Exactly. They get called out on this multiple times by users who can clearly see the pattern. It’s the same negativity posted week after week, usually without any real attempt to have a conversation about it. At that point it starts to feel less like an opinion and more like an attempt to bait reactions.
There’s already more than enough doom and gloom in the world without people coming here just to add to it. Spaces like PureXbox should be somewhere fans can actually talk about games, share excitement, and have discussions without the constant cloud of console-warring toxicity that you see all over the rest of the internet. Not every thread needs to be turned into another round of the same tired narrative.
It doesn’t help that the same comments often end up getting boosted by a handful of accounts that seem to show up purely to like that kind of negativity. That just reinforces the cycle and makes discussions worse for everyone else who actually wants to talk about games.
Most people come here because they enjoy Xbox and want a place to discuss it with other fans. Turning every thread into another pessimistic talking point doesn’t add anything meaningful, and just drags the atmosphere down for everyone else.
You’re not contributing to a discussion, you’re running the same script every day. Same complaints, same pessimism, same refusal to engage with anyone who replies.
At some point it stops looking like frustration and starts looking like someone who just enjoys dragging every thread into their personal misery loop.
@zekepliskin "This signals exactly what I expected - they're going to lean on the back catalogue even more heavily because they have nothing new to offer. How long do they expect people to pay monthly subs for old games they could already play on original hardware now? Even the slowest gamers will wake up to the fact most of what is on Game Pass is either weak or great but over 5 years old and cancel."
That’s a weird take honestly. One of the main reasons people subscribe to Game Pass in the first place is because of the day-one releases. It’s not just a “back catalogue” service.
Game Pass regularly adds brand-new games the same day they launch. Award-winning hits like Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hollow Knight: Silksong all arrived on the service day one.
@GamingGod "The PC crowd are pretty undeserving of the best franchises in gaming imo"
“The PC crowd are undeserving of the best franchises” is hilarious considering those franchises are literally made on PCs.
Developers aren’t sitting there building games on a PlayStation or Xbox. The entire industry pipeline runs on PC workstations using engines, with code written, compiled, and debugged on PC before it ever touches a console devkit.
All the art, animation, level design, and programming happens on PC. Then the finished build gets exported to consoles like PlayStation or Xbox.
So the idea that PC players are “undeserving” of those games is pretty ironic when PC is the platform the entire industry is built on. Consoles are basically just another target platform for software that was created on PC in the first place.
@Brigurugi "(most recently changing rewards)... the writing is on the wall, the scuttlebutt in the know, all points to no more Xbox."
On the Rewards change: yes, Xbox gift cards redeemed through Microsoft Rewards have increased in cost by roughly 5.3% in the US and UK. That’s a pricing adjustment to a loyalty program — not evidence of shutting down a hardware division. Companies tweak rewards programs all the time due to costs, currency shifts, or margin changes.
And it’s worth pointing out: no other major platform holder even offers a rewards system comparable to Microsoft Rewards that lets users redeem points for store credit at that scale. Adjusting a benefit that competitors don’t even provide is hardly “the writing on the wall.”
Your comment history tells a different story. A quick look shows a trail of deleted posts for console warring, so let’s not pretend this is coming from a neutral place.
You also signed up last month and every contribution so far follows the same pattern. At this point the agenda is pretty obvious, even if you’re trying to dress it up as innocence.
@dreadful "MS are completely creatively bankrupt. It's so over. They can't create anything new"
This is just… objectively wrong.
Xbox, Activision, and Bethesda have launched or published new IP and new games like Ara: History Untold, Avowed, Deathloop, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Grounded, Hellblade, Hi-Fi Rush, Indiana Jones, Keeper, Ori, Pentiment, Redfall, Sea of Thieves, South of Midnight, Starfield, The Outer Worlds, and Towerborne. That’s without even touching upcoming new IP like Clockwork Revolution, Marvel’s Blade, and OD.
Revived old IP like Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Battletoads, Fable, Killer Instinct, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Ninja Gaiden, and Psychonauts.
They’ve also taken existing franchises and pushed them into completely different genres, which is the opposite of creative bankruptcy: Gears Tactics (strategy), Halo Wars (RTS), Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Legends (action-RPG/strategy), and even Crash Team Rumble turning a platformer into a team-based multiplayer game.
