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JJROKCZ, do games w Details on Assassin's Creed Infinity's Live Service Hub - Insider Gaming

They’re a decade and a half late on this. We were still playing as Altair when everyone said this would be a great ninja game mechanics wise. Now they’re finally doing it but Ubisoft is a shadow of the studio they used to be quality-wise.

I haven’t bought anything from them in almost 10 years and have no intention to since it’s been the same bad game over and over with just more cosmetic stores and micro transactions galore.

Eggyhead, do games w Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed

I’ve decided amongst this push to $80 games that even $70 is too rich for me. With very few exceptions, the only launch games I will allow myself to buy will be the $40-50 ones. Otherwise I will just wait until the $70+ ones that interest me to get there on their own. If i lose the urge to play them in the meantime, oh well. Money saved.

There are just sooooo many great games out there at much better prices.

Goodeye8,

I've had a similar response.I was kinda ready to accept the new price but then they started pushing an even higher price so I got an opposite reaction where stars would have to align for me to care about any game over 60 and even 60 is pushing my willingness to pay.

Katana314,

I think the only thing that might get me to go over the $60 line is if a publisher takes a chance on a franchise/concept I’d like to see more of, which these days is rare.

Rhynoplaz, do games w Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming

I’m not a big Nintendo fan, because of their pricing and lawsuits, but I’m siding with them on this one.

If you can’t afford a Switch 2, don’t buy one.

This is coming from someone who really couldn’t afford one right now. We wait until we can or the price goes down (oh wait. Nintendo doesn’t do that )

inclementimmigrant,

I think it very tone deaf with regards to how their trying to up the prices of games, which I think is BS, and increasing the price of accessories, and locking things behind subscriptions.

Very much so a Blizzard, “don’t you have phones?” Type of situation.

Hyphlosion,

Or, and hear me out…

If you’re working on your credit score… Go for it!

I was able to get an Xbox Series X and made on-time monthly payments for it over 2 years. It opened a new line of credit and regular automatic payments toward it did wonders for my credit score.

Rhynoplaz,

Right, but I would consider that being able to afford one.

squirrelwithnut, do games w Cloud Imperium Games [Star Citizen developer] Undergoes Major Shake-Up to Hit Deadlines

They have deadlines?

JusticeForPorygon, do games w Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles
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“The Board has investigated itself and found no evidence of incompetence.”

scrubbles,
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Nah in this case this is real. The board is investigating the executive leadership, two separate entities. It’s like corporate investigating stores management, in a way. This could mean executives getting fired

JusticeForPorygon,
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Good fuck em

P1nkman,

They’ll get payouts which is more money than you and I will ever make combined. I’m hungry. When do we eat?

scottmeme, do games w Microsoft Plans to Close The Activision Blizzard Acquisition Next Week, Says Report
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This is really bad news for the games industry that Microsoft is a monster.

ryathal,

Microsoft isn’t that bad compared to the rest of the industry.

scottmeme,
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What do you mean. They own a monopolistic amount of studios. Adding more to that is only going to make things worse.

https://www.gamesradar.com/xbox-game-studios-microsoft/

ryathal,

I mean the industry is already a cesspool. The consolidation is troubling from a failure of regulators. The games Industry deserves what it gets here though.

520,

Right now they aren't. You do know how bad they became with their last monopoly, right?

NOT_RICK,
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Overall I don’t agree with that, but I do agree they’re better than ActiBlizz. You’d have to blast down into bedrock to get lower than Bobby Kotick

andxz,

Microsoft still support AoE2 after all these years, while Activision more or less fucked the SC2 proscene so hard it’s amazing it’s still going as strong as it is.

Not to mention what they did to the classic WotLK launch. It couldn’t get any worse than that.

StunningGoggles,

What happened in the classic wotlk launch? I haven’t played since the original wotlk so it’s been awhile haha

andxz,

The servers were essentially 95-99% of either faction, and they locked migration several times seemingly on random. A lot of people got stuck on servers that were nigh unplayable because of the other faction dominating everything.

