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@somnambulance Concord failed because it looked horrible, it was Dollar Store Overwatch with Temu Guardians of the Galaxy characters, and in a world where Overwatch 2 and Marvel Rivals exist for free it was doomed to fail. No one even wanted to play the FREE BETA of it. And I’m a Sony fanboy saying this about a Sony game.

Helldivers 2 is a purely PvE team-based game (not hero shooter like Concord) with an amusingly over-the-top concept that plays out well. Plus folks who bought it actually liked it and gave it good word-of-mouth.

There’s no “pass” to be given, it’s just a genuinely well done game.

“Yep, Helldivers 2 is a premium $40 product, and roughly 18 months after its initial launch, Xbox players will have to fork out that cost as well.”

Forza Horizon 5 on PS5 enters the chat

@NishimuraX Sadly, this says everything about the current XBox community that needs to be said.

“It was so good that we had to kill it. Otherwise it might have destroyed the entire industry. Everyone on the planet would have played and the global economy would be left in ruins as people starved in their chairs, unable to pull themselves away from this game.

“We saved humanity. Give us a raise.”

Given that MS isn’t allowing cross-progression in Horizon 5, the likelihood of Sony having it happening in Helldivers 2 is near-zero. Especially with no PS5-PC progression.

@Questionable_Duck One of the few times I’m glad to be wrong!

@Balaam_ Bold of you to assume Bethesda had any part in any QA sessions whatsoever in the course of their history!

It’s kind of a hallmark in their games.

looks at Steam player count Huh. 3302 all time player peak, and 47 playing right now on Steam.

I…don’t think this community of players will be growing all that much. Bold of the devs to spend even more money trying to fix it though, rather than accusing players of a concerned bug campaign aimed at destroying what’s left of their reputation.

shrugs in Mac user

@IOI It’s possible that while they were porting to PS5, they just figured out how to optimize it further. No need to assign malicious intent or purposeful delays when it can be attributed to discovering new ways to make it run better WHILE porting it to a different platform.

@Kaloudz I just don’t remember Sony or Nintendo doing mass layoffs in their gaming divisions lately, excepting the once-in-a-lifetime utter failure that was Concord, of course!

Now watch, tomorrow Sony will do the same thing…

@Kaloudz The behavior isn’t unique to MS, definitely. The sheer number of layoffs does seem to be, though. I do say SEEMS as I admit I haven’t seen hard numbers, of course.

Gosh, who would have thought that acquiring all those studios over a relatively short period of time would result in layoffs?

If you release a shoddy product and people call you on said shoddy product, and before releasing said shoddy product you make accusations that anyone saying it looks like a shoddy product is part of a coordinated negativity campaign…oh, and you don’t allow people to review the shoddy product before it reaches the general public…

Well, let’s just say I am shocked, SHOCKED at this turn of events. Shocked.

@themightyant The ONLY reason I got the series X originally was for the disc based backwards compatibility. Even if it’s in the form of “smart delivery” which I despise.

If the next XBox has no disc drive, then my belief that my series X is my first AND last XBox will sadly not change.

@FatGuyInLilCoat Odd how Forza Horizon 5 didn’t prioritize PS at launch, and yet that’s selling like hotcakes on PS5 years later…

Gosh, the pretty designs will look so good while inserted into the rear of my console, thus making the design completely and utterly useless and irrelevant!

Wow, renting a game doesn’t lead to actually buying a game in general.

Whodathunkit?

It’s so bad that Sony is actually giving refunds for this game.

Sony almost NEVER gives refunds for games.

“Hey, sorry we accused everyone who had negative opinons of being part of a coordinated smear campaign. Turns out our game IS an unoptimized steaming pile. Our bad.”

@Ricky-Spanish It got the patch. Apparently you’re seeing it WITH the patch. It was only delayed a few hours.

@TapeLoader iiiiinteresting! I can’t decide if I love that or hate it, given that my pushing-50s-self seems to need more handholding these days.

I’m sure the guy who claimed there was some sort of coordinated negative campaign will be spouting the usual review bombing accusations soon.

@TapeLoader Oh? I keep hoping to see more about this, anything in particular impress you?

So Microsoft and Microsoft worked together.

Astonishing!

It’s good seeing a fantastic game be appreciated by more folks.

