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Re: Xbox Game Pass Gets Price Increases And New 'Standard' Subscription Tier

Tale

After Sony's miserable current gen showing, MS had my respect with the "for the gamers" and for awhile it was. That's gone now. I've slowly become a PC player again after few decades of exclusive console gaming. I have all the current consoles but I have rethink that in the future with game prices going up.

Instead of raising game prices, how about driving down the development costs because something is definitely wrong there with broken and mediocre but expensive first-party titles.

Re: Talking Point: Overall, How Successful Has 2023 Been For Xbox?

Tale

Gave it a B - like, it seems, most of the people. Hi-Fi Rush is one of the best games of the year. Starfield was ok, nothing spectacular, maybe a bit last generation in how the narrative was constructed. But I've tried a lot of game pass games, some of them I've loved, some of them I have not but without the gamepass I never would've played them.

Re: Blizzard President Says 'Players Have No Patience' And 'Want New Stuff Every Day'

Tale

I agree, there's truth to that. That said, a lot of games has far too much "content" in them, bad or mediocre side quests and activities. I rather finish the story and move on instead of "savoring" what I consider weak padding.

Then again, there are games like Cyberpunk 2077 which has a lot of very well written side content which I was happy to play.

So here's an idea: instead of 60+ hour games every three or four years, make two or three 20 hour games every two years. Unless your game is really, really good. Some are, vast majority is not.

Re: Talking Point: One Month On From Launch, How Are You Feeling About Starfield?

Tale

An 8/10 game. Did most of the factions, they were pretty good and enjoyed the main quest enough even if it wasn't particularly novel.

The weakest point of the game was the writing of the characters: they just wanted to tell their stories all the time. They didn't really have a life outside of their contact with me. One-dimensional.

Started Cyberpunk right after again. Character work is on a whole different level.