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@Medic_alert My thoughts exactly, I was very hyped for this game and sadly I keep getting bored every time I play it, some bits are amazing (the dragon) but the pacing feels very slow for a DOOM game, I finished both 2016 and Eternal in around 5 days and I still haven’t even got to half of The Dark Ages.

Once again, Xbox is so f***ing dead.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if one of these days another article comes up saying they’ve stopped or “sidelined” all development of future hardware, the way Microsoft is doing things Game Pass itself might get sidelined in favor of selling more copies on PlayStation and PC.

The death of Xbox consoles is now set in stone, on the upside is seems MS gaming is thriving as a publisher.

@HonestHick LMFAO. Perfect example on why prices should only increase for you guys in the US, YOU want this, YOU voted for this, YOU think manufacturing of millions of consumer goods and supply chains can be switched overnight, YOU are under the illusion paying more for imports will somehow replace your income tax (spoiler: it won’t), YOU are “happy for it”, so YOU should be the only one paying more instead of screwing the rest of the world.

It’s so unfair for everyone outside the US, if prices need to increase there because of tariffs then just increase it there, in the end 50% of their population voted exactly for that, why tf does everyone else globally has to pay more to offset their poor decisions?

Does anyone doubt a substantial price hike for Game Pass is coming?

Also, I find it sooo gaslighting that just yesterday they’re were boasting about great numbers and MS Gaming having its best quarter ever, just to kick fans in the balls, again, less than 24 hours later.

What a big load of BS, I could understand the console raising prices, but it should only affect the US since the tariffs are a US problem but we’ve seen every company raising prices everywhere else to offset the increase there, it sucks.
Pricing themselves above the PS5 while becoming multiplatform is yet another death sentence for Xbox consoles, even the PS5 Pro is now cheaper than the most expensive Xbox!

What I find unjustifiable is $80 dollars Xbox games, they literally saw Nintendo doing it with Mario Kart and said why not us with Call of Duty…

@NattyKing That has been the way for a long time now, they don’t disclose most things, I’m saying it’s great in the context of last quarter where everything was down, and if Microsoft says gaming was a “business highlight” means numbers are good.

Great numbers tbh, Game Pass is having its best months EVER so expectedly many people are signing up, hardware isn’t down as much as they were expecting so I hope they realize there’s still many people interested in their platform.

@Coletrain If that even happens, which I still doubt it as we’ve seen nothing but rumors, you can be damn sure that Sony is going to do what it takes to block their games from the Xbox PC device, wouldn’t be surprised if they come up with their own launcher and even delist existing games off Steam, Sony is THAT petty.

Very cheap and fair but it’s just some skins plus digital artwork and soundtrack.

Game Pass is just on fire, already downloading the 123 GB of it but really wondering if I’ll be able to finish it before Doom comes out.

@Fiendish-Beaver Agreed, I’m excited for E-Day but the ending for Gears 5 now feels distasteful, it ends in the biggest cliffhanger of the franchise after a decision that no one knows which is canon and a follow-up might never happen and if it does it will be in the 2030s at least 5 years after E-Day releases, just wild.

And what’s more sad is that it’s not the only F-you we Xbox fans have gotten in the last few years and it’s certainly not going to be the last.

As long as they don’t close the studio after releasing a new IP, sure go for it.

@dskatter Yeah, what I mean is that even an obvious disaster like Concord also had some propagandists claiming in the first impressions that the game was ‘actually something special’ (I recall someone specifically saying these words lol), so these “impressions” are nothing to go by, I don’t think it’s gonna be another big disaster like that but personally it doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest

@K1LLEGAL Bungie is not part of Sony Interactive Entertainment, at least not yet, and besides, do you really think if this game does well Sony is suddenly going to port God of War and Spider-Man to Xbox?

Spoiler: Not gonna happen.

Lmao gaming media really has no shame with their PlayStation bias, just a refresher, the first impressions of Concord were very, very similar to these, needless to say how it turned out.

@Kaloudz Last time they did increase it a few months after Sony in the same territories by the same amount, but I don’t think they will this time.

Nah, they’re not even distributing them.

If you ever want to see how cope looks like just take a look at Push Square, absolutely nothing in this game looks appealing to me but they’re convinced Bungie is going to come through when Bungie’s last good game was Halo Reach and it was a completely different team, not a single person remains of the Bungie that made Halo and I’ve never been a fan of Destiny and specifically their monetization model.

