Martsmall

@BacklogBrad I can't blame them really for making a little extra money like others do ( diablo for example ) if they dont they are gonna add it to everyone else , if ppl want to play it early ( like me ) then gd for them, it's been proven lots of times ppl will pay for early access with other companies

@AlexAtwell yeh it's a case of oh we are the last look at how important we are ,
They went with what the US were doing and backed the wrong horse ( not the first time we blindly followed the US)
And now it's a case of lets look important to the rest of the world to save face

I'm from UK too and to me it's always seems the relationship with the US is us saying look at us down with the cool kids and it always turns out wrong for us ,here's a idea show the world how important the UK is by NOT trying. To be the cool kid with the US

@AlexAtwell it's the UK like to look important than we actually are ,think super nanny but with takeovers

I've got my early access and starfield controller ready , I'm hoping for a midnight release then life wont be interfering with me playing for a while

@Lup yes it's just for gold Insiders

Xbox Live Gold members in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring will be able to preview Xbox Game Pass Core beginning today

Taken from the alpha skip ahead notes

Also stream games to discord users has come out for alpha /alpha skip ahead

Stream from Xbox to your Discord friends

Starting today a subset of Xbox Insiders can stream games from Xbox to Discord friends. Coming soon for everyone, so share your feedback today.

I like the new dash and have done since the first day of preview, I don't care about the ads and to be honest they sometimes are helpful like what is out/ coming out on GP , and lets face it if they got rid of all the ads chances are they would make the money they get from ads from elsewhere like rasing gp sub prices

@BleedingDreamer microsoft are the ones that power the advertising

https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/post/october-2022/how-microsoft-will-power-netflix-new-ad-supported-tier

@StonyKL honestly if they are going To do it they will , now digital sales are more than physical soon all honesty the ppl have spoken , if ppl stopped buying digital tomorrow they wouldn't go that route but of course they won't, I don't like it as much as you but untill ppl as a whole agree it's not going to change , eg all the ps fans on ps saying they won't buy a acti game cause of the Microsoft deal ...yet they will still go out in droves to get the latest cod so they can play with their friends
Edit
It's just something we have to get used to ( that change ) just like I have to get used to my neighbour showing off what she eats every friggin day on FB !!!! Who'd have thought at our age that ppl would b doing that ? Lol

@StonyKL if your gonna worry about the future maybe worry whether the earth will still be around in 10 years ,what's the point no one knows ,for all we know by then games could be downloaded to our brains , same with films

Most films can still be gotten and as long as ppl are still buying physical and in large numbers they aren't going to stop it , I'm not going to worry about 10 years in the future there are far more important things to worry about like will I have to get a mortgage to pay my gas bill soon lol only joking but you get my meaning

@StonyKL or ...just a suggestion...why not buy the games you want then you won't have to get streaming services?

Really it's not rocket science

@shoeses I can understand how you would feel cynical ,but let's be honest and I will try to remember all the stuff you typed about ,apologies if i miss any

The cave has been brought back yesterday on game pass , the rewards is a shamble at the make yes they are cutting stuff but they have got plenty of scammers using it to get lots of accounts and using a Vpn to grab more.
rewards and they have tried to stop it but the ways they have put into stop it are hurting users that havent been scamming ( Reddit has lots of articles ) in fact I myself keep being told I'm in rye wrong location but I'm not I'm.in the UK even thing says I'm in the UK even microsofts own log in activity BUT rewards doesn't because of the way it handles cgnat .

The backwards compatibility program needed the owners of the game to agree to it maybe lots said no or wanted too much money

@shoeses no the ps deal is just cod
Microsoft’s original deal offer to Sony in January 2022 included keeping “all existing Activision console titles on Sony, including future versions in the Call of Duty franchise or any other current Activision franchise on Sony through December 31st, 2027.” The deal terms have clearly changed since that opening offer, with an extension to 10 years that’s limited to just Call of Duty.

The deal with Nvidia is cod and acti games

Edit. A Microsoft spokesperson subsequently confirmed to The Verge that the deal would last for a term of 10 years, and covers Call of Duty only — not any other Activision Blizzard games.

@shoeses I'm not on about old games although at the moment the old cod games are the top selling on the Xbox store as now ppl can play multiplayer again , I'm thinking about the future exclusive games eg they may do a spyro/crash game no one's knows ,they could have many plans for us gamers , and those who have GPU and pay each year for cod won't have to now which is gd for their pockets

@DreamlandGem nice timing just as I was about to rob some of @hypnotoad popcorn

@Kaloudz no more crash by Coco Chanel

@Kaloudz I say we blame you for stepping away lol

@shoeses it's they mobile that Microsoft is really after ,the money mobile makes dwarfs the acti games

As for what we benefit , Xbox will have more games going on to gamepass they will have more ppl ( Sony /nin) moving to Xbox /game pass to play them games like cod /spyro etc etc ,which means more money to put more games on gamepass which brings in more for us to play for the money we pay
Edit and once they all get rolling we will get a constant supply of exclusive games , there are loads in the acti back catalogue that ppl would love to be able to play again

@Cashews I'm the same with SIM games , if they put simulator on the end of anything it's mine lol

@Cashews it's not my type of game I got bored quickly , but hey , just after anyone that is a big player of the game

@jedinite yeh thats how it works if u cancel GP you lose access to the game unless you have purchased it , if it was the other way everyone would just buy the dlc to games instead of the actual games

Anyone a really big player of sea of thieves ?

