on PC and play all the other stuff whenever it comes.

 

[DeepEnigma]

But but... Protect the gamers!

Yeah, they need total protection. Like stripping decades long third party IPs off the entire platforms to reach more gamers.

 

[GHG]

 

[Ezquimacore]

You mean like Nintendo with Bayonetta, like Sony with final fantasy and street fighter and like Xbox with the next Bethesda game? But only one of those companies is being a bitch about it.