I literally can’t wait to go on berserk mode in Doom!

This is where the marketing budget goes? Smh…

They have talked and talked about Play Anywhere but I don’t see any action to actually expand it, we know that for third-party publishers is up to them but there’s still dozens of games that are now owned by Microsoft, back catalogue for Bethesda, Activision Blizzard and even some from Xbox Game Studios are not Play Anywhere and they’ve had years to expand the program to their owned games but still haven’t and probably won’t do it.

This overall feels like yet another Microsoft side project that they suddenly remembered to advertise but themselves never fully committed to it.

@elpardo1984 I don’t think they would announce ports for other consoles in their own showcase, more likely the new games they announce will also be revealed for all platforms day and date, Spencer did say that we better get used to seeing the PS5 logo in Xbox trailers and announcements.

The brand may be in disarray but they always deliver consistently very good shows.

That weekend is going to be crazy with the Switch 2 launch followed by what would be E3.

I don’t see how both situations are related.

Microsoft wanted to tie a disc to an account, so you wouldn’t be able to lend or sell any disc game already tied to an account.
Nintendo is selling an empty cartridge that only allows you to download the game but you still need to have the cartridge inserted to play, and you can later sell or lend that empty cartridge and other person can download and play the game, which they already did with several games, only now it’s being standardized under “game-key card”.

Prices announced yesterday are egregious and absolutely deserve the heat they are getting, but this isn’t really what you’re making it seem.

I don’t think it will happen tomorrow as the spotlight will be on first-party games, but I do feel Microsoft is going to port absolutely everything they can get running on the console, they already were supporting the Switch back when they still believed in exclusives, wouldn’t surprise me if MS ends up being Nintendo’s most important third-party partner in terms of revenue in a few years.

@husker42c Oh no, Infinite’s campaign fell short and it lacked MP content at launch but the gameplay was nailed, it has the best feeling gameplay of the entire series imo.

The worst one without a doubt is Halo 5, with its CoD-wanna be gameplay and multiplayer, nonsensical campaign about evil Cortana and a bigger focus on some character we had never seen before instead of the Chief.

@Rog-X Huge publicity? Lmao, all it had was a trailer a month before launch and that’s it, it wasn’t even promoted on the PS Store or anything.
By the way, don’t you remember how Phil sold the idea of (only) porting 4 games and Hi-Fi being one of them because they wanted to nurture the IP? What an outrageous lie as he closed the studio like 3 months after saying that.

It’s just pathetic to keep excusing the trillion-dollar company for closing a Japanese studio that just delivered a GREAT game, how much did they save up by closing the studio? 50 million? 100 million? They make up to 25 billion in revenue each quarter and each year…

In fact, Tango’s closure made me realize Microsoft had taken over Xbox, as MS corporate doesn’t recognize talent or art, as another person put it, they’re tasteless and it’s why they fail time and time again with consumer products, now Xbox itself is being stripped apart by Microsoft just to make a quick buck selling games on PlayStation…

@Millionski Honestly I didn’t like it either and found it immensely overhyped, good thing that I got it on disc so I can sell it later.

And what’s the controversy exactly?
Sony helped the team to get the game running on PS5, as they’ve done with other games, exclusive and non-exclusive.

If the game isn’t on Xbox it’s because devs are having a hard time downscaling the game to a Series S, they themselves have said as much. This is such a nothing burger.

@Rog-X By shadow dropping a brand new IP with no marketing whatsoever so it ended up being lost in the sea of new games no matter how great it is? Oh yeah, brilliant decision by Microsoft.

It seems they even celebrated it by using Copilot to make that background 💀

@GeeForce And when did this greed start? Just after closing the near 80 billion ABK acquisition…

@Millionski Lol tell me exactly how being extremely frustrated and distrustful of Microsoft means I’m a ’PS troll’…

If anything I wanted the brand to thrive and compete neck to neck to both Sony and Nintendo, not fall into an spiral of death courtesy of Microsoft themselves.

@GeeForce Then why are they porting all games to every platform in existence? Out of goodwill?