I've got it not just for the 5 days but for the expansion that comes with it ( shattered space story ) when it's released ,you just know it being that price now that the dlc will b round about that anyway , ps also approx £11 in Egypt

Pc , stardew is not cross compatible with Xbox

I start a game and send u invite , u sit and wait tell me when Ur play a pc game /play with friends pop

Oh and when u enter start a stopwatch I'll prove it's quicker

@Kaloudz yw matey I found stardew to be quickest , even when others haven't been working star dew has

@Kaloudz get a friend to play stardew valley with you , it's a small download ( approx 800mb ) it doesnt need a high power computer and usually takes 10 mins and has done for months with me ,feel free to msg me on Xbox if u need me to make a lobby for you

I'll be honest if it was me heading Xbox I'd be saying ... Remember saying
"I don’t want a new Call of Duty deal. I just want to block your merger.”

Well looks like u get nothing

@InterceptorAlpha I agree he wouldn't be looking at either site , it's just ps won't publish a negative article ( jym Ryan's email for eg ) just I'm case Ryan does look at the site one day lol

@__jamiie I don't know how much but I wouldn't mind been given just 5% of it

@Snake_V5 amazing how you all come up with Sony creates Thier talent blah blah , like the studios they paid for never released a game before , oh and one of Thier biggest hitters ( spider man) is rented from marvel ,

It business if your buying milk from the local cow everyday if you buy the cow, money saved and earned in the future ,just cause Sony can't afford to buy the cow it's not microsofts fault , it's gd business move for Microsoft, thinking about the future

you said
not by producing great, industry defining games from their own studios, but by buying the publishers who have already done so.

Do you know what Microsoft will releases later ? Unfortunately they can't create games in a couple of years ask the last of us factions if it's so easy how long has that been now ?

@HonestHick honestly say no more about it everyone types stuff how they didn't mean it,it's not a Biggie ,
The thing is I hope that the CMA do reach a deal cause if they sell off the UK cloud gaming part I won't b happy , yet again they think what the consumer wants ....just to get Thier bit of fame

@HonestHick no problems matey , none of us over here want the CMA to give the problems they do, it's certainly not the ppls fault , it's yet again the ppl in power do what they want to not what the ppl want it to just like the ftc has done , and both say it's for the good of the consumers ...what a laugh

@HonestHick island of dumb ? Way to insult a lot of ppl , it's not the UK's fault just as much it's not America's fault for the ftcs rubbish , if u blame anyone blame the CMA not the country itself

Just the CMA now

(Breaking) Ninth Circuit has denied the FTC’s request for a further pause on Microsoft’s Activision deal

Microsoft is now free to close its Activision Blizzard deal after 11:59PM PT today

The CMA is now the only thing barring closing

(Breaking) Ninth Circuit has denied the FTC’s request for a further pause on Microsoft’s Activision deal

Microsoft is now free to close its Activision Blizzard deal after 11:59PM PT today

The CMA is now the only thing barring closing

There's a rumour that they will close today at 12 ( Thier time ) a hour and half from not in the UK and the UK won't b part of it till they have the CMA hearing

Wow this thing has more ups and downs than a alton towers rollercoaster

@Secryt they are mostly they on about wasting money , everytime they say chair Kahn I think they are saying shere khan , where's baloo ?

Edit I mistakenly thought of star trek ok I'm not a trekkie , shere khan is the tiger in jungle book

One of the worst parts of this is if the ftc get there own way ( they wont ) it will cost US taxpayers more and more and more ,yet one of there problems is we dont want Xbox to force ppl onto their console but the ppl on the US are forced to pay for this we won't give up cause we are stubborn move

I'll start out in prominence poker , that seems to go under the radar ,when ppl lose on there they lose Thier s**t

For all those saying they got to get past the cma first etc ,they already trying to make a deal

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23791149/microsoft-activision-blizzard-uk-regulators-cma-appeal

@Lucylu1983 you just know netflix are thinking about the film rights right now lol

I actually don't want it to be over !!! I don't mean the deal but the court case I actually enjoyed listening to it , quick get some other gaming company to sue another one lol

@VenomUK yes use a VPN , DON'T change your account address

Buy em ( up to 3 years gold ) ,turn on VPN got to redeem.microsoft.com ,redeem the turkey /Brazil code , turn off VPN apply a ultimate code ,2 years ultimate at the new rate

Or just buy turkey/Brazilian 3 years gold for approx £75 then convert , 2 years of ultimate for approx £78

@HonestHick yw matey , I know what u will b doing the second u get that dash lol

@HonestHick https://ibb.co/VWRft2r with new dash

Best part for me was the judge saying
Is not the harm to Sony that we care about is the harm to the consumer!

I know I'll enjoy whatever they releases as I love Thier games but still am a bit down about having to wait longer for a psychonauguhts sequel , even a remaster would have me throwing my money at them

But yet game pass is always full of lots of different games and lots of third party day one releases...yeh they can't stand game pass lmfao

Translation of Ryan: noooo we want them to pay us $70 not be able to play them cheaper elsewhere so we will convince idiots game pass is a bad thing !!!!