InXile Defends Xbox In Response To 'Game Pass Fodder' Comment

Must be rough not knowing proper grammar...

These people do realize there are games to play outside of what Game Pass offers right? If there's nothing you like on the service un-subscribe and find something else to play until something you want to play does get on the service.

No need to make snobby remarks to devs on the service just because your upset there isn't anything that interests you on the service.

@BartoxTharglod Thats why they put it in there, for "gamers" like you.

@BartoxTharglod A shame then, because they have a better idea on how to make a good and truly deep WRPG than BioWare or Bethesda.

@Korgon if you look at the guys twitter profile specifcally mentions PlayStation fan sony so yeah just a fanboy

The type of gamer that thinks that a cinematic 90+ metacritic score AAA title is the only legitimate type of game, and the only goal of devs.

I believe inXile are on the verge of releasing some of their biggest projects to date, and will really put them on the map. It's no wonder they are pleased with their lot.

Just go look at the reviews of indie games that come out on game pass. I can’t believe people get so upset over a “free” game that they don’t like. I try and try everything even if it’s just for ten minutes because I’ve experienced great things in products that I never thought appealed to me directly.

It's amazing how GamePass has been making some of the worst, most toxic forces in gaming media seethe. It must be doing something right.

@Royalblues As the saying goes, you have to be successful at something in order to attract haters, or they would have never noticed you in the first place. It seems like the biggest gaming elitists hate on Xbox and Gamepass the most. I honestly think some of it is just bots or paid shills though when it comes to the types who go on dedicated social media warpaths against anything that competes with Playstation 24/7.

@Sakisa @BartoxTharglod More importantly than "inExile", remember that Brian Fargo himself is the original founder of Interplay, Black Isle, and is the co-creator of Fallout (which is actually the original Wasteland 2)......... So he's kind of a big deal.

inExile is just the indie studio he founded when a hostile take over decimated Interplay (while employee Feargus Uquhart went on to found Obsidian. Originally they were all the same team at Black Isle.) The name is a reference to him referring to himself as "Interplay CEO-in-exile."

That's why the whole thing is a funny love triangle. Brian, Feargus, and Tim Cain (along with Chris Taylor, no longer with these companies) are the brains behind the original Fallout series. Brian was cast out by the investment bankers (that then bankrupted the company), Tim and Feargus went to Obsidian. Other Black Isle employees signed up for both inExile and Obsidian. The bankers left at Interplay's corpse had to sell out Fallout to Bethesda to settle the lawsuit Brian brought against them for not paying the employees, and then all 3 companies are now back under the same company at MS after all that. So most of the original Fallout staff, along with the "New Fallout" staff all work for MS, but split across 3 studios now.

Well Xbox is technically correct, it has fantastic indie games coming almost every month. Anyone saying fodder or other statements clearly limit their entertainment to AAA.

@SplooshDmg lol, and it never gets old in the telling

Maybe Brian Fargo will release a less buggy game under Microsoft. I'm on a Bards Tale bender, I has constant cut scene errors followed by a hard crash from BT 2004, so I change to BT4 director's cut which hard crashes about 20 minutes later. Nothing else hard crashes my Xbox X but inXile products. The funny thing is I love their games (until all the crashing)

Every gaming subscription has fodder. GamePass is no exception.

But, I do not assess GamePass by its fodder. I assess GamePass yearly based on the games I would've bought but didn't have to because of GamePass. If the difference of price of the games vs the price of GamePass is at least equal or in favour of GamePass, I keep subscribing.

People should not be assessing GamePass on how many games there are, they should be assessing it on the games they play and the cost to play them in a GamePass subscription. All GamePass is, is a different way to pay for playing games. It does not claim that every game is AAA, it does not claim that you have to like every game that comes to the subscription. Its claim to fame is low cost and high value. And it does that really well.

Xbox might have been getting attention for their response, but good or bad, it’s keeping them in the public eye. It’s free publicity and though many here look at it as “bad” it still gets others involved and want to see what the buzz is about. I wouldn’t be surprised if subscriptions went up after this.

@NEStalgia thank you for that summation. I knew some of it but not all as I don’t follow dev movement or gaming overall as much as I used to.