EdgarTheBug

@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"

Red dead Redemption 1 & 2 but rockstar will probably cash in on the game like what they did with the recent update to GTA V which will be unfortunate but it's a no brainer I suppose.

@Vipor007 It is horrible when that happens, my mates was nagging me to play world war z recently, i bought it for cheap on pc but the game came back on gamepass a few days later and then out of nowhere my mates stopped playing it.

Never again.

The promotional/marketing pictures remind me of a temu advertisement or something but can it run crysis.

@Kaloudz Yeah same, Magruder was an awesome villain.

Crash Twinsanity, GUN and The Simpsons: Hit & Run but I can't imagine that one happening.

For me it is either Black Myth Wukong or Phantom Blade Zero & possibly a Xbox elite 3 controller.

@AccessibleDaydream 🤣, I was bored, loosing my head whilst not at work, I ended up going down the rabbit hole watching ("Steve Ballmer Developers Music Video" on YouTube)

The key to artificial intelligence, they key to success is developers 👏 profits, 👏, developers, 👏, profits, developers 👏👏👏......yes!

Slowly but surely but......

With the way the Xbox interface/eco-system is similar across two generations and maybe for the future generations I feel it is a great starting point to build an Xbox catalogue of games for those who don't care about the latest and greatest games so on that note It's hard to say to be honest.

I'm guessing the rise of players having the time off from work over the christmas period, that gives those the opportunity to finally play it has given the game a lower review score.

The snap feature.

Merry Christmas, thank you this year for the insights into the gaming industry.

I've got a copy the Redditor can have, the offer is 500, no more, no less, Christmas is around the corner after all.

@Jark Game pass is needed now to play online instead of gold right?

Hopefully we get more games that are not call of duty from Activision/Xbox now.

I would rather buy them because in the long run, after I have completed let's say avatar and nothing else whilst subscribing just to play call of duty online , I will still be paying for it, especially after subscribing for like 3 years straight, it would cost me short of 500 for that one game.

I've not played this game because it's not my thing, I do keep with the news that is related to it though but in some areas of the internet I have seen people just jumping on the band wagon of hate for the fun of it, like posting frequent screenshots of the overall steam review score every time it goes down, those people love to see it happen, that's how silly it is so on that note I agree with the dev in a fashion.

If anything embracer needs to be layed off out of the industry with the special money that was gifted to them whilst doing nothing with it.

I gave it a C, due to it having mostly cinematic trailers for big games and way to much pr talk.

This character needs to be a Xbox staple like Spiderman is with Sony, if not what the hell are you doing Microsoft/Xbox.

Cyberpunk 2077 + the dlc, now that would be sweet.

He lost me when he said "monetize on the phone."

No thanks, I'm not up for games that don't end.

@Beetlebum91 That's a shame, I guess I am late to the party then.

Is there a way to speed-run/farm these reward points quicker and efficiently?

@Dimey Are you trying to connect it to a PC? If so you may need a microsoft xbox wireless adapter (USB stick)

Doritos Crash Course 3

I had just short of sixty thousand but I used most of them for limited consoles & PC sweepstakes 😂 but I'm now at 10 thousand so far.

Hopefully they announce Doritos crash course 3.

@OldGamer999 Agreed, It's a shame activision just makes call of duty these days.

Red dead redemption 2 all the way for those who don't have it, chusty deal.

That is cool, I've always thought that having some music development software like FL Studio on Xbox would be great.

I have avoided call of duty for many years now but I have come to realise that the best call of duty games come out when another big competing game comes out like GTA, in 2008/2009 we got GTAIV/CODWAW/CODMW2, then in 2012/2013 we got BO2/GTAV, 2018/2019, RDR2/BO4/MW19.

With them now doing this low level product to possibly save man power for something possibly better and with it being kind of half way through a console life cycle (which is another reason for better quality games like cod), it might be the best time to buy a Call of Duty game but I ain't falling for the trap.

For something like that to occur he/she must of had the Xbox account linked to the pc side of things and was using non official, non trust worthy parts of the internet, I can imagine it could be either bitcoin related, looking at pirating a game or a even crazy loophole in the Xbox 360 hacking/modding ecosystem, I would love to know but it is pointless.

Shove it, I'm gonna play GTA liberty city & vice city stories this week, compared to the other games I've only completed them once and that was like 17 years ago.

Good, let those creative minds flow, same with the folks who develop call of duty.

@smoreon Yeah it's pretty rubbish, i won't be buying it, not primarily because of the state of it but because I've played the mgs games a good few times.

@Maddie47 We are the vocal minority though, everyone else wouldn't care or know the difference if the games were upscaled and what not.

Having retail emulation on the series s I have couldn't of got any better.