Gmork

Just like I said and thought about Nintendo, GFY Microsoft and your money-hungry shareholders!

"Maybe subscriptions are the future after all?" Seriously. NO, these subscriptions are clearly NOT the future of video games (or any other entertainment medium).

Ten-year-olds will be happy to spend their parents' money on pointless skins.

Besides, young children don't care about reaching the top 1 or actually "playing" the game; all that matters today in Fortnite (and not only Fortnite) is owning all the skins.

And where did Disney get this Dark Jar Jar from? Yet another marketing product aimed at children, one that George Lucas never approved.

How can we expect a game to run properly on this 9th Gen "potato"? (The Xbox One X does better, that's saying something...)

You know, there's more to playing games than Game Pass! You'd think every Xbox owner had a Game Pass subscription. That's far from the case, and it allows you to actually play games you bought to support the developer.

For me, it's Nobody Wants to Die, The Ants and Big Mutha Truckers 2 (on PS2!)

Nobody Wants to Die: Don't miss it, especially at 50% off! I'd been hesitating for a while, but I finally bought it!

And Robocop is a great "old school" game that shouldn't be missed at this price either.

Demo or not, this game doesn't interest me and I'll never touch it, like 95% of recent Ubi$oft productions.

The sad thing is how much better Microsoft is at marketing when it comes to selling accessories rather than promoting its games, even though in the last 2 years, few games have been worth it...

I've always made fun of these Rewards because where I live (Belgium), it almost doesn't exist and it's not possible to get the Game Pass Ultimate option. We only get the Game Pass Core 1 or 3 months (6800 and 15000 points for a level 2). And as said above, the few times I manage to accumulate 10000 points, I prefer to have a €10 voucher and buy a cheaper game as a result.

On the other hand, playing it alone is incredibly boring! It's a license made to be played in Co-op, but preferably Borderlands 2, the third opus being really mediocre, with "Bad Guys" without the slightest charisma and with forced humor that is anything but funny.

I had to get angry to finish this game, which I will never return. I prefer 10x restarting B2 the Handsome Collection. This is a pure Borderlands Gem!

Why limit yourself to ranked games?
It's a start, but it still doesn't make me want to return to this series, which hasn't been a true Call of Duty for almost a decade.

What we're asking for is an option to completely disable cross-play with PCs and offer "consoles only" cross-play.

@JetmanUK I agree and understand completely, but if we're going to talk about a "crisis," we (the gamers) aren't responsible; they brought it on themselves, releasing mediocre (and woke) games over the past few years, without caring about what "real" gamers really want, not those who discovered this medium in 2020. (And that's not pejorative.)

It's lazy on their part, and not telling me that this will allow a new generation to (re)discover this game; 10- to 20-year-olds in 2025 couldn't care less about these remasters.

"Remaster Generation"…

I'm tired of all these Remakes/Remasters. Why should we get so excited about games we already played 30 years ago?

@PsBoxSwitchOwner That's the problem with these subscriptions (Game Pass, PS+, etc.): many "casual gamers" often only try games for 20/30 minutes (often via the Cloud, therefore with a visual downgrade) before moving on to something else. It's becoming a form of video game binge-watching.

But this is enough to inflate the numbers, which the media like to relay without much elaboration, and which these publishers seem so proud of, even though they mean absolutely nothing and in no way confirm the commercial success of a game. (Hey Ubi$oft, who got slapped by Capcom and the 10 million Monster Hunter games actually SOLD… in one month!)

I have no doubt about Atomfall's success, from what I've read about it, but it doesn't seem aimed at everyone. At least it won't appeal to what's called "the modern audience" (and that's a good thing. They've had enough bad games aimed at them lately).

Atomfall doesn't hold the player by the hand from start to finish, unlike mainstream Ubi$oft games, for example. And for this "freedom of action and exploration" aspect alone, I'll give it a chance when it's optimized, in 6 to 12 months. I never play Day One anymore, and I know I'm right; it can spoil all the fun, as I experienced with Cyberpunk 2077 upon its release.

The success seems deserved, but please: stop with these player count figures. Especially since this industry has evolved considerably over the past 10 years, there will be many more players in 2025 than there were in 2005 or 2015. If all the elements are not taken into account, these figures are just nonsense.

@JoyfulFire I'm not making this up, sometimes you have to open your eyes and face reality.

@JoyfulFire: According to PSNProfiles data, the game ranks ninth among the most popular titles (of the week), with only 1,565 recent players, which is below expectations for a AAA game recently added to the service.

Furthermore, analytics indicate that "Dragon Age: The Veilguard" failed to rank among the top ten most-played games on PlayStation Plus, despite being free for subscribers.

These results suggest that, despite being available for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers, the game hasn't generated significant interest among players.

And what's worse, it was added four months after its release! Too bad for everyone who paid €80 for this woke game that no one wants, except for "gamers" who have never played a true dark fantasy game, which DAV is no longer.

Certainly, there are games for all tastes, but with this game we hit rock bottom, on all points of view. The numbers don't lie anyway, it's a deserved flop for E.A. (and "a certain" Corine Busche, fired at the same time)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 of course!

It appeals to me with its Bioshock style (and not Fallout), but as with every release, I'll wait six months or more to play it, until it's truly "GOLD"...

And to support Rebellion, I'd rather buy it than line the pockets of Microsoft shareholders.

This ELITE is clearly not worth the asking price. I still much prefer my Razer Wolverine Ultimate, which I've owned for six years, has thousands of hours on the clock, and has never let me down. Well, yes, there was a manufacturing defect when I bought it, but the customer service exchanged it within 48 hours.

And in the future, it will be a SCUF. But certainly not a €200 Microsoft controller.

@Nightcrawler71 The Precinct - Limited Edition - Xbox: £31.99 on Amazon

(Mr FraserG is misinformed for a "journalist")

And this little indie game is ahead of AC Shadows in terms of sales on Steam... ask yourself the right questions about Ubisoft and its "player count" spiel.

Game Pass and Microsoft are busy slowly killing video games. And I say that even though I was a subscriber for over five years, thanks to various promotions. Today, if I really like a game and want to support the developer (and not Microsoft's shareholders), then I buy it! Just like we used to. Except I don't buy them on Xbox anymore.

I won't buy anything from them again, consoles or games: it's over for me. I've supported them since the first Xbox, I have hundreds of games (in boxes) at home, but since buying my Series X, I no longer buy any recent games. I mainly use it to replay old, excellent backward compatible games.

If their games are everywhere in the future, the Xbox will follow the same path as the Dreamcast, and therefore, SEGA: Microsoft will be nothing more than a game publisher, nothing more.

It seems like subscription services are used to add games that have recently failed. DA Veilguard has been royally avoided by everyone on PlayStation, even free ones, and rightly so. Adding it to Game Pass won't change the fact that this game is very bad.

The bad faith on this site is quite alarming. And Purexbox seems just as sold out as most of the other major media outlets! Zero credibility. Take off your blinkers, this game is and will be a monstrous flop for Ubisoft.

And just because we like eating ***** doesn't mean it's good!