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@Balaam_ I am altering the deal, pray I dont alter it any further

Starfield was overhyped imo. I played a bit on gamepass when I still had it. It got bring very quickly and I stopped playing after 7 main missions or so.

Ps5 (base) and series x and switch 2 are the last generation of consoles I've bought. From this point on I'll be focusing on PC and upgrading that as necessary. The few exclusives here and there aren't enough to keep me in the console space.

Pet peeve but its a third person shooter not a first person shooter.....

Usuall such roomers are hard to believe. But the way things are going the weird communication from xbox and then doing the opposite of what they are saying..... yeah.

What will it be called though? XBox Series x2? Xbox two x? Xbox 2 Series x? Series Xbox anywhere all the time most of the time?

How confusing should our messaging towards customers be?
Microsoft: HOLD MY BEER I GOT THIS!

Jokes aside. The damage is probably already done and many will have canceled due to the initial news. I certainly have has ultimate is now too expansive with too many perks I dont need. The other tiers dont have day 1 games so they are useless for me. Also I no longer play multiplayer on console so that aspect is also gone.

The thing about microsoft/xbox is that they have said A so many times just to do B. With the restructuring of gamepass (removing perks from 2 tiers!) The cancelations and closures. All the empty promises made.... it just screams dont trust us. The messaging from team green has been unreliable and confusing. How am I as a consumer then supposed to make a decision if you keep changing the rules last second? So this rumour isn't surprising at all. Infact this "announcement" is meaningless to me because who knows if they still feel like that next weekr or if they cancel that contract. I dislike it when either of the big 3 are ontop tmdue to their behaviors when they are. Competition is needed and it feels like microst has either given up or simply doesn't know what to do with xbox

A yes the AAAA experience Skull and Bones is indeed a classic. I remember playing that one way back on the Amiga.
All jokes aside. There are some really good games in there for sure, BUT i already have bought all those games that interested me. So the service is pretty much useless for me and therefore doesn't justify the price hike. Also many of these games can be bought for peanuts.

So is this the fault of the devs or microsoft? Cause it says in the article that the devs have to implement the fix and yet in the QnA section it says Microsoft has to validate the update. So my question is, have the devs not implemented the fix or has microsoft issues with validation?
Cuz if this is on microsoft then my god. Has team green eaten a years worth of laxatives?

@BAMozzy If I didn't have as much fun in the beta as I did then I wouldn't be looking at BF6. But this is now gonna be my last EA hurray in a sense. Might aswell enjoy it for as long as I can. A sort of brain off have fun with friends kinda game.

@kuu_nousee Yeah that is a huge red flag. But then again the game itself is finished so the buy out shouldn't do too much. Plus it's probably gonna be my goodbye EA/Dice game.

@Ricky-Spanish I know but it feels extra crummy now imo. Idk I just don't see the value microsoft is talking about. When you need the highest tier for day 1 additions... (yes I know the games leaving has to do with licensing stuff.)

I know they cycle through games but man with the price increase this taste really bad

Microsoft making good use of that price increase with those Gamepass additions....

I'm more interested in Battlefield 6

If xbox were a person, they would bungiejump and forget the rope. Or basejump and forget the parachute. Its fascinating really how quick they took the small goodwill they build up and are now destroying that. I'm impressed, like whats next? You need a cloud subscription in order to use the console? You put a disc in and if you arent subscribed go gamepass it just doesnt read the disc? Backwards compatibility now tied to a subscription service? Exciting times.....

Oh look even more reasons to cancel. Only reason to keep atleast one tier is due to online requirements. Like if you play alot of multiplayer games then you need it. Otherwise they made sure to gut the service completely. Well done microsoft.

My series x has become a x360 machine. Lime seriously so many games I looked forwadd to got cancelled. I dont play much online on xbox and with this price hike its just the end of gamepass for me. .ost xbox games launch on pc aswell so I'll just get them there. So the inly thing left on series x are stuff like the skate series (great games) blue dragon and other 360 classics. Since upgrading my pc, console gaming has taken a backseat. So yeah. Many factors are at play here. As for the we listening quote: Listening is one part, acting on it is the other. I dont see Microsoft changing this decision. They are hellbent on turning xbox into a publisher and this tone deaf decision is yet another part of that.

My subscription lapsed and will not be renewed.

In switzerland we never had the rewards programme so I always had to pay the full price of gamepass without loopholes. Now they just increased that price to unpayable. Yeah sure you give me more choice, but I still have to pay the full increased price. I still have to pay rent, insurance, general living cost like food and whatnot. I just cannot justify paying for a service that MIGHT give me a game I want which I then have to rush to completion because you never know when they leave the service......My subscription lapsed a while ago and I notice no downsight since I stopped playing multiplayer on console.

Man, the start of the sereis x era was slow and then slowly it picked up. I thought after the xbox one disaster Xbox would be hungry to bite back. Oh boy did they bite back. They bit back so hard they bit off their tongue and are now choking on it..... I'm wodnering just how bad things are gonna go now. Gamepass at 50 bucks in 2 years time? Hell yeah baby... I'm gonna be focusing on pc and upgrading my pc when and if it becomes necessary. Shame really, after it looked great for a moment. Getting priced out of a hobby is what hurts the most......