@Kraven “Horrible” may have been a poorly chosen word. But none of this looks good at the moment. Especially when “Update 2” is the launch update and apparently it was submitted so late that it isn’t approved for launch day…

I didn’t hate what I saw of the game, but I honestly forgot it existed until I saw the articles about how no review codes were sent out and that’s almost always a bad sign…

I’d love to be wrong, though!

I wonder if the dev also will blame a concerted misinformation/negativity compaign for the patch being late on XBox…

@Kraven Sometimes if a game looks like it’ll be horrible, it actually IS horrible, and when the dev cries about a conspiracy to destroy their game before release, it makes me wonder why they’re already in damage control mode…

Sorry, but…what are people expecting here? The game is presumably complete, is more dlc being clamored for?

Clockwork Revolution, There Are No Ghosts… and P4R were the only ones I cared about, personally.

I’m betting more like $699 and $899, but I’m not at all certain.

That said…I’ll be good with my Switch 2 as a portable, but I hope those who want this will enjoy it!

And yet it’s still cheaper than a standard 2 TB Series X…

@FraserG Makes sense! Again, NO insult was intended, was pure curiosity!

Ben, I mean ZERO disrespect or insult when I ask this: Why were you picked to review this while having zero 40k knowledge? Was it intentional to see how someone with no knowledge would think, or just luck of the draw? I was just amused when you mentioned the whole story passing you by bit!

@Lup I’m guessing you watched Fleekazoid’s review? I’m pretty sure he said that in his!

I’m a PS and Switch fanboy.

Even I’m saying this was a good showcase. Clockwork Revolution and No Ghosts In… were very intriguing to me, and P4R had me shout YES as I was watching.

I’m content.Though that last COD reveal was just…utterly bleh.

I admit that the trailer started out with me completely uninterested…and then the Lovecraft kicked in and they had my attention.

@N00BiSH Missed opportunity indeed, but I will still play the absolute hell out of this!

Persona 4 remake.

That’s all I’ll be watching this show for.

@AccessibleDaydream Yeah, I actually will be getting that tomorrow as well! But that Onn brand card seems to be a freaking unicorn, no other brand is selling that capacity anywhere near that cheap. But I’ve had decent luck with Onn in the past.

I’m shocked that Walmart of all companies is putting a card like that out at that price. If it spontaneously catches fire, I’ll know why.

@AccessibleDaydream glances at prices of microsd express cards

I mean…it’s a LITTLE bit of an issue…

Well, MS’s physical releases on PS5 have been key disc games, so it’ll go well with the key card games that all but two third party Switch 2 physical launch titles got. (I bought Cyberpunk and Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma for my S2 since they were actual game releases, not those key jokes)

But MS releasing games like Forza Horizon 5, Indy and others for Switch 2 can only be a good thing.

glances at the Switch 2 and then at MS jacking up prices across the board

Huh. Can’t imagine why MS might put these plans on hold. Total mystery.

@GuyinPA75 That’s what I was alluding to.

Perhaps MS should make their own phones that they can put anything they want on?

Oh…wait. That didn’t work out well last time.

Not Borderlands 4, that’s for sure. To hades with Pitchford.

I would need to recieve a $10 account credit to allow this to be in my library.

And I voluntarily paid five bucks for SUICIDE SQUAD.

Ah, Avowed. The game that wouldn’t let Fleekazoid move forward or left.

I look forward to seeing what comes next!

Trust me…there’s more to it than mindless clicking.

Imagine feeling surprised and betrayed that a game is feature-complete.

As the great Jeremy Clarkson would say, “Oh no! Anyway…”

@BAMozzy “Physical media doesn't need to contain the entire Game Code as it does not RUN from the disc - it has to be downloaded and installed onto the Internal storage regardless of whether you download from Disc or Internet.”

The point is that if the data is on the DISC, then you don’t have to pray that you can still download the game from servers in the future, it can just be copied from the disc and installed regardless.

That’s the point. There is a LARGE difference between the two things and they are not comparable. In one scenario you can happily install the game to the console regardless of internet status. In the other, you cannot.

@Balaam_ 100% agreed! My backlog is now large enough that I can safely skip releases like this and focus on games I actually own!

@XboxNumberOne looks at my game shelf with lots of physical games Sure looks like I own these complete single player games and access to them can’t be removed…