@GeeEssEff Sony has said essentially the same thing, and that quote from Microsoft is hilarious to look back on, launching Halo and Forza on PS5 is surely a weird way to “spend Sony out of business”.

If you expect Sony to have a ‘change of heart’ because Xbox is now porting even Halo to PS5 you’re going to be throughly disappointed time and time again.

Sony themselves have said as much, their goal is to get rid of Xbox as a competitor entirely, and Microsoft for sure is making Sony’s job easier on that, they just don’t need to sell games on Xbox plus it’s widely known it’s the platform that sells less games, thanks to GP, so as a business decision it makes sense, MS is doing it out of necessity to recoup 80 billion dollars they spent and they were incompetent to grow a user base beyond 30 million of both consoles sold and GP subs.

@Fiendish-Beaver Exactly this, thinking that all of the money that MS gets out of selling ports will be reinvested into the Xbox ecosystem and Game Pass is pure delusion.

The moment revenue from ports it’s higher than Game Pass revenue or Xbox itself it will cease to be a priority and launching games on PlayStation will be the main priority for Microsoft as weird as that sounds, it really is Windows Phone all over again, Microsoft became dependent on Apple and Google (iOS and Android) just to sell mobile software when they repeatedly failed to turn WP around, now they’ll be dependent on Sony, Nintendo and Steam just to be able to sell game software.
A pathetic outcome but deserved out of Microsoft’s incompetence.

Y’all really think that if Sony can do it they wouldn’t? Of course they 100% would.

I’d even go as far to say if Steam doesn’t allow Sony to blacklist the Xbox PC device they would come up with their own launcher (not compatible with that device obviously) and even delist their games off Steam to force new players to use Sony’s launcher. Sony is THAT petty.

And what would be Microsoft’s response? To launch Gears of War E-Day day one on PS5 🤡

I was interested… until they removed it.

The idea is very cool, but the fact they quietly removed it shows they don’t even know how to make it a reality.

I’ll just get one month with my Rewards points, basically playing day one for free.

Moving to New Zealand to have 24-hour early access lol

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After what we got from the ABK acquisition (Xbox becoming third-party plus barely any ABK games on Game Pass) there’s now people cheering for Microsoft to now acquire Ubisoft? Smh…

As an Xbox console owner I find it very, very hard to be excited about some skin for Windows tbh…

The single only thing I find interesting is the rumored intention of bringing over legacy Xbox games to PC, but I don’t like that no one is elaborating on the how since it actually seems to be quite complicated, not only on the technical side, but with licensing as well, and if they don’t pull that off I wouldn’t see the value on this Xbox-branded Rog Ally nor in the next generation Xbox.

@HonestHick Funny you mention GTA 6 because that could be a perfect example of the brewing problem, if it ain’t Play Anywhere and next Xbox indeed only supports PC games you won’t be able to play it on your new console even if you own it.
Again, there’s too much unknowns and I’m just speculating and choosing not to trust Microsoft, growing Play Anywhere isn’t negative but to come out swinging now with “it’s all fine, look at all these Play Anywhere games”, it’s hypocrite when it ain’t even near a quarter of the Xbox library nor their own first-party games.

What continues to bother me and why I keep venting is how little care they show for the console audience if at all, it’s now very clear they’re pivoting to PC as they feel they lost the console market (by not even stocking Series X|S consoles now) but I don’t have a PC, I own an Xbox console, which is the only Xbox there is as much as Microsoft loves to say otherwise, and we’re being left behind, if you think complaining about that somehow makes me a PlayStation fanboy you may want to rethink who the fanboy is.

Lmao Microsoft can bulk-up figures all they want, doesn’t change the fact that only 7% of all Xbox games released last year support Play Anywhere, plus there’s lots of Microsoft owned games that aren’t supported, Halo MCC, Halo 5, Doom, Doom Eternal, Gears 1 Ultimate, Forza Horizon 3, Sunset Overdrive, Quantum Break, Ori 1, Fallout 4, Skyrim and many others, just to name a few.

All this sudden push for Play Anywhere seems weird since the program exists since 2016, if I had to speculate I’d say they are preparing us to be told that moving forward only Play Anywhere titles will be compatible with the next console as it’ll be a PC in essence, I hope I’m wrong but I have zero confidence in Microsoft at the moment.

The stuff of nightmares is here…