Smartphone usage while driving? Don't be ridiculous, I play Xbox while driving!

Cronos the new dawn and Hell is us. No interest in Silksong as I never managed to beat Hollow Knight

So I caved and got the premium edition. Got past the demo part and into the first village.....Holy moly the atmosphere is something else. The way the aftermath of war is portrayed is incredible. There were a few moments just in the first village were I went wow, this is, holy sh... If it keeps this up It's gonna end up as a truly special experience. Though it's definitely not for everyone

@Odium yeah I finished the demo and liked it. But on the other hand there were demos that I loved while disliking the endproduct. (Either due too bugs or the way to short length etc)

Man if UE 5 really is to become the industry standard, then they MUST make optimization easier and mandatory. Iveheard epic is working on making it more intuitive in terms of optimization but still. UE 5 is such a coin flip.

Sounds good and with access starting soon, I might cave in and get it.

Man lumen is such a ressource hog it seems. But then again even with an rtx 4080 super the game has performance problems atleast for me. Cpupled with incredibly difficult bosses and well I stopped after getting to the desert rat boss. It'll stay that way and go on my games I'll never finish pile. Also won't be getting their next game.

If the new tomb raider fails, then I feel its by bye for the team. I hope it doesn't come to that. But if you'd have told me that perfect dark would be canceled, I would've said no way. Now look were we are at. Here's hoping....

Dont get me wrong, this game as come an insane way. But I still experience texture bugs especially with the flashlight. Now It also has a black screen issue? Idk it feels.liek the more they add the more broken the spaghetti code becomes. At this point I feel its overcooked.....

Couldn't get too far into wukong got stuck on a Boss to the point of giving up. So I'll be skipping this one

@AndroidBango WTF......after all the years of waiting and development hell just to hamstring the release like this. Just looked up the article and that pricing kills it completely. GG devs. GG

Im done with new consoles. I have ps5, series x amd the switch 2. Im set. If anythign I'll focus on pc gaming and that's it. The hobby has become way too expensive to be getting in early.

Nah I'm not getting it now. Will wait for BF6 instead. Though I did like the beta I'm still gonna wait on how the campaign is and how many bugs they've fixed. The beta had some really concerning issues.

I feail to se the point of this game when ultimate edition already exists. Remaster 2 and 3. But no we get another remaster of the 1st game......

On Pc it seems to have performance performance problems (big suprise....not) according to steam users.

Ohhhh procedural generation....oohhhh its already all samey looking..... yeah no, this clearly isn't for me. But hopefully it finds an audience

Had to go with baf company 2, and no my rose tinted glasses will stay on 😤

Playing on pc and despite a few visual bugs and a few issues regarding spawns, I'm having a blast. Now if they keept true to their word and don't add outlandish skins then I'll most likely get it

Finished the campaign on pc and it was a struggle. Lots of freezing and crashing. Campaing itself was ok. Waiting on dlc.

Cautiously optimistic.

Oh look it's multiplatform concord😍.....
Seriously they plagiarized a core visual element of this game. I cant see this lasting more than a year. The reception so far has been largely negative. Hopefully under stricter guidance Bungie can make a comeback otherwise it may be the next big closure.....

Fable cancellation next or if it launches it will do so absolutely broken....

I will wait for the inevitable buggyines of Battlefield to be somewhat patched before jumping in. No interest in cod anymore since they are going the fortnite way of too cartoony skins. Though it fits more in fortnite than cod

You know whhat would help in getting me interested/getting me to form my own opinion? Tell me what the game is about.....

Edit: just watched the teaser "trailer". What a nothingburger. Seriously this reminds me of that one Unreal Engine Tech Demo were they were talking about facial animations. There is nothing there to duscuss or be excited about. If this trailer didn't have Kojimas name attached it would be looked at as a vaporware thing.....

XBOX PC on PC (and Playstation and Nintendo and any other platform that wants us (pretty please)).

As for a serous answer why not xbox anywhere? If xbox becomes truly mutliplatform this would make the most sense to me.

@Kaloudz well said. It feel like we are heading for a gamecrash if that makes sense or maybe even entertainment crash. Bloating budgets on unrealistic timeframes and technology that isnt quite there yet. I also think that game engines have suffered due to upscaling. Sure upscaling helps but it feels like without it engines run inefficient. Even with upscaling, performance seems to suffer alot of the time. I mean look at Unreal Engine 5. On paper it sounds like a powerhouse. In actuality it seems to run horrible on most systems. Well not much can be done as a consumer except giving feeback and "voting" with our wallets. Then again there's always the indie scene and AA space to keep an eye on. I also think that sometimes expectations are too high, I know I am "guilty" of hyping up a game for myself just to be disappointed.

Well worth it then to close several studios and lay off staff....also didn't he say they'll use AI way more? So has AI written his statement?

In all seriousness this guy just makes me angry...... so yeah good on gamepass making moeny but it comes with an incredibly bitter aftertaste.

I think i got sick from the hypocrisy and tone deafness on display here. Wow. Are we sire Nadella is a Human or is he an AI Bot? Hard to tell.....
Edit: He's slowly eroding any goodwill I have with Microsoft and Xbox.