Every major publisher does remakes alongside new IP. You don’t have to like Xbox’s output, but pretending they “can’t create anything new” is just ignoring reality.
@GamingGod "When Xbox do something good I’ll cheer it on."
First-party and major releases alone include Avowed, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Doom: The Dark Ages, Gears of War: Reloaded, Grounded 2, Keeper, Ninja Gaiden 4, South of Midnight, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, The Outer Worlds 2, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Game Pass added award-winning hits like Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
On top of that, Xbox landed huge ports like Black Myth: Wukong, Final Fantasy XVI, Genshin Impact, Helldivers 2, Silent Hill 2, and Triangle Strategy.
If that’s “not a great year,” then the bar has officially left the planet!
@TheGameThrifter "Pretty clear Microsoft wants nothing to do with consoles anymore."
[citation needed]
"We are actively investing in our future first-party consoles and devices designed, engineered and built by Xbox. For more details, the community can revisit our agreement announcement with AMD."
@JayJ Nah, I’m just looking at what’s actually released. You skipped over the 2025 Xbox games I listed because they don’t fit the “doom and gloom” narrative you’re pushing.
No, just can’t help but notice your account was created in October, and nearly every comment since then has been negative toward Xbox. If you have specific criticisms, it might help the discussion to explain them instead of repeating the same negativity.
There’s a clear distinction between constructive, good-faith comments and bad-faith posting that exists only to derail articles with constant negativity. It’s unfair to other users who support PureXbox financially and don’t want this space to devolve into the kind of trolling culture seen on Twitter or Reddit.
@JayJ "there hasn't been much for the fans to cheer about"
First-party and major releases alone include Avowed, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Doom: The Dark Ages, Gears of War: Reloaded, Grounded 2, Keeper, Ninja Gaiden 4, South of Midnight, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, The Outer Worlds 2, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Game Pass added award-winning hits like Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
On top of that, Xbox landed huge ports like Black Myth: Wukong, Final Fantasy XVI, Genshin Impact, Helldivers 2, Silent Hill 2, and Triangle Strategy.
If that’s “not a great year,” then the bar has officially left the planet!
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Re: Data Firm Predicts PC Revenue Will Soon Surpass Console As Xbox Prepares To Bridge The Gap
@johnedwin "most people will play pc games on a real pc not on the new xbox.."
Out of curiosity, how are you defining a “real PC”?
If a device runs PC games and a PC operating system, does something like the Steam Deck qualify?
Re: Talking Point: What Do You 'Expect' From Xbox Over The Next Five Years?
@Globo
Exactly. They get called out on this multiple times by users who can clearly see the pattern. It’s the same negativity posted week after week, usually without any real attempt to have a conversation about it. At that point it starts to feel less like an opinion and more like an attempt to bait reactions.
There’s already more than enough doom and gloom in the world without people coming here just to add to it. Spaces like PureXbox should be somewhere fans can actually talk about games, share excitement, and have discussions without the constant cloud of console-warring toxicity that you see all over the rest of the internet. Not every thread needs to be turned into another round of the same tired narrative.
It doesn’t help that the same comments often end up getting boosted by a handful of accounts that seem to show up purely to like that kind of negativity. That just reinforces the cycle and makes discussions worse for everyone else who actually wants to talk about games.
Most people come here because they enjoy Xbox and want a place to discuss it with other fans. Turning every thread into another pessimistic talking point doesn’t add anything meaningful, and just drags the atmosphere down for everyone else.
Re: Talking Point: What Do You 'Expect' From Xbox Over The Next Five Years?
@TheGameThrifter
You’re not contributing to a discussion, you’re running the same script every day. Same complaints, same pessimism, same refusal to engage with anyone who replies.
At some point it stops looking like frustration and starts looking like someone who just enjoys dragging every thread into their personal misery loop.
Re: Xbox Says Backwards Compatibility Program Will Be Revived For 25th Anniversary
@zekepliskin "This signals exactly what I expected - they're going to lean on the back catalogue even more heavily because they have nothing new to offer. How long do they expect people to pay monthly subs for old games they could already play on original hardware now? Even the slowest gamers will wake up to the fact most of what is on Game Pass is either weak or great but over 5 years old and cancel."
That’s a weird take honestly. One of the main reasons people subscribe to Game Pass in the first place is because of the day-one releases. It’s not just a “back catalogue” service.
