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Re: Activision Blizzard Continues To Drive Massive Uptick In Revenue For Xbox

sixrings

The way subscription services work is you keep the price low to get people in and then you raise prices.

Ok now hear me out.

If you acknowledge that this generation was going to be hard to win because people grew their digital libraries from the last generation.

If you acknowledge that PlayStation user base is significantly higher than yours.

Then when you bought activision these are the theoretical new subscribers.

Microsoft needed to heavily discount their subs and consoles to get these PlayStation owners to say that’s such a great deal I have to jump on it.

Instead Microsoft says we will release our games on PlayStation and we will raise the price of game pass.

So why again if I was a PlayStation fan would I buy an Xbox?

I just don’t understand what was the purpose of wasting a whole year or two in court. Xbox fans basically waited for this to wrap up. Just to be greeted with two subscription raises. If you couldn’t take a loss to lure over PlayStation fans when you could see the play anywhere tactics were doing nothing then you shouldn’t have spent 69 billion dollars buying something.

I guess the one thing they could do when the next generation starts from the get go advertise that these games will be from now on exclusive to Xbox. So think about that when making your next generation purchase.

Re: Toys For Bob Is Becoming An Indie Studio, Leaving Xbox And Activision

sixrings

@EvilSilentFrame I think like others mentioned the “toys to Bob” name didn’t mean anything to Microsoft. So if the few people wanted to leave Microsoft’s guaranteed pay check and restart their company then Microsoft didn’t mind then keeping their “toys to Bob” name. The shares were in activision, not toys to Bob so there’s nothing to buy back.

Re: Sea Of Thieves Sets Sail On PS5 This April With Xbox & PC Crossplay

sixrings

I understand the games that were in the partners direct couldn’t have been talked about last week but it was silly for Phil to say he wasn’t going to mention the games because that would take away from big reveals coming. And then 6 days later the news drops with basically zero fan fare on Xbox’s part.

Should have just dropped a trailer after the presentation last Thursday.

Re: Xbox Introduces New 'Strike' System For Handling Bans / Suspensions

sixrings

@Grumblevolcano I made some great friends from open chat while playing 360. Unfortunately everyone merged to PlayStation 4 and never came back to Xbox.

Not everyone knows someone who has a Xbox so they can have a private chat.

Mute buttons work and are pretty simple. If we’re too lazy to press mute I question how much effort we will have to report people.