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Re: Poll: Should The Next Xbox Controller Support AA Batteries Again?

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It NEEDS gyro.

As for batteries I don't mind as I have both a set of rechargeable Eneloop batteries and a plug in battery pack.

But for the last few months I actually have just my Xbox controller directly plugged into my Xbox with nothing in the battery port at all. It's really nice how light the controller is like this and in my head, no proof or evidence whatsoever, it's faster less latency cus it's wired. Vroom vroom!

Re: Halo Is Quietly Having A Resurgence Right Now, And There's A Lot More To Come

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Very strange that my comment was censored and deleted. I just simply gave my view about how the Halo IP hasn't been able to maintain relevance in the modern gaming market which is simply a fact.

I enjoy Halo and played Infinite for years. Probably top 1% of people on this very site. Yet my comment gets wiped and deleted for not being super positive about the Halo franchise? What is there to be happy about exactly? It's been failure at every turn for the IP.

Re: Report: Xbox Suffering Major Layoffs Next Week, Microsoft Declines To Comment

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Every single western person laid off will be replaced by cheap Indian labor.

This is just the modern day sweat shoppifying of the gaming industry.

All these big mega corps will just outsource their work to South America, India and China. You can pay poorer third world country people pennies instead of first world wages and all the benefits.

All your clothes and electronics are made by slave labor for pennies on the dollar. And so too are they making the moves to sweatshop your videogames.

Re: Gears Of War: E-Day Team Shares Message After Missing Xbox Games Showcase 2025

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@Kaloudz MS outsource massive amounts of work to for hire Devs in cheap labor countries.

Look it up. Halo Infinites engine was an absolute ***** mess because they got cheap Indian programmers to work on it and it's such a Hodge podged spaghetti code engine that they literally couldn't even add basic content without the entire game breaking.

It took over a year just to make different armour items equippable. One of the game modes was broken for 3 months and they struggled to fix it.

This outsourcing happens for every game basically. You can look up the credits of any modern AAA game and youll see giant walls of Indian and/or Chinese names.

Re: Gears Of War: E-Day Team Shares Message After Missing Xbox Games Showcase 2025

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@Kaloudz they HAVE found a way to cut costs. And that's by laying off thousands of staff and then outsourcing the jobs cheap in India and China and South America.

The videogame industry is creating sweatshop slave labor across the board. Why pay 100 employees in the US, Canada or UK first world wages when you can pay 1000 Indians or Chinese developers for the same cost as 100 people?

Look at how many Devs the different Rockstar studios have. 150-200 staff. Rockstar India has 1500 staff. If there was a rockstar China, which will actually probably happen. They would have 2500.