Game Pass regularly adds brand-new games the same day they launch. Award-winning hits like Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hollow Knight: Silksong all arrived on the service day one.
Re: The 10 Most Wanted Backwards Compatibility Games According To 'Xbox Game Preservation'
Spartan: Total Warrior
Viking: Battle for Asgard
Rise of the Argonauts
Re: Next Xbox Console Could Be Affected By PlayStation Pulling Back On PC
@GamingGod "The PC crowd are pretty undeserving of the best franchises in gaming imo"
“The PC crowd are undeserving of the best franchises” is hilarious considering those franchises are literally made on PCs.
Developers aren’t sitting there building games on a PlayStation or Xbox. The entire industry pipeline runs on PC workstations using engines, with code written, compiled, and debugged on PC before it ever touches a console devkit.
All the art, animation, level design, and programming happens on PC. Then the finished build gets exported to consoles like PlayStation or Xbox.
So the idea that PC players are “undeserving” of those games is pretty ironic when PC is the platform the entire industry is built on. Consoles are basically just another target platform for software that was created on PC in the first place.
Re: New Report On PS6 Delay Throws Next-Gen Timing Into Doubt
@Brigurugi "(most recently changing rewards)... the writing is on the wall, the scuttlebutt in the know, all points to no more Xbox."
On the Rewards change: yes, Xbox gift cards redeemed through Microsoft Rewards have increased in cost by roughly 5.3% in the US and UK. That’s a pricing adjustment to a loyalty program — not evidence of shutting down a hardware division. Companies tweak rewards programs all the time due to costs, currency shifts, or margin changes.
And it’s worth pointing out: no other major platform holder even offers a rewards system comparable to Microsoft Rewards that lets users redeem points for store credit at that scale. Adjusting a benefit that competitors don’t even provide is hardly “the writing on the wall.”
Re: New Report On PS6 Delay Throws Next-Gen Timing Into Doubt
@Brigurugi "MS is leaving the console business by 2027"
Ohhh, so you’re basically the Temu version of Nostradamus? Same dramatic predictions, just… slightly off-brand.
Re: Review: Want A PS5 Controller For Xbox? Hyperkin's 'The Competitor' Is Good And Affordable
Xbox Remains The Controller Of Choice For Steam Users, Unsurprisingly https://www.purexbox.com/news/2024/06/xbox-remains-the-controller-of-choice-for-steam-users-unsurprisingly
Re: Beast Of Reincarnation Continues To Impress, Releases On Xbox Game Pass In Summer 2026
@Naughtyottsel92
Your comment history tells a different story. A quick look shows a trail of deleted posts for console warring, so let’s not pretend this is coming from a neutral place.
You also signed up last month and every contribution so far follows the same pattern. At this point the agenda is pretty obvious, even if you’re trying to dress it up as innocence.
Re: Beast Of Reincarnation Continues To Impress, Releases On Xbox Game Pass In Summer 2026
@Naughtyottsel92 Can you not just say "Definitely picking this up, looks excellent." ? Does everything have to be about PlayStation vs Xbox?
Re: Report: Microsoft Is Set To Launch An Xbox Cloud Gaming Ad-Tier This Year
@OldGamer999 Xbox Cloud Gaming Quality Bump Shows 'Dramatic Improvement' Says Digital Foundry
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2025/09/xbox-cloud-gaming-quality-bump-shows-dramatic-improvement-says-digital-foundry
Re: StarCraft, Wolfenstein 3 & Fallout New Vegas Remake Could All Be In The Works Over At Xbox
@dreadful "MS are completely creatively bankrupt. It's so over. They can't create anything new"
This is just… objectively wrong.
Xbox, Activision, and Bethesda have launched or published new IP and new games like Ara: History Untold, Avowed, Deathloop, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Grounded, Hellblade, Hi-Fi Rush, Indiana Jones, Keeper, Ori, Pentiment, Redfall, Sea of Thieves, South of Midnight, Starfield, The Outer Worlds, and Towerborne. That’s without even touching upcoming new IP like Clockwork Revolution, Marvel’s Blade, and OD.
Revived old IP like Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Battletoads, Fable, Killer Instinct, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Ninja Gaiden, and Psychonauts.
