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@Ricky-Spanish They're drip feeding people stuff like a drug addict so they stay subscribed unfortunately.

Stick with a disc drive, get the old games out of the Activision basement, make them forwards compatible so a new console can read the discs.

A promotional service piece of software with plenty of bloat is what it is.

As a physical customer, I couldn't care less, let me put the disc in and instantly start playing it without the always online updates, stores, subscriptions and everything else, it now feels like a media box not a dedicated gaming console and that goes for all the others.

@Tasuki With them closing the Xbox 360 online functionalities soon maybe that will solve the problem so people cannot access the servers with their modified 360 consoles or whatever but something did happen last year with the servers, it did solve some of it but I don't know if it lasted.

Well going by the picture that is used (Elden Ring) that cost 60 beans back in the day it was a good bargain for the length, It took me 300+ hours to complete and for me it was really enjoyable but if I bought my first game after buying a brand new console and that game was Hellblade 2, in a smart budgeting money aspect after buying the console but not knowing the length of the game I would be kinda disappointed because not long after completing it another 60/70 beans would be spent and maybe Elden Ring should have been purchased instead but I suppose gamepass kinda mitigates all of that but plenty of people still like to buy their games so it is what it is so on that note I voted 31+ hours and that seems a little too much on the short side

The Mark of Kri.

@AnVold I think my partner thought that but we now have two kids.

@MrMagic Yup, it's all for the cloud and a digital only future, they do small implementations/phases every other year since the first Xbox came out, that is what they want to achieve just like sitting on you're ass doing nothing whilst everyone else keeps the system going and the money flowing in, just like windows because if no one created software/programmes for windows or gave feedback for bugs it would have being dead in the ground years ago.

They just don't get it with these high end blockbuster games, most would happily buy a game a bit like Elden Ring in scope (for example) that doesn't have fancy super realistic graphics and cinematic cut scenes but a game that is reasonably lengthy and has good gameplay for the price of today's current games.

In the end photo realistic looking games won't appreciate over time compared to games like Pacman & Tetris because people have enough crap out in the real world never mind in a simulated sandbox.

@Beetlebum91 Yeah definitely, I ended up wasting money on buying the developer mode before hand, it's a bit crap having to set it up like that.

@Beetlebum91 I've still got a series S offline with all the retail emulators, I'm glad I snagged one for cheap before they started to ban them, it will be offline forever.

@Weapon_Wheel I can't remember the last time I seen an advertisement for the consoles maybe before and just after the release and that's about it but I do get bombarded with tiktok & temu adverts all the time on places like YouTube.

I would love it to be a dedicated handheld device but i can imagine they will go the cloud subscription route which will show me that they want that fully integrated across the board in the future leading me and others to not invest into their eco-system/API.

Sorry i just had to.

I wish I never wasted the points I have had over the years on sweepstakes, I think I might of accumulated just over half a million.

I once had a crap phone and no PC/laptop years ago so the web browser on the Xbox one was great at the time, it was the best thing I had and it was a really good way to stack them up but here we are today.

Hopefully it's for a non cloud streaming handled device but a dedicated one at that.

I play it on gamepass but its getting dull, If some perks/abilities or whatever gets added to this game it would be excellent because it gets boring fast grinding it out for gold and what not to get cosmetics for either the character or ship that gets barely looked at through a session, leveling up the emissaries are great though but its linked to same thing in a fashion.

Absolute dealings.

@GuyinPA75 Yeah definitely.

@__jamiie Yup and if you loose access to WiFi that's it, no more gaming but in their eyes you don't realistically own it so it's expected why they wanna push it and have it that way only so on that note no thank you, I'll stick with retro/emulation gaming for the rest of my life.

My favourite mug for cups of tea crazy enough is a dragon ball one that was gifted to me, the mug glows and it makes the character Goku turn into the kaioken power up when hot water gets added to it, I'll be raising it later when I get home after work.

Thank you Akira Toriyama for the memories when I was a kid, RIP.

No but I may try it out when the game might be at season ten in a few years time with an offline mode, land combat etc etc but for now I'm not getting lured in with their marketing advertisements for every quarterly seasonal update so they can keep me engaged to possibly get more money out of me.

