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@rustyduck So, in other words not 'woke' at all. It's just things you don't like as you hold a bigoted and small minded view.

@rustyduck And by 'woke' you mean what, exactly?

I wonder what Deals with Gold's new name will be once Xbox Live Gold doesn't exist anymore. 🤔

@CrezOne Just had a wee Bing search and found a Wikipedia page about the Multiface. I can't believe I actually remembered the product name correctly after 30-odd years! 🤣

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiface

I had a thing called a Multiface, I think that's what it was called anyway. It plugged into that same interface as the Kempston and it worked like the Action Replay did years later on the Megadrive. You could find your own cheat codes for infinite lives, energy, ammo, grenades etc etc. It was awesome for those incredibly difficult games I struggled to get through. Ah, those were the days! 🤣

@CrezOne My sister killed our Spectrum by plugging the Kempston joystick interface into it when it was powered on! 🤣 Thankfully we were able to get it repaired.

@SacredPYRO It's awesome that they have the Dizzy games on this. I remember back in the day going into John Menzies and buying Treasure Island Dizzy for my Spectrum for the bargain price of £1.99. Codemasters were a fantastic publisher of budget titles back then.

I went out on a limb, splurged and bought the constellation edition, despite subbing to Game Pass. That's a first for me but, I really want that watch! 🤣

@NorthwestEagle All Xbox 360 games acquired through GWG are owned and don't require an ongoing sub. I would imagine that to play any games from the Xbox One gen onwards will require a sub of some sort to still play going forward, although it would be nice if Xbox just removed that requirement and allowed us to keep them, seeing as GWG is being abolished.

@Banjo- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of Sony protection.

Fixed that for you, and Wikipedia, buddy. 😂

What on Earth are they going to base their appeal on? Are they going to argue that the deal shouldn't go through "just because"? They got obliterated in court already on every argument they tried to make. The decision to appeal is baffling. They're evidently not sick of looking like complete fools.

@Kaloudz Those were the exact thoughts going through my head earlier today. Get out of my brain! 🤣

The FTC would be foolish to appeal the decision. They got absolutely trounced in court so, I can hardly see any appeal being successful.

@Banjo- The thing about the CMA decision is that they were so far through their process, they didn't stop and re-evaluate all cloud deals MS made in the meantime. They should've done that and amended their decision to take account of it. I think they were overzealous as they wanted to be the first "big" regulator to get their decision out, like they'd get some kudos for it or something. They really thought they were going to be the first domino to make the rest fall. Now they just look like complete idiots, although I'd argue that's how they've looked all along.

@Banjo- Completely agree. Microsoft have provided sufficient remedies already for certain regulators to get the deal approved and I think the political pressure, and the fact that the CMA are now alone on an island, I can't see Microsoft making any further significant concessions.

The CMA folding like a red hot Mars Bar. Oh, the fanboys are going to go into full meltdown mode this week. I can't wait for all the salt.

Many times and I've got 2 weeks off work for Starfield too. Yeah, I'm a sad old man. 😂

@Scummbuddy No, that was an assumption made by people. It was later clarified that Id assisted them with the graphics not the combat.

@UltimateOtaku91 The only reason Sony don't buy entire publishers is because they can't afford it. Anybody with two brain cells can see how aggressive Sony's business practices are and to pretend they wouldn't do this if they had the cash is either plain ignorance or just pure fanboyism. It's plain to see that they've literally been trying to put Xbox out of business with their antics but as soon as Xbox decides to fight back by flexing their wallet, Sony cries foul. They brought this upon themselves.

@Toot1st I completely agree.

Some people, however, believe it's losing its value as they're not getting loads of "AAA" games on the the service because "Muh gwafix" or some other such daft reason. They're entitled to their opinion though and can choose not to sub if that's the way they feel.

I do note that he says publishers and not developers. That alone says a hell of a lot.

Smaller developers often praise Game Pass as it gives them some security. They never know whether their game will sell enough units and that can be make or break for a small independent developer.

Take Planet of Lana for example. I don't think I'd have given that game a second glance if it wasn't on Game Pass. It is fantastic and I loved every minute of it. I'll most likely buy it for my collection now too.

@themightyant Video streaming service, yes but not video game streaming service. He's quite right too as the video streaming market is saturated with so many competitors and choices. That is most certainly not the case with video game streaming services, as yet.

@Stocksy I easily scoop £20 in gift cards every 4 weeks from rewards. It doesn't take much effort or time, just remembering to do it, which sometimes scuppers my old brain 😂.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner As I replied previously, if you want a better deal, you can shop around and get GPU far cheaper than you are claiming. Some of us don't give a f*** as even £12.99 a month direct to Ms is insane value.