It even included paid server transfers on some servers for some weird reason. I got hardlocked on 98% alliance server while playing a tauren resto druid. Their customer service told me to “level another character on a server of my choosing”. Leveled to 80 out of sheer spite and then quit when my game time ran out.

Truly one of the biggest disappointments in my entire life. I know it’s just a game, but I had looked forward to getting to redo wrath since they first announced classic in general, and they completely ruined it.

StunningGoggles,

Damn! That sounds horrible, I remember when WoW’s customer service was seemingly top notch, how far they have fallen. I guess it’s not surprising with how disappointing Diablo 4 was.

manapropos, do games w The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X

Makes sense because the Series S is dumb cheap. Only the Steam Deck can compare in terms of value

Phanatik,

I would argue that the Steam Deck's emulation capabilities surpass the Xbox. It might not play the latest games at amazing quality and performance, but it covers a wide breadth of games, far wider than what Xbox supports.

Vordus,

Depends on whether you’re willing to spend $20 to turn your Series S into a devkit, at which point the S can be an utter beast for emulation.

dudewitbow,

Alternatively 2$ if your region is set to Turkey.

tal,
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The Steam Deck is more expensive.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Microsoft-SVP-00001-Xbox-Series-S-Game-Console-512-GB-SSD-AMD-Zen-2-3-6-GHz-10-GDDR6-SDRAM-RDNA-HDMI-1440p-Controller-HDR-Capable-DTS-Dolby-Atmos-Sea/1861650659?from=/search

Series S: $274.95

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

Steam Deck: $359.10

And that's for the low-end Steam Deck. The nicest one is $519.20, almost twice what the Series S runs.

pory,
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Compete in terms of value, not price. The series S gets you Xbox’s current gen game library and a selection of 360 games, and if you’re willing to use dev mode a powerful emulation suite. Deck gets a huge percentage of Steam’s 20-year catalog as one-click installs, most other PC games that don’t use anticheat as slightly more involved installs, every PC game if you want to install windows, and also a powerful emulation suite. Plus it’s a dockable handheld instead of something that needs a monitor and controller.

The series S has better media apps and can be woken up from the couch, though.

Swedneck,
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the steam deck is also just a regular ol’ PC so you can use it for non-gaming stuff like making a lil’ drawing on the go, or plug in some peripherals and just… use it like an honestly pretty okay performance desktop.

Desistance,

Steam deck is a mobile PC. That’s infinitely more valuable than a locked down platform device.

tal, (edited )
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I mean, I would rather have a Steam Deck too, but then we're getting into how much people value openness versus price, and that's definitely not a constant; some people aren't going to care much about openness.

That said, if I were trying to compare Valve's offering and Microsoft's offering, I'd probably compare a desktop PC running Steam to the XBox, as they're more-physically-comparable in terms of what they can do; the Series S doesn't have one having to pay for mobility. If one were comparing to a mobile console, then sure, the Deck is a legit comparison.

I still would say that the XBox Series S is going to be cheaper on the low end, though, than a desktop PC. You can get a $279 PC that can play games and a comparable controller, but I'd bet that it'd be more-limited than a Series S.

That being said, Microsoft sells the XBox at a loss, and then makes it back by jacking up the price of games:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-consoles-have-always-been-sold-at-a-loss

As VGC points out, Wright was also asked if there's ever been a profit generated from an Xbox console sale, which she confirmed has never happened. To put that in context, Microsoft has been selling Xbox consoles for nearly 20 years now, including the original Xbox, the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and now the Xbox Series X and Series S. In all that time, every single console sale cost Microsoft money.

The reason game consoles end up being profitable is through a combination of software, service, and accessory sales, but it's still surprising to find Microsoft has never achieved hardware profitability. Analyst Daniel Ahmad confirmed that the PS4 eventually became profitable for Sony and that Nintendo developed the Switch to be profitable quickly, so Microsoft is the odd one out.

