TheLastHarbinger

@NEStalgia You just need a Square Enix account to play for free until level 70 (which is the cap for the 2nd expansion).

@DJKingaling It's the Xbox Tax® at work.

@Tecinthehead Dropping the Series S is permanently out of question when it is the most popular SKU of the two Xbox has. Dead point.

No wonder Xbox is losing so much in Europe/South America. Literally 98.8% of all promotions and ads and giveaways are North America-only.

Between this and Legend Bowl, I am glad we are getting more indie sports games with good gameplay and career modes.

Game Pass is raining bangers. Persona 3 Reload + Episode Aigis alone is worth the entire year of Game Pass Ultimate I paid for.

Aspyr releasing yet another port with unfixed bugs + brand new bugs (like half the Campaign cutscenes missing).

Shows how STARVED people are for good Star Wars games.

@ralphdibny Cutscenes are BUGGED. Half the cutscenes from the Campaign are gone. No way to invert Y axis either. Classic Aspyr move.

@rustyduck Never happening without mods. Only time Bethesda released a game in 60 FPS was Skyrim Anniversary. Just took them 10 years.

@MikeHiscoe There is no such story here. On Sony's box there are only 2 exclusives in the top two.

@rustyduck pS5 sales also slowed down to a crawl since January. It's actually further down compared to pS4 than the XBSX/S is compared to XB1, lifetime-to-lifetime.

Really on the fence on whether it's worth a buy.

On multiplayer: I remember Squadrons. The Star Wars name is not enough to sustain a multiplayer game without a live service. People will stop logging in.

On singleplayer: we get Hero Assault on every map, XL mode on 3 maps, and... that's it? Might as well get the cheaper OG Xbox version.

Blah blah blah exclusives this exclusives that.

X360 era was amazing because we had good-looking games that didn't take 5+ years to get made and were stuffed with microtransaction crap. Period.

@Savage_Joe Wouldn't conclude that. Or you think UE5 is "not optimized to work well" with XBSX/pS5? A 60 FPS mode dropping to low 30s is sign of crappy optimization.

Not a fan of the genre but after trying & loving Thronebreaker and The Banner Saga, I guess I gotta sample this one too.

@GamingFan4Lyf Don't be dishonest, gaming revenue is what counts if you want to debate monopolies in gaming. Not employee headcount, someone working on Windows 11 or Sony headphones has ***** to do with this.

"Impresses"

Goes down to low 20s FPS in any combat scene on 550€ consoles. Huge disappointment.

Hopefully it will be F2P.

@Weebleman That can't happen, Ubisoft will be the one managing licensing.

@TwoDents Indeed, the CMA's narrative was stupid but damn didn't they put up a show.

@GamingFan4Lyf Microsoft is NOT the largest game publisher in the world. It is Temcent, by quite some margin.

Microsoft after ABK is barely above Sony.

Good to see a solid update schedule. Personally can't wait for mod support on XBSX.

CITIZEN SLEEPER 2 PLEASE

First game was brilliant.

@GamingFan4Lyf He's taking a jab at Sony, of course. Microsoft has a 30% market share, it is nowhere near a monopoly.

Yeah yeah sure but why did you guys cover the Hyperkin "The Competitor" hall effect controller (which hasn't even launched, 7 months later) but still ignore the 8BitDo Xbox controller (already on sale for $45) getting hall effect sticks?

Was that Hyperkin post a sponsored one? If so then nevermind, genuinely thought you liked to cover interesting Xbox hardware.

The CMA cried foul for months on end, turns out Sony is the one leading the pack (again).

@Sanquine Only monopoly anywhere is Sony's with a 80% cut of the market. Microsoft's monopoly in gaming is just bad fiction.

Man this is my most expected Xbox game of 2024 now, superb news.

Freaking amazing. Only Bethesda ever bothered with actual modding support for consoles, not even CD Projeky RED gave a flying f*ck about it. Glad Larian cares about us.

Amazing idea, Infinite's Forge is quite powerful and could pull a Halo-inspired take on the genre quite well.

Entire games - notably DotA - once sprung from player-made copycats, those can be real good... even better when they are free, as this Helljumpers project will be.

@eire-shabba No Aspyr games have ever gone to Game Pass.

@Zochmenos Lol what? I expect them to use the current dashboard, not the outdated one.

@VoidPunk You think a 70% cut of selling games to a 200+ million install base is "nothing"?

I don't agree with this strategy, but I sure as hell understand its appeal to Microsoft: it prints money.

@rhyno_888 Have you been living under a ROCK mate? Xbox hasn't had exclusives for more than half a decade.

I am on Xbox because of Quick Resume + Dev Mode + amazing controllers + free cloud saves + freaking cheap + Game Pass Console. If you are on Xbox because it has games nobody else can play then you simply bought the wrong box.

Is that the old, super-cluttered dashboard? Weird that it is still being used internally and particularly for a background showcase.

@themightyant 2018 IIRC.

@Sifi Sony does paywall cloud saves, and it is absurd, but what the hell does this have to do with Xbox paywalling FFXIV?

You are either very lost or using an informal fallacy of relevance. lol

@Sveakungen Just bought it on my Xbox!

Where is your Balatro review? Game is freaking fire.

@themightyant "almost"? Which Xbox game didn't release on PC day & date since they announced the policy?

Xbox will be the only platform to require a second paywall - GP Core to play the game... both PC and Sony's box forgo extra subscriptions.

What was the point of Spencer going to Las Vegas for that big reveal moment when Xbox will be THE most expensive and exclusionary platform to play FFXIV? Damn Phil what a L.

@RunGMhx MS Store is just crap and they messed up with the update architecture. The Steam version will also be able to get DirectX11/12 support but just needs 10 GBs; MS Store/Xbox need to reinstall almost the whole game.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Xbox might be generous with its "when everybody plays we all win" motto but Sony follows another strategy... one fanatically focused on ruthlessly placing games and game content within its exclusivity hell.

0% chance of Sony ever allowing Helldivers on Xbox. Like Square Enix and the Genshin Impact devs, Sony will keep muscling for gatekeeping games within its walled garden.

Best decision Xbox made the last 5 years was dropping the Live Gold/GP Core requirement for F2P games.

@Shushibda Sorry friend, ever since I got tricked by this I adopted it as my profile photo. lol

@CaptainCluck Unfortunately the X360 store predates the new XB1 MS Store architecture so it ended up costing more than it made money, huge shame.

@101Force The publisher can pull off any games they want unless specifically forbidden by contract. Nothing the platforms can do against it except make it still playable for those who already bought it.

@GamingFan4Lyf We need Microsoft to release the Xbox OS on PC.

@themightyant What did Steam do for backward compatibility/preservation? I thought it just used Windows' own compatibility layer whether it works or not.

I have several Steam games that don't run at all because Windows 11 can't run them anymore. Valve didn't and doesn't do anything to help me.

GOG.com at least helped resurrect some old servers like with the Star Wars Battlefront games.