With the way battlefield is designed in general a battle royale seem suitable for this game but I cannot believe this fad hasn't stopped yet, I suppose it's all about the money and player retention at the end of the day.

If they don't have an offline mode for their products especially after their recent one (I never bought it) I won't be giving them my hard earned money till the day they make a one and done game again that might be worth the money, their loss and more fool them.

Yes why not, I'm going with a new season for battlefield 2042 getting announced.

I've only used the console remote play side of things and that's it.

Another game like The Ascent would be cool.

I know profits need to be had and it's clearly not rising for plenty of publisher's and development studios currently but I like to imagine that with GTA 6 coming out soon, it is one of the main reason why the gaming industry is having mass layoffs because a very very very high percentage of gamers will be playing nothing else but the latest grand theft auto game, plenty of people won't even bat an eye lid to any other game once it comes out for a very long time, it will leave a lot of studios/publishers in the dust or maybe even leading them to close down so they maybe getting prepared for that if push comes to shove.

It took me 300+ hours to complete the main game which is a bargain in today's market so this dlc is definitely worth my hard earned money, I cannot wait.

Gun & Crash Twinsanity.

Hopefully it isn't a streaming device.

Precious fat hobbitses.

I can imagine it will be like a board room meeting with some subliminal waffle that is primarily aimed towards share holder's but with a small dose of information sprinkled in for their customers to calm them all down on social media, everything will still go to plan but in a different direction under the radar, that will slowly fulfill their new endeavours in the all new digital future.

It looks cool but it's a live service game so i don't have the time and the mental capacity to keep up with these types of games that get updated with new features all the time, I tried elder scrolls online way back and I don't think I'll ever touch one again.

VLC media player.

@Valkyrian Yup

I always admired having an account like his with all the badges he has on his profile, I've only got the gold badge , the tier 2 ambassador and for being subscribed for 12 years (currently), it would be cool to have them all 🤓

Bring on Resident Evil 3, currently playing number 2 on hardcore.

I think this maybe the first time they bring players a new type of campaign mode like what has happened with other modes over the past couple of releases, could it be a live a service type mode like the recent zombie mode with the publisher/developer wanting player retention.

@eire-shabba Well I buy most of my games physically on Xbox but to be fair, let's say if 40% of games like some upcoming games get released on playstation and the rest stay on Xbox like some originals/classics it wouldn't be that bad because those new games will still be on Xbox but with the profile related thing you mentioned I play on pc as well so my game saves & profile stats will stay on that side of things as well so I wouldn't be loosing out on much really but if they go full throttle putting every single game on other platforms !day one!, that will be really really poo.

I mean they're a software type of company after all so it is expected but if they keep the traditional long standing games on Xbox like Forza, gears of war & so on it isn't that bad in my eyes.

With them doing the compact mode on the Xbox app pc side of things recently i could see it happening, hopefully it's not a streaming device though because I would buy one.

@dreadful Yup that baffles me because what do they produce except from call of duty, overwatch and the odd diablo, spyro and crash bandicoot game?......Absolutely naff all.

@Kaloudz Yeah definitely 😂

I know loosing a job with reasonably good pay can be bad but I can imagine after getting another one some of those developers and whoever else will have big sigh of relief not producing bloody call of duty every year, hats off to them though for making that garbage every yearly cycle.

@Kaloudz When they put the ban hammer down I can imagine it would be something daft like the recent bike Pokémon (Koraidon), it won't be jigglypoofs, charlizards & machumps 😂

I've not played it yet, I am going to it once I've gone through hi-fi rush but it's great to see it taking eyes off from all of the battle royale modes we have had over the years because I cannot stand those games as a service type shooters now but I can imagine it won't last, people want those skins.

Hercules Action Game.

That's a shame, I do mostly use cex to sell dvds and other bits of tech but in my local town there was three shops but now there is only one, it is the smallest still standing, I can imagine them closing down in the future.

@GamingFan4Lyf Yup, press start, load game, complete and then maybe press the online button later. (Which I never did back in the day), but now it's all god dam integrated with every button click as soon as the game starts to load.

The picture that is used on this article with Tim Sweeney reminds me of slugworth out of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

"The ever lasting gobstopper"