We know that consumers weight the up-front price of hardware disproportionately -- that's why you have companies selling cell phones at a loss, locking them to their network, and then making the money back in increased subscription fees. I assume that that's to try to take advantage of that phenomenon.

If you wanted to compare the full price that you pay over the lifetime of the console, one would probably need to account for the increased game price on consoles and how many games someone would buy.

Now, all that being said, I don't have a Series S or a Series X, and I'm not arguing that someone should buy them. I have a Linux PC for gaming precisely because I do value openness, so in terms of which system I'd rather have, you're preaching to the choir. I'm just saying that I don't think that I'd agree with the above statement that the Deck is as cheap as the Series S.

peopleproblems, do games w Starfield is Bethesda's Least Buggiest Game to Date, Say Sources

I’m a little disappointed I was looking forward to Skyrim bugs in Space

Kolanaki, (edited )
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The Giant Club space program could now actually send you to space; but there are no giants 😔

vaultdweller013,

That we know of

Stovetop, do games w Stellar Blade on PC Hit 1 Million Sales 19 Times Faster Than on PlayStation 5

More gooners on PC than PlayStation I guess

Asafum, do games w Stellar Blade on PC Hit 1 Million Sales 19 Times Faster Than on PlayStation 5
mp3, do games w Nintendo is Trying to Stop You From Filing Lawsuits Against Them With New EULA Amendment
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Good thing that such clauses are null and void in Québec, Canada.

www.canlii.org/en/qc/laws/…/cqlr-c-p-40.1.html#se…

sexy_peach, do games w Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Has Sold 2 Million Units in 2 Weeks
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It’s has insane graphics and is quite well made. I’ve been watching let’s plays even though I don’t particularly like the medieval setting.

Hubi,
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It’s definitely much more polished than the first installment. I’ve played for around 40 hours so far and can probably count the bugs I’ve encountered so far on one hand.

NotSteve_,

Is it the same combat system as the first? No matter how hard I tried, it just wouldn’t click for me. Ended up modding myself invincible in order to beat the game…

I’ll do it again too if I need to because I love everything else about the game, but I’d prefer not to

zxy,

It’s marginally better, but mostly the same. Starts off incredibly hard, ends up incredibly easy.

Hubi,
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It gets too easy too fast IMO. I haven’t done much of the main quest yet but I’m already a invincible human tank and killing armored enemies with single hits. I might swap my sword with a lower tier weapon to get a bit of the challenge back.

bigboismith,

I’d say it’s slightly easier, but you should remember that avoiding combat is not only an option but sometimes recommended.

Edit. Also remember that when you get the opertunity to practice spar, do it. You don’t just train your ingame character but also yourself.

simple, do games w EXCLUSIVE: DOOM: The Dark Ages to be Revealed at Xbox Games Showcase (June 9th)

Very exciting. I loved Doom 2016, loved Doom Eternal, enjoyed the DLCs and am eager to see what they’ll do in the sequel.

early details of the next entry into the DOOM franchise, which was described to me as a ‘medieval inspired doom world’.

Sounds more like Quake, actually.

TachyonTele,

I can’t blame them at all if they want to throw some Quake in there too after kicking ass with Doom for almost 10 years in a row.

100,

I remember the game director saying he doesnt want to make the same game twice (when they made eternal focus on using the right weapons and not just shotgun everythign) so this likely a new spin on doom formula again

catloaf,

Hmm. I liked 2016 because you could play it however you wanted. Eternal was too arcadey. I hope this one isn’t.

paddirn,

Might also be a return to the Heretic series.

almar_quigley,

This would make me so happy

ImplyingImplications, do gaming w In One Year, Embracer Laid Off 4,500 Employees and Shut Down 80 Projects

Embracer, Extender, Extinguisher

ech,

Brace yourselves for Embracest, Extendest, Estinguishest.

Retrograde,
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Embrace, erase, enshittify

Fafner, do gaming w Starfield is Bethesda's Least Buggiest Game to Date, Say Sources
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How far did they dig to find that bar?

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