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Post by Xeogred on May 1, 2024 18:04:21 GMT -5
Helldivers 2 already ranks 7th in lifetime US dollar sales for Sony published games
Without PC, it wouldn't crack Sony's top 20.
Put everything on PC immediately. Give me FF16, FF7 Rebirth, and Stellar Blade NOW!!!!! Don't you want to DOUBLE YOUR SALES? Square's looking like the biggest fools right now. I can't imagine that Sony or Epic paycheck rivals the millions of sales they could have gotten on PC with day one releases.
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Post by Xeogred on May 5, 2024 0:23:42 GMT -5
Bloodstained v1.5 dropping soon, sounds like the last of the endless updates haha. Not knocking it, it's cool they've supported and added so much to the base game. One of my favorites that I played in 2019. I wonder how different it'll be when I replay it someday. Or just based off the new content, there's probably a lot in there to check out.
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Post by Ex on May 5, 2024 20:49:46 GMT -5
Rather them have put that effort into the sequel instead. I'd rather have the sequel than a bunch of incremental updates.
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Post by Xeogred on May 5, 2024 20:54:31 GMT -5
You ain't wrong. Game was completely awesome and polished enough (Switch aside? hah) in 2019 too. Kudos to them for fulfilling the deluge of Backer goals they set I guess. Maybe that's why it took so long?
But yes, it's been 100 years ago. Dracula papa IGA needs to cook up the sequel now.
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Post by Xeogred on May 7, 2024 8:41:31 GMT -5
Xbox is shutting down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks and two other Bethesda studios
Alpha Dog and Roundhouse Games will also be closing
Western AAA gaming is absolutely utterly broken. Billion dollar company gobbles up studios only to close them later.
RIP Tango. Maybe Shinji Mikami saw the writing on the wall and got out while he could.
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Post by Ex on May 7, 2024 9:04:21 GMT -5
Western AAA gaming is absolutely utterly broken. No argument there. With modern western productions, it's either roll the dice on a bajillion dollar AAA monetization fest, or crowd fund the next indie. The AA midpoint in western gaming seems largely extinct. >Shinji Mikami saw the writing on the wall and got out while he could Undoubtedly.
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Post by Xeogred on May 7, 2024 13:16:59 GMT -5
Phil is a POS. I don't want to see anyone touting him as the "nice guy" ever again.
Devs are exploding over this, Bethesda are pissed internally, etc. Rightfully so. MS spent all last year singing Tango's praise over Hi-Fi Rush, it won a bunch of awards, Phil said they were going to reinvest in Tango...
Now this.
id Arkane MachineGames Rare Bethesda Obsidian etc
Nobody is safe. Wouldn't care of Xbox died yesterday. Except now they carry hundreds of IP's and studios with them, thousands of workers, etc would all be the casualty. Wouldn't have been in this mess if idiots weren't running AAA Western gaming and their obsession on ROI over anything else.
If Xbox Games Pass cancellations start trending, they deserve the heat.
Glad I stopped with them after the 360. Xbox sucks ass and has done nothing positive for the industry. The end.
The Helldivers 2 PSN+Steam account fiasco was insane too. Sony have showed their true colors as well. Publishers aren't your friends.
Never thought I'd feel ethically good about myself by focusing on PC in recent years but here we are.
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Post by Ex on May 7, 2024 13:31:13 GMT -5
Wouldn't care of Xbox died yesterday. Except now they carry hundreds of IP's and studios with them, thousands of workers, etc would all be the casualty. While I don't advocate for the loss of anyone's means of earning a living, such a scenario might force a complete reset of the western gaming market paradigms. That doesn't sound like a bad thing to me. >Xbox sucks ass and has done nothing positive for the industry I could argue the original Xbox and Xbox 360 did some positive things for the industry. But from the One onward, Xbox has been a total trash fire. >Publishers aren't your friends Neither are DRM addled storefronts where you lease PC games (with many requiring online verification to play).
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Post by Xeogred on May 7, 2024 13:52:25 GMT -5
Yeah I know I'm playing with another "fire" with Steam. People worry when Gabe passes if it'll be an issue then. But he has a son that wants to keep the family business private. I like that about them. lol
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Post by bonesnapdeez on May 8, 2024 11:50:57 GMT -5
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