EdgarTheBug

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"

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.