@Titntin Nothing to do with riding the wave of the positive response to the show as Phil P told us last year this was going to happen. Now many people are outraged like it wasn't expected. 😂

@Ep_13 Because it's £10.99 a month and I can't be arsed with the faff, to be honest.

@RIghteousNixon Spot on.....'nuff said!

@PsBoxSwitchOwner You can get cheap GPU subs if you know where to look. Doesn't change the fact that PS Plus Premium is absolute garbage.

@Stocksy I'm actually 100% certain he'd pay for it himself if rewards didn't exist. I could have GPU every month in perpetuity if I used my reward points but I use them for individual game purchases instead and I pay my monthly sub from my debit card. That wouldn't change if rewards didn't exist.

@Kaloudz I mean Phil P gave us the heads up about this increase last year. PS Plus Premium is like £13.49 monthly and there is little of interest to me on it. Even if GPU goes up £2 it's still 50p cheaper than that and I get 1st party games day one as well? I'm not gonna quibble over the 2 quid a month. I sense a lot of faux outrage here.

@Cashews Not having an issue with it and still seeing the value in it, despite the price increase, is neither rooting for it nor being a corporate stooge.

I wish Sony's service gave me the same value for money, then maybe I wouldn't have downgraded from Premium to Essential. My PS5 is a paperweight anyway, until Spider-man 2 comes out, and only then if I can tear myself away from Starfield.

@Kaloudz In agreement with you 100%, bud. Game Pass, even at the new price, is still the best value in gaming today.

Others have said it's been terrible recently and whilst I'd be hard pushed to criticise people who want more "big budget" games on the service, we will be seeing some soon enough, although I lost my mind and bought the Starfield Constellation Edition because I simply couldn't resist 😂 .

I've just completed Planet of Lana and loved every minute of it. Beautiful game. I'd have happily paid £20 for it, even though its asking price is £16.99, but I paid my £10.99 sub and got to play it along with any other games I want that are currently on the service. Money well spent, in my opinion.

@themightyant This is exactly how I feel. At least folks who will not or cannot upgrade to current gen can most likely play the current gen first party games via cloud on their old hardware. It's probably not going to be quite as optimal an experience but at least Xbox gives them the choice.

@Kaloudz It's really piqued my interest. Very much looking forward to it as well.

@Banjo- Pretty much. I don't like Sony's business practices at all, despite owning every console they've made bar the PlayStation TV. They're anti-consumer in my opinion too. However, I only have their consoles for their exclusives. I buy all multi-plats on Xbox and have done so for the last 20 years. PlayStation will never be my primary platform.

@Banjo- Sony absolutely want parity. They just want more parity for PlayStation than Xbox. 😂

@Banjo- I really hope they introduce that as an option.

DreamcastGuy is a tool. He was sh*tting all over Starfield on his stream, you could see the vitriol oozing out of him by the mannerisms. He's just annoyed he can't play it on his precious PlayStation. He rage quit his stream because he was being called out on his BS and this was all before the 30fps limit was announced. When that was announced he then latched on to that claiming the game was unfinished because of it. He likes to pretend he's platform neutral but he's one of the biggest Sony fanboys on YouTube.

@Stocksy First of all, I won't be answering any of your questions about my family. Such a creepy thing to ask a complete stranger on the Internet.

Secondly, stop being so hyperbolic, as you just come off as completely ridiculous. The other things you mentioned are in no way analogous to this whatsoever.

Yes, laws are there to protect people but parental complacency is a massive factor. I'm not absolving Xbox for their failings here, I'm pointing out that parents have primary responsibility for overseeing the online safety of their children.

Conker is begging for a new game. Such an underutilised IP, it's tragic.

Personally, I think it should be up to the parents to ensure their children only have access to accounts set up for them with the appropriate parental controls and carry out regular checks to ensure they're not doing things they shouldn't be.

Compared to my PS5, download speeds on my Series X are generally lightning fast. Downloading games on PS5 is painfully slow.

@Kaloudz My thoughts exactly! 🤣

@Kaloudz The same for me. Very odd.

The CMA are gonna fold like a red hot Mars bar.

The more the approvals keep coming from other regulators, the more the CMA and FTC look irrational and/or clueless.

Definitely the Series X/S controller. As many have said above, they've refined the controller each generation and with the Series consoles they finally got the D-pad funcionality right, although the clickiness of it is grating.

@Spider-Kev Not as far as I'm aware but it was given away as a Games with Gold title in March 2016, so if you've been collecting GwG games since back then, it might be in your collection.

My Edge is up to date and I can't find Action Centre using the guide in the article.

It's always worth it once you see the game in shelves........Then you put it in your console, see it on screen and realise you need to slap yourself.