They’ve also taken existing franchises and pushed them into completely different genres, which is the opposite of creative bankruptcy: Gears Tactics (strategy), Halo Wars (RTS), Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Legends (action-RPG/strategy), and even Crash Team Rumble turning a platformer into a team-based multiplayer game.
Every major publisher does remakes alongside new IP. You don’t have to like Xbox’s output, but pretending they “can’t create anything new” is just ignoring reality.
Re: A Year Later, Microsoft Remains Highly Committed To Its 'This Is An Xbox' Campaign
@GamingGod "When Xbox do something good I’ll cheer it on."
First-party and major releases alone include Avowed, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Doom: The Dark Ages, Gears of War: Reloaded, Grounded 2, Keeper, Ninja Gaiden 4, South of Midnight, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, The Outer Worlds 2, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Game Pass added award-winning hits like Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
On top of that, Xbox landed huge ports like Black Myth: Wukong, Final Fantasy XVI, Genshin Impact, Helldivers 2, Silent Hill 2, and Triangle Strategy.
If that’s “not a great year,” then the bar has officially left the planet!
Re: A Year Later, Microsoft Remains Highly Committed To Its 'This Is An Xbox' Campaign
@GamingGod So you created an account in October just to spread negativity?
There can be no safe space for fans of Xbox to escape the kind of trolling culture seen on Twitter or Reddit?
Re: Xbox Console Sales 'The Worst On Record' In 2025 As Microsoft Shifts Focus (UK)
@TheGameThrifter "Pretty clear Microsoft wants nothing to do with consoles anymore."
[citation needed]
"We are actively investing in our future first-party consoles and devices designed, engineered and built by Xbox. For more details, the community can revisit our agreement announcement with AMD."
Next Xbox Console: Everything We Know So Far About Microsoft's Next-Gen System
https://www.purexbox.com/guides/next-xbox-console-everything-we-know-so-far-about-microsofts-next-gen-system
Re: Five Reasons Why 2026 Is One Of The Most Important Years In Xbox History
@JayJ Nah, I’m just looking at what’s actually released. You skipped over the 2025 Xbox games I listed because they don’t fit the “doom and gloom” narrative you’re pushing.
Re: A Year Later, Microsoft Remains Highly Committed To Its 'This Is An Xbox' Campaign
@GamingGod "are you a robot?"
No, just can’t help but notice your account was created in October, and nearly every comment since then has been negative toward Xbox. If you have specific criticisms, it might help the discussion to explain them instead of repeating the same negativity.
There’s a clear distinction between constructive, good-faith comments and bad-faith posting that exists only to derail articles with constant negativity. It’s unfair to other users who support PureXbox financially and don’t want this space to devolve into the kind of trolling culture seen on Twitter or Reddit.
Re: Five Reasons Why 2026 Is One Of The Most Important Years In Xbox History
@JayJ "there hasn't been much for the fans to cheer about"
First-party and major releases alone include Avowed, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Doom: The Dark Ages, Gears of War: Reloaded, Grounded 2, Keeper, Ninja Gaiden 4, South of Midnight, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, The Outer Worlds 2, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Game Pass added award-winning hits like Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
On top of that, Xbox landed huge ports like Black Myth: Wukong, Final Fantasy XVI, Genshin Impact, Helldivers 2, Silent Hill 2, and Triangle Strategy.
If that’s “not a great year,” then the bar has officially left the planet!
Re: A Year Later, Microsoft Remains Highly Committed To Its 'This Is An Xbox' Campaign
@GamingGod "Cloud gaming is rubbish."
[citation needed]
Xbox Cloud Gaming Quality Bump Shows 'Dramatic Improvement' Says Digital Foundry
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2025/09/xbox-cloud-gaming-quality-bump-shows-dramatic-improvement-says-digital-foundry
Re: Five Reasons Why 2026 Is One Of The Most Important Years In Xbox History
@JayJ "It's a most important year because the brand is quickly dying off due to all the awful decisions by it's leadership."
[citation needed]
Xbox Achieves Record-Breaking Results In Latest Earnings Report
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2025/05/xbox-achieves-record-breaking-results-in-latest-earnings-report
Microsoft Reports Strongest Xbox Q3 to Date, Outlook Remains Positive
https://www.gamesmarket.global/financial-statements-microsoft-reports-strongest-xbox-q3-to-date-outlook-remains-positive-4ecbb94bced4dda39490f962ed7b8b37